A Protohuman Counterpart for the Face?
See: http://www.mactonnies.com/cydonia.html (page 39)
In "The Monuments of Mars," researcher Richard
Hoagland suggests that the Face/City complex on Mars
is half a million years old, placing it concurrent to
the emergence of homo erectus on Earth. This
correspondence begs the question: Is there a link
between possible ET artifacts on Mars and early human
ancestors? The answer is a tentative and purely
hypothetical "yes."
Hoagland has noted repeatedly that one side of the
Face in Cydonia appears to represent a terrestrial
hominid -- not a contemporary human. Study of the
Face's relatively well-preserved western side, which
features an anatomically correct "eye," protruding
"brow" and lip-like features around what appears to be
a parted mouth, reveals a strong resemblence to
reconstructions of homo erectus.
Whether or not the Face's seeming resemblence to homo
erectus is a reliable means of dating the Face's
construction (if it was in fact built) is unknown.
Hoagland's book offers the possibility that the
"Martians" -- whoever they were -- may have been
somehow instrumental in humanity's evolution (a la the
revisionist archaeology of scholar Zechariah Sitchin),
in which case the Face may be a literal "monument" to
a feat of genetic engineering.
Anthropologists are quick to dismiss the possibility
as pseudoscience. But the anthropological community is
also among the first to admit how tangled and largely
unrealized humanity's past really is. Contrary to some
Internet commentators, genetic intervention (by ETs or
humans) does not overrule Darwinian evolution. Rather,
it compliments mainstream evolutionary thought; as
Richard Grossinger writes in the preface to Hoagland's
book, genetic engineering can be viewed as an
extremely focused form of natural selection.
Perhaps study of the human genome will result in
unexpected finds. If evidence of selective "tweaking"
is discovered, the specter of intelligent intervention
will become a very real prospect. And if such tweaking
can be traced to ~500,000 before present, then the
Martian connection proposed above may deserve serious
attention.
What would a Martian evolutionary link tell us about
ourselves? Likely many things delivered in one
paradigm-whopping package. Our genetic (if not
historical) legacy might be vastly different than
presented in orthodox models. Similarly, the Face's
"alien" builders might not be nearly as foreign as
typically conjectured. The Martians may literally be
us, the Face functioning as a mute reminder of our
overlooked trans-planetary heritage.
The Face's eerie similarity to our own primate
ancestors argues that the presence of archaeologists
and biologists is vital for any effort to seriously
examine Mars for evidence of prior occupation.
