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by William James Veall
August
2017
from
Ancient-Origins Website
Antarctica (Public Domain)
and Figure 7a © William James Veall:
a drawn image of the very first portrait
the writer
discovered on Antarctica; Deriv.
Part 1
Astonishing Human Heads
August 25, 2021
Updated
August 28, 2021
Accurate geographical and cartographical information concerning the
continent of Antarctica has only really been uncovered since AD
1822.
However, in direct contradiction, ancient maps reveal
Antarctica completely free of glaciation thousands of years
beforehand.
According to experts in ancient cartography and oceanography, only a
very advanced maritime culture exploring Antarctica after the end of
the last Ice Age, 11000 years ago, could possibly have created such
maps.
So, who was this suddenly, incredibly advanced civilization?
The beautiful but formidable landscape of Antarctica.
(Public
Domain)
The failure to find an acceptable answer to this cartographic
mystery led to speculation that ancient maps were produced by highly
advanced aliens, because to produce maps of huge continental land
masses, they could only be plotted accurately from an aerial
perspective using surveying equipment especially designed for the
purpose!
So, aliens excluded,
which highly technically advanced cartographers
could traverse our planet many thousands of years before the likes
of Columbus, et al?
Where did they come from and how did they come
to possess the expertise and navigational ability to sail vast
oceans and, most importantly, to record their findings on maps
alleged to have been the sources of information passed on to
'modern' explorers like
Columbus, Cook, Magellan or Vasco da Gama,
for example...
Surprising
Satellite Photography Reveals Antarctica's Distant Past
To quote an example, there is the 16th Century 'Buache' map which he
(Buache) claims to have been made by a very ancient civilization
which accurately mapped the continent of Antarctica completely free
of its one-mile deep ice cap.
However, with no concrete proof to
substantiate his claims, experts suspect Buache's map was probably
the product of a vivid imagination.
But was it? We shall see later.
"Map of the Southern Lands
contained between the Tropic of Capricorn
and the Antarctic Pole,
where the new discoveries made in 1739 to
the south of
the Cape of Good Hope may be seen" by Philippe Buache.
Public Domain
Author, space archaeologist, and independent researcher, William
James Veall has taken advantage of Antarctica's present narrow
extension of coastal deglaciation and used remote sensing satellite
photography to expose a number of absolutely astonishing human heads
and animal portraits together with inscriptive material clearly
demonstrating someone had touched down on at least three separate
areas of Antarctica coastline in the distant past.
FIGURE 1:
Modern map of Antarctica
indicating the section of the
Ross Sea coastline,
the subject of Space Archaeologist William James Veall's probing
by remote sensing satellite (in red) and the
extended ice-free section
of the Ross Sea coastline as shown on the
AD 1512 maps of
Oronteus Finaeus (marked green).
William Veall continues:
Many readers of Ancient Origins already
know I use the technique of remote sensing satellite photography to
expose ground-based imagery: rock sculptures, intaglios,
pictographs, petroglyphs and epigraphy symbols.
Currently, I am also
involved in using satellite technology for the extremely important
service of detection, preservation and protection of archaeological
sites world-wide from theft and acts of vandalism.
(GlobalXplorer)
Utilizing this same technique, I have been very successful tracing
the coastline 'hops' of trans-oceanic voyagers around South America,
the seaboard of North East America, Newfoundland, the West Coast of
Africa, Uruguay and even down the eastern coast of Australia (see
table 1) with some most incredible revelations.
FIGURE 2:
Table 1.
Ancient symbols discovered along the eastern
coastline of Australia
by William James Veall, March 2017.
(Copyright WJV 2017)
Was Antarctica
Once Ice-Free?
Following the rather fruitful foray along the east coast of
Australia I decided to chance my luck and put to the test the
statement made by the Greek geographer, cartographer and
mathematician, Marinus of Tyre who in 400 BC reported he had
knowledge of an ancient map depicting Antarctica free of ice.
Logically, the nearest point of any trans-oceanic contact with
Antarctica using the eastern Australian coastline as a guide would
be to cross the South Atlantic, sail into the Antarctic circle, and
come ashore at some point roughly in the region of Wilkes Land; the
same area selected by Ross in AD 1840-1843.
It is not unreasonable to assume on the premise that the extreme
eastern Australian seaboard runs southwards following roughly the
153º anti-meridian that ancient explorers would have 'coast hopped'
this meridian in easily measured steps of latitude known in ancient
navigational parlance as 'running the latitudes' in conjunction with
certain overhead constellations, thus enabling them to cross the
oceans until they reached the continent of Antarctica.
After a preliminary scanning of most of the Antarctic perimeter, a
deglaciated section of the Ross Sea region appeared to be the only
area that might yield sufficient arcti-factual data to make this
'shot in the dark' have any real significance to answer the
question:
Are there any signs of indigenous or external activity
which may account for the fact that various ancient sea maps purport
to show all or parts of the Antarctica coastline free of ice?
So firstly, how did Marinus of Tyre learn of the existence of
'Antarctica' in 400 BC and secondly, did Buache really have access
to ancient maps which allowed him to construct what he claimed to be
a true representation of the continent of Antarctica... minus its
covering of frozen ice and snow?
Apparently, it was Aristotle who told Marinus of the existence of a
continent named 'Terra Australis' surrounding the South Pole.
Marinus then marked the world map he was compiling from other
ancient maps with this same title.
But, most fascinating of all, his
map showed Terra Australis (Antarctica) without the traditional ice
shield. However, the ancient maps Marinus allegedly used
mysteriously 'disappeared' so we have no way of verifying his story.
By the same token; this does not explain how other ancient
cartographers, like Oronteus Finaeus and Hadji Ahmed could also
claim they had access to maps 6,000 years old (4000 BC) depicting
the continent of Antarctica completely free of an ice cap.
From
where did their maps originate and who compiled them?
I believe I
may have chanced upon an answer.
Oronteus Finaeus
(or Oronce Finé),
Public Domain
Searching the
Explorers' Sea Route
I must confess, prior to my Antarctica 'shot in the dark' - apart from
knowing Antarctica housed the South Pole... and a few penguins - I
really had no preconceived ideas about this ice-coated region at the
southernmost tip of Planet Earth.
Imagine my surprise to discover
quite by chance I had followed the now familiar 'modern' explorers'
sea route to Antarctica and coincidentally landed my remote sensing
satellite probe virtually at the same anchorage chosen by Amundsen
(1911-1912) and Scott (1910-1913).
Rounding Cape Adare and into the Ross Sea, I scanned the eastern
coastline along a stretch where the Ross Sea borders Victoria Land.
Quite coincidentally, a section of deglaciated shoreline had
retreated a little inland leaving a roughly two-kilometer
(1.24-mile) stretch exposed, albeit, some places still covered with
traces of glaciation.
According to the most recent scientific
surveys, the Eastern Antarctica ice shield has, even over just the
last twenty years, begun to melt at an alarming rate suspected to be
as a result of global warming.
I had barely crossed the halfway mark along the Ross Sea shoreline
when I had the shock of my life!
Human Heads
The satellite had captured very clearly a human head image
(portrait) staring out from the rocky terrain. (Figures 7 and 7a)
This was not supposed to happen: the presence of Mankind in any
form, prehistoric or otherwise had never ever been detected on
Antarctica - a continent currently believed to have been ice covered
for eight to nine million years, and would logically be virgin
territory free of any prehistoric indigenous inhabitants until well
after the end of the great Ice Age, 12,000 years ago.
FIGURES 7 and 7a:
The very first portrait I discovered on
Antarctica; this amazing figure
wearing a tricorn hat is carved into
a deglaciated rock surface,
some 25 meters in height x 32 meters
width, it features a human head,
Caucasian in appearance, with
gentile facial features and
lightly epicanthic, expressive eyes.
The
left cheek (facing) is pecked with a Cretan style 'star';
the
forehead with a diamond point GIS.
Beneath the right eye (facing) is
a small pecked triangle.
Just opposite are pecked two Linear A
characters.
Research carried out by Reading University in the UK strongly
suggests an advanced civilization did exist many thousands of years
before the Egyptians, Sumerians or Babylonians.
This culture of
Black Peoples (the Kiffian Era) due to climatic changes were driven
south from their homelands of the "Green Sahara" (9000 - 4000 BC) to
eventually merge their allegedly quite advanced technology with the
less developed peoples in the southern regions, Egypt, for example.
(see References: 'Black Mummy of the Green Sahara' - an excellent
video).
Scanning the Ross Sea rocky coastline eventually exposed some forty
or so human head portraits, including animal heads and, including
those in Table 2, nearly one hundred pecked symbols.
My method of
analysis has been developed over many years studying literally
hundreds of satellite imagery situations across the mountains and
deserts of the world, enabling the creation of extremely critical
rules for precise imagery interpretation.
FIGURE 3:
Table 2 Chart
depicting the ancient symbols uncovered
along the Ross Sea coastline
of Antarctica
by Space Archaeologist, William James Veall in April
2017.
(Copyright WJV 2017)
FIGURE 4:
Table 3: Comparing Linear A and Linear B scripts from
Tables 1 and 2.
[Authors note: The backgrounds to Figures 5 to 12
have been lightly
diffused to improve image clarity,
but this original satellite
imagery has not been retouched in any way.
The added silhouette is
not intended to be a 'portrait'
but simply an aid to identifying the
pose of the satellite image.
Figs 5 to 12 are published under the
Google Earth
'Permissions of Fair Use'.]
FIGURES 5 and 5a:
A petroglyph,
located on Marambio Island in the north-west corner of
the Antarctic,
has a most unusual monkey-face profile, subtending
the head of an eagle.
The head is marked with an open loop GIS
symbol on the left cheek.
Three circles (stones) are conjoined at
the rear of the eagle's head.
A date perhaps?
Which particular culture
used this motif as its signature icon to announce its presence on
Antarctica?
The head is 34 meters
high by 50 meters wide (111.5 feet by 164 feet), the Eagle 18 meters
high by 39 meters in length (59 feet by 128 feet).
The two conjoined 'Gods'
appear to represent Hanuman, the all-powerful Hindu Monkey God and
the Eagle, the Hindu God, Garuda... but in the ANTARCTIC?
FIGURE 6:
I originally
ignored this rock-strewn debris but careful maneuvering
of the
remote sensing camera shot exposed a pattern of rocks
seemingly set
in the form of an ancient legend embedded
into the seashore.
Unfortunately, the seaward portion of the text
is now submerged
under (melt) water.
Exposed size 50 meters in length x 25 meters
(164 by 82 feet) wide.
Was this message a Dedication to celebrate a long-held dream of
stepping ashore on Planet Earth's most iconic land mass; acting as a
counterweight to balance Global Earth with another great land mass
in the north - the Arctic?
I believe so...
The characters appear very similar to the Minoan Linear A
'accountancy' script, circa 1800 - 1400 BC; this is immensely
interesting because the 'dots and dashes' just might translate into
chronological data, in other words - announcing the arrival and date
of European mans' first footfall on the continent of Antarctica?
Interestingly, Table 3 quite clearly depicts characters are both
Linear A and B types, whereas virtually all the subsequent
inscriptive material (see table 2) along the Ross Sea coastline is
'pecked' in a more advanced alphabet of Phoenician genre.
Thus, by
inference, the landing must have taken place well before 1200 BC
because after that time the Phoenician genre (1100 BC) began to
dominate 'writing'.
One further fact that might confirm that the message was a
'Dedication of Arrival' ; the triangle symbol gives an exact
latitude 72 21 04 00 S and longitude 170 15 37 00E.
In my
experience, a triangle followed by a capital 'A' almost always
signified a geodetic of importance.
Further, why set this co-ordinate on a fragile shoreline when all
others are carved into the cliff face? Answer: many years earlier
the coastline was greatly extended, as proven by both the Oronteus
Finaeus and Buache ancient maps (see Figure 1 map, green extension).
FIGURES 7 and 7a:
The very first portrait I discovered on
Antarctica;
this amazing figure wearing a tricorn hat
is carved into
a deglaciated rock surface.
FIGURES 8 and 8a:
This figure, 23 meters high x 20 meters in width
is clearly of 'Native' ancestry.
The head appears to have an unusual
projecting jawline.
A gnomon records the 170.16.26.00 longitude
co-ordinate of this particular image.
Reading the back history of Antarctica, references clearly state
that there was never any indigenous flora and fauna of any kind
present on the continent because the land mass had been completely
covered in an ice sheet for at least nine million years... before
even prehistoric Man.
Space archaeologist and independent researcher, William James Veall
is Director of Nascodex and Consultant to Nascodex Publications ,
and author of Portraits of the Gods .
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Top Image: Antarctica (Public Domain) and Figure 7a © William
James Veall: a drawn image of the very first portrait the writer
discovered on Antarctica; Deriv.
By William James Veall
Updated on August 27, 2021.
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Part 2
A
Message on the Shore
August
25, 2017
Antarctica (Public Domain)
and Figure 6 © William James Veall:
a drawn pattern of rocks seemingly set in the form
of an ancient legend embedded into the seashore;
Deriv.
Reading the history of
Antarctica, references clearly state that there was never any
indigenous flora and fauna of any kind present on the continent
because the land mass had been completely covered in an ice sheet
for at least nine million years... before even prehistoric Man.
According to experts in ancient cartography and oceanography, only a
very advanced maritime culture exploring Antarctica after the end of
the last Ice Age, 11000 years ago, could possibly have created
accurate geographical and cartographical information in maps.
Yet
such maps seemingly exist.
So, who was this suddenly, incredibly
advanced civilization?
Craggy mountain landscape in Antarctica
Public Domain
Satellite
Images Reveal Surprises
Now this discovery by William James Veall asks the question: who
carved with such finesse two massive deer heads, which by their
conformation suggest they may be of the Huemul species?
Sculpture
size (per each) averages 18 meters length by six meters width (59 by
20 feet).
FIGURES 9 and 9a:
Amongst the plethora of Antarctica imagery
I have
recorded each piece of imagery brought forth
its own particular
surprise.
The two animals depicted in this exciting figure
were no
exception.
Were the two sculptures homeland icons or had successive waves of
immigrants imported deer as a source of live food or milk provision;
this poses another question: from where?
The nearest habitat for the Huemul species of deer would likely be Patagonia, South America.
A Heumul, male south Andean deer (Hippocamelus bisulcus)
in Cerro Castillo National Reserve,
Aysén Region, Chile.
CC BY-SA 3.0
There is a possible solution.
During a period of
temperate climate, did a sea route open between Cape Horn
(Patagonia) and the Shetland Islands? I am quite confident in
putting forward this suggestion because distinct traces of rock art
activity are visible on the rock faces of some of the islands in the
Shetland group.
Also, Nelson Island directly faces Peninsula Antarctica where I have
recorded more human head portraiture, one of which is MS 3815
depicted in Figure 5, located on Marambio Island. Did some peoples
set foot on Antarctica before or after those who landed at Ross Sea?
Also, did the same people in a great period of climatic change
either circumnavigate or use a deglaciated land route across
Antarctica to reach the Ross Sea community?
Hence, explaining why
there are different races immortalized in its human head
portraiture.
The answer to such questions is a huge and separate project in
itself, probably even greater than the Ross Sea investigation
because it must take into account transient movement of humans and
animals between the tip of South America and Peninsula Antarctica,
likely intervals of glaciation and deglaciation during periods of
climatic change.
If the current glacial melt-down continues there will inevitably be
the discovery of more human head portraits, with, perhaps, some very
important inscriptive material; all of which will make fascinating
comparisons with the Ross Sea anchorage and solve the question of
who really were the first to set foot on Antarctica.
FIGURE 10 and 10a:
What an amazing discovery!
Carved entirely from
white rock, an oval shaped human head
with a round eyed, rather
chilling stare marked with ancient symbols.
Dots in a circle about a
center point motif
is typical late 13th century BC. Mycenaean.
(Size
44 meters high x 33 meters width).
FIGURE 11 and 11a:
A superbly sculptured human head in a
'Romanesque/Greco' style helmet
with an open loop GIS mark on the
front panel.
The portrait, nearly 800 meters in height by 400 meters
wide
is carved into the steep face of a mountain ridge.
Immediately
to the right (facing) is a very distinct GIS symbol
which gives a
latitudinal reading of 82º 25 15 00S.
Six hundred meters to the east
is 'pecked' a diamond point GIS
indicating the longitude of the
site.
Satellite photographs show the sculpture is on a mountain side in
the Holyoake Range.
The very fact this colossal bust was carved in
such a remote snowbound location greatly puzzled me, although I do
accept the bust may have been carved if this area of Antarctica had
once upon a time become ice-free and accessible.
When and by whom,
and for what purpose was this massive figure set in this particular
location?
Satellite
Navigation Reveals Ancient Records
And then, I remembered reading from an excellent book by the late
Prof. Charles Hapgood, (FRGS) "Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings" that
Oronteus Finaeus had plotted the position of the South Pole from
ancient maps he had acquired.
Hapgood cannily computed that Oronteus
Finaeus' South Pole was in fact 7.5º (800 km/497 miles) from the
true South Pole we recognize today.
Now came the moment of truth! My satellite navigator had, on the 9th
May 2017, recorded a latitudinal reading of 82º 25' for the statue,
almost the 7.5º from the true South Pole.
I then checked out the
longitudinal co-ordinate, 160º 32'.
Each co-ordinate confirmed almost exactly the position of the South
Pole - precisely as Oronteus Finaeus had marked upon his 1531 AD map.
I firmly believe the gigantic 800-meter-high (2625 feet) sculpture
was carved, not only to permanently mark what was believed to be, at
the time, the true South Pole, but to honor and record in Memoriam
the first peoples ever to knowingly reach the 'South Pole'.
Messages on
the Seashore
The very last thing I expected to end up doing was writing an
in-depth article, analyzing and creating artwork for numerous
portraits, drawing maps, plus epigraphy tables, all resulting from a
fun-loving hunch to circumnavigate the vast continent of Antarctica
by remote sensing satellite - all out of sheer curiosity.
To find a whole host of human head portraits, seemingly of at least
five differing cultures, plus animal heads, all interspersed with a
mass of inscriptive material and, romantically, ' a message on the
seashore', was mind-blowing to say the least.
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind, against all the known odds,
that Antarctica had been visited in the ancient past with possibly
some long-term habitation along, at least, the coastal regions in
periods of more temperate climate.
This proof completely rebuts the
long-held belief that,
"Antarctica NEVER had any native people living
there, in fact until AD 1822, NO ONE had even set eyes on
Antarctica."
But surely the 'icing on the cake' was when I discovered the
importance of the massive figure carved in the Holyoake mountain
range to commemorate the discovery of and record the exact location
of the South Pole as extrapolated from Oronteus Finaeus' ancient
maps.
I have a slight reservation about this point, having recorded by
remote sensing hundreds of GIS (Geodetic and Identification)
markers.
I have always been astonished at the incredible accuracy
achieved by the ancient map makers - and I am not talking in
'degrees' but 'minutes' of accuracy - quietly suggestive of an ancient
civilization possessing knowledge of astronomy, navigation and
map-making with superlative scientific equipment not equaled by
'modern' man until at least the 19th century.
Dating of artifactual material is at best very much trial and error.
The dress code of any ancient statue or portrait is almost always a
sound clue to provenance.
Here, one clue is in the rather
'Romanesque/Greco' style of helmet as seen above. In fact, along the
Ross Sea section there appears to be at least four busts similarly
helmeted, suggesting an expeditionary force from the Mediterranean
had indeed succeeded in reaching Antarctica.
As a space archaeologist, I make no claims to having expertise in
epigraphy; this does not preclude making observations about the
material I have uncovered in the course of my research.
Therefore,
is it possible to derive a time frame simply from the inscriptive
material I have charted in Tables 1 - 3?
The answer is yes.
Firstly, by observing the historical extremities of the tabulated
charts.
The very earliest stage of the Antarctic epigraphy chain would need
to have Egyptian hieroglyphs: there are NONE. An end point to my
tabulated chain would need to include the 'modernized' Greek
alphabet, Hebrew, and perhaps even Roman lettering.
There are NONE.
Thus, we have established the limits of the charted inscriptive
material.
Table 1
"Symbols discovered along the east coast of Australia".
(Copyright WJV 2017)
Table 1 "Symbols discovered along the east coast of Australia". MS
3755, Col 5, depicts a Proto-Sinaitic character, (man joyously
waving arms about) circa 1850 BC.
Is this the first link in the
hypothesis?
As we examine other characters in Tables 1 and 2 we find
a bias towards the Minoan script, Linear A.
Now, Linear A was
developed, circa 1800 BC - 1400 BC, and used essentially as an
'accounting script'. Hence 'dots and dashes' signifying a base 10
script. (see table 3 and the "message on the sands")
Table 2.
Chart depicting the ancient symbols
uncovered along the
Ross Sea coastline of Antarctica
by Space Archaeologist, William
James Veall in April 2017.
(Copyright WJV 2017)
Table 3.
"Message on the sands"
(Copyright WJV 2017)
However, one will notice within the 'mix' (Tables 1, 2 and 3) are
characters from the Mycenaean script Linear B, developed circa 1500
BC - 1200 BC and mainly used for communication.
Thus, we have a start date in our timeline made up from Proto-Sinaiatic
(1850 BC) paralleled with Linear A (1800 BC - 1400 BC), followed by
Linear B (1500 BC - 1200 BC).
Linear B was followed by the
Phoenician alphabet (1100 BC) which continued down into the Iron age
(1050 BC) thence to be taken over by Greek alphabetical variants
(800 - 750 BC).
According to the inscriptive material, the Ross Sea region of
Antarctica was subject to visitations and possible semi-permanent
habitation during a period(s) of deglaciation 1850 BC through to,
say at least 1050 BC, a time scale allowing for overlap - not far off
1000 years.
Also, I believe, over this 1000-year time span Antarctica was
eventually circumnavigated 'en total' hence the map of Antarctica
was actually bit-mapped, thus producing the historically reported
series of slightly disjointed local maps.
An in-depth appraisal of glaciation and deglaciation of Antarctica
even over just 10,000 years is extremely complex and outside the
remit of this article.
Suffice it to say, if perchance the 'message
in the sands' was one of farewell,
Why was it 'written' in Linear A
/ Linear B and not the same alphabet as the mass of inscriptive
material shown in Table 2?
Were there successive visitations over
the 1000-year period?
Perhaps with the latter waves using a more
'modern' form of written communication.
Who Could have
Created Such Works?
We have already discussed it was Aristotle who informed Marinus of
Tyre in 400 BC of the existence of a Continent called Terra Australis (Antarctica) which he had gleaned from (local) maps
hundreds of years old.
Now, if we accept the ancient maps Aristotle referred to, stretch
back hundreds of years, 1450 BC is well within an acceptable time
frame.
A time frame that encompasses the period when the Minoans
were extremely active commercial maritime traders, superb artisans
at producing amazing gold and bronze human figurines and natural
forms (animals (deer), birds, flowers and fish) and obviously would
have included a range of iron and bronze tools for shipbuilding to
fine arts.
A detail of the dolphin fresco,
the Minoan palace of Knossos, Crete,
(1700-1450 BCE)
(Mark
Cartwright/ CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
The Ross Sea sculptures could only have been carved by highly
skilled artists working with possibly some of the hardest rock known
to man; these artisans would surely have needed 'mauls and chisels'
made from durable bronze or iron.
This fact is very important
because the dates of the Minoan Bronze Age (1500 - 1200 BC) and
subsequent slight overlap into the Early Iron Age (1050 BC) firmly
keep the Minoans in our postulated timeframe.
Many Different
Cultures?
One very interesting point arises when considering, in such a short
stretch of shoreline, there are at least five completely differing
cultures depicted by the physiognomy of the busts.
I do not believe
they are a generation arising from linear development because quite
simply we would be looking at tens of thousands of years, not just
10,000 years of deglaciated history.
What is more, the ancient artists have carefully selected their rock
face work-pieces to reflect the color tones of the faces they
desired to portray, hence, presenting us with everlasting original
portraits of inhabitants 'in the flesh' exactly as they were
centuries ago.
Strangely, even the portraits of the most primitive peoples are
marked with the same 'international' loop or diamond point GIS,
clearly indicating the statues are contemporaneous alongside the
copius amounts of inscriptive material; this, as we have already
said, is readily dateable between the limits of 1850 BC - 800 BC.
I cannot state categorically that Minoans were the very first to see
or set foot upon the shores of Antarctica; that is something we will
never know for certain.
The very fact that 'primitive' busts were
evident amongst the sculptures suggests local native 'Fisherfolk'
from say Patagonia, New Guinea or Southern Australia, for example,
could equally have taken advantage of a temperate climate window and
were actually in residence before the Minoans arrived.
Clearly without close forensic examination I am unable to say one
way or the other whether the Minoans with their passion for
recreating all living creatures in paintings or sculptural form
conceived the Ross Sea shoreline as a museum masterpiece, or whether
the more primitive residents had the capability and tools to fashion
imagery according to their own likeness before the Minoans
arrived... and used a GIS insignia. (I don't think so?)
And to finish,
some HOT NEWS
FIGURE 12 and 12a:
Fig 12 is the original untouched satellite
photograph.
Fig. 12a has been lightly retouched by pencil only.
This latest satellite capture shows here again we have the strange
juxtaposition between the primitive form and symbolic material.
Just
where does this 'prehistoric' specimen of humanity fit into
Antarctica's exposed chain of humanity?
Note the low forehead embellished with floral headband, small eyes
set under a heavy brow (cranial) ridge. See the broad, squat nose
over a large mouth showing very clearly a set of protruding sharp
canines. Notice the flower, lower bottom right, amongst the
inscriptive material.
Bearing in mind the previous Australia/Antarctica contact mentioned
above, I suspect the image represents an early Aboriginal arrival on
the Continent, but associated with inscriptive material... it's a
continuing mystery!
Finally, the fascinating question everyone will ask:
Do you believe,
now that Antarctica has been partially exposed, this continent will
turn out to be the real 'Punt' and mysterious island of 'Atlantis'...?
References
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