NIM THE TEMPLE OF NIM

Vol. 1, Issue No 9

October, 2010.

INSIDE:
Another Narrow Neck Plateau Dinosaur Track Find. Australopithecus The Australian Fossils The Southern Paradise of Sir Owain Miles.

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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 Street where there is safer parking.

Rex and Heather Gilroy, Australias top UFO and Unexplained Mysteries Research team. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2004.

ANOTHER NARROW NECK PLATEAU DINOSAUR TRACK FIND.

By Rex Gilroy Copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

In our September 2010 Temple of Nim Newsletter I announced the discovery of three series of Cretaceous Period [144 to 66 million years BP] dinosaur tracks far out on Narrow Neck Plateau. These remarkable discoveries together with many others made by me across the Blue Mountains over the years, demonstrates that the entire region was once inhabited by a variety of reptilian nightmares of the meat-eating Theropod group, of which Tyrannosaurus rex is best known. Fossil tracks of small to larger sizes found around Katoomba appear to be Tyrannosaurid and of creatures of various ages. So far the largest Tyrannosaurus track found by me is one discovered on Wednesday 5th May 2010 off the Blue Mountains in Kuringai Chase National Park in Sydneys north. It measures 1.3m long by 1.28m wide across the outer toes by up to 25cm in depth in solid rock and belonged to a monster about 12m in length by perhaps 7 to 10 tonnes in weight. The latest series of tracks consists of three specimens, one being a tiny Coelurosaurus of 9cm long by 12cm wide on an ancient mudstone shoal. To its left is the track of a Carnosaur 51cm long by 54cm wide across the outstretched toes and beneath this another, smaller Carnosaur track 30cm long by 25.5cm wide across the outstretched toes. All are shallow impressions between 1 and 5cm deep. All these latest dinosaur footprint finds are revealing the Blue Mountains to be a major region for investigation by palaeontologists eager to show that Australia is not lacking in fossil evidence of these reptilian monsters of our geological past. -0-

The three tracks. The largest, a Carnosaur, points west; the smaller Carnosaur impression on its right points north. The tiny track is that of a Coelurosaur pointing west. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

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The large Carnosaur track in relation to the tiny Coelurosaur impression. Note 40cm ruler. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

The larger Carnosaur track measures 54cm wide across the outstretched outer toes, by 51cm long from centre toe tip to rear of heel. It is 6cm deep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

The smaller Carnosaur impression is situated 24cm from the larger specimen and is 25.5cm wide across the outstretched outer toes, by 30cm long from centre toe tip to rear of heel and is 1cm deep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010. The little Coelurosaur track is situated 36cm from the large Carnosaur impression and 66cm from the smaller example. It measures 12cm wide across the outstretched outer toes by 9cm long from mid toe tip to rear of heel, and is embedded 5mm deep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

AUSTRALOPITHECUS THE AUSTRALIAN FOSSILS.

By Rex Gilroy Copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

In the March 2010 issue of Temple of Nim I raised the possibility of a form of African Australopithecine having reached Pliocene Australia. At the time my theory focussed upon the apparent Australopithecine skeletal features of the small Hobbits the recently discovered pygmy-size fossil hominins of the Indonesian island of Flores. There was also the uncanny resemblance between the proto-Homo erectus skull-types that I have discovered in Australia since 2005 and skulls of Africas Australopithecus robustus. Until now I regarded the proto Homo erectus fossils as an earlier ancestral race leading to archaic Homo erectus and ourselves. However, having finally realised the obvious, what I identified as proto-Homo erectus is actually an undoubted Australian form of Australopithecus robustus [as of Sunday 3rd October 2010].
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This is my most important discovery since identifying Australian Homo erectus in 1997. The new name for proto-Homo erectus is now Australopithecus australis gilroy. Although no really conclusive fossil remains proving the spread of Australopithecines beyond Africa have been accepted by scientists overseas, much argument persists over fossil mandibles and teeth recovered from Java, which some researchers argue are the remains of a giant form for Homo erectus called Meganthropus palaeojavanicus; while others regard these remains as those of a giant form of Australopithecus, which roamed south-east Asia during Pleistocene times. Other scant remains uncovered in China have also been dismissed as Australopithecine, yet the recovery of Australopithecine-type skulls in Australia would now suggest that tangible fossil remains await in China and Java, if not elsewhere in Asia, to demonstrate the expansion of Australopithecines beyond Africa, particularly of the Australopithecus robustus type which the Australian skulls resemble. Based upon the new findings that a form, or forms of robust Australopithecus existed in Australia by at least 2 million years BP [Before Present] and that these near-humans lived contemporaneously with archaic Homo erectus, it would appear that Homo erectus evolved from the local Australopithecine [robust] form before moving northwards into Java and beyond. From my own discoveries I maintain that Australopithecus and Homo erectus lived contemporaneously in Australia for a considerable length of time. If this was so, then interbreeding must have occurred, and this would explain regional peculiarities between skull-types of both forms, which are detectable in some of my skull-types. This can also explain the difficulty I sometimes experience in placing one skull or another within a certain group. ***** In my collection of skull-types are specimens which, due to their small size and similarity to the larger proto-Homo erectus fossils, were [based upon the type specimen from Dundas in Sydneys west, found by Greg Foster and I on Thursday 12th October 2006], given the name Homo erectus fosterii. I now designate this pygmy race as Australopithecus fosterii, being a pygmy offshoot of Australopithecus australis. From the stratigraphic situations in which Australopithecus fosterii type skulls have been found we have estimated this race lived up to 1 million years ago. As I have recovered other fosterii skull-types on the Blue Mountains and as far afield as northern South Australia, it is obvious that this race enjoyed a wide distribution. Eoliths or dawn tools found in the immediate vicinity of the 2 million year old [type specimen] Australopithecus australis gilroy skull [found Thursday 6th January 2005] out on Narrow Neck Plateau, Katoomba, to my mind suggest that this Australian Australopithecine was a stone tool-maker. Eolithic tools have in fact been recovered by me from every situation where I have found mineralised skulls or endocasts of this race, at sites as far afield as the Bega district, Murray River near the South Australian border, Coonabarabran and Barraba. Beyond New South Wales I have recovered an endocast of Australopithecus australis in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia once more suggesting a wide distribution for this race in Australia. Yet the revelation of primitive stone tools having been recovered with the Australian fossils utterly disputes the widely-held belief of African palaeoanthropologists that the Australopithecines were not toolmakers. On the other hand there are scientists who have suggested that broken stones found in Australopithecine fossil sites are actual eoliths; while still others choose to believe that Australopithecines could have employed bones as tools once they discovered how to smash them with natural stones to create sharp edges. This possible activity has been given the name Osteodontokeratic Culture, and it is not unlikely that it spread with the earliest out of Africa Australopithecine migrants all the way to Australia. That a form of Australopithecus robustus existed on this continent in late Pliocene-early Pleistocene times [ie 2.5 to around 3 million years BP] will not suit hard-core conservative scientists who persist in the No Australopithecines beyond Africa dogma, yet the evidence in my possession would seem indisputable. The reader can expect further disclosures on this matter in the future. The hunt is now on for more evidence of Australian Australopithecines. The discovery by me of this form of near-human ancestor in Australia opens up a new and exciting field of investigation, which shows our so-called first Australians, our Aborigines are but mere late-arrivals on these shores, the shores of a continent which holds yet-to-be officially recognised fossil evidence proving that Australia, and not Africa, was the birthplace of modern humans. -0-

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The type specimen of Australopithecus australis gilroy [formerly proto-Homo erectus] frontal view, from Narrow Neck Plateau, Katoomba NSW. Note pointed sagittal crest and orbital areas projecting outwards from the skull, a feature of robust Australopithecines. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

The Australopithecus australis Narrow Neck Plateau skull, right view. This badly weathered ironstone mineralised specimen possesses a doliocephalic [ie long and narrow brain case] with flattish cranium and remains of a appointed sagittal crest. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

The Bega district NSW mineralised Australopithecus australis skull in situ, found on Thursday 19th July 2007. The worn down eye sockets have been chalked in for photographic reasons. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

Another frontal view of the Bega NSW skull. Besides the doliocephalic-shaped braincase, this weathered mineralised fossil still bears remains of a pointed sagittal crest. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

The Bega skull [to the right of ruler] which had been washed from the banks of an occasional creek was recovered from the rubble. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010. 5

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The Bega Skull with the Narrow Neck, Katoomba NSW [left] skull in size comparison. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

Rex Gilroy examining the Bega NSW skull. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

Heather Gilroy looking pleased with Rexs big find. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010. On Tuesday 24th July 2007 Rex Gilroy uncovered this Australopithecus australis skull-type [limestone mineralisation] from dawn Pleistocene deposits in the Bathurst district. Named Australopithecus billyii australis after his late father [who believed fossil evidence of primitive hominins would one day be found in this particular area], it displays a flattish cranium and remains of a pointed sagittal crest. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

These primitive eolithic chopping and cutting tools were recovered nearby the billyii skull. Photos copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

The creek site from where the Australopithecus billyii was recovered. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

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Another eolith, a crude basalt pebble chopper also recovered from the site. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010. A series of eolithic tools recovered from Tidbinbilla Range, ACT. They consist of small cutting and scraping implements. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

These casts displayed in the Museum of Western Australia, Perth, are [top] Australopithecus boisei [formerly Zinjanthropus] and Australopithecus robustus which lived in Africa 1.8 and 2 million years ago respectively.

An Australopithecine family in their rock shelter dwelling. While a female [left] tears flesh from an animal bone with her teeth with the aid of a sharp bone tool, the centre and right males are using a leg bone from a recent kill to manufacture sharp tools from other bones of the animal. Primitive late Pliocene-early Pleistocene hominids in Australia would have behaved in the same way. African sites of Australopithecus have revealed smashed animal bones used as tools. The marrow would also have been extracted from the bones first. Our ancestors earliest implements would have been broken, sharp bones, naturally fractured sharp stones and sticks. The authors maintain that this was also the case with our Australian ancestral hominids. Named the osteodontokeratic [ie bone] culture by scientists in 1959, it has yet to be properly identified in Australia, although palaeontologists have excavated bone remains from sites which they have understandably interpreted as natural deposits, or the remains of old carnivorous megafauna kills. Illustration The Illustrated London News.

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On Wednesday 29th August 2007, the Gilroys returned to the same isolated creek where, on Tuesday 24th July Rex had discovered the mineralised late Homo erectus skull-type and giant hominid fossil footprints. Upon a rise overlooking the occasional creek that opens onto the major watercourse, he chanced to see on the ground at his feet, a lump of limestone which, upon closer examination, turned out to be a mineralised fragment of a giant hominid lower jaw containing the remains of a decayed lower back molar tooth, with the worn down outline of another molar in front of it. The fossil is seen here in situ [left profile]. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2007.

The jaw fragment, right profile. Note large section having broken away. A search of the immediate area of the find, failed to turn up any other fragments of this fossil. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2007.

A downview of the mineralised giant hominid jaw fragment, showing the hollowed out lower back molar and worn down molar tooth in front of it. Both have been outlined in black pen. The jaw fragment measures 12cm in length along the base by 8.5cm in height and 6cm in width. The back molar is 5cm in width and length, the worn down specimen in front being 4cm by 4cm. The hominid giant to whom the jaw fragment belonged would have stood at least 3.66m in height and been of powerful muscular build. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2007.

Left profile view of the giant hominid jaw fragment with both teeth exposed due to lengthy exposure resulting in much of the left side of the fragment being weathered away. The teeth have been outlined in black pen due to their faded appearance. Note the outline of the worn down molar, whose roots have been outlined. From the top of this worn down molar to the base of its more intact left root is 7.3cm, the length from the top to surviving base of the right root is 5.7cm, the molar being 3.8cm in width. The jaw fragment, which has been dated at around 1 million years BP, has been given the scientific name of Homo gigantii bathurstensis gilroyii [ie Giant Man of ancient Bathurst]. This giant Homo erectus race was probably responsible for the megatools that occur throughout the region now under detailed investigation by the Gilroys. This race shared the district with Australopithecus australis groups. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2007.

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On Thursday 12th October 2006 Heather and Rex Gilroy accompanied by leading field assistant Greg Foster, visited a creek site in the Dundas district outside Sydney NSW. Here, in a similar situation to the Narrow Neck Plateau dawn Pleistocene site, Rex and Greg discovered Pleistocene deposits extending back 2 million years, beneath which were deposits of the close of the Pliocene period. It was in the base Pleistocene deposit that Greg recovered a small mineralised [ironstone] hominid skull. Its archaic Homo erectus features resemble Australopithecus australis. Despite its distorted [leftwards] muzzle and incomplete right facial section, there is a projecting right brow ridge and partly intact eye socket. The left brow ridge is present although somewhat worn and the eye socket is virtually complete. Mineralised mud coats the flattish cranium and there is some [mineralised] bone material missing on the left side. Gregs discovery is important in that it represents a population of archaic pygmy-sized hominids whose features suggest that they were offshoots of the Australopithecus australis who lived at the same time. This implies that the Australopithecus australis race must have its origins back in late Pliocene times; ie perhaps in the last 1 million years of the Pliocene, its archaic offshoot evolving by 2 million years ago! Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

An Australopithecine overlooks his domain in Africa 2 million years ago. Growing evidence suggests that these near-human ancestors of ourselves left Africa to enter Asia and eventually Australia. Sketch by M Wilson, 1950. The Quest for Man by Vanne Goodall, Phaidon Press Ltd., London. 1975.

The skull of Australopithecus boisei [ie Zinjanthropus], discovered by the late L.S.B. Leakey in 1959 at Olduvai Gorge, Kenya. The lower jaw is hypothetical. Photo The Quest of Man by Vanne Goodall, Phaidon Press Ltd., London 1975.

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The Katoomba, Bega and Bathurst Australopithecus australis skull-types in comparison to Australopithecus boisei and Australopithecus robustus. The Australopithecine comparisons between the Australian skulls and those of Africa are unmistakable. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2010.

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THE SOUTHERN PARADISE OF SIR OWAIN MILES

by Rex Gilroy. Copyright Rex Gilroy The following is a chapter taken from Pyramids in the Pacific The Unwritten History of Australia. [URU Publications 2000].

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Please Note Our next meeting will be held on Saturday 20th November, 2010 same time, same place 12 Kamillaroi Road, Katoomba.

Our previous meeting was a huge success and we look forward to seeing you at our next one. There should be some good Skywatches ahead of us up here at Katoomba weather permitting. `Meanwhile, there is a lot happening up there at present so Until our next meeting Watch the Skies! Rex and Heather

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