--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From the New Scientist. > > Turkish creationist Adnan Oktar has just offered ten trillion > lira - a mouth-watering $7.5 trillion - to "anyone who produces a > single intermediate-form fossil demonstrating evolution". > > Whole story: > > http://tinyurl.com/4e2voq > > > Here's my offering: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx>>
Here is my offering, but 7.5 trillion is not enough. He'll need to double it for this one: These anomalous skulls were located by Mr. Connolly in various South American museums. The general opinion seems to be that they are human but are not the result of medical deformation and are too anomalous to be the result of "binding" techniques. In addition, some of the skulls have brain vault capacities significantly in excess of modern man. <http://www.burlingtonnews.net/listen> <http://encounters.conforums.com/> Many of these pictures have been sent to us by anonymous sources. If you have information on them..as to their originator..or if you see something here that belongs to you, we will be more than happy to give you credit for your picture. We would love hearing from you with the stories behind the pictures. Thank you Mary Sutherland The skull is Thought to be 1.8 million years old By Robert Parsons in Dmanisi, Georgia The moment is indelibly burned into Dato Zhvania's memory. It had been a day like any other - a day of back-breaking, painstakingly meticulous work. A day of throbbing, enervating heat. But as he sifted gingerly through the baked patch of ground before him, his fingers touched something different. The team celebrates their find His pulse quickened. The archaeological site at the medieval town of Dmanisi, 80 kilometres (50 miles) south-west of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, had already revealed some of its secrets. Perhaps, just perhaps, this was his turn. But what emerged as he brushed away the earth was to far exceed his expectations. He did not know it yet, but in his hands he held the almost perfectly preserved skull of the most ancient human being ever found in Europe - 1.8 million years old. More extraordinary still, it was about to throw into question all accepted theories about the migration of our ancestors out of Africa. Dato could not contain his excitement. A message was sent out to team leader, Davit Lortkipanidze, a paleoanthropologist at the Georgian State Museum in Tbilisi. The media were alerted and Dato and his colleagues prepared to celebrate. "The first thing we did was pool together all the money we had - around about $800. Then we drove around all the villages for miles around and bought every bottle of champagne we could find." He shakes his head and smiles to himself at the memory. We were standing at the spot where the skull had been found, deep beneath the foundations of the medieval town. "And you know," he said, "this site is so big and so important that what we've found so far could be nothing compared with what still lies beneath the ground." Ape-like The remains of seven individuals have been found at Dmanisi - the most recent this summer - but what made this discovery so special was that it did not look like the skull of any human ever found outside Africa before. Its brain cavity was far smaller - half the size of a modern human - and it had the huge canine teeth and thin brow of an ape. The skull variation may force us to rethink the definition Homo This was not the tall, upright, big-brained Homo erectus we had assumed the first humans to leave Africa to have been. This guy was short, long-armed and probably trailed his knuckles along the ground. Not only that, the tools found around him were basic choppers and cutters, just like those found at the sites of early, primitive men in Africa. Dato Lortkipanidze thought he recognised Homo habilis, a hominid with a close resemblance to an ape. But what was he doing in Georgia? The theory had always been that the migration out of Africa had only happened with the evolution of big brains and the development of the tools and hunting skills to make the exodus possible. Early humans Homo habilis: The first species in the genus Homo, dating back 1.9 million years, and found only in Africa Homo erectus: The first species in the genus Homo to leave Africa The discovery has opened so many questions about our ancestry that one scientist quipped: "They ought to put it back into the ground." Another unusual aspect of the Dmanisi find is that it was discovered in the same layer of sediment as other hominids with substantially larger brains - Homo erectus. Mr Lortkipanidze suggests the variation may force us to rethink the definition Homo. Land of origins The old town of Dmanisi sits atop a promontory formed by the confluence of the Mashavera and Pinezauri rivers. Today, it is a picnic spot for visitors from Tbilisi who come to see the ruins of the early medieval church and castle. Dmanisi was once an important stopping point on the Silk Route Modern Dmanisi is a short drive away and just a small village, but this was once an important stopping point on the Silk Route - a trading centre between Byzantium and Persia. When I stood on the battlements above the church, I could easily make out the road the camels used to take and the steam baths once used by the traders. It is a place of steep slopes and whispering winds, of forests and basalt cliffs, but to the north a plateau of cultivated fields stretches away to the horizon. This was once savannah - home to rhinoceros, game and sabre-tooth tigers. Perfect hunting ground for hungry hominids. Gazing out across this scene 1.8 million years after our ancestors stumbled out of Africa, I spotted a group of Georgian villagers cheering on a wrestling match amidst the ruins - a reminder that strife has been the defining characteristic of our existence ever since. But for Europeans, Dmanisi is a reminder of something else too. This, it seems, is where our history began. Dmanisi recalls our common origins. Robert Parsons reported from Dmanisi for Europe Direct, which can be seen on BBC News 24 on 11 January at 1130 GMT, and on 12 January at 0230 GMT and 1430 GMT. The programme can also be seen on BBC World on 15 January at 2230 GMT, on 16 January at 0230 GMT, 0930 GMT and 1730 GMT, on 18 January at 1630 GMT and 2330 GMT, and on 19 January at 0230 GMT and 1930 GMT. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE <http://www.burlingtonnews.net/rocklake7.html> 3 views of the "star child skull" . Things have changed dramatically since 2004 in regard to the Starchild. The site link is www.starchildproject.com. <http://www.starchildproject.com/> I have recently published a book about the eight years of scientific testing that we've done with it, "The Starchild Skull: Genetic Deformity or Human-Alien Hybrid?" This book makes clear that we don't yet know what the Starchild is, neither its sex or its age at birth (though we do know it died 900 years ago). However, we DO know its mother was a Native American human and its father was NOT human. What we have been unable to prove was exactly what his father was, or how far his father was from the human norm. As of late last year (2006), there is a new test that we can apply to the Starchild's DNA that will answer those questions in full. We expect to be able to pay for this expensive, time-consuming procedure sometime in 2009, and we fully expect that it will prove beyond any shadow of doubt that the Starchild was indeed a human-alien hybrid, and its father was a pure alien. I would appreciate you posting this information under the skull photos you have on your site. Thanks! Lloyd Pye www.lloydpye.com www.starchildproject.com SPIRIT CAVEMAN Article originally published in the first edition of The `X' Chronicles Newspaper UFO Digest, May 1999 The movie Stargate has become a popular video cassette rental. Its feature film release was met with disappointing reviews, however, a sort of cult following has ensued as people have started discovering the movie by word of mouth. It deals with a touchy subject... Aliens that visited Earth thousands of years ago. I learned about the film from the company that was producing a CD ROM about the movie called The Secrets of Stargate. The associate producer of the CD ROM, Joel Mills, had learned that I had in my possession photographs that could prove that the movie Stargate was based on historical fact. They wanted to include copies of the photographs of the "unusual giant skulls" that my wife (Bea) and I had collected over the past five years. It seems that the movie deals with the theory that extra terrestrials had used humans as slaves to mine metal in Egypt thousands of years ago. Mills felt these giant skulls were proof that the ancient pharaohs had the same elongated skulls hidden under their crown head-dress, and that, in fact, the Coneheads of Saturday Night Live are based on fact, not fiction. I pointed out to him that Egypt's King Akhenaton and his daughters were proud of their distinct features (elongated skulls) and the true facts of this royal family are shrouded in controversy. Some historians point out that the giant skulls of this family are a deformity caused by inbreeding. Others discount this and claim that it is the art style of the Armana period. The secret society known as the Rosicrucians place King Akhenaton on their highest pedestal by reconstructing his statue and main temple at their head office in San Jose, California. Mills also asked permission to use photographs of giant skulls that I had obtained while filming at the Nasca lines in Peru. Although Stargate did not deal with a Peruvian connection, he felt the world needed to see the photographs to understand that ancient skulls of extraordinary dimensions could be found at other major archaeological sites around the world, in particular, the Nasca Line and the ruins of Peru.... in the shadows of the Cheops pyramids in Egypt... and the ancient Mayan ruins of Central America... The Triangle of the Ancient Gods. I was happy to send him the photos but warned him that the photos would probably be too controversial fo the general public. He seemed surprised at this comment and wondered why he hadn't seen pictures like this before. The complicated answer took a great deal of time to explain! I will try to encapsulate this answer and relate to you a brief history of these unusual skulls. I first came across drawings of the skulls in a book by Ignatius Donnelly called Atlantis, The Antedeluvian World. The author tries to prove that at one time there existed a Continent in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that sank into the sea. Before it sank, the rulers left for Egypt, Mexico and Peru and became rulers of these countries. He found information about these skulls hidden in the Library of Congress in Washington. I had learned from the Peruvian government that these unusual skulls could be found in many museums in Peru and excavations were uncovering them even now near the Nasca Plateau. I had read Erich Von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods? and remembered his theories of ancient astronauts landing in this desert area. A few years ago, we were invited to film and photograph these skulls and other discoveries that Peruvian archaeologists are currently unearthing. These skulls are so numerous in the area of the Nasca desert that you can find small makeshift museums in the backyards of the locals. They dug up their ancestors so you can view their remains for a small fee. Some skulls show the evidence of ancient brain surgery that prove their ancestors possessed certain abilities that modern science has just recently discovered. Stunned, we wondered why we had not seen photographs of these skulls before. Our guides explained their church leaders feel these skulls are the work fo the devil, the offspring of the fallen angels in the Bible. In Mexico we found the same types of skulls in a museum in Merida, a city close to the ruins of Palenque. Lord Shield Pascal had the same elongated skull, an image which is found engraved on his tomb. Erich Von Daniken has described the drawings as Pascal sitting in a rocket ship. The conquering Spaniards found the natives deforming their heads to make them appear more "god like" and the priests declared them devil worshippers. Mean while in Egypt, King Akhenaton was also regarded as a heretic and all information about this king was obliterated until just recently. These finding prove that the rulers of these advanced societies all shared the common bond of huge skulls and brains that probably provided them with superior intelligence. This information has been shared by secret societies and religious leaders for hundreds of years and up until now they had decided to keep these secrets for themselves. All who first see the pictures feel... "They show proof of beings from another world." It seems that these conclusions were deemed to be too shocking for the average person and that these skulls were to be dismissed as deformities and hidden far from public view. That is, until President Fujimori took power in Peru. He had decided to allow the skulls to be photographed and has brought them to the attention of the world. Resistance to publishing the photographs has remained, and there appears to be a world wide cover-up of the skulls true origins. The only answers seems to be that public knowledge of "Fallen Angels" or ancient astronauts would disrupt society and the world's religions. I told Joel Mills he would probably face the same struggle to get the photos published in the CD ROM, just as we have encountered with the various news media. He felt sure that the time was here and now to wake up the world, and that the movie Stargate was just the beginning. I wished him luck and success with the idea and sent him all the material I had in my possession to document the facts he needed. Several months passed and then one day he phoned to tell me he had left the CD ROM production team and that none of the skull photographs would be included in The Secrets of Stargate. After several run-ins with executives in Hollywood, the pictures were deemed to be unsuitable for inclusion in The Secrets of Stargate . He was much happier with his new job promoting a public speaker that teaches the history and wisdom of ancient Egypt and again asked for permission to use the photographs, but this time for private presentations only. He had learned first hand about the powers that have kept these pictures hidden from the public. A Pygmy Homo Race. 3 Million Years Old The Essington [Oberon] NSW <http://www.theaustralianyowieresearchcenter.com/pgymy_homo_race.html> mineralised [ironstone] partly mummified skull. This small hominid skull, although lacking a rear brain case due to crushing through burial beneath a heavy overlying strata, displays surviving features of a remarkable 'modern' appearance, such as a vertical forehead and face. There does not seem to have been projecting eyebrow ridges and there is a long 'modern' nose. Mummified skin covers most of the face, and a patch of skin has detached itself from the left side of the nose to cover the left eye socket, suggesting the hominid may have already been dead and decomposing at the time of its initial preservation. The left side of the head has been crushed inwards flattening the cheekbone, although this is present on the right side of the specimen. The teeth of the upper jaw have been broken away and the lower jaw crushed, revealing adult teeth. Mud and small gravels have filled the skull's interior. Mineralised mud and gravels cover the rear of the skull. The specimen was initially covered by a deposit of volcanic ash and mud during an eruption that was responsible for the rapid preservation of the tissue. As volcanic disturbances in the Oberon region ceased in late Pliocene times, this suggests the specimen to be around 3 million years old. The skull/mummified head is 14cm in height by 9cm across the facial section by 8cm thick in its incomplete state. The hominid's height is estimated to have been about 84cm. The 'modern' features of this specimen suggest a pygmy-size race of Homo that evolved around late Pliocene times, The fossil was unearthed by Mrs Joy Colley about 1995 and donated to the Rex Gilroy Natural Science collection. Since then two further specimens, recovered by Rex Gilroy at sites in Qld suggest all three skull-types may be related. OffWorld
