Mysterious Australia Newsletter - February 2011

7/31/2019 Mysterious Australia Newsletter - February 2011

1/31

MYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIAMYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIAMYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIAMYSTERIOUS AUSTRALIA

Vol 1. Issue No 4

FEBRUARY2011

INSIDE:

Another Pre-Aboriginal Australian Australopithicine Skull Identified. Ancient Peruvian Colonists of South Coastal New south Wales. The Gilroys Latest New Zealand Investigations.


2/31

Mysterious Australia Newsletter February , 2011

22

Blue Mountains UFO Research Club. The Club meetings are held on the third Saturday of the month, at

the Gilroy residence, 12 Kamillaroi Road, South Katoomba, from 1pm onwards.

We are situated on the corner of Kamillaroi Road and Ficus Street, and as we always say, park in Ficus Streetwhere there is safer parking.

ANOTHERPRE-ABORIGINALAUSTRALIANAUSTRALOPITHECINE SKULL IDENTIFIED.

By Rex GilroyCopyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

On Thursday 13th August 2009 Heather and I explored gravel deposits along the Barnard River, inland fromWingham which lies inland from Taree on the New South Wales mid north coast.

Our search was for fossil hominin skulls but we did not seem to have any luck. At one point I pickedup a red jasper rock with a curious round white crystalline marking and a lengthy thin streak encompassingthe stone as well. I causally placed it in my backpack and when we later returned home I placed the rock

with other stones in our back room and soon forgot about the lump of jasper.Then, on the night of Saturday 29th January 2011 while rummaging in the back room this unlabelled

jasper stone fell out of one of two boxes of stones. Picking it up, this time I realised I was holding amineralised hominin skull, but could not remember where I found it!

The next day having discounted a number of likely jasper-bearing locations, I recalled finding it on theBarnard River at Wingham. I was then able to find the date in an exercise book recording a Phoenician-inscribed stone I had found that day at another location on the same river. This was fortunate indeed, forafter a careful study of the specimen, I have concluded it to be an Australopithecine!

At first I thought the stone was solid jasper. However, a close examination revealed it to be coated ina red jasper layer up to 5mm in depth, the mineralised skull beneath being black in colour. The specimenmeasures 17cm in height by 7.5cm length across the cranium, 8cm depth below the eye sockets and 6.5cm indepth in the area of the jaws [which are fused], and 14cm across from the lower jaw base to a point where therear of the braincase rested in relation to the neck vertebrae. The skull is 11.5cm wide across the facialsection.

The skull is that of a smallish individual who stood approximately 1.2 to 1.3 metres in height. As thefossil has been subjected to some distortion when the bones were still soft, due to overlying sedimentpressure, the zygomatic processes having been crushed are not present, and this was aided by tumbling of thefossil among gravels in the dim past after it had been dislodged from the original stratified burial deposit. Thejasper coating of the specimen having been formed by chemical solutions present in the mineral-rich water ofthis river, an action which alone would have taken at least over a couple of hundred thousand years.

The left brow ridge and eye socket area has been crushed and the area coated in the red jaspersolution, while the right eye socket is mostly present with a hint of brow ridge, and the small forehead slopesback to a pointed sagittal crest.

The rather slender gracile appearance of the skull suggested to me that it was that of a small female,and this was later confirmed by our Narooma area based field assistant, Antji Westrip, who has on previousfield searches in the far south coastal New South Wales mountains country been successful in her own rightin the search for our fossil ancestors among other things, but more anon.

Rex and Hea the r Gi l r o y , Aus t r a l i a s t op UFOand Unexp la in ed Mys t e r i e s Re s ea r ch t e am .

Pho t o c o p y r i g h t R ex Gi l r o y 2004 .


3/31

Mysterious Australia Newsletter February 2011.

3

The Barnard River skull is an undoubted Australopithecine, and I have tentatively named herAustralopithecus barnardii gilroy. She may or may not be of the robust Australopithecine group and a regionalvariation ofAustralopithecus australisbut this remains to be seen as I will require more skull material, hopefullyfrom the same region, to ascertain this.

The skull is certainly of great age. At present I give it an age of around 3.5 million years BP, for it iscertainly of late Pliocene age and could even be far older pending a study of its original deposit from wherefloodwaters dislodged it, not far from where I found it. It is in any case the oldest pre-human fossil skull-type

found so far in Australia. Yet it will remain unacceptable to an academic fraternity which still clingsdesperately to the dying Out of Africa theory, for our modern human origins, and also because the discoveryof so ancient a fossil dares to question the nobody before the Aborigines dogma. I shall repeat what I havesaid in previous published material on the pre-Aboriginal subject, and that is without any bias, that our

Aboriginal people are mere late-comers to this continent. The evidence is that, by 3 million years ago andearlier, there were primitive creatures ancestral to ourselves who were able to walk into this continent across aformer continuous land-shelf with Asia.

So who really was The First Australian? The answer at this stage is, we dont know, but whoever itwas, they entered our ancient land in Pliocene times.

*****If the Barnard River skull is a regional variation ofAustralopithecus australis, it may not be the only such

example, for on Thursday 19th

July 2007 Antji Westrip and I recovered a mineralised skull-type from the samearea as four skull endocasts of a race of ancestral hominins unearthed by me between June 2005 and March2006, dated from their volcanic ash coating at around 7 million years. The July 2007 skull-type however,closely resembled the Narrow Neck Plateau, Katoomba Australopithecus australis skull found by me on

Thursday 6th January 2005. Like the Katoomba cousin, the Bega district specimen has been dated to around 2million years BP.

The ancestral hominins just mentioned, previously named proto-Homo vulcanicusfor their proximity toa University vulcanologist-dated plug, have been re-titled proto-Australopithecus gilroyii, for as readers of thisnewsletter will recall, the former proto-Homo erectus group are actually now known as Australopithecusaustralis gilroyii.

The Australian Australopithicine picture is still being structured as new evidence comes to light,

which has included the re-classifying of some of my earlier skull finds, and it is not impossible that apart frommodern human-height Australopithecines, there may have been one or more giant Australopithecine forms,as from some very large mineralised Australopithecine-like molar teeth in my possession.

Although at this stage none of my giant hominin fossil skulls and endocasts have been linked by mewith the Australopithecines and remain giant forms of Homo erectus, it is not impossible that a future giantAustralopithecine skull-type might one day be found by me.

Beyond Australia no fossil giant hominin skulls or endocasts of such have as yet been discovered byscientists. Yet here in Australia I now possess several!

*****The existence of giant hominins in Pleistocene Australia has long been realised by me through the

discovery of huge stone megatools and often massive fossil feet impressions found at various locations

around the country as early as 1969. In September of that year I had found a large mineralised lower backpremolar of a being that would have stood around 3.66 metres tall at Westmead outside Sydney. It would bethe only fossil specimen of a giant hominin in my collection until Wednesday 20th January 2004 when, in thecompany of the Westrips, Heather and I investigated the Wadbilliga River, deep in the Wadbilliga mountaincountry west of Narooma.

On this occasion, Antji and I became separated from Alan Westrip and Heather while exploring thegravels of the [at that time] dried up river. As we passed a large clump of lime-cemented small gravels Antjiasked me Are you going to have a look at that rock?At which I casually replied, Yes on the way back.Youdbetter, it has two eye sockets, she said. Antji had become the worlds first discoverer of a giant hominin skull-type,in this case an endocast minus much of the rear braincase area, of a being that must have stood well over 3.66metres and have been of powerful muscular strength.

The fossil, now known as Homo antjii in its incomplete form, though crushed somewhat flattish,retains the outline of the lower jaw and measures 33cm in length from the nasal area to the rear of theincomplete braincase, by 33cm in width and up to 18cm in depth in its present state. The fossil dates about380,000 years BP [Before Present] and has since been joined by two other giant hominin skull endocasts fromanother location of that river. I have a hunch that this river will one day produce skull material of an


4/31


4

Australopithecine, and if so it will always be known that Antji Westrip led the way with her giant endocast.Well done Antji!!

If as I suspect that an Australopithecine skull awaits discovery on the banks of the Wadbilliga River, Ibelieve there is a good chance that it will be another Australopithecus Australis relative, but time will tell.

At present further fieldwork in the Wingham-Barnard River country is planned, in hope of turning upfurther skull and of other fossil evidence ofAustralopithecus barnardii. Our continent undoubtedly still hidesmany startling fossil finds of our pre-Aboriginal past, and the Gilroys feel privileged to be the founders of

this research of an unknown Australian Old Stone-Age past which has for far too long been ignored for thesake of political correctness!

-0-

The Barnard River, Wingham NSW jasper-coated skull,right profile. The specimen is believed to be that of a female.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The skull, left profile.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The skull, frontal view. The reconstruction ofthis fossil reveals a form of Australopithicine,

which has been named Australopithecusbarnardii gilroy. Photo copyright Rex

Gilroy 2011.


5/31


5

An artists re-construction of African Australopithecine types [from Early Man by F Clark Howell, Time-Life Books USA 1969]. Theimages give some indication of at least two forms so far identified by the Gilroys researches. For example, the Australopithecus robustus male

[far left of picture and female to right] are what the Australian robust Australopithecus australis male and female creatures would havelooked like. The female and male creatures to left of picture represent the more slender Australopithecus africanus, and if the Australopithecusbarnardii gracile skull turns out to belong to a less muscular [ie non robust] race, then she may have looked something like the female A.

africanus depicted here.


6/31


6

The scene of the discovery of the largehominid skull [Australopithecus australis

gilroyii regional variation], in the occasionalcreek, Bega district NSW. Note 40cm ruler

beside the skull lying in situ.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The Australopithecus Australis gilroyii skull lying in situ. The worn down eyesockets have been outlined in chalk. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Rex Gilroy examining his important find.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Heather Gilroy, about to prepare alunch, looks pleased at

husband Rexs big find.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Frontal view of the A. australismineralised skull. Note the remains of

massive brow ridges.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


7/31


7

The skull, left profile. Note flat cranium and projectingfacial area of this archaic skull-type.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The skull, right profile.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The type specimen of the Katoomba, NSWAustralopithecus australis found by Rex on Thursday

6th January, 2005. Now turned to ironstone, besidesdistortions it bears extensive signs of an earlier period oflong-time surface exposure, as shown by excessive, deep

pit-marking. The skulls distinctive, though badly wornpointed sagittal crest, distinguishes it from all otherHomo skulls found in Australia so far discovered in

Australia. The originally doliocephalic braincase waspartly crushed flattish due to sediments not having

sufficiently filled it to otherwise provide some resistanceto distortion in the early stages of burial. This right sideview of the skull shows the face projected outwards withthe right, badly worn brow ridge having been thick and

projecting.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The A. australis skull, rontal view. Note the weathered pointed sagittal

crest. A section of the left orbital and cranial frontal area of the left eyesocket and brow ridge is missing [the shadow gives the impression of asecond brow ridge and socket here]. Although no lower jaw has survived,

the dental arch [not visible here] shows faint outlines of several teethsockets. Note how the right brow ridge projects outward. Outward

projecting brow ridges is a feature of robust Australopithecine skull-typesfrom Africa. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The rear of the braincase showing theflattened appearance. When intact, the skullwould have been doliocephalic [ie long and

narrow].Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


8/31


8

The Bega district A. australis gilroyii skull beside thesmaller type specimen of Australopithecus australis gilroyii

from Katoomba, NSW. Both skulls display remnantraised sagittal crests, with the eye sockets tending to projectoutwards from the skull. This is a very primitive feature

known to Africas Australopithecines.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The first of the Pliocene proto-Australopithecus gilroyii endocastsdiscovered at the base of a volcanic plug in the Bega District, far

south coastal New South Wales on Monday 13 th June 2005 by RexGilroy, this little juvenile specimen was recovered from volcanic

[mineralised] ash, which has also originally filled the skull cavity toform the endocast, the bones having long ago disintegrated. The fossilwas a lucky find, Rex Gilroy chancing to see it exposed from among

mineralised ash rubble. The volcanic plug belongs to a group ofvolcanoes forming the South-Eastern NSW [volcanic] Sequence, all

of which were dormant by 7 million years ago.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The Bega, New South Wales district skullendocast, frontal view. Representative of a

proto-Australopithicine species that lived inAustralia by at least 7 million years ago! It

now bears the scientific name proto-Australopithecus gilroyii.


The Bega, New South Wales district skull endocast, leftview. The fossil is evidence that a race of ancestral

Australopithecines evolved in Australia from tree-dwellingprimates that had to have left the trees up to 2 million

years before their African cousins!Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


9/31


9

A larger adult proto-Australopithecine endocast found by RexGilroy on 11thMarch 2006. The right side of the braincase area is

missing. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Frontal view of the skull. The 13th June 2005endocast, that of a juvenile, now becomes the

type specimen.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Another proto-Australopithecus gilroyii skullendocast, found at the volcanic plug site on

Saturday 4th October 2006.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011

A downview of the adult skull endocast.Note the long, narrow [doliocephalic]

brain case. The facial area is at the top ofthe photo.


The proto-Australopithecusgilroyii skull, left profile. Note

the projecting face and highforehead.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy2011.


10/31


10

This mineralised [ironstone] lower back premolar tooth of a gianthominid [of at least 3.66m height], was recovered on September 16th1969 by Rex Gilroy at Westmead in Sydneys west. The tooth is

52mm in length by 36mm width. There has been some distortion inthe roots. The fossil dates up to 500,000 years BP.


Downview of the Westmead lower premolar tooth. Length of crown32mm, width25mm. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The dried up Wadbilliga River, deep in the Wadbilligawilderness, scene of the discovery of two massive hominid skullendocasts. The first, and most important of these, was found byAntji Westrip and Rex Gilroy on Wednesday 20 th January

2004 embedded in sediments to right of picture.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. The section of riverbank from which the endocast of the giant hominid came. When

spotted by Antji, the fossil had recently been exposed from the bank and was lying

amid other bank rubble. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Rex holding a second giant hominid endocast found later by him atthe same river locality, with Antji Westrip holding the endocast of thefirst Wadbilliga Man. The Wadbilliga endocast is the first gianthominid skull found anywhere in the world! The Wadbilliga Man[ie skull No 1], dates at least 320,000 years BP, whereas the 2nd

endocast came from deposits some distance away at another section ofthe riverbank which place it at around 380,000 years BP. Despite

distortions, the 1st Wadbilliga skull endocast is a flat cranium

archaic giant Homo erectus form, whereas the 2ndskull endocastbelongs to the late rounded skull form in the same manner as the

smaller archaic and late forms of Homo erectus.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


11/31


11

Wadbilliga Skull endocast No 1., frontal view. Adistinct groove exists where the upper and lower jaws

were fused together before the outer skull bonesdisappeared. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The Wadbilliga Skull endocast No 1., right side. The generalcolour of the pebble and mudstone making up the fossil, makes

it necessary to chalk in details such as the eye sockets, nasalarea and the outline of the lower jaw.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Wadbilliga Skull endocast No 1., frontal view from anotherangle. The rear braincase area is missing. The specimen measures33cm in available length, by 33cm width across the facial section

by 18cm in depth. The eye sockets measure 7cm in length and 6cmin width. The jaw area has been crushed on its right side. Had theendocast been complete and the bones present, it is estimated that acomplete skull would have been 37-40cm in length, the hominid

standing 12ft [3.66m] in height.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The endocast on the its left side in situ at the time of itsdiscovery. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Rear view of the endocast. Note the large pebbles that hadbecome wedged inside the skull before the specimen mineralised,

although the bones fell away.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Heather Gilroy studying the Wadbilliga Man skull endocastNo 1. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


12/31


12

The second giant hominid endocast fossil skull type, left profile.With the missing lower jaw intact and the actual skull bones

present, this head would have been of monstrous size.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The giant Wadbilliga endocast as a skull [black] incomparison with an average size Homo erectus skull.

Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

The second giant hominid endocast fossil skull type, recoveredover 30 metres from the site of the first giant hominid skullendocast find. This right side view shows a receding forehead,

a large nasal area and enormous eye sockets. Much of therear braincase area is missing, although reconstruction

suggests that the original skull was doliocephalic, suggestingthe individual to have been a late giant form of Homo

erectus! Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The second giant hominid endocast fossil skull type, frontal view. The fossilmeasures 33cm width across the facial section by 27cm in depth. The nasal area

measures 16cm in length by 11cm in width, and from the nasal area to the rear ofthe available fossil material the skull is 28cm in length. Adding about 8cm depth

for the missing lower jaw, a complete depth of 35cm would have been reached. Themassive eye sockets are 12cm wide by 11cm high.


Aboriginal traditions Australia-wide, together with massivefossil hominid footprints, suggest that giant hominids of more

than one form roamed this continent; many as tall as three

times the height of an Aboriginal, according to their folklore.And then there were the gargantuansSketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.



13/31


13

ANCIENT PERUVIAN COLONISTS OF SOUTHCOASTAL NEW SOUTHWALES.

By Rex Gilroy.Copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Over the past year readers have seen the Gilroys report of our discovery of a crumbling Mayan pyramid withassociated weathered rock inscriptions at a remote Hunter Valley location dating back to the golden age of

Mayan culture between 250 AD and 900 AD, during which time they made large balsa wood sailed raftexpeditions into the Pacific Ocean on expeditions which carried them to New Zealand and Australia amongother lands.

Our first major discovery concerning Amerindian voyages to Australia was the Cooktown, far NorthQueensland Mayan colony, from which I have gathered eight crates of stone images. This major discovery,together with the Bribie Island Peruvian miniatures [ie small stone head engravings] and other odd finds ofPeruvian landfalls along the Queensland coast, leave little doubt in our minds that south American traditionsof the great lost paradise land across the western ocean [where a great red rock marked the worlds centre],

were based upon the accounts of returning mariners that had reached and explored this land.Now a new find has been added to this list of cultures, in the form of a Chimu pottery head once

used to burn incense, its open mouth, eyes, ears and two tube-like head appendages allowing the smoke to

escape. The clay from which the head is made is believed to be local. The head is ceremonial and from thereversed crescent moon-shaped eyes and upright crescent moon-shaped mouth it is possible that the relic is aMoon-worship object.

Measuring 36cm tall by 36cm wide, the pottery head was discovered by me in two fragments, half-buried in rainforest soil, late on the afternoon of Wednesday 12th January 2011, on the edge of what was oncea now dried up inlet of the coastal town of Narooma.

On a previous visit to Narooma Heather and I searched forestland in the mountains behind the townand uncovered mysterious stone ruins. As this find was made too late in the day to carry out measurementsand a more detailed search, I now intend returning there to see what other remains might yet lie in that forest.I shall also search for more possible evidence about the area of the pottery head.

Comparison between the Narooma pottery head with other similar examples found in the Americas

shows it to compare with certain ceremonial clay heads of the Chimu culture around 1000 AD, when itspeople constructing a capital city at Chan Chan, where it is estimated that anything up to 100,000 inhabitantsresided prior to the civilisations spread into the Andes under the ruler Nancen Pinco after 1370, only to beconquered by the Incas around 1470.

Just how many Chimu culture Amerindians once occupied the Narooma colony is uncertain for now,but it had to have been one of reasonable enough size if the mystery ruins found by us in the mountainshereabouts belong to this people, and they would certainly have had their women with them.

Was there any cultural influence upon the local Aboriginal population? This is debateable, althoughthe former tribespeople of the Narooma inlet foreshores once regularly performed a full moon corroboree tocelebrate the Moon reaching its fullness. This celebration is thought by some to possess Amerindian features.

-0-

The site in a patch of dense rainforest where the Chimupottery ceremonial head was recovered. The relic was found in

two pieces, half buried in the soil of an animal trail.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


14/31


14

Rear view of the head.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Frontal view of the head. Note missingtriangular section left of mouth.

Photo copyright t Rex Gilroy 2011.

In August 2005 the Gilroys searched a remote beachfront area

near Clairview, Queensland, where, besides the remains of ancientstoneworks found in the scrub, this Peruvian-style head image wasrecovered. It measures 19cm tall by 12.5cm wide and 9cm deep.


Peruvians on Bribie Island? Evidence of ancient Peruvian settlement ofthis island, off the coast of Brisbane, south-east Queensland, came to light

through the fieldwork of the Gilroys, when in August 2005 they turnedup six small Peruvian stone images in scrub on a saltwater creek. Thelargest was a head in two pieces recovered from sand, which was glued

together. It measures 8cm tall by 5.7cm wide and 4.2cm deep.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The head, after its removalfrom the forest soil.

Photo copyright t RexGilroy 2011.


15/31


15

This image is 4.3cm tall by 3.5cm wide and2.3cm deep.


The larger head image in close-up. At somestage it had been burnt, as the burn stain on

much of the relic shows.


This small stone face measures 5cmtall by 3.6cm wide and 2.2cm deep.


Another tiny pebble face. It measures 3.2cm tall by2.7cm wide and 1.3cm deep.


This pebble face is 3.5cm tall by 3.2cm wide and1.9cm deep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The most interesting of all the images is thislittle Mother-Goddess, her hands holding her

breasts. It measures 3.9cm tall by 2.5cmwide and 1.7cm deep.


Adam Mulquin (3) and his brotherGregory (7) play with a mysteryhead carving, found by residents

clearing bushland at Leumeah, inSydneys south-west in August1977. The massive stone head

carving resembles some Olmec stoneheads from the Gulf of Mexico,

dating between 1200 and 400 BC.

Is this relic evidence of Amerindiancross-Pacific voyages to Australia?Photo from The Sun newspaper

Wednesday 24/8/77.


16/31


16

THE GILROYS LATEST NEW ZEALAND INVESTIGATIONS.By Rex Gilroy


Plans are now under way for Heather and I to return to New Zealand later in 2011, to carry out investigationsinto pre-Polynesian colonists of this land, including further evidence of the Uru. We will particularly seek outevidence of New Zealands unknown Old Stone-Age past for further evidence of Homo erectus.

We will in particular be searching for evidence of that mysterious race of tool-making living Homo

erectus-type beings, the Moehau, New Zealands answer to Australias Yowie and the American Bigfoot.Aside from our relict hominological pursuits we will seek out those ancient cryptozoological subjects,

the plesiosaur-type sea creatures seen around the coasts of North and South Islands, and living moas, theresults of this big investigation will be used in at least six books on New Zealand mysteries planned forpublication by the Gilroys.

*****Our March-April 2007 investigation was cut short in the north of South Island when we discovered

our money had been stolen [a credit card scam traced to an Asian-owned motel in Auckland on our first nightthere]. However, finds were made in the North Island which included 3,000 year old bronze-Age Celtic ruinsand rock inscriptions in the KeriKeri district, Celtic rock script at Danevirke, and Ptolemaic era Egypto-Libyan rock script at New Plymouth.

On a night time Skywatch at KeriKeri I recorded two UFO sightings in the eastern sky and one in thewest around 1-2am.

Thanks to the kind assistance of Prudence Buttery of Christchurch, two members of her UFOresearch club were organised to take care of us after we were just able to make it from Blenheim [where thetheft was discovered at an ATM the money had been removed gradually] to Kaiapoi outside Christchurchin our hire car with a tank of petrol. At Kaiapoi our carers were brother and sister, Adrian Cooper and

Antionette, whose kindness we shall always remember. Thanks to them we were able to visit Castle Rockwhere I discovered an ancient Uruan temple literally covered in rock script. After a talk to the UFO Club[which had been planned before we left Australia] we were accompanied to the airport by Adrian and

Antionette. Our great disappointment will now be made up for by our forthcoming return expedition and allour Christchurch friends can expect to see us.

*****On our previous visit I had incredible luck in finding three weathered large moa tracks in the

TeUrewera forest country, and on a night time investigation, alone up a mountainside track, saw a tall darkshadowy figure moving through the full moon lit forest in my direction as I sat silently. The form looked tobe that of an extinct giant moa [Dinornis giganteus]. I had my camera ready, but as the creature was some 15metres away my flash would not have picked it up. In any case it turned and moved away. All the time it hadbeen emitting a loud hump; hump; hump sound ending in a strange squeal [heard by Heather from the caron a dirt track below the mountain]. I was not going to give chase in the dim light, very likely tripping overmoss-covered logs and vines, so I just sat and peered into the darkness. What I believe I saw was a creatureup to 3 metres tall.

Had we been able to carry out our original plans we would have searched eight areas in the South

Island, principally in the Fiordland forests, where giant-size and smaller extinct moas have been claimed seenover many years. Having already seen this country we can fully appreciate the claims that anything could livein those inaccessible wilds free of human interference.

During our 2001 search I recovered little scrub moa tracks which we cast, deep in the TeUreweraforests [Ureaptrix curtus] so we are certain that this 1 metre or so tall flightless bird still survives. On our 2011search we intend to seek out evidence of little scrub moas in the Southland forests, especially in Fiordlands.However, the media will as usual want to accompany us and this is always a BIG NO,NO, as they cannot betrusted to keep a locality secret. We wish only to find any tracks and other evidence of living creatures,photograph one if extremely lucky, and leave them alone to breed up in peace.

*****What fascinates me most about New Zealand is that, despite the isolation, there is fossil and other

evidence of primitive hominins of undoubted Homo erectus identity having inhabited both main islands inthe Pleistocene period.

The only way these hominins, or any others in pre-Polynesian Pleistocene times could have reachedthis then-united landmass, was by a great land shelf that once linked New Zealand to New Guinea-Australia,

which in turn were linked by a vast land-shelf to mainland Asia. The discovery of Australopithecines in


17/31


17

Australia now shows this to have been the only possible way for these African emigrants to have enteredAustralia in the earlier Pliocene period, well over 3 million years ago!

The thought naturally arises; if Australopithecines could walk into Australia, what then was to haveprevented then, like later Homo erectus, from walking into New Zealand. All that is needed is a fossil skull toprove it. Perhaps the Gilroy will one day fill this gap!

On previous field investigations Heather and I have found crude stone eoliths at Ross [South Island]which if the text books covering the Ross Glaciation period stratas in which these tools were found arecorrect, should make them no later than around 1,88,000 years BP [Before Present] in age [some authoritiespush the glaciation back to 2 million years BP]. For now we regard our finds as evidence of archaic Homoerectus presence in New Zealand.

Another ancient stratigraphy in New Zealand geological chronology is the Porika Glaciation, whichdates back some 555,000 years BP. Extensive examples of the debris left by this glacial period occur in theLake TeAnau district, and on previous visits here, I have recovered crude eolithic implements parallelingHomo erectus tools found in Australia, from the TeAnau Downs area, dating back 555,000 years BP.

Aside from tools there are feet impressions of average size hominins preserved in volcanic mud andash flows dating back hundreds of thousands, even a million years and perhaps more, at volcanic sitesthroughout the North Island. I have discovered them near Thames and on the Karangahake River, while inthe Coromandel Range on Monday 17th September 2001 I uncovered from Pleistocene deposits two skulls,one an archaic flat-craniumed endocast specimen with no facial features preserved and another actual skullof archaic Homo sapien appearance with remnant Homo erectus features from the same strata. Theselimestone mineralised specimens by Australian standards would have to date back 300,000 perhaps 350,000years BP. This places them in the period of the Waimaunga Glacial era.

The flattish cranium specimen gave the appearance of an archaic Homo erectus. This suggested thatHomo erectines had occupied the region long enough for them to evolve gradually into archaic Homosapiens. If this is the case, and it appears so, then modern humans evolved independently in New Zealandlong before Polynesian arrival a mere 1,000 or so years ago!

Having finally assessed all the evidence from this site on the Tairua River, I tentatively name himHomo erectus tairuaensis, and the archaic Homo sapienHomo Coromandelensis.

Two more skull-types, were recovered from two rivers in TeUrewera National Park, on Thursday 20thMarch 2008. One was a small limestone mineralised endocast skull from the bank stratas of the HepurahineRiver. An undoubted juvenile, reconstruction showed it to display Homo erectus features with itsdoliocephalic skull shape [ie long and narrow]. Its poor state of preservation aside, on various grounds it hasbeen placed at around 350,000-400,000 years BP., which could make it the oldest hominin skull found in NewZealand at present.

The second skull, a basalt-like mineralised endocast, named Homo whakateneiiafter the river in which itwas found among gravels on the surface of a dry section of bed, displays brachiocephalic skull features [ieround]. Initially I gave it an age of around 500,000 years BP but am now prepared to drop this estimate tothat of its Coromandel archaic Homo sapien counterpart but it may be a little older.

Further skull-types will be needed, but it is already clear Homo erectus was established in NewZealand at an early period in the Pleistocene. More skull-types for comparative studies will, I believe, reallypush back the age of Man in old Aotearoa, even if the conservative university scientists still wish to stick tothe traditional nobody before the Maoris view!

*****Recently-manufactured stone tools of Homo erectus type occur in the Fiordlands National Park and

other wilderness regions of the South Island. They have been found in the Coromandel scrub and TeUrewerawilds. There is but one explanation, they are the work of living Homo erectus, now-a-days nick-named theCoromandel Man or better still, the Moehau. Males, females and their children are regularly claimed seen inboth the main islands, and particularly in the South Island, so that New Zealands Yowie is a living tradition

which the Gilroys will be hot on the trail of as soon as we set foot in Kiwiland!The evidence for the Moehau strikingly parallels that for Australias Yowie, a tool-making, fire-making

hominin. However, lately in Australia the fossil skulls supporting an Australopithecine presence as early asmid-Pliocene times to around 1 million years ago in the Pleistocene, could suggest that some still linger toexplain sightings of a non-tool making herbivorous/insectivorous race, long-haired and more ape-like thanHomo erectus, known not only to our Aborigines but also to early 19 th century settlers. They are still claimedto exist in remote eastern Australian mountain country.


18/31


18

The earliest accounts of Moehau hominis come from the Moriori and later Maori colonists, with theearliest known European settler accounts dating as far back as the 1830s at our present knowledge.

In 1904 Edward Tregear wrote of these beings in his book The Maori Race [1904], describing themas hairy wild creatures of the wood. They lived, he said, amid the trees of the forest, carrying off womenand children. The hair was the head hair, which grew long on them no barbers around then! so thatthey used stone knives to cut it when needed.

These beings have other names in Maoridom and are believed to still exist in the forests eastwards of

Lake Taupo [ie the Kaimanawa forest country] into the Ureweras.On Sunday 30th March 2008 I discovered apparent Moehau footprints in Waipoua forest and made a

cast of the best of the otherwise three weathered tacks, having been made about 2-3 days before. Others havebeen found by Moehau investigators in the South Island forests where we will be heading later this year.

*****In April 2002 in scrub outside Mahakirau a lone tramper, Tom Donaldson, came across two sets of

tracks on a sandy creek edge. The feet impressions were up to 40cm in one set and the other about 30cmlength and both were very broad he said.

At Opito off the Mercury Islands in 2003, there were several reports of five or six male and femalebeings, seen on and off in the district by property owners and campers. During November two femalesgarbed in cow hides, were seen gathering shellfish on a remote rocky shore at Waitaia Bay by a tourist family,

and in another incident two children, a boy and a girl, walking on a bush track near their parents homeoutside Opito one morning in August 2000, were frightened by what they said later was a big, long, dark-haired man clothed in a cow skin. His bare, dirty feet were very big and he was 6 or 7 feet tall.

The man-beast looked menacingly at them as they ran away screaming, but he did not follow them.Their father, once alerted, searched the track and some of the bush but the man-giant was gone.

Sightings reports of the Moehau hominins read like Yowie sightings reports, and there can be nodoubt in our minds that the Yowie and Moehau are one-and-the-same Homo erectus. We eagerly await ourchance to once more go in search of the Kiwi Yowie.

There are individuals out there who would say that the Gilroys are wasting their time looking forcreatures and hominins that just cant possibly exist; and then there are others who envy us, who realisedthere still remain secretive, extinct or as yet unknown animals and beings out there in inaccessible wilds just

waiting to be discovered and recognised, and that through our efforts to uncover so many mysteries, we areshowing thinking laypeople like ourselves, that there are yet so many remote regions in the Australian, NewZealand or any other wilderness areas worldwide, where any mystery creatures could still exist; where mysteryruins speak of civilisations lost in time yet rediscovered through our efforts, or a lost of hidden historyrevealed by us.

We are fortunate indeed to have been chosen by providence to be the prophets of the new, comingage of acceptance of these unknown wonders of our hidden history and cryptozoological mysteries for toolong overlooked by conservative academia.

We live a life that others often can only dream about!-0-

Rex Gilroys sketch of a Plesiosaur incomparison to a human figure.

Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


Eric a completely opalised skeleton,which together with other marine fossillife forms being recovered from WhiteCliffs, Lightning Ridge New South

Wales and Coober Pedy, demonstratesthat the Australian interior was a vastinland sea during the Cretaceous period

[ie around 150 to 65 million yearsBP]. Photo by Rex Gilroy 2011.



19/31


19

Lake Taupo, central North Island, NewZealand. The Lake is a huge volcanic

crater, formed by a mighty eruption thatoccurred about 200AD. The Lake is fed bystreams and rivers, and at some time prior to

further disturbances which altered thelandscape, there was a waterway connectingthe lake to the west coast, which allowed, it

would appear, plesiosaur-type marine reptilesto penetrate inland to this extremely deep

lake, to explain persistent claims oflongneck sightings here.


The long, dark shape [approximately 16ft (4.88m) in length]photographed by Rex Gilroy 300m offshore from the southern cornerof Lake Taupo as it swam on a north-east course out of sight across

the lake.[The creature appears as a dark streak in the centre ofpicture]. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Rex Gilroy scans Lake Taupo in New Zealands North Island, onthe afternoon of Friday 18th July 1980. About an hour later at

4.30pm at another location at the lakes southern end, he saw andphotographed a long, dark shape moving just below the surface.


The strange rotting carcase of a large creature, caught in the trawling netof the vessel Zuiyo-maru, on 25thApril 1977 in the ocean east of

Christchurch. Tissue samples were saved for scientists, and a sketch wasdone of the remains by a crew member, before the carcase was dropped

back into the sea, for fear the rotting specimen would taint their catch.The crew believed the carcase was that of a plesiosaur-type sea monster,

despite later efforts by university zoologists to dismiss the remains as aspecies of shark!

Photo The Christchurch Star, Christchurch, New Zealand.

The sketch done by a crew member of the mysterycarcase, which he measured at 10,000mm length. Its

plesiosaur features continue to cause argument amongresearchers.

Photo The Christchurch Star, Christchurch, NewZealand.


20/31


20

Heather Gilroy with a display ofreconstructed moas in AucklandWar Memorial Museum. Elevenspecies have been identified fromsub-fossil remains in both North

and South Islands.

Photo by Rex Gilroy 2011.

Set of moa leg bones from the smallest to largest speciesdisplayed in Auckland War Memorial Museum. Thelargest bone in the foreground belonged to a full-grown

Giant Moa, Dinornis giganteus.Photo by Rex Gilroy 2011.

Set of skulls of four moa species in Auckland War Memorial Museum.Note gizzard stones [water-smoothed pebbles swallowed to help the birds

digestion of food] to right of skull and Maori jewellery made from moabones. Photo by Rex Gilroy 2011.

Reconstruction of the Giant Moa,Dinornis giganteus [emu feathers

used in reconstruction], which grewup to 4m tall. It is displayed in

Auckland War Memorial

Museum.Photo by Rex Gilroy 2011.

The Giant Moa, Dinornis giganteus, a resinand emu feathers reconstruction the largest ofthe Moa species. Despite the arguments ofscientists that the species is totally extinct,there are reliable sightings claims of this

species from remote Fiordland locations ofNew Zealands South Island.

Photo Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Skull of a large moa. The largest species, Dinornisgiganteus, officially stood 3m tall, although there are

claims for individuals approaching 4m tall!Sketch Canterbury Museum, Christchurch,

New Zealand.


21/31


21

In this imaginary scene, two browsing Giant Moas[Dinornis giganteus] stand in the Eglinton Valley grasslandeast of Milford Sound, in New Zealands South Island. Inthe background flows the Eglinton River at the base of the

forest-covered imposing Earl Mountains. Dinornis giganteus,

which reached over 12ft [3.66m] in height, is claimed byNew Zealand palaeontologists to have become extincttogether with other moa species long before the advent of

European colonisation; despite generations of sightings claimsand close encounter reports from widely-scattered, remote

mountainous forestland localities. One of these localities is theEglinton Valley. Hereabouts, in the Knobs Flat and

Cascade Creek areas, and on the western side of theEglinton River in the Earl Mountains forests, there have

been sightings of both the Little Bush Moa and also theGiant Moa, as well as fresh tracks of these birds on

numerous occasions since the 20th century, and such incidentscontinue today.

Photo reconstruction by Heather Gilroy 2011.

On Saturday 11thMarch 2000, during a search inKarangahake Gorge, inland from the Bay of Plenty

east costal North Island, Rex Gilroy made the chancediscovery of a distorted, mineralised [silica] Moa skulldisplaying both beaks. The fossil is at least 2 millionyears old. The specimen came from dawn Pleistocenedeposits in the bank of the Ohinemuri River which

flows through the gorge.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Reconstruction from resin and emu feathers ofthe second largest known moa, Dinornis

novaezealandiae.Photo Auckland War Memorial Museum,

A reconstructed skeleton of the Adzebil lin Auckland War Memorial Museum.A flightless, ground-dwelling bird of moa-like appearance, it is claimed to be extinct

by New Zealand scientists despitesightings claims of birds answering to thisspecies description in remote Fiordland

regions of the South Island.Photo by Rex Gilroy 2011.

Rock drawing of a moa from SouthCanterbury, done by Maori moa hunters more

than 500 years ago. Sketch CanterburyMuseum, Christchurch New Zealand.


22/31


22

Reconstructed skeleton of a female LittleBush Moa, Euryapteryx curtus, displayedin Auckland War Memorial Museum.


Skeleton of the Little Bush Moa,Anomalopteryx didiformis. Note the birdsstance, with the neck bent low in the mannerof the emu and other Ratites. The head wasonly raised when feeding upon foliage. Sketch

Artists impression of the Little Bush Moa.Officially extinct at least 600 years, the

Gilroys have found evidence of a colony ofthese birds deep in the TeUrewera National

Park, North Island in New Zealand.Sketch Auckland War Memorial Museum,

New Zealand.

The wilderness of the TeUrewera National park, inland from Napier [east coastal North Island], where theGilroys have found evidence of a Little Bush Moa colony. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

This fossilised moa foot impression, displayedin Auckland War Memorial Museum, closely

resembles the recently-made Little Bush Moatracks found in the Urewera National Park,North Island, by Rex and Heather Gilroy.



23/31


23

Heather Gilroy scans a nearbyforest-covered ridge for a sign of moa

activity, deep in the TeUreweraNational Park, September 2001.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy2011.

The TeUrewera forests, in the vicinity of the discovery of Little BushMoa tracks near a suspected colony location, found by Rex and

Heather Gilroy. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Rex Gilroy on the lookout for living moas deep in the TeUreweraNational Park. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Heather points to scratch marks on anembankment on the side of an olddisused forest tack. Soon after thispicture was taken, a single female

Little Bush Moa foot impression wasdiscovered to the left of where she

stands. A search of the forest near theembankment scratch marks resultedin the discovery of a number of Little

Bush Moa footprints.


Detail shot of the female foot impressionof a Little Bush Moa discovered on thedirt track to the left of the embankment

scratch marks.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The embankment scratch marks in detail.The birds regularly use this same spot to

visit the forest in search of food.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The area in which the Gilroysdiscovered recently-made trackimpressions of the Little BushMoas. While many were too

indistinct to prepare plaster castsfrom, several good specimens were

found for this purpose.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy

2011.


24/31


24

Several indistinct footprints found in the forest floor at the Little BushMoa site. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The moa nesting site in a large, hollow, rotting kauri tree trunk foundby Rex Gilroy in the TeUrewera National Park.


Close-up of one of the tracks.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Rex Gilroy holding the male and female footprint casts.Working from skeletal remains, scientists have estimated

that the female Little Bush Moa reached a height of about1.3m, whereas the male was about 90cm in height.


Two of the cast Little Bush Moa tracks are of male and femaleimpressions. The largest is that of the female, being 24cm in length by17.5cm in width, the smaller male track is 14cm in length by 13.5cm

in width. Photo co ri ht Rex Gilro 2011.


25/31


25

Wild forest country west of Rotorua where night time encountersby motorists with Little Bush Moas on the roadside have been

claimed on and off for many years.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The country between Picton and Blenheim, north-eastern South

Island. Claims of sightings by fishermen and gold prospectors, of boththe Little Bush Moa and also a larger form, have been going on forgenerations in this region. In June 1980 An 8ft tall, mottle-

coloured moa was described by a motorist, Mr Bill Price, as havingstood on the roadside in open ground on the bank of the WairauRiver as he drove along Highway 63 toward St Arnaud. As hepulled up to have a look, the great bird bounded off into nearby

scrub. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The Coromandel Peninsula country is still believed to be a habitat ofsurviving Little Bush Moas. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The eerie forestlands around Lake Rotoiti have been the scene of moaencounters by trampers on and off over many years. A 3m tall Giant

Moa [Dinornis giganteus] was claimed seen in this area in November1994. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The Haast River, which flows into the west coast, as seen from the road

on the way to the Haast Pass. Fishermen, trampers and sight-seeingtourists have claimed to have seen moas of varying heights hereabouts,particularly along the shore of the north side of the river going back

many years. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Rex Gilroy, filming forest-covered mountaintops with his Super8mm movie camera, at Franz Josef Glacier. Part of the WestlandNational Park, the wilderness encroaching upon this glacier has a

long history of moa encounters.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


26/31


26

The forest covering the steep mountainsides of the Fox Glacier, furthersouth of Franz Josef Glacier. Here is another rugged, inaccessible region

with a long history of moa sightings. Large moa tracks were foundhereabouts in December 1953 by two trampers, who returned in haste

to civilisation to obtain casting plaster to make copies of the tracks.

However, bad weather set in and destroyed them by the time the menreturned the following day!


High mountains overlook the west coast on the way south from FoxGlacier. There are farmers and trampers who have penetrated thesevast forests and who claim that a large species of moa [D. giganteus

or D. novaezealandiae, or both?] inhabits these wilds.


Scenery on the way into Franz Josef glacier,from the west coast of South Island. Many

reports have come from the Waiho River[shown here] periodically over the years. In

January 1994 a 7 to 8ft tall moa was seen bytrampers in wet weather as it fed upon foliage

at the rivers edge. When the two trampersconcerned attempted to get closer, the giant bird

quickly vanished into the forest.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The moas shared New Zealand with avariety of other now extinct birds. Shownhere is a giant eagle [Harpagrnis moorei]

attacking two moas. This 3 metre wingspan

eagle was the only real threat to the moas inPleistocene New Zealand.


27/31


27

On Monday 10th June 1996 the Gilroys discovered another ancientroadside bank north of Te Anau, containing traces of Stone-Age

hominid occupation. The site overlooks the vast Te Anau Downs, aformer glacial flow that dried up around 10,000 years ago. The

strata from which a number of crude Eolithic pebble tools came fromdates to the Porika glaciation period, making them around half amillion years old. Their Homo erectus origin cannot be doubted.


Dense forest terrain bordering the wild Haast River, Haast Pass, SouthIsland New Zealand. Hereabouts Moehau sightings have been known since

early 19th century European settlement times.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The great Pliocene-Pleistocene land shelf which formerlylinked New Guinea and Australia to mainland Asia,also extended from New Guinea to New Zealand, thusenabling primitive Stone-Age races to enter Australia-

New Zealand 2 to 4 million or more years ago! Sketch

copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Further along the same road, during the Gilroys September 2001New Zealand search, they uncovered a second roadside bank exposed

occupation deposit, on Tuesday 25thSeptember. The crude Eolithictools recovered here by Rex Gilroy were from an earlier deposit, which

could give them an age of up to 555,000 years BP.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

In 1996 Rex and Heather Gilroy discovered crude Homo erectus-type stone tools in Ice-Age deposits at a site outside Ross, on thewest coast of South Island. The tools were excavated in stratas

dating between the 3rdand 4th Inter-glacial Periods, ie 500,000-400,000 years ago! Rex Gilroy is shown measuring a section of the

site. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


28/31


28

One of a number of recently-manufactured stone tools of Homoerectus-type, recovered by Rex Gilroy at Milford Sound, South

Island New Zealand. A small chopping tool, it resembles others

found at recent Yowie/Homo erectus campsites in remote areas ofeastern Australia, as well as ancient Homo erectus sites across the

continent. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

In September 1998 Rex and Heather Gilroy uncovered aprimitive tool culture of Homo erectus-style tools near MtTongariro, North Island, dating to the 7thGlacial Period,

around 150,000 years BP.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

On Tuesday 14thMarch 2000 Rex and HeatherGilroy made a major discovery in Karangahake Gorge

west of Waihi, at the base of the CoromandelPeninsula., during their 2000 North Island

investigation, when they uncovered three fossil hominidfootprints preserved on silica rocks, on the edge of theOhinemuri River. One of these fossil feet was that of agiant who would have stood up to 3m tall. The giant

[right] foot measures 46cm in length by 29.5cm inwidth across the toes, 21cm at mid-foot and 24cm

across the heel by 4cm in depth. The giant track wasembedded in a single massive rock . Immediately to itsleft was another containing a single modern human-likefootprint, and a third track was afterwards discoveredon a smaller rock between the giant footprint rock andthe river bank. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The second footprint discovered, the modern humansize impression on the other large rock, measured20.5cm in length by 9cm across the toes, 7.6cm atmid-foot and 7cm across the heel. It was embedded5cm deep in the rock. The impression is that of a

right foot.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


29/31


29

The last [modern] human size fossil footprint to befound, on the rock close to the river bank measured

20cm in length by 8cm across the toes, 8cm at mid-footand 7cm across the heel. This one also was a right foot

impression, 5.5cm in depth.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

During the Gilroys September 2001 return to NewZealand, when revisiting Karangahake gorge, whichwas formed by volcanic upheavals in the dim past theriver was in flood on the afternoon of Monday 17th

September, when Rex climbed down a steep bank ontoa rock shoal about 1km downriver from the first

footprint fossil site, to discover a single foot impression,22cm in length by 9.5cm width at the toes, 9.5cmacross the mid-foot and 8cm across the heel. It was

2.5cm deep in the rock.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Next to the fossil footprints, the most exciting discovery of the Gilroys todate, has been the recovery of three fossil hominid skull-types, from a

remote Pleistocene bank site of the Tairoa River, deep in the CoromandelRange of the North Island. This event took place on Tuesday 15th

September 2001 when, while exploring along the rubble-strewn shoreline,Rex observed among some freshly deposited rubble fallen away from the

base strata of the bank, a very ancient mineralised hominid skull. Shortlyafterwards he found a second, mineralised skull [both are of limestone

mineralisation]. A third limestone specimen, that of a giant Homo sapienskull with remnant Homo erectus features, was also found at the bankbase strata soon afterwards, making this a major New Zealand pre-

Polynesian hominid site. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.The Pleistocene gravel bed from where the

skulls originated.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.


30/31


31/31


Please Note

Our previous meeting was a huge success and we look forward to seeing you at our next one.

Our next meeting will be held on Saturday16th April, 2011 same time, same place 12 KamillaroiRoad, Katoomba.

So until our next meeting

Watch the Skies!

`

vc

Documents

Mysterious Australia Newsletter - February 2011