Archaeologica.org

Or, they emptied brains as part of mummification.

Archaeologists study signs of ancient civilization in Amazon basin Feb 8, 2010, Sao Paulo - Brazilian archaeologist Denise Schaan still does not believe in the legendary land El Dorado, although she and her team keep finding signs of an ancient and advanced civilization in the western Amazon basin. ...

No mention of water as a leveling device, which I file under "possibly even 'cosmological' significance." Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/12/castle-moat.html Aug. 12, 2009 -- Over 2,000 years ago, residents of at least one royal palace enjoyed convenie...

... So HF walked 30,000 kilometers from Africa to Flores across mountains and deserts as a 3 foot dwarf? On those feet that were not very well adapted to long distance coverage? Hmmm... Seems unlikely, at the very least, doesn't it?.... This is a fallacious argument. Time is a very large dimension ...

I accept inferential statistics as a valid tool.
Also, the timing 40 kya fits a post-Toba-bottleneck scenario well.

"surveyed the genetic material of ~184 individuals from seven human populations .... approximately ten-fold population growth beginning well before the origin of agriculture"

The number turns up naturally in geometry with pentagonal symmetry--diagonal : side. Also in regular icosahedrons.