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Reflections of a Forbidden
Archeologist
Years ago, I wrote about
the discoveries of Carlos Ribeiro in Forbidden Archeology. At that time,
I only had access to published materials. Even those were quite intriguing,
showing the influence of theories of human origins on the treatment of
archeological evidence. When Ribeiro began collecting stone tools in Portugal
in the mid 19th century, it was dogma that a human presence went back no
further than the Pleistocene (Quaternary). Therefore, when Ribeiro found
stone tools in formations that were considered pre-Pleistocene (Tertiary),
he was astonished. After careful consideration, he decided to reclassify
the formations containing the tools as Quaternary. When his publications
and maps showing this change reached foreign geologists they were puzzled.
But Ribeiro persisted in his opinion. Only when the French researcher L.
Bourgeois reported stone tools from a Tertiary formation in France, in
1867, did he decide to change his mind. The Portuguese formations were
indeed Tertiary. Thus the stone tools he found in them were evidence for
a human presence in the Tertiary of Portugal. Most of his discoveries occurred
in formations of lower Miocene age, which would make them about 20 million
years old. For decades, his discoveries attracted considerable and often
favorable attention in scientific circles. But the announcement of the
discovery of Java man in the 1890s changed things. Java man was from the
earliest Quaternary, and was accompanied by no stone tools. From that point
on, most scientists thought it impossible that makers of stone tools existed
in the Tertiary, and Ribeiro's discoveries slid into oblivion. Having only
read about them in his reports, it was quite an experience, this July,
to go into the old Museum of Geology in Lisbon, and handle the actual artifacts.
They were hidden away in the storage cabinets, no longer displayed to the
public.
Michael A. Cremo
FORUM: Comrades in the
Evolution Revolution
This issue’s letters are
reprinted from Discovery.com’s Dawn of Man Forum, which featured Michael
Cremo’s answers to questions about The Learning Channel’s “Dawn of Man”
special. Thanks to Discovery.com for facilitating this exchange! (http://tlc.discovery.com/tlcpages/dawn/dawn.html)
Subject: DNA evidence
Michael Cremo answers: Sometimes we hear claims that there is conclusive
evidence from DNA that humans have evolved from apes. For example, we often
hear that human DNA is 97 percent the same as chimpanzee DNA and
that this proves we came from the apes. Not really. The results are
based on some very crude hybridization techniques. A real demonstration
would have to be based on an analysis of the exact genetic structure of
humans and chimpanzees. It is only this past year that scientists have
claimed to have sequenced human DNA. And this sequencing itself is just the beginning. Sequencing just gives you
the sequence of amino acid bases. Finding the actual genes in that sequence
is an entirely different matter. Scientists say that determining
what genes are represented in the sequence of base pairs could take another
century. The DNA sequence of the chimpanzee has not been sequenced
and is not likely to be sequenced in the near future. So we really don't
know how similar the DNA of humans and chimps really is, on the level of
the genes. A difference of 3 percent represents millions of differences
in the base pair sequence, and that is not a small thing. Also, we should keep in mind that out of the total sequence of bases
in the human DNA sequence, 97 percent is thought to be "junk DNA." Only
three percent represents actual genes that determine something of our biological
makeup. As I said, figuring out which 3 percent of the human DNA sequence
represents actual genes is going to take a long, long time. So any talk
of using DNA to figure our who our ancestors are, in any strictly scientific
way is quite a ways off. Also, we are not really descended from either
the chimpanzee or any other living ape. We are, according to evolutionists,
descended from some extinct common ancestor of the modern humans and modern
apes that lived millions of years ago. If we are to have any truly convincing
genetic evidence of such a chain of evolution, we would have to recover
fairly substantial amounts of DNA from those early ancestors and all their
descendants. This is nowhere near being done.
Topic: Dawn of Man
Michael Cremo answers: Evidence for a human presence in the Americas goes
back much further than 30,000 years. The human artifacts found at Hueyatlaco,
Mexico, were dated by geologist Virginia Steen-McIntyre and her colleagues
as being over 250,000 years old. The Calico site in Southern California,
originally researched by Louis Leakey, has stone artifacts going back over
200,000 years. The California gold mine discoveries from the nineteenth
century, which include human skeletons and artifacts, go back as much as
50 million years. Java man, by the way, comes from a stratum about 800,000
years old. The Java man discovery consisted of an apelike skullcap
and a humanlike femur (thigh bone) found about 50 feet away in
Subject: South African Spheres
Michael Cremo answers: The origin of the spheres is, as I said, mysterious.
People have proposed all kinds of explanations, ranging from ET's to time
travelers. I prefer a simpler explanation, that there were made by some
kind of humans like us who were here over 2 billion years ago, which is
the age of the mineral deposits in which the spheres are found. They are
made of hematite, which is used even today in Africa and elsewhere as a
semiprecious stone. Perhaps the objects could be game pieces of some
kind.
Dear Sir,
About one year ago
I've read your fundamental book "The Hidden History of The Human Race".
All my life I was (just like you) convinced our civilization wasn't unique
on our planet, but practical aspect of this issue was so far away from
me. However, nobody knows what will be...
Send us your stories about
those anomalous skeletons discovered in the back yard! We are looking for
solid, well-documented evidence, but all accounts are welcome.
You have feet in your
shoes
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose”
-Dr. Seuss
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Michael Cremo presented
a paper entitled “The Discoveries of Carlos Ribeiro: A Controversial Episode
in Nineteenth -Century European Archeology” to the History of Archeology
Section of the European Association of Archeologists Conference held in
Lisbon, Portugal September 12-16.
Go to http://www.mcremo.com/lectures.html
to read the abstract and http://www.mcremo.com/order.htm
to order a copy.
During his recent journey
to Portugal for the EAA conference, Michael Cremo visited Fatima as part
of his ongoing research on paranormal events for Human Devolution, the
sequel to Forbidden Archeology.
Go to:
http://www.mcremo.com/darwin.htm to read a report of the Portugal
trip.
AP – After four years of
dispute, the U.S. Interior Department has decided that Kennewick Man,
one of the oldest skeletons
found in North America, should be given to five American Indian
tribes who have claimed
him as an ancestor. However, prominent anthropologists are in the
process of reopening a federal
lawsuit challenging this ruling. For more details go to:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000926/aponline033625_000.htm
The Kingdom Underground:
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to subscribe.
“Glowing Controversy: Mutant
Rabbit Raises Controversy over Genetic Manipulation”
For complete story, go to:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/rabbit000918.html
An ancient fossilized fungus
dating from 460 to 455 million years old was discovered along a roadcut
near Madison, Wisconsin.
Go to: http://www.vny.com
and search the Science News
Brandeis University – Waltham,
Mass.
Jordon Pollock, director
of the Dynamical and Evolutionary Machine Organization Laboratory,
will publish a study in
Nature describing a new development project for robots that design and
construct other robots without
human help. See: http://www.vny.com
and search the Science News.
When I looked at the collections,
I saw that some of them had some interesting labels. Originally classified
by Ribeiro as Miocene or Pliocene, the new labels, written in the early
20th century, assigned the objects to accepted stone tool industries of
the middle and late Pleistocene. At that time, the objects were apparently
still on display. But some time after that they were removed from
display. When I was at the museum, the director said he would like to put
the objects on display once more. I take that as a sign of progress. It
was also interesting to touch and read Ribeiro's original field notes and
maps. And finally, it was interesting to retrace his steps to some of the
sites where he found his Miocene artifacts. The paper I gave on Ribeiro's
discoveries was well received at the European Association of Archeologists
annual meeting in Lisbon this September. Ribeiro must have felt something
special when he took the artifacts out of the ground, where they had lain
buried for millions of years. And I felt something special as I took them
out of the scientific oblivion, in which they had lain for many decades.
Topic: Dawn of Man
Question: How has DNA research been used to determine the pathway to modern
man? Can they and have they used DNA findings to determine who our
ancestors are?
Subject: Ancient America
Question: It seems as though science and academia has long overlooked the
possibility that ancient archeology can be practiced in the Americas. Anna
Roosevelt's finds in the amazon, and in Piaui (cave inhabited 30,000BC)
and the recent finds in Chile of a hunter encampment dating over 35,000
years seem to strenghthen the theory that H.S. were here in South America
at the time when Java man is credited for discovering fire. It seems, as
though archeologists are so entrenched (no pun intended) in what is accepted,
that they forget that their primary function is to study the evidence at
hand. The Maya, like the Egyptians, trace their lineage back
thousands of years before we credit their mere existance. They have dates
that go back hundreds of millions of years, on a Tuesday afternoon in March.
Last, why do most human civilizations believe that humans were created
by gods that came from the heavens. From the Sumerian-Judeo-Christian Nephilim
theory (sons of the gods took the daughters of men...) to the Yanomami
creation myth that they arrived on earth after travelling the sky on a
cosmic boa. Also when we look at Neanderthal, they had larger bodies, larger
eyes, larger brains. As per DNA evidence recently found, we supposedly
did not evolve from Neanderthal. Recent theories put H.S. alongside Neanderthal.
Could Neanderthal have reached or even passed stone age technology?
Michael Cremo, what are your thoughts on the 'alien hybrid' theory in respect
to man's origin?
the same stratum.
The discoverer, E. Dubois, put them together and called them Pithecanthropus
erectus, now known as Homo erectus. In 1973, two British physical anthropologists
(M. Day and T. Molleson) studied the femur and found it was not like
any H. erectus femur found afterwards and that it was not at all different
from anatomically modern human femurs. I take that as evidence that humans
like us were existing 800,000 years ago in Java alongside Homo erectus.
The issue of whether or not modern humans evolved from the Neanderthals
is a contentious one among modern archeologists. Some say yes, some say
no. For me, it is not a real issue, because there is lots of evidence that
humans like us existed before the Neanderthals. Indeed, the presence
of humans on this planet appears to go back so far in time that it becomes
difficult to explain our origins by any earthbound materialistic evolutionary
account. So we may indeed have to look off our planet for a complete account
of our origins. Before we ask where we came from, we should first ask the
question what are we. Most scientists today say we are simply a combination
of ordinary matter. But I find very good reasons to think we are a combination
of matter, mind, and spirit, and that the cosmos is similarly divided into
regions of matter, mind, and spirit. The way I see it, we must trace our
ultimate origin back to a spiritual dimension of reality. We are spiritual
sparks that have been covered by mind and matter. I call this process
of covering devolution. This devolution concept is reflected in the accounts
of human origins from various cultural traditions down through history,
such as the ones you have mentioned. The devolution process is not confined
to this earth. There are humanlike beings living in other parts of the
universe, and I do believe there have been contacts among them.
Topic: Dawn of Man
Question: What is your currect hypothesis about the origin of the
mysterious South African spheres that you described in "Forbidden Archeology"?
Who do you think made them?
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ANOMALOUS DISCOVERIES
So, this summer I've
had my vacations on an island . Me and my wife were walking to a
small cove which is located about 10 km from a town on the west side of
island. Suddenly, on the rocky coast, we've found the Absolutely
Amazing Object. That was a round black nail, almost untouched by
rust. Its head has been embedded in sedimentary rock from the Jura-Trias
periods, but a sharp end was visible very good. This nail was sunken into
something that looked like a mould after an ancient crustacea well known
for geologists as "Echioceras". A couple of a similar moulds
(it's clear without nails) have been found by us beside the coast. As far
as I know, it is an added proof that my assume (Jura-Trias) could be right.
Of course, it must be checked by the best specialists in geology than me.
If you are interested
I'm ready to send you all of my photos and give you particulars about location
of the spot. I'm convinced, you are one of a few people who can really
use this new find.
Send to: