Up Over from Downunder

<p>Dr Shane Woods a young archaeologist is working on his first independent dig in Central Australiawhen he finds among the remains of an ancient camp-fire a large bone upon which is engraved an unusual ritual scene of two figures standing arms outstretched completely surrounded by a serpent in the shape of a sun-disk. Could this be evidence of a pre-historic belief system? Was this the earliest evidence of the Dreaminga time before time itselfwhen the divine Sky Spirits had created the earth and mankind?</p> <p>Next he discovers what he considers to be tangible evidence of aboriginal occupationlater dated over 500000 years. This leads him to challenge the traditional Out of Africa hypothesiswith his own controversial viewpoint that modern man's origins are from the Australian Aborigineswho were a distinctly different species of Homo Sapiensthat had migrated along Sacred Path's during the Pleistocene periodcoming Out of Australia across land bridges which had connected the supercontinent of Sahuland consisting of TasmaniaAustraliaNew Guinea and the thousands of islands that are now part of the Indonesian and Philippine island chains.</p> <p>The enormity of his findsmake him realize that he needs a prestigious senior person to help him to confi rm the authenticity of his discoveriesso he calls upon his old friend Dick Goldman a Professor of Archaeology from UCLA. It is with his arrival to the Northern Territorythat this adventure into man's deepest pastbegins its most unusual journey.</p> <p>This book traces the twists and turns of this journeythe near arrest of the archaeologists by the CIA and US militaryfor tresspassing on US controlled land in the heart of Aboriginal Australia and the dismissal these highly controversial explanations and radical new views on the origins of modern man.</p>