Proto Humans On Mars

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.

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