Re: Australian Ape Theory


rmacfarl wrote:
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> > Oldest hominid skull in Australia found near Bega
> > Friday, 13 January 2006
> >
> > THE endocast of a primitive hominid-like skull was recovered from among
> > the rubble of a volcanic plug in the Bega district in May 2005
> >
> > The find could suggest that a race of ancestral hominids had evolved in
> > Australia from tree-dwelling primate ancestors by seven million years
> > ago. This is well before our primate ancestors supposedly left the
> > trees for a terrestrial existence in Africa around six million years
> > ago!
> >
> > The fossil was discovered by noted prehistory researcher Rex Gilroy of
> > Katoomba NSW, where he operates the 'Australian-Pacific Archaeological
> > Research Centre'.
> >
> > He discovered the fossil projecting from the base of a volcanic deposit
> > while researching volcanic sites on the NSW far south coast.
> >
> > The fossil, a chance discovery, further supports Rex Gilroy's belief
> > that our Aboriginal people were preceded on this continent by earlier
> > races, principally Homo erectus.
> >
> > "The fossil was formed by fine volcanic ash filling the skull during an
> > eruption. The ash gradually mineralised while the bones disintegrated,
> > leaving the cast," he says.
> >
> > "The remaining fossil has lost a portion of the underside and a shallow
> > section of the skull dome is also gone, giving it a flattish
> > appearance. The remaining endocast measures 15.7cm in length by 9cm in
> > width across the facial section by 10cm in depth.
> >
> > The height of the individual would have been hobbit size, ie around one
> > metre," says Mr Gilroy.
> >
> > As geologists have lately dated the volcanoes of the Bega region as
> > having last erupted around 7 million years ago, this makes the 'Bega
> > Man' the oldest known hominid skull found in the Australasian region.
> >
> > On these grounds Rex Gilroy believes we should begin thinking 'Out of
> > Australia', rather than Out of Africa for our human origins.
> >
> > Over the last forty years he has uncovered several mineralised
> > skull-types with undoubted Homo erectus features.
> >
> > These fossils, found at various New South Wales, Queensland and South
> > Australian sites during his countless fossicking trips, all come from
> > early to mid-Pleistocene times, well before Aboriginal arrival (by
> > around 68,000 years BP at current estimates).
> >
> > "The Pleistocene period dates from around two million to 10,000 years
> > ago, whereas the Bega endocast came from undoubted Pliocene period
> > deposits.
> >
> > This period immediately preceded the Pleistocene, dating back over five
> > million years, placing the origins of the Bega Man at around the
> > beginning of the Pliocene.
> >
> > This implies that the Bega race descended from an, at present, unknown
> > primate form dating back into the earlier Miocene period," he argues.
> >
> > Rex Gilroy is aware that his claims will not be acceptable to the
> > hard-core 'Out of Africa' school of anthropologists, but he believes
> > that this attitude will be changed as further pre-Aboriginal fossil
> > finds come to light in this most ancient of continents.
> >
> > "I believe the Bega endocast represents a race of ancestral hominids,
> > which in time evolved into a proto-Homo erectus race from which Homo
> > erectus proper evolved, here in Australia before he did anywhere else,
> > to in turn evolve into anatomically modern humans, probably by around
> > 300,000 years ago (as suggested by 'late' Homo erectus and 'archaic'
> > Homo sapien mineralised skull-types from a central western NSW site in
> > his possession), well before Homo sapiens 'first' appeared in Africa by
> > around 150,000 years ago according to current evidence.
> >
> > Lately there has been much publicity surrounding the Flores Hobbits who
> > lived a mere 13,000 years ago.
> >
> > "The Bega Hobbits are considerably older than that!" concluded Mr
> > Gilroy. "And they're not gibbons!"
>
> Ye Gods! Could it be? Our very own Antipodean version of the love child of
> the writer of Heart Of Darkness & the Talking Horse...

Could it be? Yes! it seems that it is! -

http://www.internetezy.com.au/~mj129/Mysterious_Australia_Homepage.html

Ross Macfarlane

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