Bullshit headline. South China Morning Post has gone off the rails crazy. Maybe time to quit paying attention to SCMP news.
They aren’t TINY.
“the skeletons were about 139cm (a bit under 4’6”) tall” ok, no problem
It’s not TINY.
The reports bio… “Kevin McSpadden is a writer and editor for the Post and graduated from the University of Hong Kong JMSC journalism programme. When not working, he an be found wandering around the great outdoor“.
Ah I love that place.
Legally a dwarf nowadays so I’d say they were tiny. But obviously it’s relative right, the gigachads of the Negritos would have been the 5 footers.
When I hear “tiny”, I think of everything being scaled down to a level that seems unfathomable. So “tiny people” would be no more than 2 ft tall to me. “Small” would be more appropriate. For all the energy English class wastes on learning the minuscule differences between these types of words, they still have a semantics problem it seems.
Only one?
THIS is the article that made you question them? 
just kidding. their idiocy should be taken lightly, like CNN or Fox. Comedy gold that morons take serious.
I mostly wondered about identifying a skull as “negrito.” Is there any anthropological basis for this?
Well, European scientists did lots of measurements in the early 1800s. They knew all about classifying people as ‘Negroes’ and other inferior races by their skull shapes.
but i digress. 140cm is not tiny in the scale of adult humans… depends on what they had to eat, and how much. Probably no greasy biendang in those days.
For reference, Homo floresiensis was only about 1.0 to 1.1 m tall.
“Scientists.”
Ok, anthropologists. Or anthrometricians.
waiting for the great outhouse?
I remember reading about the festival of the little black people in Taiwan when I was looking for information on the Negritos years ago. I just dug up this old article:
I thought it was a coincidence. I didn’t believe early Taiwanese had ever encountered them. Sometimes old legends have some credibility.