Ancient Mysteries Researcher
This piece is my critical response to the article Toba Super Eruption: More bang than an apocalyptic ash cloud? By Shaun Smillie The original article appeared on the Daily Maverick, a South African news platform. While a number of articles have recently covered the discovery that the aftermath of the Lake […]
Ancestors of East Asians had Sexual Encounters with Two Distinct Denisovan Populations During Early Migrations Which Populated Asia. Sex always sells in the media; perhaps then it should come as no surprise that the detection of yet another instance of ‘interspecies sex’ has made international headlines this week. Even though […]
A Global Aboriginal Australian Culture? The Proof at Göbekli Tepe (Originally published in New Dawn Magazine, July 2017) By BRUCE FENTON Scientists and independent researchers have publicly speculated on the purpose of the mysterious Göbekli Tepe megalithic complex in southern Turkey. The question that the experts seem unable to […]
On the 5th of September (2017) an article published in The Hindu rekindled debate over a question that has caused controversy in the past, the piece was titled Who were the first settlers of India? This is my response to that article, providing a rather lengthy answer to the question […]
We have all heard stories about mysterious men (and it is nearly always men) that wandered around the world gifting a new culture to those they met. Some stories have it that there was just one man, other stories speak of a small group of wisdom bearers. These people brought […]
Sumerian handbags, Olmec handbags, Maori handbags, Egyptian handbags, Indian handbags and handbags at Gobekli Tepe, in rock art from the Americas and Australia. Members of the archaeological research community have been left scratching their heads. Ask a dozen researchers their thoughts on these mysterious ancient handbags, and you may very […]
In September of 2016 Professor Eske Willerslev, Cambridge University, published a paper in Nature which revealed that his team had detected traces of an unknown human species in the genome of Original Australasian people. Shortly after this incredible claim, a second separate study revealed that there was indeed a missing […]
Despite the discovery of a 49,000-year-old human habitation site in the northern Flinders Ranges, replete with some of the oldest bone tools known on Earth, and the additional recovery of the oldest known bone jewellery worn by modern humans, at a site in the Kimberley region, academics refuse to stop […]
Between 3 – 2 million years ago there lived a range of early human forms. At present, there are as many as a dozen or so named hominin species positioned in this time-frame. New evidence calls into question the existence of almost all of them. Do you know you’re A. […]
Humans are thought to have diverged from primates 7 million years ago. Let’s look at the best candidates for our earliest ancestors. Questions remain as to whether these were early humans or just extinct apes. In the famous 1968 film, Planet of the Apes, we were presented with an alternate […]