Ancient Aliens In Australia: Pleiadian Origins of Humanity

[BruceF]

I am one of the co-authors of this book and would love to engage in conversations about the contents should anyone be interested to do so with me.

The book homepage is http://earth4all.net/ancient-aliens-...humanity-book/ but the basic blurb is as follows:

One of the biggest questions on Earth today is just how did Homo sapiens sapiens arise as the dominant hominid species on Earth? The current consensus view of this issue is that ancient Earth was essentially a `planet of the apes´ upon which several primates and early hominids battled evolutionary forces to gain the best foothold and assure a future as the lords of the world. Further it is generally believed that somehow one early species of hominid, an archaic form of Homo sapiens, finally made the genetic leap to Homo sapiens sapiens (modern humans) around 200,000 years ago somewhere in Africa. Nice theory, but is any of that true?

In this book we take the consensus theory of human origins to task, showing almost conclusively that it is wrong on almost every point. The data is in and we are at last able to take you on a mind blowing journey out of the consensus delusion into a new cosmic understanding of human origins. The first half of this book introduces the incredible scientific investigation that has been headed up by two bold ancient origins researches based in Australia, Steven Strong and his son Evan Strong of ForgottenOrigin.com. They are able to show that it is now beyond reasonable doubt that a population of modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) has been present in Australia for at least 400,000 years, most likely closer to one million years. This is no guesswork, the DNA evidence, the archaeology and the aural history of the resident population all give the same conclusion, modern humans were already in Australia long before anyone may have struggled their way out of Africa!

Into the Kariong underworld
Into the Kariong underworld
As revolutionary as the destruction of the out-of Africa theory is, if that were the whole story the book would need a different title. The Original Australian people claim that not only are they the originators of modern humans on Earth but that they are the children of beings from the stars. the first claim is now shown to be true, so what of the second? Right out in the middle of nowhere a couple of hours West from Sydney an extensive site has been found at Kariong which seems to strongly support the aural history of extra-terrestrials visiting earth in remote antiquity, remaining on a permanent basis and then engineering modern human beings. Around this site are found unique glyphs that tell a story of star heroes, rocks seemingly melted by extreme heat, caverns tunnelled with advanced engineering skills and strange energies detected on modern measuring devices, much can be seen in a series of videos at our other website. The fingerprints of the `gods´ really seem to be all over the Kariong area. We are able to share with you what has been found so far.

It is not just the solid physical evidence that needs to be shared. There is a whole plethora of supporting information that has come to us by supernormal mechanisms. The second half of the book is where we come in with our largely unique knowledge of Pleiadian history. We share with you the events at an ancient stargate site in Cairo that led, just over two months later, to direct contact with an extra-terrestrial race, the Pleiadian beings that had piloted the ship to Earth one million years previous. We detailed many of the ensuing events in our previous book (see www.2012Rising.com) but now we reveal even more, specifically in regards to the ancient origins of humanity along with the genetic manipulation of human DNA. We are able to explain in detail how the star beings managed to modify an ancient hominid on Earth, we detail how and why they genetically engineered modern human beings in Australia one million years ago. What is more we progress their history (which is also human history) through other ancient cultures such as pre-dynastic Egypt and the ancient Mayan culture.

How is it that we know so much? Long before the events of 2011 and 2012 there had already been connections between us and UFO´s and non-human beings, even an event involving the past life recall of having been on a ship that arrived to Earth on a mission to help the resident population long, long ago. From 2001 until present we have voyaged through a flow of supernormal events and psychic revelation that culminated in our understanding and remembering having been members of the crew of that Pleiadian mission. The two of us came to understand that we were twin-flames, star-seeds and possibly walk-ins, brought back together in this life to give the planet back the lost history of the ancient aliens. The story engraved on rock at Kariong was in fact our own story, we were there and had lived through the events recorded for posterity. It is now time for us to share the full understanding that we have recovered, thanks in part to our star Pleiadian family, of the direct blood relationship between the star heroes and the people of this world. Along the way we examine the wisdom recorded within the Dreamtime lore, the messages shared with us by Pleiadians, the accounts of other crew members that have now consciously recalled being part of the original mission, and reveal a radical finding about human blood which may be the `smoking gun´ evidence of ET genetic manipulation of humanity…

Are you ready to finally reclaim the lost knowledge of your true origins? Are you ready to meet the ancient aliens of Australia?

[thunder24]

Posted by brucef (here)

are you ready to finally reclaim the lost knowledge of your true origins? Are you ready to meet the ancient aliens of australia?

ok... Yes

[avid]

Thank you - it looks extremely interesting, hidden history et al :-)

[BruceF]

Posted by thunder24 (here)

Posted by brucef (here)

are you ready to finally reclaim the lost knowledge of your true origins? Are you ready to meet the ancient aliens of australia?

ok... Yes

A simple and most excellent answer - the book is part of that journey, though I won't say it is the whole journey.

[BruceF]

Posted by avid (here)
Thank you - it looks extremely interesting, hidden history et al :-)

Yes very much a book from the hidden history arena. We have come up with a (hopefully skilful) blend of hard science and metaphysical revelations.

Though the core thesis is of course on the matter of beings from the Pleiades being key players in engineering Homo sapiens sapiens, my own favourite part was my work on the hypothesis that the Pleiadian-human hybrids of Palenque had extremely high levels of endogenous DMT in their blood, hence their blood being considered a sacred offering and a key to other spiritual dimensions of existence. As far as I know such an idea has never before been explored or even contemplated as the explanation for why Mayan Lords (many of whom being such hybrids) were the only ones that had blood considered suitable for rituals.

I suppose I should be more focussed on the core subject matter but that was where I got most excited as it helped explain a great deal of weirdness in my own life.

[avid]

Amazing information - thank you. Another part of the ginormous jigsaw puzzle of history. Don't you just hate it when we have a viable thread anywhere, and it's 'snatched away', but you have free reign here.... More info please :-)

[andrewgreen]

Sounds like a brilliant book, after visiting Uluru it really had an amazing impact on me, how the Aborigines had lived harmoniously with nature for 200'000 thousand years. I've always been interested in the shamanic practices but could find very little on what plants ect the Aborigines used to help them move in dimensions, its said they move worlds with more ease than any race. Maybe your book will shed some light on it for me as to why, can't wait to read it.

[BruceF]

Posted by andrewgreen (here)
Sounds like a brilliant book, after visiting Uluru it really had an amazing impact on me, how the Aborigines had lived harmoniously with nature for 200'000 thousand years. I've always been interested in the shamanic practices but could find very little on what plants ect the Aborigines used to help them move in dimensions, its said they move worlds with more ease than any race. Maybe your book will shed some light on it for me as to why, can't wait to read it.

I would love to visit Uluru, sadly neither myself nor my partner have been (though she is Australian).

The [Ab]Original people of Australia have the proud title of longest running unbroken line of culture and civilisation on Earth, even if we use the general orthodox view of it being around 60,000 years max - though you are of course much closer to the truth at 200,000, we would say 400,000 to 1,000,000.

Until recent years the Australian 'shamans' known as Clever Men and Men of High Degree, have been pretty guarded about sharing their secret traditions. At this time things are changing because they believe their info needs to be released at this moment to enable a safe re-start of global civilisation, a return to the mythical Dreamtime with its Dreaming principles for humanity. I know enough to say there are great overlaps between the practices in Australia and those here in South America. As far as the research suggests, and no living Clever Men have said different, the Australian shamanic tradition does not utilise any plant based entheogenic substances, unlike here in the Latin Americas. I do tackle that in the book, suggesting the Original people do not require these for two major reasons, the first is a higher level of extra-terrestrial genetics due to being the first people modified and then spreading out to interbreed with other Hominids around the globe creating modern Homo sapiens sapiens (all of whom have Pleiadian genetics), and secondly because they live a lifestyle that fully incorporates spiritual thinking and living in harmony with the Earth (well they all did until the English came, now not all of them of course). This closer postition to the star ancestors genetic program also suggests to me they retain a fuller functioning of the Pineal gland mechanism that allows for production of DMT inside the brain. Thus the only entheogen used by the Clever Men / Men of High Degree, is endogenous DMT.

We also discovered that my partners experience with her first contact from Pleiadians, a painful dispersion of her energetic form and being pulled through a barrier to another realm, exactly matched the description of a Clever Man going to see the Star Heroes (ancestor spirits) to received initiation or wisdom material. We only discovered this when our co-authors recognised our account to match those given to them by the elders (they follow elders guidance for all of their work and have been given initiation).

The Original elders say they are Pleiadian, we would say they are mixed race but choose to recognise primarily that strain of their genetics.

[Atlas]

Thanks BruceF, I posted a thread here: projectavalon.net/Ancient-Egyptian-UFOs-in-Australia

Posted by buares (here)
Ancient egyptian glyphs in australian rock show 8 different types of UFOs by Steven Strong :

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3UBJP-dppNI

Steven & Evan Strong website: forgottenorigin.com

[BruceF]

Thanks Buares, I have left a response on your thread. I was actually thinking a thread on this should be started in Archaeology, glad to see you beat me to it!

There have been many updates and new findings since the video you posted, but all of the videos are well worth watching for anyone not familiar with our book subjects or the members of the book team.

[Camilo]

Thanks Bruce, I'll check it out and then be able to comment about it.

[BruceF]

Here is an excerpt from our book that covers some of the strong evidence for a very long standing modern human presence in Australia, essentially rubbishing the consensus view and the accepted Out-Of-Africa theory for human origins.

Chapter 9, page 110 to 111

After listening to their presentations and reading their articles, we were
utterly convinced by the evidence they presented. It was clear to us that they had
found the missing link in human evolution. They had also pieced together the true
history of how Homo sapiens sapiens evolved into being, and it had been with the
help of the same Pleiadians we were being contacted by. The existing consensus
history paradigm only allowed for a small group of African-originating Homo
sapiens sapiens arriving in Australia around 50,000 years ago, but the fact
remained that a number of pieces of actual archaeological evidence fully
overturned this long held `sacred cow´ of the consensus view of archaeologists
and anthropologists. Steven and Evan blew our minds; even by just considering
ten pieces of their evidence, the generally accepted out-of-Africa theory for
humanity’s origins collapses.
1. Evidence of firestick farming 180,000 years ago in the area of the
Great Barrier Reef.
2. A skull cap aged around 135,000 years found at Lake Eyre.
3. Evidence of firestick farming 120,000 years ago near Lake George.
4. Tools of around 110,000 – 175,000 years of age found at the Jinmium
rock shelter.
5. Rock engravings aged between 75,000 – 116,000 years, found at
Davenport.
6. Rock engravings aged between 75,000 – 116,000 years, found at
Jinmium.
7. Rock engravings of 75,000 years age, found at Panaramitee
8. A pebble chopper found in the Snowy Mountains area of 60,000 –
100,000 years in age.
9. Tools found at Rottnest Island dated to 70,000 years.
10. Modern human skeleton of at least 60,000 years age found at Lake
Mungo.
These archaeological findings were enough for us to see that the
consensus academics had it wrong, but the crushing defeat of the consensus view
and the opening to a new radical evolutionary conclusion came with the DNA
data they shared. We were faced with the fact that the founders of the out-of-
Africa theory, Professor Allan Wilson and Professor Rebecca Cann, had later
rescinded that belief due to hard evidence found in Australian Original DNA
testing. The mind-blowing fact that they shared in their incredible work was that
Original mtDNA showed a level of mutation that required at least 400,000 years
of a Homo sapiens sapiens population in Australia, which also easily made Original
people just that: the original Homo sapiens sapiens present on Earth. Incredibly,
the findings from this sampling of Original DNA also left open a startling
possibility: if a wider gathering of samples showed the same high levels of
111
mutation then the 400,000 year timeline would be exceeded! As if this was not
enough, the Original DNA showed two distinct lines of progenitors prior to
Homo sapiens sapiens; one could be assumed as either Homo erectus or
Denisova Hominin, but the other humanoid being involved was left by the
orthodox researchers as a total mystery.
We could see that this data was a crushing defeat for the existing
consensus view, yet there was more. The earliest existing remains of a modern
Homo sapiens sapiens human being were actually found in Australia. Discovered
near to Lake Mungo in New South Wales, almost 400 miles directly west from the
Kariong site, is the so-called Mungo man. Though three extremely ancient bodies
have been found at the site to date, the most interesting is the oldest, known to
science as LM3. Testing of the LM3 remains had given several dates, the oldest
being well over 60,000 years before the present. Adding to the intrigue
surrounding this man´s remains was the fact that the DNA retrieved had an
unexpectedly high number of sequence differences when compared to modern
human DNA. This was not the only anomaly. The remains were those of a gracile
individual that had reached the towering height of 6 feet and 5 inches, both being
features not at all normal for members of the recognised Original Australian racial
group. The burial was also extraordinary; the body had been buried with hands
folded over the groin and red ochre poured over it, the oldest such complex
spiritually-orientated burial known on Earth. It has also been told to me, by our
friend Tim Snell, that numerous other ancient burials exist at Mungo and in the
opinion of local Original people NPWS has avoided any research into them due
to the inconvenience of the data being produced so far.

[Ellisa]

The story of humans in Australia becomes more interesting each year as the significance of DNA testing evidence is recognised. It does seem to back up the dating of human remains at Lake Mungo and elsewhere. The songlines of the aboriginals recount their stories, and contains their history. A lot of this valuable folklore and history has been lost as it was unrecognised by the Europeans as there was no written evidence for them to study. Luckily some of the people themselves have always tried to preserve as much of their culture as they can, and nowadays some of the young people are also taking pride in this task.

We can learn so much from these people who lived in this country successfully for many years. They live in harmony with the land and regard themselves as part of the landscape. They farmed their country in a way not recognised by Europeans, who introduced crops and stock which tore up the delicate native environment, and as a result they often found the place very inhospitable..

Each discovery seems to take the history of the aboriginal presence in Australia back even further than before. It is true though, that often the Aboriginal people themselves are uneasy about digging up their people who are dead, even if the death was centuries ago, and they will sometimes deny permission to test remains etc. Personally I feel that this is their choice and privilege if they prefer to cherish those remains their own way, even though that may hinder scientific discoveries through further scientific and academic research.

[BruceF]

Hi Ellisa,

I see your location is Australia, I hope you can get to some of the locations we discuss in the book.

It is certainly true that the more they look into Original people genetics the more they find these people had to be there further and further back into history. Lake Mungo has many sets of remains that have been either left alone due to cultural sensitivity or due to academic fears of the ages they will find - depending on ones viewpoint and the person asked. Certainly it is true that examining ancient remains requires permissions from elders, and that is not always given. Even if it were would the mainstream accept the dates they found or would they insist the results were an error as they have tried to do with LM3 and other remains (also as with the 250,000 year old objects found at a site in Mexico).

The Dreaming lore contains extremely valuable teachings for this planet, after all it kept these people in a stable way of living for tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of years. What other people can make such a claim for their own teachings on living?

It is a horrible shame that we English did not ask them for their knowledge instead of crushing them and causing so much loss of wisdom!

The recent re-discovery of Australia´s own Stonehenge is going to make some big waves within orthodox academia and could change the closed minded stance taken on Original ancestral knowledge and cosmic understandings - watch this space http://wakeup-world.com/2013/09/16/a...as-stonehenge/ & http://wakeup-world.com/2013/09/30/a...-ancient-site/

It is the translation of engravings from that site that are going to scare some mainstream historians though, take this one example from a longer account written up by a former president of the Australian archaeological society:

“guided by truth, man came to Earth through darkness from light of life that shines far off.”

Lots of folks are not going to like finding such a message on an ancient stone complex!

[ghostrider]

the gods of south america and the gods of egypt are the same , ancient Lyrians , known today as the plejaren federation , a 2.5 billion member federation of civilizations united by spiritual teachings as the guide for life , and living in balance with nature ... they are responsible for the prophets that came to earth over the years , Nokodemjon, Isaiah, Jeremiah , ezekiel , Immanuel , Mohammad , and Beam ...the same spirit in many forms ...they say the universe we live in is 46 trillion years old and earth is 626 billion years old and the human form on earth is 22 million years old ...our history is very different than most realize ...

[BruceF]

Posted by ghostrider (here)
the gods of south america and the gods of egypt are the same , ancient Lyrians , known today as the plejaren federation , a 2.5 billion member federation of civilizations united by spiritual teachings as the guide for life , and living in balance with nature ... they are responsible for the prophets that came to earth over the years , Nokodemjon, Isaiah, Jeremiah , ezekiel , Immanuel , Mohammad , and Beam ...the same spirit in many forms ...they say the universe we live in is 46 trillion years old and earth is 626 billion years old and the human form on earth is 22 million years old ...our history is very different than most realize ...

Hi ghostrider,

You seem extremely sure of what you have stated, I wonder what gives you such certainty on all those points?

I can relate to what you are saying but I would have to disagree, your statements are too limiting and go against existing evidence. There have clearly been many types of extra-terrestrial on Earth, these have all been considered gods by various peoples across the planet, to limit everything to just the one race you speak of does not really add up.

I am aware of the claim that the Pleiadians or Plejarans, have at least one faction that originated in the Lyra system, on a personal note I do not have any direct experience or evidence to support that but I also do not disagree with it being a strong possibility based on the fact several channels seem to agree on that point. I also would struggle to relate some of your mentioned prophets to the Pleiadians. I guess without hearing more from you on why you state all this to be fact I should leave it at that for now. I think in general our information is headed in approximately the same directions...with a few caveats from my side.

[ghostrider]

It has all been printed since 1975 from edward albert meier , he goes by the name Billy , ( BEAM ) ... he is the plejaren contact for earth just as were the prophets like jeremiah, ezekiel, mohammad, isaiah, etc ... 16,000 pages of contact face to face for over 60 years still ongoing today ... a one armed swiss farmer ... the plejaren state their ancestors came here , the sons of heaven, and most humans here have roots that go back to the Lyra constellation , their original home world ... they geo=engineered their world and their sun became unstable, they lost their sun ( the ring nebula , the eye of god) ... coming to mars to establish themselves , then on to earth ... our ancestors worshipped them as gods for what they could do , but they are not, they are just humans with more advanced technology ...they were the gods of south america and egypt ... they give information on everything from the bermuda triangle to atlantis to the building of the pyramids, mermaids, titans, giants , dwarves and even the invention of computers, credit cards, the two Iraq wars, aids , major earthquakes you name it .. the russian troop movements in alaska , the wild fires of california, a tidal wave devistating the west coast etc ... check out the future of mankind web page , the contact notes are there for free ...

[BruceF]

I want to give a quick clarification regarding the term I use here, `Pleiadians´. In my understanding no advanced extra-terrestrial race could have naturally evolved on a star within the Pleiades star cluster, the stars there are too young. I use the term Pleiadians because the beings involved in our book set out on a mission to Earth that travelled from the Pleiades, they were part of an alliance of species that shared a goal of assisting the enslaved hominid races on Earth as it was around one million years ago. The mission involved several races. The race from this collective that we write the most about are tall humanoids (generally 7 - 9 foot) with silver-ish hair and unusual skin that can be compared to the surface of a pearl, if only a pearl was stained very slightly blue-gray in colour. We do not always clarify in the text as to when we are talking about the collective or that singular race, though it is explained that both are covered in the account. There are three major projects led by the Pleiadians that we explore, the first is that of the craft sent to Earth one million years ago that began the splicing of star people DNA for a new race of Homo sapiens sapiens in Australia, the second is the manifestation from higher realms of several Pleaidian beings in ancient Egypt at Abu Ghurab around 15,000 years ago (becoming known first as the Neters and then the Ennead), the third is that of the direct leadership by Pleiadians of at least one Mayan civilisation in ancient Mexico at Palenque during the 7th and 8th century. Thus we do say that some of the gods of ancient Australia, Egypt and Mexico were indeed the same folks, Pleiadians, and that several important figures in history were in fact Pleiadians either entirely, just as hybrids or as starseed souls.

I have been deliberately cautious in going much beyond the remit of our shared intention for this book, there are many other aspects and angles to the back-story. It is also fair to say evidence exists for other Pleiadian projects on Earth in many countries at various historical time, we just do not tackle it all. Had I gone as deep into this as was possible the book risked becoming overly wordy and confusing, certainly much more off-putting to even the most open-minded of potential readers. What we did was use the physical evidence and direct experiences gained by the writers, that would together strongly suggest Pleiadians bio-engineered modern humans in Australia somewhere around one million years ago, and that showed they had been involved with Earth history and social development again much more recently and that they had also been interacting with humanity in modern times. In some places we delve beyond the remit and explore interesting side angles, especially in relation to shamanic and esoteric matters. For example we explore the coincidence of giant serpents being encountered in altered states of consciousness among shamans of both the Americas and Australia, this leading into my suggesting that the production of DMT in the human pineal is in fact a signature of extra-terrestrial bio-engineering in ancient times and that the Pleiadian-human hybrids in charge of Palenque had a naturally very high level of that substance in their blood, hence their blood being considered as a sacred spiritual substance that allowed for communication with the realm of the star gods. We also share details of how we came to encounter the Pleiadians and later had to accept the evidence of our own previous lives as Pleiadians and later as Pleiadian-human hybrids, before incarnating as normal humans (that also have some Pleiadian genetics). We spend time explaining the evidence for that conclusion, one we really did not leap to, or find very helpful to us overall, beyond it explaining why both of us (myself and my partner) had lived lives filled with bizarre and supernatural events from early childhood up to the present and why the Pleiadian of today were involving themselves so directly into our lives (some mind bending experiences).

I suppose the bottom line is we tackle the matter of ancient aliens from both the research material, from the contacts with the aliens and from our having been ancient aliens ourselves, ones that had recovered some moderate degree of our forgotten past life histories. There is no attempt to suggest we are special of course, I am aware that thousands of human beings on Earth are in fact starseeded with souls from extra-terrestrial races, we are just two of those many beings. For some people that aspect of our book may be too much to keep an open mind about, for them I suggest reading just the first half of our book in which the physical evidence of the ancient events is being examined.

[BruceF]

Posted by ghostrider (here)
It has all been printed since 1975 from edward albert meier , he goes by the name Billy , ( BEAM ) ... he is the plejaren contact for earth just as were the prophets like jeremiah, ezekiel, mohammad, isaiah, etc ... 16,000 pages of contact face to face for over 60 years still ongoing today ... a one armed swiss farmer ... the plejaren state their ancestors came here , the sons of heaven, and most humans here have roots that go back to the Lyra constellation , their original home world ... they geo=engineered their world and their sun became unstable, they lost their sun ( the ring nebula , the eye of god) ... coming to mars to establish themselves , then on to earth ... our ancestors worshipped them as gods for what they could do , but they are not, they are just humans with more advanced technology ...they were the gods of south america and egypt ... they give information on everything from the bermuda triangle to atlantis to the building of the pyramids, mermaids, titans, giants , dwarves and even the invention of computers, credit cards, the two Iraq wars, aids , major earthquakes you name it .. the russian troop movements in alaska , the wild fires of california, a tidal wave devistating the west coast etc ... check out the future of mankind web page , the contact notes are there for free ...

I am aware of Billy Meier due to the fact we did a bit of online searching about Pleiadians when the contacts with us began to happen, we watched one documentary type film of his. I am unsure how much of his material is genuine or at least genuinely correct, certainly it seems someone has been contacting him and giving him material. Not everything he says seems to stack up with what we know about this subject area, some of it does, never assume that an ET contact is giving a contactee the 100% accurate truth, they often give what they want humanity to focus on thinking about so as to help direct humanity in some direction deemed beneficial. I am pretty sure billy is being honest, but I am less sure he is being told only facts. You know, all races of beings play games with each other, some out of benevolence and some out of malice, the Pleiadian collective is certainly good beings but they are not arch-angels, they are not above careful and skilful involvement in exo-politics. They do not even give us the full story despite stating that they consider us to still be members of their race - if they had to throw us to the wolves for the interests of the greater good it is most likely they would do so. I would say that Billy has some parts of the story, as do we, but nobody down here has got the full story, and we have to filter what the guys `back home´ want us to pass onwards lest we be used as pawns. I don´t enjoy being anyone´s idiot and do my best to avoid that position. Many ET´s, whether as races of just individual beings, have lots to say to humanity and some of it is utter rubbish. I am quite sure Billy does not have the full accurate version of events, though he is worth listening to. I would suggest exploring work from Barbara Marciniak, Valerie Barrow and Wayne Herschel - also our fellow Avalon member Richard Gabriel touches on aspects of the Pleaidian story in his own book. Again we do not claim to be sharing the whole Pleaidian story ourselves, or that we even know it all.

[Ellisa]

I personally have been very interested in the discoveries associated with the Lake Mungo area since they were first published. I am an ex-History teacher, and i used to teach that 10,000 years ago the Aboriginal people arrived in Australia via a land bridge from Asia, they had no idea of land cultivation and wandered aimlessly around without any idea of land borders. ALL WRONG!!!! --- though many of us still believe this nonsense and base political policy on it. I came to Australia from the UK, but I married an Aussie and our children can trace their heritage in Australia back to the 1790s. This is a really long way by Australian standards, acutually it's as long as Europeans can go, but it is a pathetic attempt by any measure of Aboriginal occupation!

Whether they came from the stars I do not know, but that they have been here a long time is indisputable.

I have not been to Lake Mungo, though I have travelled in the outback, and taught there as well. One of my family went with friends to the area and came home deeply moved by the experience. They were very lucky as one of them is an academic working in anthropology, and very aware of the research etc of the area. It is unfortunate that more is not being done. The latest ideas seem to imply that 60,000 years of aboriginal presence can be accounted for--- and the remains seem to indicate two distinct types of people. It is all very interesting, and so different from the way so many of us here regard history in Australia. Some people say there is no history here before European settlement-- I tell them it may turnout to be the place where human history began and our knowledge of it is extending further and further back all the time.