It doesn’t look like a boomerang to me, looks more like a straight stick of some kind and the form is human body with a bird head.
It’s almost Egyptian in styling…
where is Maree?
I’d like to look it up on various maps services.
The figure is 4.2 km tall.
A woomera?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marree,_South_Australia
Its his hair tied behind his head…
party_pants said:
where is Maree?I’d like to look it up on various maps services.
you can find it on google earth
stumpy_seahorse said:
party_pants said:
where is Maree?I’d like to look it up on various maps services.
you can find it on google earth
that’s what I intend to do, in the next hour or so.
furious said:
- and the form is human body with a bird head.
Its his hair tied behind his head…
Are you sure?
wait…. what!?
lol
Aquila said:
The figure is facing left.
ha! Marree is at the junction of the Oodnadatta track and the Birdsville track
his tackle is rather indistinct.
Things I just read said it’s pretty hard to see on Google earth now. Eroded away. It’s some years since it was done and the dust moves.
furious said:
- Are you sure?
Ah yes, you’re correct, I just read this
There was initially some question as to whether the figure is holding a throwing stick or a boomerang, but these issues seem to have been resolved following discovery of the plaque and the origin of the plaque quote and likely source photographs of similar nude hunters. The hand which is not throwing has the correct posture in the normal Aboriginal technique for throwing. The initiation scars placed on the chest have also been said to have been placed perfectly. The figure appears to be an amalgam of the body of a man photographed in the distinctive throwing stance and the head of another man wearing a headband and chignon.
buffy said:
Things I just read said it’s pretty hard to see on Google earth now. Eroded away. It’s some years since it was done and the dust moves.
yeah i saw it at the end of 1998, pretty impressive work
Aquila said:
ha! Marree is at the junction of the Oodnadatta track and the Birdsville track
have a look around where borefield road meets the oodnadatta track from memory, it’s not far from there
Any further idwas where – north, south, est or west of the township of Maree, distance in km
party_pants said:
Any further idwas where – north, south, est or west of the township of Maree, distance in km
29.5300° S, 137.4655° E is supposedly on top of his head. I can’t see anything there.
Zims need 7 off the last over. 2 wickets in hand.
sibeen said:
Zims need 7 off the last over. 2 wickets in hand.
Yeah, yeah…shaddup!
party_pants said:
Any further idwas where – north, south, est or west of the township of Maree, distance in km
probably 50km west.we went leigh creek-marree, turned off oodnadatta track, went bush and got there, went further bush and got to the junction with borefield and went down to olympic dam
speedy you can see the plough marks. the lat lon you gave look like the chest striations.
Speedy said:
party_pants said:
Any further idwas where – north, south, est or west of the township of Maree, distance in km
29.5300° S, 137.4655° E is supposedly on top of his head. I can’t see anything there.
Can see it on Bing Maps using that latitude and longitude.
JudgeMental said:
speedy you can see the plough marks. the lat lon you gave look like the chest striations.
I just slid the Google Earth time slider thingy back to 2007 and it is quite clear.
Speedy said:
JudgeMental said:
speedy you can see the plough marks. the lat lon you gave look like the chest striations.
I just slid the Google Earth time slider thingy back to 2007 and it is quite clear.
Those GPS co-ordinates point at his chest.
buffy said:
Things I just read said it’s pretty hard to see on Google earth now. Eroded away. It’s some years since it was done and the dust moves.
Obviously a modern fake then.
I thought that was well established…
I found a lost city of scantily clad women on google maps once
furious said:
- Obviously a modern fake then.
I thought that was well established…
I’m a latecomer to this sage. I only heard about it this afternoon.
they’ll find a salt pyramid one day
I like to think that I am wise but I’m not that wise…
what is he pointing at, if you draw a line from his pointing does it lead anywhere significant?
CrazyNeutrino said:
what is he pointing at, if you draw a line from his pointing does it lead anywhere significant?
At a flock of budgies that flew past on the day.
Anyone see anything about what it’s made from? My first guess would be from a line of stones. In the Nazca lines, stones were removed to expose the white soil beneath, Maree Man is a dark line so it could be that darker stones were trucked in from elsewhere.
mollwollfumble said:
Anyone see anything about what it’s made from? My first guess would be from a line of stones. In the Nazca lines, stones were removed to expose the white soil beneath, Maree Man is a dark line so it could be that darker stones were trucked in from elsewhere.
it’s ploughed in the ground, about 30m wide, about a foot deep on each line
Google Maps link:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-29.5300738,137.4608163,259m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-US
Carmen_Sandiego said:
Google Maps link:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-29.5300738,137.4608163,259m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-US
That is the underside of his westward-facing arm, BTW.
Carmen_Sandiego said:
Carmen_Sandiego said:Google Maps link:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-29.5300738,137.4608163,259m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-US
That is the underside of his westward-facing arm, BTW.
Thanks for the link CS. I was unable to find it myself, now I know why.
stumpy_seahorse said:
mollwollfumble said:
Anyone see anything about what it’s made from? My first guess would be from a line of stones. In the Nazca lines, stones were removed to expose the white soil beneath, Maree Man is a dark line so it could be that darker stones were trucked in from elsewhere.
it’s ploughed in the ground, about 30m wide, about a foot deep on each line
Thanks for that, so it’s essentially a bulldozer-built track.
mollwollfumble said:
stumpy_seahorse said:
mollwollfumble said:
Anyone see anything about what it’s made from? My first guess would be from a line of stones. In the Nazca lines, stones were removed to expose the white soil beneath, Maree Man is a dark line so it could be that darker stones were trucked in from elsewhere.
it’s ploughed in the ground, about 30m wide, about a foot deep on each line
Thanks for that, so it’s essentially a bulldozer-built track.
I did ask what plough but got no answer because well nobody knows but what else looks like a plough but makes deeper ruts? It is a bulldozer towing rippers.
mollwollfumble said:
Yes, supposedly.
stumpy_seahorse said:
mollwollfumble said:
Anyone see anything about what it’s made from? My first guess would be from a line of stones. In the Nazca lines, stones were removed to expose the white soil beneath, Maree Man is a dark line so it could be that darker stones were trucked in from elsewhere.
it’s ploughed in the ground, about 30m wide, about a foot deep on each line
Thanks for that, so it’s essentially a bulldozer-built track.