26/05/2019
Yowie Expedition Upper Clarence River New South Wales 8 to 10 March 2019. Part 3, background Information:
Yugambeh Aboriginal man Shaun Davies, language researcher at the Yugambeh Museum, stated in an article in the Gold Coast Bulletin newspaper, 9 February 2019, by journalist Kirstin Payne, that the name for the huge relict hominid in north-eastern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland is Bunyun, a tall muscular creature that inhabits the rocky areas of the Great Dividing Range and other associated mountains, such as Springbrook and Tamborine Mountain. Shaun Davies also states that a smaller species of relict hominid was also well known to Aboriginal people and was known as Gujarang, the word meaning “cousin”. Shaun Davies also states that they were also known as Janjarri, the word meaning “hairy people” and that this species stood 90 to 150 cm tall and particularly inhabited rainforest and dense vegetation at lower altitudes. The article lists thirty-three published sightings of the Yowie encountered on the Gold Coast between 1977 and 2018, recorded by the Gold Coast Bulletin and listed in Dean Harrison’s Australian Yowie Research data base.
In the New York Times, 13 December 1996, an article entitled ‘3 Human Species Coexisted Eons Ago, New Data Suggests’ written by John Noble Wilford states “Scientists have found stunning new data showing that a third human species apparently coexisted on earth with two others as recently as 30,000 years ago. In research that could redraw the human family tree and is certain to be controversial, the scientists re-examined two major fossil sites along the Solo River in Java and found that an early human relative, Homo erectus, appeared to have lived there until about 27,000 to 53,000 years ago. Writing in the journal Science, the scientists said the new dates were ''surprisingly young and, if proven correct, imply that H. erectus persisted much longer in Southeast Asia than elsewhere in the world.'' If the dates are right, as Dr. Swisher's team noted at the conclusion of its report, '‘The temporal and spatial overlap between H. erectus and H. sapiens in Southeast Asia is reminiscent of the overlap of Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) and anatomically modern humans in Europe.'' (http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/13/us/3-human-species-coexisted-eons-ago-new-data-suggest.html?emc=eta1 retrieved 11/05/2017).
Archaeological and fossil evidence on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores proves that 900,000 years ago Homo erectus crossed the Wallace, Weber and Lydekker Lines of deep marine channels that divide the south-east Asian animals from the Australian animals. Consequently, it is possible that the Yowie represents a surviving population of Homo erectus that reached the Australian continent and has continued to adapt to current environmental conditions and has evolved into the extremely large and powerful hominid that eyewitnesses continue to report encounters with.
The discovery of fossil skeletons of the one metre tall Hobbit (Homo floresiensis) in a cave in Flores, that were originally believed to be only 13,000 years old, also proved that relict hominids had entered the Australian biological region. Originally believed to have been a miniature species of Homo erectus, that had lived for so long in the Australian biological region that, like the pygmy Stegadont elephant it co-existed with, it had evolved into a tiny species. Recent research has found that it more closely resembled a miniature species of an extremely ancient hominid, Homo habilis.
This further proves that relict hominids have long survived in the Australian biological region and it is therefore possible that the Janjarri represents a surviving population of Hobbit (Homo floresiensis) that reached the Australian continent and has continued to adapt to current environmental conditions and has evolved into a miniature hominid that eyewitnesses continue to report encounters with.
Consequently we have scientifically recognised evidence that two species of hominid existed in the Australian biological region and the Aboriginal people recognised two species of hominid that co-existed with them, identified by the names of Bunyun and Janjarri in south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales. The only evidence that they survive to the present are the anecdotal reports of encounters, the finding of footprints and hand prints, audio recordings of unidentifiable animal vocalisations and photographs. Respected Yowie researcher Ray Doherty photographed the face of a male relict hominid perched in a tree and a life-sized sculpture of the Yowie's head was created by Mr Buck Buckingham and exhibited for the first time at the Nana Glen Yowie Town Hall seminar and published on The Australian Yowie Project site in 2018 as depicted in the picture with this post.
