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Over the past centuries, researchers have found bones and articrafts showing that people like ourselves existed on earth millions years ago. But the scientific establishment has suppressed, ignored or forgotten these remarkable facts. Why? Because they contradict dominant views of human origins and antiquity. Evolutionary prejudices, deeply held powerful groups of scientists, have acted as what Michael A.Cremo and Richard L.Thompson call a knowledge filter. And the filtering, intentional or not, has left us with a radically incomplete set of facts for building our ideas about human origins According to Cremo and Thompson, we have come to accept a picture of prehistory that is largely incorrect. This book is a call for a change in today's arbitrarly rigid minset. Deploying an unexpectedly great number of convincing facts, deeply illuminated with critical analysis. Cremo and Thompson challenge us to rethink our understanding of human origins, identity and destiny. In forbidden archeology, we accompany the authors on a fascinating intellectual expedition. We take part in the literary excavation of a vast store of hidden knowledge that adds a new dimension to our understanding of the history of our spieces. The journey of exploration takes us accross five continents to key archeological sites. Some long forgotten, some the centre of ongoing research. Along the way, we encounter many famous and infamous pioneers of prehistoric research, all with secrets to share. "Forbidden archeology" is bound to inspire controversy, challenging as ti does one of the most fundamental components of the modern scientific world view. Meticulously researched and carefully written. The book takes us to a crossroads of knoeledge and invites us to take a courageous first step in a new direction of truth.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48529 in Books
• Published on: 1993-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 914 pages

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Readers interested in scientific reactions to Forbidden Archeology may want to check out my recently released book Forbidden Archeology's Impact, which includes all reviews from scientific publications and my responses.

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Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson

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At last, a clear-eyed look at the evidence
As someone who abandoned archaeology years ago because too many preconceptions were controlling the interpretation of data, I can only say I'm delighted by this book.

Any open-minded person who has ever made a serious study of archaeology can easily see how accepted theory influences the understanding of human history. It is almost like back-engineering, the way archaeologists take evidence and try to fit it to accepted theory, instead of taking the evidence and trying to craft a theory that encompasses it.

This book may be heavy, dry going for the average reader but I definitely appreciated the way the authors not only presented the evidence but also presented all the arguments pro and con, leaving me to decide which were the more persuasive.

Difficult to believe that Homo sapiens sapiens may have existed in the Pleistocene, or even earlier? No more difficult that believing H. sapiens arrived on the scene only 100,000 years ago.

This work may discredit the current time line for evolution of the human race, but it doesn't discredit evolution entirely.

An excellent work!

Interesting and one needs an open mind to enjoy it.
The book is interesting and pinpoints archaeologists and anthropologist institutes which refuses to acknowledge ancient sites and artefacts which suggests humanity is far older than convention claims i.e. sites hundreds of thousands years old found in the Americas. Conventional view or belief is that modern man did not go there until around 12,000 - 10,000 years go. Open mindedness would allow unlimited research which is sadly lacking in archaeology at present.

However, I disagree with the authors' views on other non modern 'more primitive' hominids. They appear to be all lumped together as mere 'animal' whether they are the most primitive austropolocus or the more advanced arhiac homo sapians such as the Neanderthal. Evidence points to the fact that the latter did make tools and they also buried their dead and possibly mourned them. It could be argued that elephants also mourn their dead but it still does not prove their point. Also despite the fact the book is supported by a Hindu society, it states that modern man was the only hunter among the hominids. I thought Hindus believe that originally modern humans were not hunters either and that hunting by modern humans is a much more recent pastime. Many Hindus are vegetarians.

Also reports of wildmen 'sited' or 'captured' in recent times, the description of them in the book suggests that they are much more primitive and 'animal' than archiac homo sapians such as the Neanderthal though maybe there are decendents of homo erectus still roaming in isolated parts of the world.

The authors argue against anthropologists dismissing evidence that man is far older, but unfortunately, they themselves dismiss what evidence there is that other types of human or hominid made tools etc. But I do agree with the argument that modern man may not have evolved from other hominids such as the homo erectus. That view is logical enough.

Otherwise, regarding the artefacts of millions of years old and very ancient sites found in North and South America, the book is well researched on that subject.

An archaeological perspective
As an archaeo/anthropologist I was very pleasantly surprised at the quality of research presented here. Our record at coping with anomalies ain't good, and it has often been more expedient to ignore the evidence than to reappraise the model. Now that Cremo and Thompson have exposed the cumulative effect of thousands of these minor "adjustments" it may become easier to see what seemed too unique to be really there. They are thorough, non-dogmatic, observers who present substantial evidence without moulding it to fit preconceptions. The same cannot be said of some in this field, academic or otherwise. It would be a great mistake to dismiss them alongside those authors whose enthusiasm is not matched by their scholarship. Their work is genuinely exciting and entertaining and will certainly outlive its critics. I only refrain from giving it five stars because science this much fun seems too good to be true.