Editing Pygmy peoples (section)

=== Micronesia and Melanesia ===
Norman Gabel mentions that rumours exist of pygmy people in the interior mountains of [[Viti Levu]] in [[Fiji]], but explains he had no evidence of their existence as of 2012.<ref>{{cite book |title=A Racial Study of the Fijians |author=Norman E. Gabel |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39140}}</ref>
[[Edward Winslow Gifford|E.&nbsp;W. Gifford]] reiterated Gabel's statement in 2014 and claims that tribes of pygmies in the closest proximity to Fiji would most likely be found in Vanuatu.<ref name="auckland" />

In 2008, the remains of at least 25 miniature humans, who lived between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago, were found on the islands of [[Palau]] in Micronesia.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/mar/12/fossils |title=Pygmy human remains found on rock islands |author=Ian Sample |work=The Guardian |date=March 12, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228031358/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/mar/12/fossils |archive-date=December 28, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Small-Bodied Humans from Palau, Micronesia |journal=[[PLoS ONE]] |date=March 2008 |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=e1780 |doi =10.1371/journal.pone.0001780 |pmid=18347737 |pmc=2268239 |author1 = Lee R. Berger |author2 = Steven E. Churchill |author3=Bonita De Klerk |author4=Rhonda L. Quinn |bibcode=2008PLoSO...3.1780B |author-link1=Lee R. Berger |doi-access=free }}</ref>

During the 1900s, when [[Vanuatu]] was known as [[New Hebrides]], sizable pygmy tribes were first reported throughout northeastern [[Espiritu Santo|Santo]]. It is likely that they are not limited to this region of New Hebrides. Nonetheless, there is no anthropological evidence linking pygmies to other islands of Vanuatu.<ref name="auckland">{{cite web |url=http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document//Volume_60_1951/Volume_60,_No._2_%2B_3/Anthropological_problems_in_Fiji,_by_E._W._Gifford,_p_122-129/p1 |title=Anthropological problems in Fiji |author=E. W. Gifford |access-date=3 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Ethnology of Vanuatu: An Early Twentieth Century Study |author=Felix Speiser |date=January 1996 |page=400 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=9780824818746 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P0eQTQtoYu4C}}</ref>