mysterious australia newsletter - march 2012

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MYSTERIOUSMYSTERIOUSMYSTERIOUSMYSTERIOUS

AUSTRALIAAUSTRALIAAUSTRALIAAUSTRALIAVol. 2, Issue No 03

MARCH,2012

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NEW EVIDENCE OF MIOCENE PRIMATES INAUSTRALIA.MONSTER HOMINID FOSSIL FOOTPRINT FOUND AT

BLACKHEATH,NSW.

THE YOWIE MYSTERY HAS THE REAL HAIRY MANBEEN DISCOVERED.

THE URU ANDAMERINDIA.


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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.

NEW EVIDENCE OF MIOCENE PRIMATES INAUSTRALIA.Rex Gilroy.

Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

On August 9th 1969 at Mt Victoria, I came across a Miocene period [15 million to 23.3 million years ago] slatedeposit. Finding there were fossil plants in this grey slate I carefully excavated a number of thin slabs andfragments.

I then found one slab which bore the impression of what I at first thought to be the right hand of ahominid. This find was quickly followed by two slab fragments each containing hominid-like impressions.

These fossils, of what appeared to be small individuals, came from what had in Miocene times been a

mudflat covered by a deposit of volcanic ash during an eruption.These fossils were placed in a box and over the years examined and re-examined and the site from

which they had come investigated for further remains without success.I realised that I had the fragmentary remains of three individual creatures of unknown species. One

footprint fragment is of the frontal section and displays only four toes. Encased in a triangular slab whatremains of the foot is 10.3cm wide and 11cm long from what appears to be the middle toes.

The second fragment appears to be the impression of a right foot displaying the big toe and the otherfour, the little toe being only partly intact. These toes are smaller than those of the other fragment, indicatingtwo individuals. The foot impression is missing much of its right side lengthwise. Had the foot been intact itis estimated that it would have been approximately 8cm wide. Both fossils suggest that they belong to twobipedal individuals.

As the fossils came from Miocene deposits it became obvious to me that I had uncovered remainsnot of primitive hominids but primates! For one thing, the toe impression clearly showed that they were tooshort for gripping tree limbs.

Of the three fossils the [right] hand impression is to me the most convincing specimen supporting thepresence of a species of Miocene primate at the Mt Victoria site, its resemblance to the long-fingered hand ofthe Gibbon, an anthropoid ape being startling in itself. The lengthy sliver barely containing the fossilimpression is 26.7cm long by 14.5cm wide at the palm and 3.3cm deep. The thumb, which is placed muchfurther back from the other fingers, measures 6.5cm in available length [the rear is missing] by 2.8cm in

width. The index finger is 10cmm long by 1.7cm wide and the little finger, partly missing down its right sideon the edge of the slab is 8cm long by up to 1.5cm wide to the slab edge. The entire hand, had it been intact,

would have been approximately long and the thumb placed much further back than on a human hand

suggests the owner was a primate rather than a hominid, as this hand was designed for gripping tree branchesfor the purpose of swinging from limb to limb.

At what period in the Miocene these fossils were formed remained unknown to me in 1969.However, recent studies of the Blue Mountains volcanic sites has shown that volcanic activity has a long

Rex and Hea th e r G i l r oy , Aus t ra l i a s t op UFOand Unexp la in ed Mys t e r i e s Re s ea r c h t eam.

Pho to c op y r i gh t Rex Gi l r oy 2012.


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history here dating back to the Age of Dinosaurs finally dying off during comparatively recent Pleistocenetimes.

Although all traces of the Miocene volcano that once deposited the ash layer that covered the fossilshave vanished, university geologists some years ago dated the Mt Victoria ash strata at 17 million years BP.

*****Scientists argue that, in Africa our tree-dwelling ancestors only left their arboreal existence to adopt

an upright stance to forage on the ground around 6.5 million years ago. Yet, here in Australia ancestral

hominids [and there was surely more than one form of these] as suggested by the two feet impressions, hadalready evolved from their tree-dwelling ancestors by 17 million years ago, while other species, as representedby the fossil hand impression, still remained in the trees, but were probably beginning to forage on theground.

Scant as this evidence is at presence, it leaves no doubt in the Gilroys minds that primitive ancestralhominids were walking upon two legs in Australia up to 10.5 million years before they are first supposed tohave done so in Africa!

Following further study of the Mt Victoria fossils in September 2007, Heather and I finally gave themscientific Latin names The primate hand fossil now becoming the species Primatus primaemontanus gilroyii[iefirst mountain primate] the two feet impressions receiving the title ofproto-Homo ancestraliaii gilroyii[ie First

Ancestral Australian Homo].

Of course these names are subject to alteration should any new evidence turning up in the futurewarrant it. Although it may not create any real change, there is now a third, intact [left] foot impression ofproto-ancestraliaii. This latest discovery comes after a 42 year gap of fruitless searches.

This new find was made on Friday 24th February 2012 while taking my dog Andy for a walk at abushland location at Mt Victoria, remarkably in the region of the 1969 discoveries. Spotting a stratifieddeposit of Miocene slate in an embankment, I chanced to pick up a thick slab that had some time ago becomedetached and fallen to the ground, I cracked open a seam to find, embedded inside, the faint impression of afive-toed left foot print. This intact fossil had to be chalked in for photographic purposes. The reader canimagine my enjoyment at finding another of these fossil impressions after a search of 42 years!

The slab measured 27cm long by 14.2cm wide, the fossil foot impression being 13.5cm long by 7.7cmwide across the toes, 5.7cm wide across the mid-foot, and 4.7cm across the heel. The slab itself is 1.3cm deep.

Although our fossil discoveries will go ignored by a hostile conservative palaeo-anthropologicalestablishment concerned with preserving the dying Out of Africa dogma, the Mt Victoria Miocene feetspecimens alone are the earliest form of ancestral hominid worldwide. As I have said before, rather thanthinking Out of Africa for our human origins, perhaps it is time that we began thinking Out of Australia!

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The Mt Victoria NewSouth Wales Miocene slate

primate [right] handimpression, dating back at

least 17 million years.Photo copyright Rex

Gilroy 2012.


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The four-toed larger bipedal primate foot fragment. Thefossil measures 10.3cm in width across the toes by

11cm in length. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The more complete bipedal primate foot fragment. A rightfoot, what remains of the impression is 14cm in length by

6.2cm width across the toes and 4.5cm width across theremaining heel. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The complete Miocene slate footprint of abipedal primate that lived in Australia 17

million years ago discovered by Rex Gilroy onFriday 24thFebruary, 2012 at Mt Victoria,

NSW. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The Mt Victoria New SouthWales Miocene slate bipedal

primate fossil feet impressionfragments, dating back at least17 million years. That on the left

displays four remaining toesbelonging to a slightly larger

individual to the foot fragment onthe right, which displays four

complete toes with a small portionof a fifth.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy2012.


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MONSTERHOMINID FOSSIL FOOTPRINTFOUND AT BLACKHEATH,NSW.

Rex Gilroy.Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Fossil remains of giant hominids that once roamed the Blue Mountains continue to be uncovered in ourdense bushland.On the afternoon of Wednesday 14th March, while taking my dog Andy for a walk along a bush track

outside Blackheath, chancing to step off the roadside I stumbled upon the deep impression of a huge fossilfoot impression in a large slab of ironstone, formerly volcanic ash and mud, laid down by a volcanic eruptionhereabouts millions of years in the past, probably in mid-Pliocene times.

The footprint, incomplete on its right side towards the heel, measured 77cm long by 34cm wideacross the large toes, 34cm wide across the upper foot, and 33cm wide across the heel, being embedded 10cmdeep into the rock.

The footprint is distorted, being curved towards the right at the bottom half of the impression, as ifthe being who made it had slipped.

The monster-hominid who left this track through timemust have stood at least 4 metres in height andbeen of powerful muscular strength.The footprint was embedded in the volcanic material after it had gone cold, and become solidified

when rain later fell to react with the volcanic chemicals in the ash to turn the deposit into a concrete state,thus preserving the footprint.

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The massive fossil hominid footprint embedded in volcanic ironstone found by Rex Gilroy on the side of abush track at Blackheath, NSW. Measuring 77cm long by 34cm wide across the toes, 33cm across the

heel and 10cm deep, its maker would have stood at least 4 metres tall. The impression could be 2 to 3million years old. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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THEYOWIE MYSTERYHAS THE REALHAIRYMAN BEEN DISCOVERED.

Rex Gilroy.Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The Hairy Man that most feared of all mysterious bushland denizens to early pioneer folk and also theAborigines has long been a perplexing enigma, to both the historical researchers and relict hominidinvestigators alike.

As the father of Yowie research [ie relict hominology] and Cryptozoology with 55 years of fieldresearch behind me, I can speak with authority when I say that the Yowie is more than one race of survivingremnant groups of known fossil hominid forms of the past.

The Hairy Man [and women] was called such by the ancient tribespeople, not because these beingshad long hair, but because they wore marsupial hide cloaks. These particular beings, as I have demonstratedin my book Giants from the Dreamtime The Yowie in Myth and Reality and The Yowie Mystery Living Fossils from the Dreamtime are remnant groups of Homo erectus our immediate ancestor.

Homo erectus wore animal hide garments, manufactured stone tools, and was also the inventor of firemaking by friction.

At various times in the dim past Homo erectus developed through genetic mutation caused bymalfunction o the pituitary gland, more than one form of giant offshoot, as well as pygmy-size forms also.Evidence supporting these claims gathered by Rex and Heather Gilroy over many years, in the form of giant-size fossil skulls, jaws and teeth, skulls also of the smaller Homo erectus as well as pygmy-size specimens andtheir stone tools, including huge stone megatools and finds of large numbers of fossil giant and smallerhominid feet impressions across Australia, all exists in our huge natural science collection to support our

views. These remains are the fossil foundations revealing what primitive races peopled Australia duringPleistocene times [2 million to 10,000 years ago] and much earlier during the Pliocene Period [5.2 million until2 million years BP].

While it is now certain that the ancient tribespeople recognised the Hairy People as being morethan one form of omnivorous feeding race it is apparent that they were not the long thick-haired monstersas described in newspaper cartoons by ignorant, unthinking media. Hairy yes, but only in their head hair, therest of their bodies being probably not much more [short] haired than modern humans today.

However, there was one group of primitive hominid ancestors who might fit the longer-haired imagealthough, still not to excess, and this was the Australopithecines. Yet the Australopithecines were supposed tohave been confined to Africa. New scientific finds are beginning to suggest otherwise!

I once declared Homo erectus to be the First Australian. That was until I realised that certainprimitive, mineralised skull-types in my collection were not what I had previously indentified as proto-Homo erectus, but representatives of an Australian form ofAustralopithecus robustus, which I renamed

Australopithecus australis.The type-specimen was discovered by me on Thursday 6th January 2005, out on Narrow Neck

Plateau, Katoomba, NSW in deposits between the end of the Pliocene and beginning of the Pleistocene,placing the skull at around 2 million years old, although I suspected that the origins of this race in Australiacould date back much further, perhaps another half a million or more years. Since this extraordinarydiscovery another, regional variation of this race has been found by me near Oberon west of the BlueMountains and a gracile specimen, a possible female skull of red jasper mineralisation at least 3 million yearsold, has been found by Heather and I at Wingham, north coastal NSW, obviously representative of anotherspecies.

The facial section of another Australopithecine type of sandstone mineralisation of around 500,000 to300,000 years BP was unearthed by us at Gladstone, eastern Tasmania on Sunday 6th November 2011. Itsretrieval from such remarkably late Pleistocene deposits, suggests that, while the Australopithecines died outin Africa by around 1 million years ago, more than one form survived in Australia into much later times andmight be the origin of a primitive herbivorous/insectivorous race known in Aboriginal and early pioneersettlement times as the Hairy Man or Hairy People.

The Tasmanian fossil, like its mainland skull-types possesses the frontal remains of a pointed sagittalcrest. There can be no doubt that the Tasmanian form was a robust creature. I have given the Katoombaskull and its Oberon NSW and Tasmanian forms the scientific Latin name of Australopithecus australis.


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To mention every Australopithecine fossil found by me is beyond the scope of this article, but readerswill be familiar with my previous newsletter articles on these finds.

The evidence clearly demonstrates that, in early Pliocene times, bands of Australopithecines wanderednorthward out of Africa, presumably on a course that took them over long centuries into the Near-East and

Asia, thence across the former land-shelf from mainland Asia which in those times had to have been joinedto New Guinea-Australia, from where they gradually entered Australia by perhaps 4 million years ago! Fossilfeet impressions of a hominid having walked across a cooled volcanic ash deposit of this period, was found

by Heather and I at Kanangra Boyd National Park in 1987. If not of an Australopithecus australis, who elsecould have made them?

And then there are the four controversial skull endocasts of mineralised ash, recovered by us from anold volcanic ash and mud flow at a Bega NSW district location in June 2005, which belonged to beingsstanding between 1 metre and 1.53 metres in height.

ANU vulcanologists had previously dated the volcanic plug nearby which the endocasts had beenrecovered, and also other plugs in the district at 7 million years BP.

I have since named these fossilsproto-Australopithecus gilroy[name subject to change as further evidencecomes to light].

These primitive ape-hominid like creatures would have been bipedal herbivores like Australopithecusaustralis. However, our discovery, when published in the media, soon brought forth a tirade of abuse from

Australian scientists, mainly because this find, if acceptable, would overturn all previous theories on thepeopling of Australia. And besides displacing Aborigines as the so-called First Australiansit tended to throwinto question the whole Out of Africa dogma of modern human origins! Our big find was very quicklysuppressed in the media!

Readers will already be aware of our Homo erectus skull discoveries and evidence showing how theearliest modern humans [Homo sapiens] evolved from the erectines here in Australia by about half a millionyears ago, pre-dating the earliest African Homo sapiens by at least 300,000 or more years. It is becoming clearto many thinking people that Australia, not Africa, was the true birthplace of modern humans!

*****That there were still primitive Australopithecines lingering on in Australia alongside Homo erectines

of average human as well as pygmy and giant-size heights, is supported, not just by fossil remains, but it

seems also by Aboriginal traditions and the encounter descriptions of early settlers.In 1789 several convicts, accompanied by a party of Marines, were exploring the forest south of

Sydney Cove. Having bagged a few kangaroos, the group were returning to the settlement when atop anearby hillside, they saw what was described as a great hairey man like beaste standing watching them fromamong the trees. The Marines agreed the animal was twice the height of an ordinary man. They fired theirmuskets at the creature but he eluded them among the trees.

The first fleeters who befriended the Aboriginal inhabitants of the cove, soon learnt of the monstersknown as Yowee and Yahoo that inhabited the surrounding forest land. The tribesmen called a nearby bayYowee, because of the numbers ofhairy men and womenwho roamed its shores; and it was in the vicinity of

what is still today Yowie Bay [Miranda district] that, around January 1795, another hunting party of soldiersand convicts ware claimed to have spotted a man-sized hairy thing running from them over a tree-covered

ridge overlooking the Bay.In another old tale, still spoken of by old residents of the Blue Mountains in the 1900s a soldier of

Governor Macquaries regiment was hunting one day about 1820 somewhere near where the Blue Mountainstown of Springwood now stands, when he came face-to-face with a man-sized, hairy ape-like animal, thatapproached him from out of trees making threatening gestures at him, whereupon the soldier raised hismusket and shot the creature dead.

In the mid-1800s, settlers of the Kentlyn area, west of Campbelltown, were in the habit of lockingtheir doors at night for fear of visitations by the big hairy men who, said the Aborigines, were mostly shy,gentle creatures who only harmed in self-defence.

About 1895, one of the last of the Aborigines of the Blue Mountains, who were an offshoot of theold Mulgoa and Burragorang tribes, declared there was a Yowie living in the neighbourhood of the Devils

Hole near Narrow Neck Plateau, Katoomba. He even volunteered to take a European acquaintance to theexact place and there leave him to interview the creature at leisure, but the offer was declined. Devils Holeleads into the Megalong Valley where early settlers and Aborigines had a word for these beings Gubba.Gubba was known throughout the Jenolan, Kanangra and Kowmung regions and was so terrifying a soundthat all held in in great dread..


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Yowie was not the only name by which these hairy people were known to the Aborigines andnames varied greatly across Australia, although all basically meant the same thing Hairy Man. One southcoastal region tribal name for the hairy peoplewas Doolagarl. About 1907 a 15 year old boy, Fred Ball ofSussex Inlet, saw a Doolagarl in the bush on a rocky crest in full view of him. It moved off into thick scrub,leaving an overpowering smell. This smell, sometimes associated with the Yowie, figures prominently in reportseven in modern times. But then, these hairy primitives do not necessarily wash themselves as normal politefolks do!

And then there was the 1895 account of a contract wagonette driver, Mr Bill Hastings, who wasrunning wagonettes in the Tumut district of southern New South Wales. On one journey he and twoAborigines were assisting two government geologists on a mineral survey.

Late one night prior to sleeping the men saw something like a dingo or dog moving around theoutskirts of the camp, illuminated by the glow from the campfire. At this point, the two Aborigines criedCrikey Boss, Bunyip!and dashed under one of the wagonettes. One of the geologists fired a shotgun at thething and adopting a bipedal stance it scrambled into the bush on two legs. The mystery intruder was stillemitting blood-curdling screams as it faded into the distance. The men stayed up all night, piling logs on thecampfire with guns at the ready, in fear of the creature. In the morning they found traces of blood andstrange man-like tracks near the camp.

There are many more such tales in the Gilroy files, and these also include female encounters, of

females either with children, or seen digging for yams, edible fern roots etc. Many descriptions include theapparent ape-like faces of males and females, the fact they are herbivorous/insectivorous in eating habits and[based upon old Aboriginal claims] not possessing fire or animal hide garments, they huddle together in rockshelters or caves for warmth. Everything about them appears more ape than human. Indeed theirAustralopithecine characteristics are obvious.

Here, we believe, is the primitive, seemingly ape-like race upon which the earliest Hairy Mantraditions of our Aborigines were based.

In modern times such beings are claimed seen by Europeans in remote regions, and Aborigines arealso adamant that they are still out there!

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Australopithecus robustus male and female.Australopithecus africanus female and male

Based upon reconstructions from skeletal remains, scientists are able to create a reasonable picture of what these two forms ofAustralopithecine looked like. Robustus, for example, was a strong, big-boned creature weighing around 10 stone, possessing a gorilla-size brain. The females were shorted and slighter. Africanus was slender and only four feet tall, weighing under 7 stone. His jaw

thrusts forward as a result of big front teeth. He stood upright and ran with a swaying motion. Illustrations: TIME-LIFE BOOKS.


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Homo erectus facial reconstruction sketch. Doneby Rex Gilroy in 1969, based upon a TIME-

LIFE books illustration.

A TIME-LIFE books reconstruction of Homoerectus.

The Australopithecus australis gilroy skull. Nowturned to ironstone, besides distortions it bears extensivesigns of an earlier period of long-time surface exposureas shown by excessive, deep pit-marking. The skullsdistinctive, though badly worn pointed sagittal crest,distinguishes it from all Homo erectus skull-types

discovered by the Gilroys in Australia. The originallydoliocephalic braincase was partly crushed flattish dueto sediments not having sufficiently filled it to otherwiseprovide some resistance to distortion in the early stages

of burial. This right side view of the skull shows theforward-projecting face and the badly worn right browridge, thick and as with all robust Australopithecine

skulls, projecting outwards from the face.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The Australopithecus australis gilroy skull, frontal view.Note the weathered pointed sagittal crest which once held the

muscles for the [missing] lower jaw. A section of the leftorbital and cranial frontal area of the left eye socket andbrow ridge is missing [the shadow gives the impression a

second brow ridge and eye socket here]. Although no lowerjaw has survived, the palate [not visible here] shows faintoutlines of several teeth sockets. Note how the right brow

ridge projects outward. Outward projecting brow ridges are afeature of archaic skull-types from Asia and Africa.



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Australopithecus billii, Bathurst district NSW. Thisregional variation of the Katoomba A. australis wasuncovered in August 2007 from dawn Pleistocene

deposits. Rex named it after his father the late W.F.[Bill] Gilroy, who had always predicted that a veryancient skull would one day turn up in the ancient

deposits where Rex found it.Photo co ri ht Rex Gilro 2012.

These casts of Australopithecus boisei [top] and Australopithecus robustus, which livedin Africa 1.8 and 2 million years ago respectively, display large eye sockets and flattish

craniums with pointed sagittal crests, a very ancient hominid feature. These featurescompare favourably with the Australopithecus australis skull from Katoomba, NSW [2

million years BP] and the proto- Australopithecus gilroy of Bega district, NSW [4million years BP] respectively. However, the resemblance is superficial as

Australopithecines were confined to Africa. Casts from display in Museum of WesternAustralia, Perth.

This facial section of a small Australopithecine specimen found by Rex Gilroy outside Gladstone, eastcoastal Tasmania, was recovered from old Pleistocene deposits on Sunday 6thNovember 2011. The

remaining fossil measures 11cm tall by 4.5cm long from brow ridge to rear of fragment, 7cm long from nasalarea to rear of fragment, and 6.5cm long from base of fossil to rear of fragment, being 12cm across the facefrom right brow ridge to left side of face. It now bears the scientific name Australopithecus tasmanii gilroy.



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The oldest [ancestral hominid] skull found inAustralasia proto-Australopithecus gilroy. Discovered at the baseof a volcanic plug in the Bega District, far south coastal New South

Wales on Monday 13th June 2005 by Rex Gilroy, this little

endocast was recovered from volcanic [mineralised] ash, which hasalso originally filled the skull cavity to form the endocast the bones

having long ago disintegrated. The fossil was a lucky find, Rexchancing to see it exposed from among mineralised ash rubble. Thevolcanic plug belongs to a group of vol canoes forming the South-

Eastern NSW [volcanic] Sequence, all of which were dormant by 7million years ago. There can be no doubt as to its age.


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

ancestral hominids have evolved in Australia fromtree-dwelling primates that had to have left the treesup to 2 million years before their African cousins!


The Bega, New South Wales district skull endocast,frontal view. The evidence is clear. Our earliestbipedal ancestors evolved, not in Africa but in

Australia by at least 7 million years ago! To datehowever, the silence of Australian scientists

concerning the discovery of this little skull has beendeafening.



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The large adult hominid endocastdiscovered by Rex Gilroy at theBega NSW volcanic plug site onSaturday 11thMarch 2006. It

resembles the smaller endocast skullfound at this site on Monday 13thJune 2005. The fossils are believed

to represent a definite race ofancestral hominid and have been

given the tentative scientific name ofproto-Australopithecus gilroy. Notethe chalked in faint outlines of the

jaw, nasal passage and eye sockets.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy

2012.

Frontal view of the skull, now known as proto-Australopithecus gilroy. The 13th June 2005endocast, that of a juvenile, now becomes the

type specimen.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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The quiet inlet of Yowie Bay [Miranda district], is now a well-settled area, givingno hint that it was once populated by primitive relict hominids in the early years ofEuropean settlement of Sydney Cove. About January 1795 a hunting party of

soldiers and convicts claimed they spotted a man-sized hairy thing running fromthem over a tree-covered ridge that overlooked the bay.


This 19th century Aboriginal girl, from theShoalhaven district of New South Wales, wears a

furry kangaroo hide garment. The early Aboriginalpeople described the Yowie or Hairy Man as such

because these hominids also wore marsupial hidegarments. Portrait by M King, Sydney NSW.

The eerie Devils Hole, Katoomba NSW. This great cleft inthe cliffs, which leads down into Megalong Valley, was a

legendary haunt of Yowies in ancient times.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012. The notorious Yowie Cave, situated at Devils Hole. In 1895 anAboriginal offered to lead a European acquaintance here so he could

interview a Yowie in person, but the offer was declined!Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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THE URU ANDAMERINDIA.Rex Gilroy.

Copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Australian Aboriginal myth and legend speaks of a race of culture heroes that inhabited the land before them

and who passed on much of their culture to the tribespeople. These culture heroes are variously described asbeing pale or white-skinned; that they shaped many natural features and erected many, often monolithic rockformations, and worshiped the Sun, Moon and Stars.

They gave the Aborigines laws and passed on elements of their religion, principally Sky-Father andEarth-Mother worship. They taught the Aboriginal warriors the use of the woomera in spear throwing andthe manufacture of the boomerang.

These traditions convinced me, 47 years ago, that an advanced megalithic monument-building peoplehad inhabited Australia.

Yet when I published my theory in the press, I was immediately attacked by establishmentarchaeologists and historians with the familiar cried of impossible and that I was wasting my time andmoney searching for something that was nothing more than an Aboriginal myth!

The story has been told many times how, one January day in 1965, while exploring scrublandoverlooking a Blue Mountains valley, I stumbled upon the ruins of an extensive culture centre containingsandstone pyramidal mounds, altar stones in the forms of stylised serpent and eagle motifs and otherstructures.

Upon climbing a 15 metre tall sandstone pyramid I discovered upon its flat summit, a large altar,carved in the form of a serpent. Later at another nearby site I discovered another tall sandstone structure,atop which was the relief image of an eagle.

There were other mysterious images also but from the day I first discovered these stoneworks, I wasstruck by their vague comparisons to similar artworks to be found in Middle and South America. There wereof course many other artworks soon uncovered that did not compare with any Amerindian art styles, yet inthe years ahead I would continue to come across further crude but startling imagery and stoneworks that

seemed to hint at some ghostly link with Peruvian or Mexican cultures of a past age.I wondered, had some unknown pre-Inca or Mayan/Olmec people crossed the Pacific Ocean in largefleets of balsa sailed rafts to settle eastern Australia. Or, had an advanced megalithic civilisation developedindependently here in Australia at the dawn of history, and sailed across the pacific to the Americas, tointroduce its culture to the primitive inhabitants, who subsequently developed it to a higher level?

But who were the people who created this incredibly old advanced Stone-Age culture? Fossil hominidskull finds over the years of pre-Aboriginal Homo erectus and also archaic Homo sapiens has solved thepuzzle. Homo erectus hominids entered Australia from South-East Asia around 1.8 million years ago togradually evolve into Homo sapiens, [ie anatomically modern humans] by around 400,000 years BP [BeforePresent]. While many of these first modern humans gradually migrated out of Australia, those who stayedgradually caught the spark of culture, to create a crude astronomical science in the form of megalithic

stoneworks, stone circles and other structures aligned with the movements of the sun, Moon and otherheavenly bodies, which led them to develop agriculture and once they began constructing large vessels andputting to sea, navigation.

By somewhere between 100,000 and 60,000 years BP they had developed picture writing leading to awritten script. The limitations of space preclude a detailed account of the rise of the Uru, all of which hasalready been published in previous newsletters and our books on the Uru, such as URU The LostCivilisation of Australia [URU Publications 2005].

The spread of this civilisation across the Pacific saw their colonisation of New Zealand among manyother islands and island groups, by which means they gradually found the west coast of the Americas. Theymust have spent time on Easter Island as from the mass of Uruan words and place names featuring the nameUru.

*****If my theory has credence, we should find cultural traits supporting Uruan colonisation, principally ofMexico and South America. Rock inscriptions of apparent Uru origin have been found in these lands and alsoin areas of the United States in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas where like all later pre-Columbianexplorers, they followed the river systems. However, their greater influence upon the pre-indigenous culture


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Amerindians was in Mexico and Peru, where the later cultures both adopted Sun and Moon worship elementsparalleling closely those of old Uru in Australia and New Zealand.

The Sun-symbol of the Eagle and Snake, found in the Amerindian cultures of Mexico particularlyamong the Maya where the symbols merged as the feathered Serpent, or Kukulkan. When translated intoEnglish the name also means that he arrived in a vessel with sails from the great west land, bringing Sun-

worship to the people. The Mayan culture dates back to 2000BC, lasting until 900AD. The Aztecs, whoseculture began around what is now Mexico City [former city of Tenochtitlan] around 1200 AD, conqueredcentral Mexico, being subsequently conquered by the Spanish conquistadores under Hernan Cortes in 1519-1521. Among the Aztecs the image of the Eagle and Snake was a Sun symbol, just as it was in Uruan culturein Australia, where the Eagle of the Sun, I-na, the Suns protector, carried the Sun-God Nim, either as a snakeor solar orb, across the heavens from east to west in his beak or clutched in his talons.

The Aztecs were well aware of the great land to the west, called by them the Lost Paradise ofCulhuacan, at the centre of which rose a great red rock marking the worlds centre!

The North American Indian tribes must, to some extent been influenced by the Uru, for 19th centuryresearchers gathered myths and legends of lands far to the west across the Pacific Ocean, handed down fromearlier times.

For example the Hopi of Arizona, believed their ancestors had originally sailed to the American westcoast, from the great Motherland of Man, Kus-Kurra, which lay far to the west across the Pacific Ocean. Theysaid it lay beyond two other lands from where a highly prized greenstone could be found and used for toolsas well as jewellery and ornamentation. Obviously they were referring to the North and South Islands of NewZealand. They called these the Lands of Greenstone.

To other Indian tribes of the North American interior, this Great west land was also the Land of thedead in the sky but still located far across the [Pacific] Ocean to the west, while the Omaha believed theirspirits journeyed to this land via the Milky Way.

During the 18th century, a Lakota Sioux elder, Black Elk spoke to Europeans of a great landsurrounded by water and which he said, was the meeting place for all nations! This land was according to theearly tribes, located far to the west across the great water - the Pacific Ocean.

Yet the Lakota Sioux like all the other inland tribes possessing knowledge of the Great West Landlived far from the coast. In earlier times all must have had some degree of contact with the coastal tribesfrom whom these traditions were obtained, which in turn had been handed down from even earlier visitors,

who tradition said, were a white-skinned race of Gods who sailed from the west.*****

There is no doubt in the authors mind that Amerindians carried out cross-Pacific voyages on sailedrafts, often of great size and in large fleets. Consider the Mayan colony at Cooktown and on the Atherton

Tableland, Queensland, and the Hunter Valley, New South Wales Mayan pyramid and other crumblingremains of a farming settlement thereabouts; the Peruvian [Inca] stone images from Clairview and BribieIsland., Queensland and Campbelltown, New South Wales while recently remains of a Chimu colony 2,000years old has been uncovered by the Gilroys in the Narooma, NSW far south coast district, and in November2011 we uncovered Mayan stone carvings at sites on the Tasmanian east and west coasts. I could go on butthe fact is that these cultures all knew where Australia was, and sailed here to colonise, at various times in thedim past their land of origin.

To the Mayans the Great West Landwas known as Uru and also Kukulcan after the White God whocame from there, both names meaning to them the Land of the Serpent, meaning that its inhabitants wereSun-worshippers [ie the Uru].

The evidence for voyages to and from the Americas by the Uruan and Amerindian peoples, in thecourse of which islands were settled and megalithic structures were erected continues to grow.

Rock art of the Uru in Australia at least 20,000 years old, includes images of long-eared priests. This isof course a feature of the former Easter Islanders, but also the ancient Peruvian cultures, but of much latertimes. It would appear that the practice spread with Uruan culture-bringers to Peru before the rise of theChimu or later Inca cultures arose.

Another Peruvian culture feature, the Virgins of the Sun[Inti] priestesses who served the Incan Sun-worship temples, parallel the Virgin priestesses of Nim, the Uruan Sun-God, but the Uruan Sun-worshipreligion pre-dates the earliest Amerindian culture.

And then there was the Bird-Mancult which in one form or another, was known from Peru to EasterIsland, New Zealand to Australia.


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The Australian evidence is explained in full in our book URU The Lost Civilisation of Australia[URU Publications 2005]. In brief, the Uru developed a crude flight technology by which using naturalmaterials, created crude hang gliders, leaping from cliffs to fly in honour of I-na, the Eagle of the Sunin Sun-

worship ceremonies, but it also became a recreational practice. A crude balloon technology was alsodeveloped. This is known from Uruan rock inscriptions and images on the Blue Mountains of New South

Wales, Central Queensland, and also Lake Taupo in New Zealands North Island. These rock art sites dateback 15,000 to 20,000 years ago, whereas the non-flying cult of Easter Island is far more recent, i.e. some

time between 380AD to 1100AD. The Inca version of the cult dates back around 1438 to 1532.The Tree of Life aka the Tree of Knowledge is found in Uruan rock art dating back 30,000 or moreyears at Australian sites. It is also known from Mayan temples in Mexico dating back 2,000 years. The symbolis found across the Pacific to Javanese temple walls, where it is called the Tree of Heaven.

Datings alone show that the Amerindian cultural aspects described in this article, although seemingold in the Americas, were in fact the cultural gifts of an ancient white race that came among the earliestinhabitants in the remote past, giving them elements of their own culture, elements which as can be seen, arefar older in Australia.

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On the way up to the mounds summitstands this crude, weathered serpent-

headed rock.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The 15m tall sandstone mound atopwhich stands an altar stone in the

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The opposite side of the serpent head rockis carved in the form of a human head,believed to depict Ay-I, Supreme Being

of the Uru civilisation.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The Serpent Altar upon the summit of thesandstone mound.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The downview of the altar. The surfacehas been carved in the form of a serpent,the image of the Sun God Nim of the

Uru megalithic civilisation.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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West of the Serpent Altar found atop the 15m mound, RexGilroy found this second large Serpent Altar stone. The deepgroove on the left side of the relief image is thought to be the

Uruan letter N for Nim.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The rock bearing the Eagle Altar was discovered by Rex Gilroy in 1973.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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The Eagle Altar. It depicts the image of I-na,the Eagle of the Sun, who in Uruan religious mythology carried the

Sun-God Nim across the heavens each day in his beak.


At the base of the Eagle Altar is this smalleraltar stone, depicting I-na, Eagle of the Sun,

grasping the Sun Nim in his mouth. The glyphs

below spell I [the circle] and Na the singlestroke.12hoto copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

The Eagle Altar is climbed by clutching thesecarved grooves.



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A Uruan rock engraving depicting I-na the Eagle of the Sun,holding Nim the Sun-God in serpent form. It was found by

Rex Gilroy on Thursday 8thMarch, 2012 after sweepingoverlying leaf litter from a rock at a Mt Victoria site that he

thought just might have carvings on it. It measures 29cm long

by 25.5cm wide. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

From this 30m high clifftop men and women of theUruan Birdman Cult, once leapt to soar, in honour of

I-na, the Eagle of the Sun, who in Uruan religiousmythology carried the Sun-God Nim, across the heavens

each day. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Upon the clifftop are Uruan inscriptions, one set of whichdescribes human figures, one clothed and possibly female, theother, possibly male displays extended arms, or do they also

represent wings. They appear in dancing pose. Nearby glyphsstate Perform ceremonies and fly for the God.


This Uruan altar stone, found by Rex Gilroy and Ann Taylor at aKatoomba clifftop location, bears an engraving of a Birdman and the

inscription: In honour of I-na Birdmen fly from here.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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Hypothetical illustration of an Uruanballoon constructed from natural

materials. While fire filled the balloonwith hot air with the bag suspended off

the ground by a wooden frame, and withthe gondola and crew placed to one side,

the frame could be removed when theballoon was ready to lift off.

Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

An Uruan Bird-Man, based upon ancient rock engravings nearKatoomba NSW. Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Hypothetical illustration of a saucer-shaped balloon constructed bythe Uru, based upon ancient rock art found at Katoomba NSW.

The balloon is kept aloft by an internal fire kept going by onecrewman, while three others work steering rudders. An opening

[sealed by a door] allows a crewman to climb via a ladder inside theballoon when necessary to open a flap in a funnel, to permit air to

escape to avoid condensation from forming.Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.






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Altar stone carved in the form of the God I-na, the Eagle of theSun who carried the Sun-God Nim across the heavens each day.

Note the daylight light energy orb caught on digital camera abovethe head! The altar is part of a Nim Sun-worship temple at Bell,

north of Mt Victoria, NSW.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

Near the I-na altar is this engraving of the Uruan Tree of Life.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

An old illustration dating to 1748 of a Peruvian balsa wood raft. The Peruvians are believed to havecrossed the Pacific Ocean to Easter Island, New Zealand and other west Pacific islands as well as

Australia by voyaging in large fleets of these sailed craft.Illustration from American Indians in the Pacific by Thor Heyerdahl [1952].


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Some of the world- amous Easter Island statues.Note the long ears, a practice of the ancient Uru who may have introduced it across the

Pacific to Peru at the dawn of Amerindian cultural development.Illustrations from American Indians in the Pacific by Thor Heyerdahl 1952.

An old sketch of an Easter Islander depicting thelong ears

Illustrations from American Indians in the Pacificby Thor Heyerdahl 1952.


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Carved wooden statues from Easter Islanddepicting ancestral figures with long ears.

Illustrations from American Indians in thePacific by Thor Heyerdahl 1952.

On Wednesday 22ndApril, 2009 on a Coonabarabran, Central western NSW property, RexGilroy uncovered the remains of an Uruan Nim Sun-worship temple. In a nearby dry

creekbed, he soon afterwards made the chance discovery of this ancient weathered carved

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Friend of the Gilroys, Mr Peter Rajic, holds the image whichwas found to have a long ear.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.The Coonabarabran head. Note the face with eyeand mouth [nose worn away] and long ear. The

practice of ear-lengthening appears to be older inAustralia, having been practiced by the Uru

untold thousands of years in the past, long beforethe practice spread to the Americas. Photo

copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.

On Thursday 15thMarch, 2012 Rex

Gilroy discovered an ancient Uru culturesite at Mt Victoria, NSW at which he

came across a large weathered stonebearing this weathered [chalked in forclarity] image of an Uruan long-earedpriest [note ear plug]. The stone was

88cm tall by 48cm wide and was 48cmdeep. The inscription reads: Priest of theSun, Gi the long ears [declares] all gatherhere to reach enlightenment. Play sacred

music with singing and chanting.Photo copyright t Rex Gilroy 2012.


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Views of a 23.3cm tall by 17.5cm long and 8.3cm deep sandstone head found by Rex Gilroy in bushland outside Katoomba,on Wednesday 22ndFebruary 2012. The image of another Uruan long-eared priest, the engraved inscription reads: Gamo,

priest of Nim the Sun, the long-ear. He gives praise to he who stands above all in the light. The reborn God who travels west.Photos copyright Rex Gilroy 2012.


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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 Sunday 22nd April, 2012 - same time, same place 12Kamillaroi Road, Katoomba.

So until our next meeting

Watch the Skies!

Rex and Heather

TEAM GILROYAre you aged 20 to 50 and able to enjoy bushwalking

and live in the Sydney/Blue Mountains area.Team Gilroy, who are engaged in the search

for the Yowie and mystery animals andhave discovered relics and rock inscriptionsof maritime cultures that explored Australia

thousands of years before the Dutch or Captain

Cook are searching for an interested, psychicallyattuned man or woman to assist Rex and HeatherGilroy on a regular basis in their exciting searchesand discoveries of pyramids and megalithic ruins

of Australias Lost Civilisation of Uru?Interested??

We want to hear from you at 02 47823441or email us on [email protected].

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