08-21-2015, 06:14 AM
the Menehune ... has diverged into PW rambling.
The subtropical climate with high temperatures, salt ... volcanoes... tend to make human remains disintegrate.
Then please allow me to continue with some additional rambling.
Human and prehuman remains have been discovered not just thousands of years old, but from millions of years ago in multiple tropical, high rainfall locations in Africa. Homo Erectus was found in Java (hotter and as wet as Hawaii*), and as you pointed out Homo Floresiensis on the island of Flores in Indonesia which dates from about 13,000 years ago.
It's entirely possible that a cave on Kauai will be discovered someday with the remains of the Menehune, which will fill in a lot of blanks in Hawaiian prehistory.
* first dated remains go back 1.9 million years, average temperature 82 degrees, rainfall 86 inches a year
The subtropical climate with high temperatures, salt ... volcanoes... tend to make human remains disintegrate.
Then please allow me to continue with some additional rambling.
Human and prehuman remains have been discovered not just thousands of years old, but from millions of years ago in multiple tropical, high rainfall locations in Africa. Homo Erectus was found in Java (hotter and as wet as Hawaii*), and as you pointed out Homo Floresiensis on the island of Flores in Indonesia which dates from about 13,000 years ago.
It's entirely possible that a cave on Kauai will be discovered someday with the remains of the Menehune, which will fill in a lot of blanks in Hawaiian prehistory.
* first dated remains go back 1.9 million years, average temperature 82 degrees, rainfall 86 inches a year
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