70,000-Year-Old “Modern Humans” Lived in Blombos Cave, South Africa

View looking out of Blombos Cave two hundred miles east of Cape Town at the tip of South Africa where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans come together. Photograph © 2001 by Christopher S. Henshilwood, Ph.D.
View looking out of Blombos Cave two hundred miles east of Cape Town at the tip of South Africa where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans come together. Photograph © 2001 by Christopher S. Henshilwood, Ph.D.
The "X" above Cape Agulhas marks the region of Blombos Cave.
The "X" above Cape Agulhas marks the region of Blombos Cave.
Blombos Cave entrance. Photographs in color and black and white below © 2001 by Christopher Henshilwood, Ph.D.
Blombos Cave entrance. Photographs in color and black and white below © 2001 by Christopher Henshilwood, Ph.D.
Blombos Cave entrance. Photographs in color and black and white below © 2001 by Christopher Henshilwood, Ph.D.
Blombos Cave entrance. Photographs in color and black and white below © 2001 by Christopher Henshilwood, Ph.D.

December 8, 2001 - The New York Times had a headline this week in its Science section entitled, "African Artifacts Suggest an Earlier Modern Human." The subject is an archaeological dig in a cave known as Blombos, 200 miles east of Cape Town. There, a team lead by Dr. Christopher Henshilwood, an archaeologist, has found polished and refined bone tools; beautifully carved stone points, some so thin that they seem more art than functional; and red ochre scratched as if cut to make powder, probably for color in cave drawings and perhaps body decorations. All three physical artifacts represent human ability to manufacture and to use symbols in art and communication, functions beyond lower primates. Yet, the dating of the layer in which all these artifacts were found together is 70,000 years ago. Dr. Henshilwood said, "We're absolutely convinced of the dating of the tools," and The New York Times described the Blombos discoveries as "turning long-held beliefs upside down."

 

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1200 B. C. – What Caused Earthquake Storms, Global Drought and End of Bronze Age?

The art of the Greek Mycenaens prior to the sudden and mysterious end of the Bronze Age in 1200 B. C.
The art of the Greek Mycenaens prior to the sudden and mysterious end of the Bronze Age in 1200 B. C.

December 1, 2001 New Orleans, Louisana - Recently I reported a news update about the underwater megalithic structures discovered a half mile deep off the western tip of Cuba by engineer Paulina Zelitsky and her husband Paul Weinzweig, partners in Advanced Digital Communications of Canada and Havana, experts in deep ocean exploration. Whatever the structures are down so deep, Paulina Zelitsky told me that in recent months she sent a Remotely Operated Vehicle to the site with a light and video camera. From the first videotape test, she described rock structures about the size and shape of Stonehenge, England. Carved in one of the rocks are a symbol of crossed ovals, hieroglyphs and lettering that looks like Greek, but is not Greek. (See: Earthfiles 11/19/01).

 

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Update on Underwater Megalithic Structures near Western Cuba

In May 2001, engineer Paulina Zelitzky, President, Advanced Digital Communications (ADC), Victoria, B. C., Canada and Havana, Cuba, announced the discovery of megalithic structures 2,200 feet down at the western tip of Cuba.
In May 2001, engineer Paulina Zelitzky, President, Advanced Digital Communications (ADC), Victoria, B. C., Canada and Havana, Cuba, announced the discovery of megalithic structures 2,200 feet down at the western tip of Cuba.

November 19, 2001 Havana, Cuba - The story about a possible megalithic site half a mile down off the western tip of Cuba first broke this past May when a Reuters News Service reporter interviewed the deep ocean engineer who first reported unusual sidescan sonar of the discovery. Her name is Paulina Zelitsky. Ms. Zelitsky was born in Poland, studied engineering in the Soviet Union, was assigned to work on a secret submarine base in Cuba during the Cold War, and eventually defected to Canada. There she met her current husband, businessman Paul Weinzweig. Now the couple own and operate a company called Advanced Digital Communications, or ADC, with offices in both Victoria, British Columbia, and Havana, Cuba. Their specialty is deep ocean exploration. ADC made news in November 2000 when Paulina Zelitsky found the wreckage of the famous U.S.S. Maine that blew up and sank in 1898. It was three miles off the Havana coast and two-thirds of a mile down. Her team videotaped the battleship which matched old photographs.

 

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Scientists Say Mysterious Lights in Hessdalen, Norway Are Thermal Plasmas of Unknown Origin

“We saw that those lights were changing shapes suddenly from very big to very small and the phenomenon was there standing still.
But the temperature was just constant because we measured the temperature in both phases. So, there must be some kind of self-heating mechanism that keeps the temperature constant. This is highly anomalous.”

- Massimo Teodorani, Ph.D., Astrophysicist

Observation point is Aspaskjolen in the valley of Hessdalen, Norway, on August 18, 2001 looking southeast. The exposures are about 30 seconds for each of the first three photo frames (upper left). The remaining three photos (upper right) were taken an hour later at the same exposure rate. Reflex camera was Yashica 107 Multiprogram; film 200 ASA. Photograph and processing by M. Teodorani.
Observation point is Aspaskjolen in the valley of Hessdalen, Norway, on August 18, 2001 looking southeast. The exposures are about 30 seconds for each of the first three photo frames (upper left). The remaining three photos (upper right) were taken an hour later at the same exposure rate. Reflex camera was Yashica 107 Multiprogram; film 200 ASA. Photograph and processing by M. Teodorani.
Red arrow points at Hessdalen in northeastern Norway.
Red arrow points at Hessdalen in northeastern Norway.


November 17, 2001  Hessdalen, Norway - Over the past decade, many eyewitnesses in the valley of Hessdalen in northeastern Norway have reported flickering, pulsing, lights that change shape. Norwegian engineers in 1984, lead by Prof. Erling Strand of Project Hessdalen, demonstrated that the light phenomenon is indeed measurable. Since 1998, the science team has taken automatic video frames of the lights in real time. But the research started to assume even more physical relevance in August 2000 and August 2001 when Italian astrophysicists joined the Norwegian engineers in a joint study with radio spectrum analyzers, photographs, videotape and spectroscopes. The results can be broken down into two groups: 95% are thermal plasmas and 5% are unidentified solid objects. The plasmas emit long wave radio frequencies and strangely, their temperatures do not vary with change in size or brightness.

 

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The Orion Constellation and the Pyramids of Giza

Time lapse photograph of the Orion constellation showing the three evenly spaced bright spots on a slant that make up what the Greek's thought was a belt from which "hung" the great hunter's sword. Egyptians considered this constellation and the nearby bright star, Sirius, to be the home of the gods that came to earth and created life and humankind. Each Egytian king wanted to return his soul to Orion and Sirius after death.The far left object of Orion's belt is the Horsehead Nebula, also known as Alnitak (Zeta Orionis). The middle belt object is the star, Alnilam, and the top of the belt is the star, Mintaka.
Time lapse photograph of the Orion constellation showing the three evenly spaced bright spots on a slant that make up what the Greek's thought was a belt from which "hung" the great hunter's sword. Egyptians considered this constellation and the nearby bright star, Sirius, to be the home of the gods that came to earth and created life and humankind. Each Egytian king wanted to return his soul to Orion and Sirius after death.The far left object of Orion's belt is the Horsehead Nebula, also known as Alnitak (Zeta Orionis). The middle belt object is the star, Alnilam, and the top of the belt is the star, Mintaka.


 A Graphic Overview of the Orion Constellation and Star Sirius
A Graphic Overview of the Orion Constellation and Star Sirius

November 10, 2001  Sedona, Arizona - French-born Robert Bauval, construction engineer and author, worked from 1974-1985 as a project manager and strategic engineer on construction projects in Saudi Arabia. He spoke this past weekend at the Earth Mysteries Conference in Sedona about the power of Egyptian talismans, physical objects that through magic and rituals were thought to bring the power of stars and gods into them; and his theory that the pyramids of Giza have the same alignment as the stars in the belt of Orion. He wrote a book about it with Adrian Gilbert in 1995 entitled, The Orion Mystery, Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids.

 

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Astronomy News

Comet approaches the sun on October 22, 2001. Image by Solar and Heliospheric Observatory courtesy SOHO/NASA.
Comet approaches the sun on October 22, 2001. Image by Solar and Heliospheric Observatory courtesy SOHO/NASA.

November 1, 2001 - As a comet approached the sun on October 22, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) was monitoring two coronal mass ejections from the sun headed for Earth. Solar radiation heated the comet's ice and rocks causing an outgassing of water and dust. The water molecules broke down in the sun's ultraviolet light into oxygen and hydrogen atoms. The hydrogen atoms interacted with the sun's coronal plasma and glowed brightly. The dark circle in upper left corner is the sun masked by an instrument that blots out sunlight. The white circle within the disk shows the size and position of the actual sun.

 

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12,000-Year-Old Human Hair DNA Has No Match With Modern Humans

Woodburn, Oregon Ice Age archaeological site where 10,000 to 12,000-year-old unidentified human hair was found in 1999.
Woodburn, Oregon Ice Age archaeological site where 10,000 to 12,000-year-old unidentified human hair was found in 1999.

October 28, 2001 Woodburn, Oregon - Human hair dating back to the last Ice Age ten to twelve thousand years ago was discovered in 1999 at an archaeological dig in Woodburn, Oregon between Salem and Portland. The Ice Age site is filled with the bones of elephants, sloths, condors and a bird with a 14-foot wingspan. The unidentified human hairs were found perfectly preserved a few feet underground and had enough follicles for DNA analysis. This week I talked with geology professor emeritus, William Orr, at the University of Oregon, about DNA efforts to match the Ice Age hair to any living hominoid species on earth today.

 

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Another Orange Triangle Near Red Deer, Alberta, Canada

Red Deer and Lacombe are about 100 miles south of Edmonton, Alberta, a larger city which has also had several crop formations in its fields since the late 1990s.
Red Deer and Lacombe are about 100 miles south of Edmonton, Alberta, a larger city which has also had several crop formations in its fields since the late 1990s.


October 27, 2001 Red Deer, Alberta, Canada - Yesterday morning I received a phone call from one of the nurse's aides who works at the Lacombe Nursing Home near Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. A month ago, I reported about the large 422-foot-diameter hexagram that appeared in a Red Deer wheat field on September 2.

 

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A Scientific Report About Three British Crop Formations: Milk Hill and Chilbolton “Face” and “Code”

October 27, 2001  Grass Lake, Michigan - Two weeks before the September 2, 2001 huge hexagram appeared in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, employees at the Chilbolton Observatory in Hampshire, England saw the strange binary code formation in the wheat field next to their radio telescope on August 20th. At the time, I interviewed British researcher, Paul Vigay, who compared the Chilbolton code to the 1974 Arecibo, Puerto Rico radio telescope transmission created by Cornell University astronomers to send a message about humans and the earth into space.
See: Earthfiles August 25, 2001.

 

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More Anthrax Cases and Deaths

Searches for anthrax spores in New Jersey, New York and Washington, D. C. increase as two postal workers die from inhalation anthrax and more postal workers are confirmed to have anthrax disease and more spore traces are found in the White House Brentwood mail site and Hamilton, New Jersey mail-processing center near Trenton.
Searches for anthrax spores in New Jersey, New York and Washington, D. C. increase as two postal workers die from inhalation anthrax and more postal workers are confirmed to have anthrax disease and more spore traces are found in the White House Brentwood mail site and Hamilton, New Jersey mail-processing center near Trenton.

October 24, 2001  Washington, D. C. - Officials have confirmed that two postal workers who worked in the Brentwood postal facility that processes mail for Capitol Hill, including contaminated mail from the Trenton, N. J. Processing and Distribution Center, have died from inhalation anthrax. The number of people who have died from anthrax since September 11 is now three. Further, officials announce that another Brentwood postal worker has inhalation anthrax and symptoms in nine other workers are under medical watch. A 56-year-old New Jersey female mail handler at the Hamilton, New Jersey mail center near Trenton is now hospitalized with inhalation anthrax. Overall, thirteen people have been diagnosed with anthrax, five inhalation and seven with skin infection.

 

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