Starchild Skull, Hominoids & Crystal Skulls

Starchild Skull, Hominoids & Crystal Skulls

Researcher Lloyd Pye shared the latest news about DNA and the Starchild Skull, and also spoke about his studies of hominoids and the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull. The 900-year-old Starchild Skull, found buried in Mexico, will receive expanded DNA testing, funded by the makers of a British television documentary, Pye announced (the program is set to air in the fall of 2009). He believes this testing could establish what alien DNA looks like.

On a recent trip to Australia, Pye had the chance to examine the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull, which he found to have unique attributes. It was cut against the axis of the crystal itself, and such cuts couldn't have been done with hand tools, he commented. Also, the jawbone is completely separate from the skull, but both pieces came from the same lump of quartz, and the skull's teeth fit together in a precisely human fashion.

In regards to his research into hominoids (indigenous primates distinct from humans), Pye cited the work of Dr. Aaron Filler who identified a fossil vertebrae as being that of an upright walking primate dating as far back as 21.5 million years ago. Creatures such as Bigfoot may have descended from Miocene Apes, who lived 12-13 million years ago, he added.

Biography:

Lloyd Pye joined the U.S. Army and became an agent for military intelligence. During this time, he began an independent study of human evolution. His studies led him to conclude humans could not possibly have evolved on Earth according to the Darwinian paradigm. By age 40, he could illustrate his belief by comparing skeletons in the so-called "pre-human" fossil record with those reported to belong to the world's four basic types of hominoids. Lloyd is probably best known as the caretaker of the famous Starchild skull.

Wikipedia
The Starchild skull is an abnormal human skull allegedly found in Mexico that is claimed to be the product of extraterrestrial-human breeding or genetic manipulation. Tests conducted utilizing mtDNA recovered from the skull have established it as human. Experts believe it to be the skull of a child who died as a result of known genetic or congenital abnormalities, such as congenital hydrocephalus.

Paranormal researcher Lloyd Pye, the owner of the skull, says he obtained the skull from Ray and Melanie Young of El Paso, Texas, in February 1999. According to Pye, the skull was found around 1930 in a mine tunnel about 100 miles (160 km) southwest of Chihuahua, Mexico, buried alongside a normal human skeleton that was exposed and lying supine on the surface of the tunnel.

DNA testing

DNA testing in 1999 at BOLD (Bureau of Legal Dentistry), a forensic DNA lab in Vancouver, British Columbia found standard X and Y chromosomes in two samples taken from the skull, "conclusive evidence that the child was not only human (and male), but both of his parents must have been human as well, for each must have contributed one of the human sex chromosomes."

Further DNA testing in 2003 at Trace Genetics, which specializes in extracting DNA from ancient samples, isolated mitochondrial DNA from both recovered skulls. The child belongs to haplogroup C. Since mitochondrial DNA is inherited exclusively from the mother, it makes it possible to trace the offspring's maternal lineage. The DNA test therefore confirmed that the child's mother was a Haplogroup C human female. However, the adult female found with the child belonged to haplogroup A. Both haplotypes are characteristic Native American haplogroups, but the different haplogroup for each skull indicates that the adult female was not the child's mother.

Exploring Machu Picchu 'Lost City of the Inca's'

Author Mark Adams talked about his explorations at Machu Picchu. Known as the 'Lost City of the Incas,' the site is deep in the Andes Mountains of Peru. It's thought that a group of Inca nobles moved to the remote mountaintop location to escape Spanish conquerors, he noted. Adams described some of the unique buildings on the site, and his startling experience of being there during a June solstice, when beams of light shot into the Sun Temple, forming a perfect rectangle of light.

Biography:

Author Mark Adams has been fascinated with lost cities and sacred ruins since he saw "Raiders of the Lost Ark" at age 12. Mark has explored and gathered information as part of his life's work. He has written for publications ranging from National Geographic Adventure to GQ to Rolling Stone, and is currently researching the lost city of Atlantis.

Wikipedia
Machu Picchu (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmatʃu ˈpiktʃu], Quechua: Machu Picchu [ˈmɑtʃu ˈpixtʃu], "Old Peak") is a pre-Columbian 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres (7,970 ft) above sea level. Machu Picchu is located in the Cusco Region of Peru, South America. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Cusco and through which the Urubamba River flows. Most archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (1438--1472). Often referred to as the "City of the Incas", it is perhaps the most familiar icon of the Inca World.

The Incas started building the "estate" around 1400, but abandoned it as an official site for the Inca rulers a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Since then, Machu Picchu has become an important tourist attraction. Most of the outlying buildings have been reconstructed in order to give tourists a better idea of what the structures originally
looked like. By 1976, thirty percent of Machu Picchu had been restored. The restoration work continues to this day.

Since the site was never known to the Spanish during their conquest, it is highly significant as a relatively intact cultural site. Machu Picchu was declared a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. In 2007, Machu Picchu was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in a worldwide Internet poll.

Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls. Its three primary structures are the Intihuatana (Hitching post of the Sun), the Temple of the Sun, and the Room of the Three Windows. These are located in what is known by archaeologists as the Sacred District of Machu Picchu. In September 2007, Peru and Yale University almost reached an agreement regarding the return of artifacts which Yale has held since Hiram Bingham removed them from Machu Picchu in the early 20th
century. In November 2010, a Yale University representative agreed to return the artifacts to a Peruvian university

Barrick Gold Laying Off 30% of Corporate Staff Due To Slumping Gold Prices

Barrick Gold is cutting about 100 jobs to "streamline" their operations. Is this due to how low gold prices are resulting in mining companies struggling to turn a profit?

The cuts are a small portion of the 25,000 employees that Barrick has worldwide but represent its ongoing efforts to streamline during a period of falling gold prices and company-specific challenges.

Most of the corporate jobs are at Barrick's head office in Toronto, but some are at its regional offices.