Comments on: Debunking Lee Berger’s Palaun Dwarf Population

By: Berger Can’t Get A Break « Anthropology.net

Berger Can’t Get A Break « Anthropology.net — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:39:12 +0000

[...] Berger and I shared a few words on Anthropology.net about his small people of Palau. Since then, a TKO paper, published in the summer of 2008, basically thwarted Berger’s claims. Thankfully, we [...]

By: mark

mark — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:40:34 +0000

I just watched the worst National Geographic documentary on Berger’s Palau skulls, and what a piece of documentary rubbish from the NG channel. I’m not even an archeologist and even I could tell there was absolutely little scientific evidence for the film’s exclamations of a new race. No other scientists were interviewed supporting Berger’s finds. And it must have been filmed by the same people who made Palau Survivor it was a joke. Probably used the same make-up and hair team too. I mean, whats with the white paint on the natives? And the caveman antics? What a joke and an insult to the Palau people. Even me, an ordinary person, could tell in the first five minutes that the idiot had actually wandered into a grave site. Duh! I didn’t need a PhD or an award from NG to figure that out. I can’t believe NG did a documentary on his bullshit. And then they even gave him a National Geographic award! Omigod, somebody’s lost the plot he’s somebody’s bofriend on the sly. What, he discovered the cave in 2006, and its nearly 4 years later, no other news havebothered to cover his new Palau pygmy race. How the hell did Berger get a degree in the first place?

By: Wednesday Rojak #40 | SEAArch - The Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog

Wednesday Rojak #40 | SEAArch - The Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:28:16 +0000

[...] While in Anthropology.net, the take home message about the Palau hobbits is “don’t rush to publish and know the previous literature and samples by heart when you tread on some…“. [...]

By: Alex Bjarnason (TheMonkeyMan)

Alex Bjarnason (TheMonkeyMan) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:39:57 +0000

I really thought this would put the cat amongst the pigeons… obviously not.

By: Philip Copeman

Philip Copeman — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:01:10 +0000

Lee come home to Africa – here we love you.

By: TheMonkeyMan

TheMonkeyMan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:02:26 +0000

It will be very interesting to get some age and cranial capacity estimates from the calcified skulls mentioned by Berger et al. I definitely hear what Fitzpatrick et al. are saying, but this would certainly take a turn for the interesting if Berger fire back with some heavy cranial dwarfing.