Between ape and human An anthropologist on the trail of a hidden hominoid
Book - 2022
Discusses the author's research into skeletons belonging to a small-statured early human species discovered in 2003 on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, and stories from the inhabitants of Flores about half-apelike, half-humanlike creatures that lived on a nearby volcano, and the possibility that a primitive species of human had survived into recent times and co-existed with modern humans.
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New York ; London :
Pegasus Books
2022.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books cloth edition
- Physical Description
- 279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-269) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781639361434
- 1. Ape-men of Flores Island
- Part I. What People Say about Ape-Men
- 2. Ape-men as Natural Creatures
- 3. Ape-men as Supernatural
- Part II. Stories of Ape-Men
- 4. Ape-men in Myth and Legend
- 5. What Someone Told Someone Else, or Secondhand Stories of Ape-man Encounters
- Part III. Eyewitness Accounts
- 6. From Questionable Stories to Compelling Reports
- 7. More Remarkable Encounters
- 8. The Little Naked Man and Other Extraterritorial Sightings
- Part IV. What to Believe
- 9. What do Stories of Ape-men Tells Us and What Else Could They Be?
- 10. Could Ape-men Survive on Flores Island?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
