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Oldest engravings to date discovered on 500,000-year-old shells


Eridanus

the River




Homo erectus living in Java, Indonesia, half a million years ago used freshwater shellfish for the production of tools and what appears to be art. These newly discovered engravings, described in Nature this week, are the oldest ever found. We used to think that geometric engravings were a sure sign of modern cognitive abilities, and experts have long debated over the origins of these behaviors. "Until this discovery, it was assumed that comparable engravings were only made by modern humans - Homo sapiens - in Africa, starting about 100,000 years ago," Josephine Joordens of Leiden University says in a news release. Not so, Asian Homo erectus appears to be fully capable of this "modern" behavior as well.  Analyzing hundreds of samples collected in the 1890s from the main bone layer (called Hauptknochenschicht) of the Trinil site in Java, Joordens, a large international team found evidence for the modification of the shells of a mollusk called Pseudodon.  Dec 3. http://bit.ly/1AOcI5P



Trinil is a palaeoanthropological site on the banks of the Bengawan Solo River (6s47; 112e33) in Ngawi Regency, East Java Province, Indonesia. Solo River (alternatively, Bengawan Solo River, with Bengawan being an Old Javanese word for river) is the longest river in the Indonesian island of Java, it is approximately 600 km in length.






This news should serve as an example of how eclipses that are over and long gone, continue to affect events in our lives. Shown here is the chart for the last solar eclipse of April 29, 2014 at the Trinil site . The eclipse [9ta]  is conjunct the star Azha, eta Eridanus [9ta]. Eridanus was an ancient celestial river. As a symbol, a river relates to the creative power of nature and time and everything transitory: the flux of the world and the irreversible passage of time.  Unlike earthly rivers, Eridanus is depicted flowing upstream symbolizing a return to the past. The discovery  of an ancient artifact is, therefore, quite appropriate under stars of Eridanus so that among events in this area Diana Rosenberg lists “discoveries of pre-historic art, artifacts and fossils”. What is also interesting is that discoveries have taken place on the banks of the Bengawan Solo River – an earthly manifestation of the celestial river Eridanus!






As we have seen so often in previous posts, the essence of eclipses come into into manifestation when the progressed angles touch important configurations. Shown here is the eclipse chart progressed to December 3, the date of the news. Notice the alignment of the angles to the Grand Cross. Also notice that the eclipse throws a quincunx aspect to Mars on the descendant. 

Finally, let us remember that the Uranus-Pluto square (brought to the angles) is connected with discoveries or the bringing to light (Uranus) all that is hidden (Pluto). As if confirming our thesis that this square has played an important part in the discovery, we find a chart drawn for the exact time of the sixth Uranus-Pluto square that took place on December 15, has it prominently placed on the angles.



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