Rampasasa pygmies is a name given to a group of families described as

pygmoid In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic short stature (as opposed to disproportionate dwarfism occurring in isolated cases in a pop ...

Negrito The term Negrito () refers to several diverse ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia and the Andaman Islands. Populations often described as Negrito include: the Andamanese peoples (including the Great Andamanese, the Onge, ...

, native to Waemulu village in Kecamatan Wae Rii,

Manggarai Regency Manggarai Regency is a regency in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia, situated on the island of Flores. Established in 1958 the regency was reduced in size and population by the separation of Manggarai Barat regency in 2003 and of Manggarai ...

Flores Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. Including the Komodo Islands off its west coast (but excluding the Solor Archipelago to the east of Flores), the land area is 15,530.58 km2, and th ...

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

, following the discovery of ''

Homo floresiensis ''Homo floresiensis'' also known as "Flores Man"; nicknamed "Hobbit") is an extinct species of small archaic human that inhabited the island of Flores, Indonesia, until the arrival of modern humans about 50,000 years ago. The remains of an i ...

'' in the nearby Liang Bua cave in 2003. The Rampasasa have since been reported as claiming ''Homo floresiensis'' as their ancestor and as "cashing in on hobbit craze". A genetic study published in 2018 discounted the possibility of the Rampasasa descending from ''H. floresiensis'', concluding that "multiple independent instances of hominin insular dwarfism occurred on Flores". However, as no genetic material from ''H. floresiensis'' was included in the analyses, any truly definitive conclusions cannot be made.Science magazine Vol. 361, Issue 6401 (3 Aug 2018), pp. 511-51
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References

*Goldenberg, Linda (2007). ''Little People and a Lost World: An Anthropological Mystery''
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