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Pleistocene
coalition news
V O L U M E 7 , I S S U E 6 N O V E M B E R - D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 5

Inside - Challenging the tenets of mainstream scientific agendas -

PAGE 2 The suppression of evidence


in science is
Bairoil, Wyoming:
not only the
The story of an- mainstream
other American against chal-
site plowed under lenging ideas
Marilyn Jesmain but also
mainstream against main-
PAGE 4 stream and usually for political
Re-establishing reasons (see Tenodi, p. 17).
New book
Moir’s Pleistocene- on rock art
age U.K. sites by Sachin
Kevin Lynch and With revving bulldozers Tiwary, PhD
breathing down their necks, (p. 7). Archaeologist Chris Harkaker
Richard Dullum
quick-working contract expounds on the mainstream art
PAGE 7 archaeologists often of ignoring already-established
barely have enough relevant evidence of very early
Member news and time to throw impor-
other information Americans (p. 11).
tant finds into bags and
Sachin Tiwary, then get off of incon- Engineer and rock art preser-
Ted Oberlander, veniently-discovered vationist Ray Urbaniak suggests
Michael Winkler, sites as quickly as the possibility that stories passed
John Feliks possible. See stories by down across generations through
Marilyn Jesmain, PhD (p. 2), oral tradition might be repre-
PAGE 8 and David Campbell (p. 8). sented in U.S. rock art (p. 13).
The controversial
Brownwood Skull
David Campbell
PAGE 10
Mammoth migrations
suggest early hu-
man presence
Virginia Steen-McIntyre
PAGE 11
Oldest Monte Verde
dates ‘ignored’ by Kevin Lynch and Richard Dullum continue in the footsteps of
the mainstream British amateur archaeologist James Reid-Moir who out-guessed
Chris Hardaker the mainstream science community 100 years ago predicting ancient
Pleistocene man in the U.K. (p. 4)
PAGE 13
More on the Utah Partially miner-
rock art panel sug- alized jawbone
from Red River,
gesting a mammoth
Fannin County,
Ray Urbaniak Texas, resembling
the Brownwood
PAGE 14 Skull and found
Debunking evo. prop., just a few coun-
Part 16: Overview ties away from
of the series so far the Brownwood
Virginia Steen-McIntyre site. See story by
John Feliks on the presence of mam- David Campbell
A B C
moths and their likely fellow (p. 8).
PAGE 17
travelers over the Bering Debunking evolutionary
Pleistocene under- Strait Land Bridge (p. 10). propaganda, Part 16. Over-
ground, Part 1 view of the series with quick
Vesna Tenodi links to Parts 1-15 (p. 14).
VOLUME 7, ISSUE 6 PAGE 2

Bairoil, Wyoming: A potential U.S. site


plowed under
By Marilyn Jesmain, PhD, archaeologist

the summer The town of Bairoil is a small


of 1988 to village, population 97 (2000
work on a site census), in the middle of a
that was rap- large flat plain surrounded
idly being by high mountains at the
destroyed northeast edge of the Great
due to oil Divide Basin. It housed the
development. oil workers who were devel-
I parked my oping the rich deposits under
old Airstream the valley floor. The site had
travel trailer been archaeologically sur-
behind the veyed and cleared years
Caspar Mu- before, but because the sur-
seum, where rounding mountains had left
I volunteered a foot or more of deposit,
on weekends. nothing was found and it
Fig. 1. The Bairoil, Wyoming, archaeological site, 1988, location of a human was cleared for oil develop-
burial discovered during a construction project. We can be seen inside the
The Bairoil ment. However, once the
yellow oval. In the background (upper right) can be seen the giant bulldozer site is in surface had been scraped, it
mentioned in the text. Such locations are not the glamorous context people Sweetwater proved to be a treasure of
often imagine archaeological sites to be, but it is important cultural work, County, Wyo- information.
and contract archaeologists simply try and make the best of the situation. ming, 90
miles south- Driving into the valley, dirt
From 1984 to 1989, I was west of Casper. We would roads crisscross the entire
a “dig-bum.” As a contract drive down every morning to area. About every quarter
“We recover what we could be- mile there was a pole with a
archaeologist, I worked in
found re- every state from North fore it was destroyed by the gas monitor on top to let you
mains of Dakota to massive machinery and oil know if there was a danger-
at Southern rigs that were everywhere. ous gas leak nearby. The
California trailer house town stood in
least 5 It was the center
• and from crazy; our
or Washing- of all this,
tools were
more ton State a large
housing
dis- to Texas families and
plastic bag children,
tinct and all and
points in with a
cul- Fig. 2. Rough location of the shovel. My school, a
Bairoil, Wyoming, site. between. partner
tures I eventu- and I
post office,
living ally ended and a com-
would missary.
peace- up in Alaska, where I went locate a
back to college to receive my Just work-
fully side- fire pit and ing there
PhD at the age of 69. This as fast as Fig. 3. A closer view of the team at
by-side.” was at the University of we could, work at the Bairoil, Wyoming site, 1988.
was scary,
Alaska Fairbanks, in 1998. I yet people
shovel its were living
am now 84. contents into the bag all the in the middle of this massive
One of my most interesting while a large bulldozer (see hazard.
“digs,” if you can call it that, Fig. 1 in the upper right)
was at Bairoil, Wyoming would be poised nearby, I have tried to find a copy
(Figs. 1–3). John and Mavis revving his engine waiting of this report to check my
Greer, whose offices are in for us to finish so he could memory, but though Greer
Casper, WY, hired me during plow it all under.
> Cont. on page 3

PLEISTOCENE COALITION NEWS


VOLUME 7, ISSUE 6 PAGE 3

Bairoil, Wyoming: A U.S. site plowed under (cont.)


mentions this, there does the site illustrator. All the other sites in the Americas
not appear to be much in- time this was happening, the which, for one reason or
formation another,
avail- never receive
able. It is a full and
now over patient treat-
25 years ment. Who
since I knows what
“The was there, else could
point was but this is have been
quickly what I found at the
remem- site or how
trans-
ber. The far back it
ported to valley ap- goes.
me up in parently
Casper, served as
a trading
where I
center for
did the we found
MARILYN JESMAIN,
PhD, is an
analysis remains of archaeologist,
and at least 5 explorer, and
or more Professor
draw- Emeretus at
distinct
ings. I cultures UNM Taos.
was the living She has
worked at
site illus- peacefully many sites
side-by-
trator.” throughout
side appar- the U.S. from
ently for Texas to
the pur- Alaska. Jes-
pose of main also
believes she
trade (e.g.,
has found the
Fig. 4). only recorded
Only one U.S. menses
site. A quickly
burial was made walk-
found. It Fig. 4. Drawings of some of the artifacts we recovered from the Bairoil, through film
was of a Wyoming site, 1988. Illustrations; Marilyn Jesmain. of the site
middle- called Archaic
aged male in Women’s Menses Site can be
local seen on YouTube at the follow-
a fetal posi- tribes ing link:
tion, with no were
associated fighting https://www.youtube.com/watch?
artifacts v=Ql0TyHKz2-4
to get
(Fig. 5). His the Editors note: A very interesting and
remains bones brief article about the importance
were care- repatri- of contract archaeologists, Shovel
fully exca- bums: Inside the world of con-
ated for tract archaeology, can be seen at
vated and burial.
sent to the http://archive.archaeology.org/0803/
state office Fig. 5. The only burial we found was of Politics abstracts/shovelbums.html
in Chey- this middle-aged male. During later ex- and oil “The archaeologists whose ca-
enne. amination a tiny obsidian point was dis- develop- reers are spent digging test pits
George covered wedged in his knee. ment within view of antsy bulldozer
Frizen was have operators and moving from one
the State archaeologist at now buried this site forever, project to another are all but
the time. During examina- but this might possibly have invisible to the public eye, de-
spite the fact that they are re-
tion, a tiny obsidian point been one of the most impor-
sponsible for safeguarding much
was found wedged in his tant sites in all of North of the country’s heritage.”
knee joint. The point was America since so much was
quickly transported to me up found even under such PCN is interested in hearing from
in Casper, where I did the rushed and pressured cir- other contract archaeologists as well.
This could be an important untapped
analysis and drawings. I was cumstances. It is like many
resource concerning prehistory.

PLEISTOCENE COALITION NEWS


VOLUME 7, ISSUE 6 PAGE 4

Following Moir along the Norfolk coast at


West Runton and Cromer
By Kevin Lynch and Richard Dullum

After reading Michael this past


Cremo’s and Richard decade of
Thompson’s tome, both im-
Forbidden Archeol- plements
ogy, and becoming and hu-
fascinated by the man foot-
discoveries of James prints in
Reid-Moir in East the Cro-
Anglia, I teamed up mer For-
with Kevin Lynch est Bed
who, so far as I know, Formation
is the only archivist of at Happis-
Moir. Lynch is an ama- burgh on
teur archaeologist, pho- the Nor-
tographer, lithologist folk coast
and flint-knapper resid- it’s pretty
ing in East Anglia. To- hard to Fig. 1. A ‘hollow scraper’ discovered by Kevin Lynch
gether, we have re- deny that in the West Runton-Cromer region along the Norfolk
searched the times, the humans coastline, U.K., compared with a similar characteristic
publications, the arti- were al- paleolith from Erment, Egypt. Kevin has made sev-
eral trips to West Runton and Cromer—two sites that
facts, and the human ready
bracket the British Museum footprint site on the
“As we remains discovered by Moir. there in north and south coastline. Kevin followed closely
have pre- Kevin has visited the sites of the vicinity Moir’s directions in order to find the locations of his
Moir’s excavations, as well, of a mil- sites, after which he found various recognizable types
viously recovering similar artifacts lion years of humanly-made stone implements and debitage.
shown, (e.g., Fig. 1) from the same ago. The number of implements collected from the chalky
basins alone was close to one hundred objects.
Ipswich strata identified by Moir at
As we
Man (a the very sites Moir excavated
one hundred years prior. have pre- boreal species pine cones
modern- viously shown, Ipswich Man along with humanly-worked
type hu- (a modern-type human) was tools, meaning that humans
One of the central tenets of
found covered with boulder
man) was scientific investigation is
clay at a site that also pro-
were living in a boreal envi-
found repeatability, the ability of ronment, similar to Scandi-
duced human bones of two navia has today. This type of
independent scientists using
covered the same methods, to come
other individual humans,
climate requires humans
with both of modern type. A site living in it to have clothing,
to the same conclusions, in
excavated nearby at Wood-
boulder this case, finding similar
bridge yielded human bones
which is something we tend
clay at a man-made implements, just to associate with modern
and the tusk of Elephas man. And even at 850,000
as the original finder did. In
site that the case of Darmsden Pit
meridonalis, an early Pleisto- years ago, these humans
also cene species. It was recov- were probably living in shel-
excavations by Moir, re-
ered from the same strata as
yielded excavation (by nature at the
Ipswich Man. The boulder
ters they built cooperatively,
human site), or in this case, a mere meaning they had language,
clay covering Ipswich Man something we also tend to
visit, resulted in an imple-
bones of ment being found from Terti-
was left after the Anglian associate with modern hu-
two other Glaciation melted north- manity. Still, within an ear-
ary gravel, very similar to
wards, around 440,000
individual the museum pieces from
years ago. Before that time,
lier Cromer Forest Bed layer
humans, that site, which were also re- dated to around 950,000
possibly as early as 800,000 years ago, in Cromer estua-
discovered by Kevin in the
both of Ipswich Museum basement.
years ago, Britain was arctic. rine mud flats exposed by
modern Graves could not be dug in the North Sea, the British
After the discoveries by frozen ground. By 850,000
type.” mainstream archaeologists years ago, scientists find
> Cont. on page 5

PLEISTOCENE COALITION NEWS


VOLUME 7, ISSUE 6 PAGE 5

Following Moir along the Norfolk coast (cont.)

Museum managed to photo- Jan-Feb, 2006) gives Moir at the following page) was
graph 54 human footprints least a “partial rehabilita- close to one hundred ob-
before they were washed tion.” The one-page leaf fea- jects, which included debi-
away by the tide. This tures a coastline shot of tage. The basins collect
places humans who West Runton beach, which heavier objects, like the
had very modern- was a site excavated
looking footprints in by Moir, but not at
Britain right around a the time visited by
million years ago. ourselves. As West
During this time Brit- Runton was chosen
ain was cooling off for the backdrop for
from a tropical envi- the Moir ‘partial
ronment in the very rehabilitation’ arti-
early Pleistocene, as cle, this site, which
noted by Moir’s find- bears the Cromer
ing of monkey bones stratigraphy used by
in the Cromerian lay- the British Museum
ers. Moir excavated to date the foot-
Fig. 2. James Reid Moir at
the Cromer site on the coast the same sites one
prints, suggests a
of Norfolk, 1929. This was hundred years earlier need for re-
nearly 100 years before the than the mainstream investigation. To Fig. 3. Inset: Location of Norfolk County
discovery of 850,000-yr old archaeologists are that end, Kevin (red) within the greater U.K. Large map,
human footprints at the site by presently excavating made multiple trips circle point: Location of Happisburgh on
modern scientists in May 2013. today. Why does he to West Runton and the coast of Norfolk where the 850,000-
not get the credit for Cromer on the Nor- year old human footprints were discovered
being the first discoverer? folk coast (Fig. 3), in May 2013 vindicating Reid Moir’s asser-
tions nearly a hundred years earlier regard-
which sites bracket
Actually, Moir did get a little, ing very early man in the region. Arrow:
“This the BM Location of West Runton and Cromer where
grudging footprint the artifacts discussed in this article were
places credit after site on found by Kevin Lynch. Green outline:
humans the first the General coastlines as they were located
discoveries
who had north during the early Pleistocene.
made by and
very Parfitt, et south coastline. boulders from the once-
modern- al., at Hap- At both places, overlying boulder clay. Re-
looking pisburgh, he followed taining stone objects, as the
Norfolk. As
footprints Moir’s directions ever-rising seas pushed tides
noted in one closely to find and storms inland, scouring
in Britain of our ear-
Fig. 4. Both sides of a flint knife the remains of the sunken surfaces down to
right lier articles
from the Norfolk coast at Cro- his sites, and chalk, the stone implements
around a titled James mer as found by Kevin Lynch. It proceeded to find settled down to the sandy
Reid-Moir
million was recovered from the dark, many types of bottoms of the chalk basins.
was right on peat-stained pebbly sand layer humanly-made Removing the boulder mate-
years track 100 near the cliffside. According to
stone imple- rial, artifacts are found in the
ago.” years ago Moir's observations of Cromer—
ments, some of sandy layer underneath.
proven by which agree with mainstream
geology of the area—this knife which we feature Moir reported the sandy
850,000- in this article layer as thick as 18" but it is
could be Cromerian (c.
year old 866,000–478,000 years) or (see Fig. 1 on the considerably less today.
footprints older in age. This piece is seen preceding page,
recently as having been cleverly Fig. 4 at left, If evidence of early man is to
discovered worked to afford a finger hold
and Fig. 6 on the be actively sought for, we,
in Happis- (arrows), for exerting greater having found Moir’s excava-
following page).
burgh, Nor- pressure. It is little rolled, if at The number of tions to be on the spot, sug-
all, indicating it came out of a
folk, U.K. the implements gest looking where he found
formation recently washed by
(PCN #28, North Sea storms. collected from his implements and other
March-April the chalky basins evidence of early man. Cer-
2014) a at West Runton, tainly, his evidence for Cro-
mainstream publication, Cur- as featured in a close-up of
rent Archaeology (Vol. 210, the beach area (Fig. 5 on > Cont. on page 6

PLEISTOCENE COALITION NEWS


VOLUME 7, ISSUE 6 PAGE 6

Following Moir along the Norfolk coast (cont.)


“If evi-
merian Man is right in line Discussion paleo-river which flowed
dence of with evidence discovered East-West, making it a loca-
early man lately in Britain, very near We see by the types of im- tion we might expect to find
plements collected on these
is to be ac- his sites, and in the same
Norfolk beaches, near the
traces of hunter-gatherers.
The potential for such pro-
cliffs, in the chalky pothole ductive sites is clearly in-
sands, under the boulders, creased as we follow Moir’s
that early footsteps;
man was others
here long should
enough to take note.
establish
a consid-
erable
KEVIN LYNCH
stone tool is a retired
industry. British busi-
All the nessman,
pieces an amateur
featured archaeolo-
here gist, archi-
vist and
show
member of
unmistak- the Prehis-
able signs toric Society
of human of Britain.
work- An avid
Fig. 6. This flint nodule was found on
manship collector of
the same trip in July 2015 where Kevin
from the flints from
Lynch found also a flint triface. Again,
his local
‘crude- this artifact shows multiple signs of
countryside
ish’ flint human workmanship. It was found in
and
nodule, to another hole in the chalk-pan, under beaches, he
some of the sand and boulder. Like the similar
and his wife
triface artifact, it fits perfectly in the
the more live in
hand. It is quite suitable for fairly
finished Hadleigh,
heavy jobs. It is also the same black
and Suffolk, UK.
flint that the mainstream found at
Lynch’s
sharper several nearby areas.
specialty is
scrapers British ar-
and chaeology of the late 19th and
knives. These tools all are early 20th centuries concentrat-
typical forms of flint tools ing on the life and works of J.
found at other Paleolithic Reid-Moir. He and Richard Dul-
sites around the world, as lum have lately blended their
Fig. 5. Top: Overhead longshot view of chalk exposure on
interests in prehistory to write a
the Norfolk coast as taken from the top of the West Runton the side-by-side compari- series of articles dealing with the
Cliffs. Bottom: Closeup of the chalkbed as seen in the lower son in Fig. 1 of a West hey-day of British archaeology at
left hand corner of the top picture. The finds are in pockets Runton ‘hollow’ scraper the turn of the 20th Century.
of the chalk area below those covered in seaweed (the
and an Egyptian paleolith
darker parts of the picture). They are not found anywhere RICHARD DULLUM is a surgical R.N.
else on this beach thus far other than an area about 25yds X from the British Museum working in a large O.R. for the
20yds, with the chalk "pool" in the center areas. shows. In light of this and past 30 years as well as a re-
much more evidence we searcher in early human culture.
wonder how can main- He is also a Vietnam vet with a
tively stratigraphic position. Every
stream archaeologists stay degree in biology. In addition to
sought ... time Kevin visits these ar-
away from these indications his work with Lynch, he has writ-
eas, he finds artifacts. Think
we... sug- what a professional archaeo- of a rich excavation to be ten seven prior articles for PCN.

gest look- logical team could do at had? As shown in the paleo- All of Lynch and Dullum’s articles
map of Fig. 3, these sites about Classic British Archaeology
ing where these sites with all this sur-
including West Runton and in Pleistocene Coalition News can
[Moir] face evidence practically
Cromer were all quite a dis- be found at the following link:
lying about? If this were the
found ... case in Africa, I can guaran- tance inland during the Early http://pleistocenecoalition.com/
evidence of tee there would be excava- Pleistocene. West Runton index.htm#Dullum_and_Lynch
also has the remains of a
early man.” tion!!

PLEISTOCENE COALITION
VOLUME 7, ISSUE 6 PAGE 7

Member news and other info

Archaeologist, Sachin and I found that it is, but the you, sooner or latter, the cur-
Tiwary, PhD, writes re- note in the newsletter credits rent Saussurian-based ap-
garding his new book, it to the two of us [Fred Bud- proach to the critical evalua-
Ethno Rock Art: A Case inger, Ted Oberlander] and tion of contemporary art is
Study of Kaimur, Bihar. ‘Lee Dexter.’ ... Could a cor- going to bite the dust because
The book just rection be pub- it’s lost its foundation.”
came out in hard- lished in the next
E-mail: Michael Winkler
cover, 2015. PC News?”
<m.winkler@yahoo.com>

Hardcover -Ted Oberlander


See also Michael Winkler’s An-
300 pages The 3rd party cient art and modern language
Direct links to
involved in main- (PCN #5, May-June 2010).
recent articles Product dimen-
PCN #37, Septem- sions taining the Cali-
ber-October 2015: 8.3 x 5.1 x 8.3 cm codig website is
Dexter Thomas Mainstream quotes of
Flagstaff Stone:
Publisher rather than Lee
New dating results the day –jf
Ruby Press & Co.; Dexter. The web-
Forgotten heroes 1st Edition (2015): site was re- “If current loose standards for
of archaeology: booted after one defining hominid species were
Cyrus Newton Ray http://
www.indiamart.com/
of our readers applied at the San Diego Zoo,
Kudos highlights ruby-press-company/ noticed it had ‘each mammal species would
since Issue #19 gone missing and wrote to need five more cages.’”
Tel. contact us searching for it.
Member news 08046030259 –Tim White, PhD, famed anthropolo-
and other info gist (Laetoli footprints). Quoted in
E-mail Science News, June 27, 2015: p.7.
Early man and Rubypress Co Installation artist and
the sea <rubypressco@gmail.com> “What is extraordinary about
theorist on prehistoric
Following Zilhao’s these early communities of
Postal Address language, Michael small arthropods is not how
lead: Rock art
calumny watch
▪ XI/3834, Shanti Niketan Build- Winkler, writes regarding different they are from their
ing, 2nd Floor some of his new work on lan-
▪ Pataudi House Road, Daryaganj
equivalents in the living world,
Detail from a Utah guage, images and signs, and
▪ New Delhi – 110002, Delhi, India but how remarkably similar.”
rock art panel continues to challenge the
The book is also available ideas of modern linguistic foun- –Richard Fortey, PhD, famed
Debunking evo.
paleontologist, Natural History
propaganda, Part 15 from Amazon India: der Ferdinand de Saussure:
Museum, London. Life: A natural
Global perspective http://www.amazon.in/Ethno- New-Discoveries Should Re- history of the first four billion years
on Australian Rock-Art-Study-Kaimur/ open the Discussion of Signs of life on Earth, 1999: p. 148.
archaeology dp/9382395733
By Michael Joseph Winkler [The only reason similarities
might seem “extraordinary”
“If current Dr. Tiwary (of the Archaeo- https://
alternativetheoret-
or “remarkable” is the imag-
loose stan- logical Survey of India) is ics.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/winkler- ined evolutionary notion that
the author of the article michael_new-discoveries-should-reopen- they should be different.]
dards for Newly discovered petroglyph
the-discussion-of-signs_at.pdf

defining sites, Kaimur Range, Uttar Winkler writes in his an-


“We can imagine a whole
hominid Pradesh and Bihar States, India range of flippers and fins
nouncement:
(PCN #35, May-June 2015). that might be transformed
species “I was supposed to focus this into legs and hands.” –ibid. p
were ap- article on the philosophical 149. Dr. Fortey’s own emphasis
plied at the implications of my ongoing
“When we look at any pa-
CORRECTION for PCN process-based exploration of
San Diego #37 regarding Fred leoanthropological—or other—
language and image, and I
Zoo, ‘each Budinger’s announce- did do that, but I couldn’t
question, we need always to
mammal examine our preconceived
ment that the Cali- resist also taking the oppor-
beliefs. ... We may be unaware
species codig.org website is back tunity to slam the Saussurian
that they are preconceptions.”
would need up and running: foundation of contemporary
cultural theory one last time.” –Ian Tattersall, PhD, famed anthro-
five more “I saw in the Pleistocene pologist, Amer. Mus. of Nat. Hist.
cages.’” Coalition News that the Cali- “I admit that I have a vested The strange case of the rickety
codig web site is back up, interest in seeing the demise Cossack and other cautionary tales
–Tim White, PhD of Saussure; but I'm telling from human evolution, 2015: p. 44.

PLEISTOCENE COALITION NEWS


VOLUME 7, ISSUE 6 PAGE 8

The Brownwood Skull


By David Campbell

In the last Pleistocene rounding up rock


Coalition Newsletter I the finders crusher. One
profiled Cyrus Ray, foun- and taking 12 foot
“Shortly der of the Texas Ar- their state- square boul-
afterward chaeological and Paleon- ments while der at the
tological Society. In that the facts foot of the
truck
article I made passing men- were still ledge re-
drivers tion of documented discov- fresh. quired fur-
eries made by Ray and Thereafter ther reduc-
other founding mem- he visited tion and
bers of the Society that the site of more explo-
would be relegated to the bones in sives were
the fringe by most their com- applied.
members of today’s pany and Shortly af-
Texas Archeological took careful terward
Society. It is ironic to measure- truck drivers
note that Cyrus Ray and his ments as he shoveling
shoveling associates were doing their always did. the frag-
the frag- best to establish credibility Later others ments into
ments with the staid East Coast visited the the rock
establishment by adopting site and filed crusher be-
into the
accepted scientific methods a report in gan to notice
rock and standards. Still it “Science Ser- bones em-
crusher seemed that the ground vice” but bedded in
began to truth of many of their dis- Cyrus felt them. Nev-
coveries out here on the that the re- ertheless the
notice
physical fringes of civiliza- port omitted bones joined
bones tion conspired to keep them significant the lime-
embed- on the intellectual fringes as facts. To rec- stone in the
ded in well. There are many tify that he crusher to
strange accounts buried in wrote his become pav-
them.
the old Bulletins; this is one own report in ing material.
Neverthe- of them. the Field Fig. 1. A similar find to the One long
less the Notes and Brownwood Skull is this one from bone, that
It was late in the year of Red River, Fannin County, Texas, Cyrus judged
bones 1932 that Cyrus Ray read
Reviews sec-
just a few counties away from
tion of the to be a fe-
joined the an odd newspaper account the Brownwood site. As described
1933 Bulletin on the last page, photographs of mur from
limestone of human bones that had of the Texas the descrip-
the Brownwood Skull were not
in the been blasted from a solid Archaeologi- tion, was
included in Cyrus Ray’s report.
limestone boulder near
crusher to Brownwood, Texas. Cyrus
cal and Pale- These photographs are provided thrown out
ontological as the bones share some of the on the road
become found the story to be highly traits of the Brownwood Skull.
Society. by one of
paving improbable but his curiosity Top: Partially fossilized mandi-
the drivers.
got the better of him. The A road crew ble. Middle: Width rear inferior
material.” maxillary 11.5 cm, vertical height Although the
ninety mile trip from Abi- was blasting foreman
7.2 cm. Bottom: Vertical height
lene down poorly paved away at a
chin including teeth 3.6 cm. Pho- stated that it
roads to Brownwood was ledge of tos: David Campbell. was a hu-
no step for a stepper such Pennsylva- man bone, it
as Ray. nian (323- became part of the pave-
298 MYA) limestone forma- ment anyway. Fortunately
Arriving in Brownwood, Dr. tion. The resulting boulders
Ray immediately began were then taken to a nearby > Cont. on page 9

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The Brownwood Skull (cont.)


another driver with a little the time Dr. Ray examined pert on bones):
more snap notified a com- the site nearly all the debris
pany official named John O. of the boulder had been The ascending ramii of
Palmer. Palmer along with cleared away. the lower jaw were quite
J.H. Arledge walked over to wide, the distance across
the site and almost immedi- Just opposite from the boul- the top of one from cor-
ately picked up a complete der’s location Cyrus ob- onid to condyle was 2
lower jaw containing most served that there was a 1/16 inches. The distance
of its teeth. Part of the fron- crack in the ledge about a from coronid to coronid
`“Though tal bone with a peculiar na- foot wide containing black was 4 13/16 inches. From
none of sal bone attached was re- earth and stained stones the bottom of the sigmoid
but he did not think it nec- notch to the bottom of
the lime- trieved with it. Though the
finders did not consider the essarily had any connection the ascending ramus was
stone ad- with the widely detached 2 ¼ inches. From the
bones to be of any great
hered to significance, they neverthe- boulder. Just below the back edge of the third
the bones, less sent it to town with one ledge there was a small molar to the middle of
creek containing water and the incisors was 2 5/8
the frac- of the truck drivers. The
driver casually tossed it into on the other side, he dis- inches. The architecture
tured covered a burned rock mid- of the lower jaw is heavy
the back of the truck and in
edges course of bouncing around den. These are quite com- resembling in that aspect
were on the rough gravel roads mon in the Middle Archaic and in dental equipment
to the Late Prehistoric some primitive jaws
sharp and some of the teeth were lost.
At length the bones were throughout Texas but again found near Abilene and
hard and Cyrus could see no direct elsewhere in Texas. The
taken to a local dentist, Dr.
of the Snyder, where they lay in connection to the ledge site. mylohyoid ridge is flat-
same repose until Cyrus Ray ex- Dr. Ray pointed out the
tened like the fossil lower
color as amined them. jaw found by George C.
obvious to Palmer and Martin on the coast of
the lime- Despite other reports stat- Arledge stating that scien- Texas and the lower jaw
stone ing that the bones were tists would give no credence found by the writer near
to a tale of human bones
ledge only partially mineralized,
blasted out of solid lime-
Colorado, Texas.
from Cyrus found them to be
hard and heavy, noting that stone over 300 million years Dr. Ray further stated:
which they were similar to other old. Both held firmly to their
first statements concerning The teeth are much worn.
they were human skull bones from the In the left side all teeth
the circumstances of the
blasted.“ Texas coast he had in his
discovery. Cyrus then ad- are present except the
possession. (At a later date two incisors and their jaw
I hope to give a more de- vanced an alternate sce-
nario that there could have cavities indicate that have
tailed description of these been lost recently. On the
other skulls from another been a cave that subse-
quently filled with stalag- right side the teeth are all
article in the Bulletin, in place except the first
“Notes on Five Texas Cra- mitic deposits encasing the
bones. Yet he reasoned that premolar recently lost,
nia” by anthropologist Dr. and the broken off ca-
Ernest A. Hooton.) Though since the bones had no
signs of matrix adhering to nine. The depth of the
none of the limestone ad- sigmoid notch is ten six-
hered to the bones, the them, this theory was not
very reasonable either. teenths of an inch.
fractured edges were sharp
and hard and of the same Dr. Ray mused that if the The large portion of fron-
color as the limestone ledge petrification of the bones tal bone has attached in
from which they were did not evidence their be- place a remarkable nasal
blasted. Palmer and Arledge ing of great age consistent bone which is wide, flat,
stated that there was no in color and hardness as and spatulate shaped at
observable fissure in the the limestone, and if fur- the end. It also curves
boulder and no earth or ther they did not contain sharply upward. It is 1 ¼
stained stones were among extraordinary anatomical inches wide at the proxi-
the rubble where they found features, he would have mal or attachment end.
the bones. They pointed to dropped the matter then When a rule is set with
a small pile of freshly frac- and there. Since they did one end against the skull
tured limestone fragments he felt the bones deserved at its articulation with the
where they had recovered description (as a reminder, frontal bone and ex-
the bones that were of the Dr. Ray was an osteo- tended to the distal end
same light gray color. At pathic surgeon and an ex- > Cont. on page 10

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The Brownwood Skull (cont.)


of the nasal bone, the served by us without inject- References:
measurement straight ing any conclusions and we
“Despite across from end to end have none. The matter
Bulletin of the Texas Archeo-
logical and Paleontological So-
other re- (not following the marked should be looked into more ciety, Volumes 5 & 6, 1933-34,
ports curvature of the bone) is fully by experts.” Texas Archeological Society,
stating 1 ¾ inches. This long flat 2009 Reprint Edition.
upturned nasal bone is To my knowledge it never
that the like nothing the writer was. DAVID CAMPBELL is an author/
historian and an investigator of
bones has ever seen before on a There were no photos of geological or manmade altered
were only human skull. the Brownwood Skull to stone anomalies or large natural
partially accompany Cyrus Ray’s structures which may have been
Dr. Ray concludes his re- used by early Americans. He also
mineral- port by noting how rarely report. I hope readers will
has a working knowledge of
not consider it presumptu-
ized, nasal bones are found in
ous of me to include those
various issues regarding the
good condition due to their peopling of the Americas. Along
Cyrus of a partially mineralized with Virginia Steen-McIntyre and
fragility. That the Brown-
found wood Skull survived multi- jaw bone I examined a few Tom Baldwin, Campbell is one of
them to ple explosive charges and years ago (see Fig. 1 on the core editors of Pleistocene
Page 1). It was found on a Coalition News. Campbell has
be hard rough handling afterward
tributary of the Red River in also written eight prior articles
with minor damage and the for PCN which can be found at
and Fannin County, Texas. A
loss of some teeth is almost the following link:
heavy.” as anomalous as the bones number of its characteris-
tics are similar to those http://pleistocenecoalition.com/
themselves. index.htm#anarchaeology
Cyrus Ray described in the
In Cyrus’ own words: “We Brownwood Skull. Author’s website:
have reported all of the anarchaeology.com
evidence as told to and ob-

Mammoth migra- warm-climate ancestor mammoth teeth, and the


Mammuthus meridionalis, fact that steppe mammoth
“If mam- tions into North and that it may be identical remains are found in north-
moths of America suggest to the Columbian mammoth east China 1.7 million years
(Mammuthus columbi) that ago and in northeast Sibe-
any kind human presence ranged across North Amer- ria 1.2 million to about
were ica during the Pleistocene. 800,000 years ago. There
Virginia Steen-McIntyre
wander- This was reported in the are no known fossils of the
ing the Information source: Laura November 12 issue of the temperate European mam-
Geggel, Staff Writer, journal Science by co- moth that have been found
Bering
LiveScience.com researchers Adrian Lister, a in northeast Siberia or
Land research Alaska, “suggesting that
Bridge An intrigu- leader of this temperate-adapted
ing note in
1.5 mil- my No-
paleontol- species never dispersed as
ogy at the far north as the Beringian
lion vember 12 Natural transit route.”
years Sigma Xi History
ago, Smart Museum Why did that catch my in-
Brief says terest? Because if mam-
could that it was
in Lon-
moths of any kind were
don, and
mam- probably wandering the Bering Land
the late
moth the cold- Fig. 1. Mammuthus trogontherii; Andrei Bridge 1.5 million years
hunters adapted Wikimedia Commons. Sher, a ago, could mammoth hunt-
Eurasian ers be far behind?
be far steppe
paleon-
tologist with the Severtsoy
behind?” mammoth (Mammuthus –VSM
Institute of Ecology and
trogontherii) that wan- Evolution in Moscow.
dered into North Amer-
ica around 1.5 million The study was based on a
years ago, and not its re-evaluation of fossil

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18,500 BP, Monte Verde, Chile: “It’s evidence


we cannot ignore.”
By Chris Hardaker, MA, archaeologist

It’s déjà vu all over again! just have to get together and least yet. The fact that datable
raise their hands up or point layers of sediments exist in
18,500 BP is now the official their thumbs down. To ignore the first place is an incredible
date for two sites in the New or not ignore: that is the gift to geo-archaeologists eve-
“The US World. Both are right next to question. rywhere.
experts each other in southern Chile, This is
right next to the South Pole. how sci- What makes
Actually, they might be lo- ence is Monte
cales of the same site. While done in Verde the
some dispute all of the lithic the high- “Belle at the
artifacts (e.g., Fig. 1) from the est Paleoameri-
site, it was agreed that 35% reaches can Ball” is
of the lithic specimens were of First Fig. 1. Two views of an 18,500–17,000- the incredi-
made from materials that Ameri- year-old stone artifact from Monte Verde, ble preser-
were carried into the region can re- Chile, showing a bifacially knapped and vation of
by humans, i.e. man-u-ports. retouched edge. Dillehay, TD, et al. 2015. organic
search in
could not There were two sets of dates the materials
and artifacts made of bone
ignore the for each locale. The US ex- United States. We got the
research money and the and wood. This is why peat
younger perts could not ignore the bogs are so great for archae-
younger series of dates. peer-reviewers, so we get to
series of call the shots for the entire ology. They even found a
However, they did ignore the
dates. older dates. Again. Western Hemisphere (the peat ball wrapped around
some skin. How cool is that?
However, New World). Life is great, and
Monte Verde 2 or MV-2 now history is repeating itself.
they did Monte Verde is a dream
(18,500 BP; not ignored), come true. It offers mega-
ignore the Tom’s Dillehay’s curiosity got
Monte Verde 1 or MV-1 the better of him after twenty tons of environmental infor-
older mation to analyze shifts and
(25,000–33,000+ BP; ignored). years wondering whether it
dates. trends in environmental,
was safe to return to a site
Again.” Exactly the same thing hap- climatic, glacial trends over
that first seemed to ruin his
pened in 1999. the last 43,000 years… and
career, but in the end it actu-
ally made his career. In 2013 counting. It’s difficult to find
Same place: Monte Verde,
he returned to this southern the words to express the
Chile.
Chile outpost to gather more enormity of ecological impor-
Same Archaeologist: Tom data, including artifacts, but tance that should be as-
Dillehay. equally important it was a signed to this region.

Same US Experts: the Clovis chance to fill in the holes of When you add to this back-
Mafia dons. the incredible geological col- drop an apparent human
umn containing the sites. legacy of occupation in the
Same Point Spread: region for at least 33,000
This time Dillehay was apply-
MV-2: 14,500 BP; not ignored; ing the newest cutting-edge years, the dream becomes
field archaeology program to an archaeological wet dream.
MV-1: 33,000 BP; ignored
this Chilean backwater, an Or at least it should, you
It is safe to conclude that application that is actually would think.
Meltzer and the rest of the catching on around the globe.
First American experts: It is called the De-escalating You’re So Ignorable …
Intrusive Geology model. Dille-
a) cannot ignore dates The First American experts
hay just had to apply D.I.G.
under 20,000 BP; and, have known about the Chilean
anywhere and he hit paydirt.
sites for going on 35 years,
b) dates greater than The region containing the sites back to the early 1980s or
20,000 BP are officially is made up of a vertical string before. Between this time and
ignorable. As it was in of sediments with plenty of 1999, these same US experts
1999 so shall it be now. carbon dating back to at least saw fit to ignore this Pleisto-
43,000 years. There were no cene bonanza known as Monte
The US dons know how to
artifacts recovered from this Verde. Finally these Clovis First
wield their academic muscle.
lowest of the dated layers, at > Cont. on page 12
Always have, always will. The

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18,500 BP, Monte Verde, Chile (cont.)


experts were seduced by free possible clay-lined hearths.’ At Dillehay, TD, et al. 2015. New Ar-
plane tickets to make a field Monte Verde, this description chaeological Evidence for an Early
trip to the site. Was it worth it? was made much more nebu- Human Presence at Monte Verde,
Chile. PLOS ONE, November 18.
lous and sidewindery.
As a result, in 1999, twenty http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?
years after the original finds “MV-I dated ~33,000 BP and id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141923
were made, Monte Verde be- initially defined by scattered
Dillehay, TD., and MB Collins.
came the Clovis First Paradigm occurrences of three clay- 1988. Early cultural evidence
Buster, becoming the earliest lined, possible culturally- from Monte Verde in Chile. Na-
“The re- officially accepted site in the produced burned areas and ture 332: 150-52.
gion con- New World. The US archae- twenty-six stones, at least six http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/
ologists were hard pressed, of which suggest modification
taining v332/n6160/abs/332150a0.html
though. One was overheard by humans.” 2015: 4/27.
the sites whispering to a colleague,
Pedra Furada, Brazil 1986
is made “Funny, it doesn’t look Clovis.” For the second time in so Guidon, N, and G Delibrias.
many publications, the most
up of a Monte Verde stone technology recent dates from a Monte
1986. Carbon-14 dates point to
man in the Americas 32,000
vertical was as different from Clovis as Verde project were pro- years ago. Nature 321: 769-71.
string of you could probably get. It moted, while the equally www.nature.com/nature/journal/v321/
sedi- totally closed the door of right- valid older dates were simply n6072/abs/321769a0.html
eousness in the faces of the ignored. Officially the term is,
ments Clovis Mafia, but in the end ‘Inconclusive.’ Two different
Valsequillo Reservoir
with they showed everyone that projects, same 25,000 BP+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=koYWznEIV50
plenty of they were not to be messed dates, and all lithic artifacts
carbon with. In the end, the 14,500 are made out of materials http://www.amazon.com/First-American-
Suppressed-People-Discovered/
dates were accepted. After all, that had to be man-u-ported
dating it is only a couple thousand in. And the conclusion by
dp/1564149420

back to at years older than Clovis. The Meltzer and the US experts:
least Clovis dons could still salvage CHRIS HARDAKER, BA, MA, is an
their pride. But those 33,000 Nothing to see here. archaeologist working in Califor-
43,000 nia and is one of the founding
year old dates? No chance, pal. Inconclusive, ergo ignorable.
years.“ members of the Pleistocene
So, what did Tom Dillehay This means that the combined Coalition. He reviewed and cata-
have to say when he saw the weight of these separate re- logued the data from the mas-
coveries and dating regimens sive artifact collection of Calico.
Clovis Mafia’s great displeas- For details, see the series, The
ure at the 33,000-year-old are still not good enough evi-
abomination of Calico, Parts 1-3,
dates? Probably something dence to reset the cellar date
beginning in PCN #6, July-Aug
for American antiquity to 2010, and Calico redux: Artifacts
like, ‘sure, why not. I never
much liked those pesky 33ky 25,000–33,000 BP. With the or geofacts: Original 2009 paper
dates anyway. It’s a deal.’ infamous and extremely ignor- updated and serialized for PCN
able Pedra Furada site (32,000 (PCN #24, July-Aug 2013) and
And it happened again, just BP) removed from the table its Part 2 (PCN #26, Nov-Dec
like that, here in 2015. It is long ago, there are obviously 2013). For additional in-depth
information and quality photo-
all about censoring yourself no precedents for the new
graphs of tools recovered from
so others don’t have to. For MV-1 artifacts other than the the Calico Early Man Site exca-
example, there is no men- old MV-1 artifacts. Therefore, vations see Calico’s “Double-
tion of the ignorable 25,000- they don’t count. Why? Be- notched” blades from T-22
33,000 year old dates in his cause the US guys said so. (PCN #30, July-Aug 2014) and
recent abstract, though they Calico’s only classic handaxe
are well covered in the text. Maybe in twenty years, (PCN #31, Sept-Oct 2014).
somebody will decide to go Hardaker is also author of the
Here is another nugget showing to Monte Verde again. book, The First American: The
how the average archaeologist suppressed story of the people
appeases the ex-Clovis dons Welcome to archaeological who discovered the New World.

who are looking over his shoul- science, US-Style.


See The abomination of Calico, part
der as he writes his report. It References three (PCN #8, Nov-Dec 2010),
shows how Dillehay describes for a closer look at Monte Verde.
Monte Verde, Chile, 2015
the cultural data garnered All of Hardaker’s articles in PCN
from the 33,000-year-old de- Gibbons, A. 2015. Oldest stone tools can be accessed directly at the
posit of MV-1. Anywhere else in the Americas claimed in Chile. following link:
in the world, Tom could have Sciencemag.org. November 18.
http://
written something a bit easier http://news.sciencemag.org/ pleistocenecoalition.com/
like: ‘Several stone artifacts archaeology/2015/11/oldest-stone-tools-
#the_first_american
americas-claimed-chile
were associated with three

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More on a Utah rock art panel with a proposed


mammoth hunting scene
By Ray Urbaniak Engineer, rock art photographer and preservationist

In my prior article, I in some cases they could


discussed a photo I had have depicted something
recently taken of a pro- they only knew from oral
posed mammoth (or form. This could help ex-
mastodon) being plain the unusual appear-
hunted with an atlatl ances of many such de-
or spear thrower. pictions.
Although there are, of
course, many possible I revisited this idea while
interpretations I will stick considering the person
with this one for now. who created the proposed
Fig. 1 from that article is mammoth hunting scene
reproduced at right. I because of the unusual
reproduce the rest of the nature and positioning of
panel below in Fig. 2. what I am interpreting as
“tusks.” In other words,
The idea that rock art pan- having never seen an
els of unknown ages in the actual mammoth tusk,
U.S. could depict Ice Age the tusks are depicted as
animals is controversial. very large horns since
However, in this case, as I horns are what the per- Fig. 1. In PCN #34, May-June 2015, I
suggested in earlier arti- son would have been fa- offered an interpretation for a petroglyph I
discovered northwest of St. George, south-
miliar with in
west Utah and included this comparison.
their everyday Along with tusks, a trunk and a small tail, it
life. was the robustness of the legs that espe-
cially gave the sense the image was meant
In a later article, to depict a large and heavy mammal.
I will discuss the
line which was
placing labels as protected nearby
engraved under- what he calls “sacred art” sites as
neath the animals a deterrent to vandalism. Urba-
in the panel. niak’s book, Anasazi of Southwest
Utah: The Dance of Light and
Shadow (2006), is a collection of
rock art photographs which in-
clude clear descriptions with many
RAY URBANIAK is an photographs being time-
engineer by education sequenced as events occurred
and profession; how- along with compass, angular ori-
ever, he is an artist entations, and other information.
and passionate ama- All of Urbaniak’s prior articles in
teur archeologist at PCN, beginning with Ice Age ani-
heart with many years mals in Southwest U.S. rock art,
of systematic field part 1 (PCN #22, March-April
research on Native 2013) can be found at the follow-
Fig. 2. Here is the complete panel including the “mammoth” depiction ing link:
American rock art,
when the sun is shining on it. The panel is protected from above being
especially as related http://pleistocenecoalition.com/
situated underneath a small overhang. Photo: Ray Urbaniak. to archaeoastronomy, index.htm#ray_urbaniak
equinoxes and sol-
cles, another possibility is stices in Utah. He has noted that Author’s webpage:
standard archaeological studies
that descriptions of certain http://
commonly record details of mate-
Ice Age animals may have rial culture but overlook the some- www.naturalfrequency.net/Ray/
been passed down in oral times incredible celestial archeo- index.htm
tradition over time, per- logical evidence. Urbaniak has
E-mail: rayurbaniak@msn.com
haps over many genera- also played a major role in docu-
tions. In such a case, rock menting and raising concerns for
art artists wouldn’t neces- the accelerating vandalism, de-
struction and theft of Native
sarily have had to actually
American rock art. He has brought
see for themselves the ani- state representatives to rock art
mals they were portraying; sites with the hope of at least

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Debunking evolutionary propaganda, Part 16


Overview and links for Parts 1–15
A lifelong reader of textbooks in every field exposes “thousands” of
examples of false statements of fact and other propaganda techniques
easily spotted in anthropology, biology, and paleontology textbooks
By John Feliks

One of the most important questions in modern


times is that of our origins and prehistory. In re-
cent years the science community through continu-
ous propaganda has managed to convince many
that it has answered the question with evolution.
The public is being told that evolution is now es-
tablished fact. This series provides evidence that
the exact opposite is true because evolution is in
clear conflict with the fossil record.

The field is Part 1: Basic propaganda techniques in col-


“anthropology.” lege textbooks (Issue 23:10–12, May-June 2013) A B C
Anthropology—the Question: How does one make an ideology claimed as
study of “humanity” fact appear overwhelmingly true to students never In the October 2009 issue of the journal
—has a long his- taught how to think critically? Science, evolution-trained scientists were
tory of deceiving
Answer: 1.) Turn science textbooks into propaganda; quoted that Ardi (A) “doesn't look much like
the public. It is a
2.) Intimidate students who question the propaganda; a chimpanzee ...or any of our closest living
powerful tool for
3.) Withhold conflicting evidence. primate relatives,” e.g., (B). –Ann Gibbons
manipulating both
cultural and per-
sonal identity.
Part 2: Fictions taught as fact in college text-
books, 1st half (Issue 23:16–18, May-June 2013)
The statistic equating higher institutional education with
belief in evolution is not an indication of critical thinking
as naïvely believed. It is an indication of how captive
audience propaganda works.

Part 3: Fictions taught as fact in college textbooks,


2nd half (Issue 24, July-August 2013)
A B C
Part 4: Evolutionists are not qualified to as-
sess 'any' evidence (Issue 25, September- Regarding the famous 3.6 million-year old
October 2013) Laetoli human footprints (B), evolutionists
actually teach they were made by (A) austra-
“The Prezletice human molar has been re-identified as a
lopithecine apes, rather than by (C) humans.
bear ... and the ‘hominid’ skull from Venta Micena as a horse.”
-Clive Gamble, The Palaeolithic societies of Europe, 1999: 116

“The history of paleoanthropology is one of repeated misidentification of fossil ancestors.”


-Sarmiento et al. 2002. Morphology-based systematics (MBS) and problems with fossil hominoid and hominid systematics.
The Anatomical Record 269 (1): 50-66.

Part 5: Mandatory U.S.-legislated indoctrination now in place - 1st target, captive-


audience children in K-12 science classrooms (Issue 27, January-February 2014)
Modern science is in a compromised state having descended to the level of adopting use of well-known propa-
ganda techniques to promote the ideology of Darwinism (that complex life and intelligence “evolved” from a
batch of chemicals). In the Next Generation Science Standards this ideology has been interwoven with actual
facts in a way that deceives anyone not objectively informed about fossils. 95% of the propaganda techniques
described in Part 1 are in the document. Americans need to recognize that the “Standards” for biology—
legislation to force evolutionism on students while blocking them from conflicting evidence—is corrupted sci-
ence. They are the result of decades of textbook fraud and a lack of perspective regarding the fossil record.
Any grade school subject depending upon tactics such as those discussed is not ready to be taught as science.
Part 6: The inconvenient facts of living fossils: Brachiopoda (Issue 28, March-April 2014)
From the very beginning, Darwin knew he had a big problem—the fossil record. According to paleontol-
ogy’s own numbers it can plainly be seen that the fossil record is not a record of species, genera, fami-
lies or orders—let alone classes or phyla—evolving one into another but a very clear record of thousands
of well established organisms which have not changed for tens to
hundreds of millions of years. > Cont. on page 15

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Overview and links for Parts 1–15 (cont.)


Part 7: " " " Mollusca (Issue 29, May-June 2014)
“Like brachiopods, molluscs … provide for an excellent, unbroken fossil record from the Cambrian to
the present. Most of the classes of molluscs living today… were already present in the Cambrian.”
-Animals Without Backbones, Buchsbaum et al 1987, Third Ed., p. 520

“If my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties … must assuredly have existed; …
evidence … could be found only amongst fossil remains.”
–Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859, p.179

Parts 6–12 are based on the main volumes of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. I have also pro-
posed an expanded definition of the term living fossil to reflect the true facts of the fossil record. This is to
include organisms with remarkably long histories even though they eventually went extinct. Noting that
this definition is based on date ranges which are agreed to by international consensus it can be stated that
all taxa remain the same since their first appearance. In other words, they do not evolve. The three fossil
snails at left extend from the Early Cambrian (542 million years ago) to the Present. They demonstrate a
clear continuity through time. Such continuity is not helpful to Darwinism and so it is concealed through
obfuscations in the taxonomic naming systems used in biology, paleontology, and anthropology. In these
evolution-corrupted fields, if necessary evolutionary categories are not found, they are simply created.
The top two fossils are not only called different species, but different genera, different families, different
orders, and even different subclasses. The bottom fossil is regarded a different class entirely. The public
needs to realize that they’ve been railroaded. Think dog breeds not evolutionary genera or classes.

Part 8: " " " Porifera and Cnidaria (Issue 30, July-August 2014)
The idea is to start “Modern corals…may have evolved from some nonskeletonized common ancestor that
thinking “dog existed in the Paleozoic but left no fossil record.”
breeds” for all –Bruce L. Stinchcomb, geologist, paleontologist
fossil types. The
This is a standard trick in Darwinism to explain why evolutionary claims do not match the physical evi-
term ‘species’ has
dence of the fossil record. It is applied by mainstream PhDs trained in biology, paleontology, and anthro-
long been out of
pology to every single creature and every type of creature known. Paleontologists cannot explain the
control in biology,
origins of any organisms without recourse to a pantheon of invisible “unknown” ancestors. Yet, they can
anthropology, and
tell you the exact date range to the decimal of when fossilized creatures lived. This means that their
paleontology and
desired explanation does not match their accrued facts.
can no longer be
trusted as any- Part 9: " " " Echinodermata (Issue 31, September-October 2014)
thing more than a
way to differenti- “The apparent first appearance of a crinoid occurs in the Lower Ordovician of England. … It
ate varieties. was not an intermediate form. It was not a primitive link with older … ancestors. The lack of a
sequence of transitional types leading back to the ancestral stock is, of course, the chief reason for the
uncertainty about origin of the class.”
–Paul Tasch, geologist, Paleobiology of the Invertebrates, 1980 Edition: 759 & 761.

Question. According to the physical facts of the fossil record (not imaginary family trees, extrapolations
from genetics, or other tricks of the Darwinism trade), what are the ancestors of the echinoderms—
crinoids, starfish, and sea urchins?
Proposed answer. Crinoids, starfish and sea urchins.
Echinoderms appeared hundreds of millions of years ago and survive today. And like all invertebrates, the
origin of these creatures is a frustration to scientists incongruously teaching evolution as fact. Tasch’s descrip-
tion implying that the ‘intermediate’ ancestors of other animals are less uncertain than those of crinoids is
misleading because not one has been established. Sciences that teach as fact the opposite of what the cumu-
lative physical evidence actually says need to be questioned. It doesn’t matter how many adherents there are.

Part 10: " " " Bryozoa (Issue 32, November-December 2014)
“Bryozoa is one of the most puzzling phyla in the animal kingdom and little is known about
their evolutionary history.”
–Fuchs, J., M. et al. 2009. The first comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Bryozoa (Ectoprocta) based on combined
analyses of nuclear and mitochondrial genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52 (1): 225.

The title of the above paper might make readers imagine that science is on its way to explaining bryozoans
in evolutionary terms. This is not the case. Although paleontology and biology consider bryozoans—or moss
animals as they are popularly known—to be primitive, simple organisms that evolved like everything else in
the Darwinist worldview, the actual real-time facts of the fossil record tell a different story. What the record
actually shows is that after nearly 500 million years bryozoans are still bryozoans—just like when they first
appeared. They didn’t evolve from anything else; nor did they evolve into anything else. The quote itself may
seem innocuous but it uses two standard tricks that prevent readers from considering bryozoans objectively:
1.) Not “little is known,” but truly nothing is known about the so-called evolutionary history of bryozoans.
The problem, as in all such papers, is that evolution is presented as a ‘given’ despite the fact that not a single
group of organisms has been established in evolutionary terms; and 2.) is the misleading implication that
bryozoans are a uniquely puzzling group. This too is a standard technique used in the community. The idea is
to imply that evolutionary histories for organisms other than the ones you
are currently talking about are established, which, again, is not true. > Cont. on page 16

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Part 11: " " " Arthropoda (Issue 33, January-February 2014)
“So where did trilobites come from? …The evidence is neither clear nor unambiguous.”
-Sam Gonn III, PhD, biologist; trilobite authority, and webmaster of the comprehensive resource trilobites.info

Dr. Gonn’s statement about the mysterious origins of trilobites should have a familiar ring to it. As pointed
out earlier, this is the same observation made of all organisms. But the public doesn’t know it because it is
routine in the evolution community to admit “problematic evolution” for the organism at hand while imply-
ing that other organisms have been figured out in evolutionary terms. Proof of evolution has not been
established for a single group—not one species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, or any other category.

Part 12: " " " Trace fossils & graptolites (Issue 34, March-April 2014)
Trace fossils, except for footprints, are little known to the public. They concern the passage of time. Trace
fossils represent the actual activities or experiences of ancient organisms as they went about their daily lives.
They include tracks, burrows and borings, and even records of unusual events that might only have hap-
pened to a single individual. Trace fossils preceded “long exposure” photography by hundreds of millions of
years. They actually record events in time in high resolution 2D and 3D images and in increments as small as
weeks, days, hours, and even minutes and seconds. At their best, they are the equivalent of 3D sculptures of
real-time events making them 4-dimensional objects. In contrast to Darwin’s hope that the fossil record would
prove to be a record “poorly kept,” one can hardly ask for a more perfect record of anything that happened in
the ancient past. Graptolites, mysterious fossils believed to represent animals extinct for the past 350 million
years, were recently discovered to be alive in the Indian Ocean adding them to a growing list of ‘living fossils.’

Part 13: " " " Plants (Issue 35, May-June 2015)
“Just a single species of green algae gave rise to the entire terrestrial plant lineage.” …
“Exactly what this ancestral alga was is still a mystery.”
Biology, 6th Ed., Raven et al, 2002: pp. 735 & 736.

The above is a standard evolutionary false statement of fact followed by a direct admission from the
authors that they have no idea what they are talking about. Part 13 is filled with similar quotations not
only from textbook authors but from plant specialists demonstrating that they have no idea where plants
came from, how they supposedly morphed into each other, or why many so-called “primitive” plants
seem to have arrived on the scene after supposedly more “advanced” plants.
“The genome size of these reputed ‘living fossils’ [royal ferns] has remained unchanged ... at
least 180 million years.” –Bomfleur B, et al. 2014. Fossilized nuclei and chromosomes reveal 180
million years of genomic stasis in royal ferns. Science 343 (6177): 1376.

Part 14: " " " Fishes and invertebrates (Issue 36, July-August 2015)
“The evolution of craniates [animals with skulls] may be characterized as... profound shifts…
new structures without any ancestral counterpart.”
–John G. Maisey; Curator, Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, N.Y. Discovering Fossil Fishes, p.34

One of the most profound sudden appearances in the ‘vertebrate’ record is that of the placoderm fishes. Among
many other ‘firsts’—that happened all at once—they were the first vertebrates with jaws. Not only did they
appear out of nowhere as tiny fish but they soon spawned the world’s first super-predator, a 33-foot long,
8,000 lb. monster called Dunkleosteus. It has been determined that the bite of Dunkleosteus equaled 1,100
lbs. of force translating to 8,000 lbs. per square inch at the tip of a fang. How does natural selection turn some-
thing that isn’t even the nibble of a minnow into the largest and most powerful biological crushing machine on
earth—accompanied by 2-inch thick armor plating—without leaving a trace of the process in the fossil record?
a Part 15: Tetrapod evolution credibility questioned via invertebrate fossils (Issue 37,
September-October 2015)
“We knew that tetrapods [animals with 4 limbs]...evolved from fish. … Almost certainly no single
scenario can account for all the [hindlimb] stages. ...We may never piece together the entire
puzzle of tetrapod evolution.”
–Jennifer A. Clack, PhD. 2005. Getting a Leg Up on Land: Recent Fossil Discoveries Cast Light On the Evolution of Four-
limbed Animals from Fish. Scientific American, Dec. 2005. Quoting pp. 100 & 107.

Question: How does Dr. Clack—the leading tetrapod authority—go from essentially saying, “We have
tetrapod evolution resolved,” to “Well, we really don’t have a clue”? Answer: Evolutionary writers
become bolder and less accountable the higher up the taxonomic ladder.
Apart from propaganda, modern Darwinists divert attention away from the lack of evidence for evolution in the
fossil record in two primary ways. One of these is to say that the changes are actually genetic. The other is
appealing to ‘unknown ancestors.’ The convenient quality of each of these is that they involve things that are
b invisible. It is my hope that readers will begin to realize there is something amiss in the science community
concerning the subject of origins and that research in this area should be just as objective as in any other.
JOHN FELIKS has specialized in the study of early human cognition for 20 years demonstrating that human cognition does
not evolve. Earlier, his focus was on the invertebrate fossil record studying fossils in the field across the U.S. and parts of
c Canada as well as studying many of the classic texts such as the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology and Index Fossils
of North America. Except for a few public domain images, all scans in this article are of fossils recovered by the author
direct from formations across the U.S. and Ontario, Canada, over a 30-year span.

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Pleistocene underground, Part 1


By Vesna Tenodi MA, archaeology; artist and writer

Caves with evidence of of translating the material ies the Kuschs have uncov-
ancient human occupation into English—who is to know? ered. Over the last forty
and underground tunnels years, the couple explored
are one of those intrigu- This explains why the Aus-
trian archaeolo-
“The most ing subjects irresistible to
gist, Professor
passionate archaeolo-
important Heinrich Kusch,
gists. Ranging in size and
conclusion depth—from shelters a few one of the most
meters long to mul- passionate peo-
tilevel 40-meter ple dedicated to
deep cities as found ancient cave
in Turkey—these research, has
sites include natural been working
underground forma- more or less
tions which show under the ra-
evidence of human dar—globally
occupation. In some cases, speaking—for
of Dr Pouli- the natural cave passages more than four
anos' re- have been extended with decades.
search is manmade tunnels, and the Dr. Kusch is a
cave walls embellished with prehistorian from
the co-
prehistoric art. the University of
existence
Some European and Asian Graz in Austria
of all main and, together
caves and underground shel-
anthropo- ters are well known and with his geolo-
logical documented, such as the gist/speleologist
wife Ingrid, has
types— caves with Paleolithic art in
Spain and France, as well as explored sites all
African ... over Europe and Fig 1. Passage in the “Frauenhöhle” near
caves with a wealth of ar-
Asian ... chaeological material, that Asia for signs of Kaindorf in Eastern Styria, Austria. Photo
Euro- were inhabited by Neander- the link between ©Heinrich Kusch, courtesy of Heinrich Kusch.
humans and
pean ... thals as found in Croatia,
Germany and Russia. caves (Fig. 1). Prehistoric
at almost people mostly used natural several thousand caves in
the same Some have remained virtu- caves as shelters. But the Europe, Asia, Africa and
time period ally unknown to the general Kuschs also found caves that America, including prehis-
public for many years. The were used for thousands of toric sites for underground
in prehis- cults. They compiled a reg-
reasons vary. In Europe and years for cult worship and
tory.” Asia, the reasons for relative ritual purposes, such as the ister of nearly 400 under-
obscurity of ancient under- caves they explored in Papua ground places of interest,
ground networks were in New Guinea, with evidence but what got the world’s
some cases political, due to of burial rites of head- attention was the evidence
oppressive regimes, while in hunting tribes. of a network of underground
other cases they were of a tunnels and megalithic
linguistic nature, or the result While some ancient people structures. Some of these
of a combination of factors. worshipped on the top of date back between 10,400
mountains, others went to 14,000 years ago, criss-
Some countries have yet to down deep into the ground crossing Europe, in a net-
overcome the language bar- to “worship the gods.” Such work stretching from Scot-
rier. As long as Hungarian cults are still alive in some land to Turkey and from
research data are published tribal societies (Heinrich and Northern Europe down to
only in the Hungarian lan- Ingrid Kusch, Sealed Under- the Mediterranean Sea. This
guage, German and Austrian world, 2014). discovery places the Kuschs
research in German, and among those researchers
Greek sites are detailed in Underground tunnels, in
who are revolutionizing the
Greek—and until someone part man-made, at Vorau
decides to go to the trouble region of Styria in Austria—
are one of the great myster- > Cont. on page 18

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Pleistocene underground (cont.)


field of archeology (Heinrich Vertesszollos in Hungary, logical Science 6[3]: 235-53).
Kusch, The Secrets of the Arago and Terra Amata in Much like the finds at
Underground Door to an France, Happisburgh in Brit- Denisova cave in Siberia
Ancient World, 2011). ain, Mauer, Steinheim, and encouraged the naming of
Bilzingsleben in another new category and
Germany, and a species, Homo georgicus,
number of equally the Petralona skull also does
enigmatic sites in not fit into any known cate-
Turkey and Russia. gory and was consequently
named Archanthropus eu-
These controversial ropaeus petraoniensis.
finds have one
thing in common. The discovery of the Petralona
They all seem to skull was deemed dangerous
conflict with the for its potential to change
popular ‘Out of what is commonly believed
Africa’ theory of about human evolution. The
human origins. suppression and cover-up
That theory is which followed read like a
known for belief in real archaeological thriller.
a linear ‘ape-to-
human’ evolution- The Petralona human skull
ary path. The con- was found embedded in the
Fig. 2 Petralona cave in northern Greece. Insert (upper left): troversial finds I wall of the cave. Later re-
Petralona skull. Images, Wikimedia Commons.
mention here, on search also uncovered a
the other hand, are large number of fossils in-
After the discovery of Tur- believed to support a totally cluding proposed “pre-
“Some key’s Gobekli Tepe in 1994, different popular theory human” species, animal hair,
known as the ‘Multiregional’ fossilized wood, as well as
European dating back 12,000 years, it
stone and bone tools. Dr Aris
became obvious that we will theory. In either case, pro-
and Asian Poulianos is an expert an-
have to rewrite the story of posed theo-
caves and prehistory. Gobekli Tepe is so ries, dates, thropologist
under- sophisticated and technologi- and inter- who was
pretations of working at
ground cally advanced it forces a
the Univer-
rethinking of the abilities of what consti-
shelters sity of Mos-
Paleolithic man, predating as tutes differ-
are well it does the officially accepted ent species cow at the
known start of the Neolithic revolu- are across time of the
the board. skull dis-
and docu- tion in Europe by at least six
covery. He
thousand years.
mented. … Petralona returned to
Some have Much like Gobekli Tepe, dis- skull— Greece to
remained covery by the Kuschs calls oldest take up a
for a new chronology of European position at
virtually Stone Age cultures. hominid the Univer-
unknown Fig. 3. Petralona skull in frontal sity of Ath-
Out of Africa or out of mind? The hominid view. Wikimedia Commons.
to the ens and to
cranium lead the
general Some puzzling human fossil- found in 1959 in Petralona
ized remains have been dis- excavation in Petralona cave.
public for cave (Fig. 2 and Fig. 3) in He had already published a
covered in a number of caves. northern Greece is associ-
many Some of these have been book, The Origins of the
ated with the Middle Pleisto-
years.” dated and attributed to Nean- Greeks, with his extensive
cene cave deposits. It pro- research showing that Greek
derthals, such as the finds vides morphological, metrical people did not originate from
from the Krapina and Vindija and radiographical informa-
caves in Croatia, while others the Slavic nations but were
tion on what is commonly indigenous to Greece. Dr
are the subject of ongoing thought of as the
controversy and vitriolic bat- Poulianos’ research into the
‘evolutionary transition’ from Petralona cave and skull led
tles among the experts. These Homo erectus to Homo sapiens him into another contro-
currently disputed objects (C. Stringer et al. 1979.
include those found in the versy. The results showed
The significance of the fossil that “Petralona Man” (as the
Petralona cave in Greece, Gran hominid skull from Petralona,
Dolina and Atapuerca in Spain, Greece. Journal of Archaeo- > Cont. on page 19

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Pleistocene underground (cont.)


skull is known) was 700,000 The whole picture is being types—African (Kobi), Asian
years old, making him the thought of as the Archan- (Beijing), and European
oldest human europeoid thropus evolutionary stage (Petralona)—at almost the
(presenting European traits) ranging from 750,000– same time period in prehis-
ever discovered in Europe. 550,000-years old sediment tory (700,000, 500,000 and
layers within the cave. 750,000 respectively).
His research suggested to
him that Petralona Man Scientific dating trumped by These twists and turns in Dr
“The par- evolved separately in Europe politically-driven theories Poulianos work have driven
ticipants and was not an ancestor that him to continue his research
came out of Africa. In 1983, the Greek govern- in secret, and places him in
in this ment ordered that all exca- today’s growing category of
saga see In 1964, independent Ger- vations at the Petralona site disobedient, “underground
this politi- man researchers, Breitinger must stop and research was archaeologists.”
and Sickenberg, tried to dis- forbidden to everybody, in-
cally-
miss Dr Poulianos’ findings, cluding the original archaeo-
driven arguing that the skull was logical team. The Anthropo- … To be continued
suppres- only 50,000 years old and logical Society of Greece
sion of was actually an ancestor took the case to court, and
that came from Africa. Re- 15 years later Dr Poulianos
knowledge
search published in the US in was again allowed access to
as yet an- 1971 in the popular maga- the cave.
other zine, Archaeology, backed up VESNA TENODI is an archaeologist,
But not for long. artist, and writer based in Syd-
proof of the findings that the skull
was indeed 700,000 years ney, Australia. She received her
fear of the In 2012, Dr Poulianos and Master’s Degree in Archaeology
old, based on an analysis of his team of senior archaeolo-
unknown the cave’s stratigraphy and gists and geologists were
from the University of Zagreb,
Croatia. She also has a diploma
among the sediment in which the again denied further access in Fine Arts from the School of
main- skull was embedded. to the cave and his research Applied Arts in Zagreb. Her De-
data were suppressed. His gree Thesis was focused on the
stream Today, most academics who spirituality of Neolithic man in
findings contradicted con-
scien- have analyzed the Petralona
ventional views regarding
Central Europe as evidenced in
tists.” remains say that the cra- iconography and symbols in
nium of the Archanthropus human evolution, so the prehistoric cave art and pottery.
of Petralona belongs to an Greek government just After migrating to Sydney, she
archaic hominid different changed the dating to a worked for 25 years for the Aus-
more comfortable official tralian Government, and ran her
from both Homo erectus, own business. Today she is an
number of 300,000 years.
classic Neanderthals, and independent researcher and
anatomically modern hu- In September 2012 Nicholas spiritual archaeologist, concen-
mans, but showing charac- Mascie-Taylor, Professor of trating on the origins and mean-
teristics of all those species Biological Anthropology at ing of pre-Aboriginal Australian
and presenting strong Euro- rock art. In the process, she is
the University of Cambridge, developing a theory of the Pre-
pean traits. This skull is ei- sent a letter to the Ministry Aboriginal races which she has
ther Homo sapiens or part of Culture in Greece, on be- called the Rajanes and Abrajanes.
Homo sapiens and, as such, half of the European Anthro- In 2009, Tenodi established the
is in direct conflict with the pological Association, saying DreamRaiser project, with a
Out of Africa theory. Dr Pou- that the correct date of the group of artists who explore ico-
lianos believes it suggests an skull is 700,000 years and nography and ideas contained in
independent evolution of ancient art and mythology.
not 300,000 years. He has
Homo sapiens in Europe. also challenged the govern- Website: www.modrogorje.com
As mainstream interpreta- ment’s suppression of infor-
E-mail: ves@theplanet.net.au
tions go, further excavations mation regarding this impor-
in the Petranola cave with tant discovery. All of Tenodi’s articles published
in Pleistocene Coalition News can
the participation of 46 inter- The participants in this saga be found at the following link:
national researchers have see this politically-driven sup-
provided additional support http://pleistocenecoalition.com/
pression of knowledge as yet
for Dr Poulianos’ position. #vesna_tenodi
another proof of fear of the
The body of finds made ac- unknown among mainstream
curate dating possible and scientists. The most important
also suggest a continuous conclusion of Dr Poulianos'
presence of stone and bone research is the co-existence
tool technology in the cave. of all main anthropological

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