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CONTENTS
NEWS - Michael Cremo’s
Visit to the Ukraine
NEWS ROUNDUP – Toumai
Skull Discovery
FORTHCOMING EVENTS –
University Lectures
REFLECTIONS OF A FORBIDDEN
ARCHEOLOGIST
MCREMO.COM website update
- Ukraine Tour
COMRADES IN THE EVOLUTION
REVOLUTION FORUM
ANOMALOUS DISCOVERIES:
Footprint in Stone/Ancient Column
NEWS
Michael Cremo Returns from Indus Valley Script Seminar
Michael Cremo faciliated
a seminar on the Indus Valley Script
held in Budapest, Hungary
July 7-15, 2002. Participants included
Indology, Sanskrit and archeology
students.
Paper Published in Bhaktivedanta Institute Compendium
A paper by Michael Cremo
was published in a compendium of
essays published by The
Bhaktivedanta Institute entitled
Thoughts on Synthesis of
Science and Religion edited by T.D.
Singh and Samaresh
Bandyopadhyay (2001) The paper is
titled "Vedic Ethical
Principles and Solution of the Environmental
Crisis."
Antiquity of Man Challenges Forbidden Archeology
A new book due for release
at the end of July entitled The
Antiquity of Man: Artifactual,
Fossil and Gene Records Explored
by Michael Brass (PublishAmerica,
2002) will provide an
in-depth critique of Cremo
and Thompson's Forbidden Archeology.
Go to: http://www.antiquityofman.com
for
more details.
Michael Cremo Tours Slovenia and the Ukraine
You never know which part
of the world the Forbidden Archeologist
will visit next! This
spring he embarked upon a successful media
blitz of the Ukraine and
Slovenia. Go to mcremo.com/darwin.html
to read Michael's travel
diary detailing his adventures.
NEWS ROUNDUP
Toumai Skull - New Hominid from Chad?
A research team claims
to have discovered the earliest evidence
of human ancestry to date
- a skull, jawbone, and teeth estimated
to be between 6-7 million
years old. Toumai, as the find is
nicknamed, is already the
focus of intense debate and attention
amongst the media and scientific
community. For complete report
go to: http://www.nature.com/nsu/020708/020708-12.html
Kauravas Were Cloned, Says Scientist
TIMES OF INDIA - Dr.
B.G. Matapurkar says the science of
cloning and test-tube babies
was utilized by ancient Indian
civilization around the
time period of 3000 BC. Matapurkar,
who holds a patent on an
organ regeneration technique,
bases his claim on a verse
from the Indian epic, Mahabharata,
that describes how the Kauravas
were created from a single
embryo from a woman named
Gandhari. (Saturday, May 4, 2002)
Map of the Creator
Scientists at Bashkir State
University claim to have discovered
Indus Script Decoded?
TIMES OF INDIA - Robertson
Medical Institute Director Gopalji
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Laura Lee interviews Michael
Cremo
Go to http://www.lauralee.com
for another classic Laura Lee interview
REFLECTIONS OF A FORBIDDEN
ARCHEOLOGIST
One More Revolution
Every six months or so we
get a "revolution" in hominid paleontology. There have been
The latest revolutionary
discovery is Sahelanthropus tchadensis. The discoverers assert
All this hype is based on
the assumption that evolution is a fact, that it has been established
However, as I have documented
in Forbidden Archeology, we can find evidence of anatomically
So the scientists straining
to find ancestral human features in old ape bones are simply
Even conventional scientists
disagree with the discoverers' judgements about the so-called
Michael A. Cremo
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FORUM: Comrades in the
Evolution Revolution
Letters to www.mcremo.com
Question: One of the
questions
I have after reading Mr. Cremo's
Answer: Of course,
many human skulls have been found by
Sincerely yours,
5/23/02 Today
on Fox News, the Fox Report showed a
Editor's note: If anyone
has leads on this, please contact
Dear Mr. Cremo,
On Cerro Funke, Sierra de
la Ventana, Province of Buenos Aires,
The few locals who seem to
know about these strange columns
My brother stumbled upon
them, and took pictures. They show
If you are interested, you
can contact my brother Carl for more information.
Michael Cremo responds:
My main interest is evidence for extreme human
So if these columns could
be shown to be over one hundred thousand years old,
But I have some interest
in the question of the origins of civilization.
Generally speaking, one would
not expect to find evidence for monumental stone
So if these columns could
be shown to be more than six thousand years old, that
I also have some interest
in the peopling of the Americas. According to standard
I see my work as being a
conduit and compiler for research done by others. So I think
Send us your stories about
those anomalous skeletons
The information presented
here is not necessarily endorsed
indisputable proof of an
ancient highly developed civilization.
Stone slabs dated at 120
million years depict a relief map of the
Ural Region, including inscriptions
of unknown origin. Go to:
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/05/30/29507.html
for more info.
Agarwal claims to have deciphered
the elusive Indus script. He
says this will radically
change current world history books, showing
linkages between Indian
culture and practically all other countries
of the world. For
complete story go to:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=13404142
with Michael Cremo on her
webcast audio archive during the week of
August 5-12.
so many of these so-called
revolutions in the past couple of years, that my head is
spinning. First there was
Ardiptihecus, and then the Millenium Man, and then Meave
Leakey's "Flat Face" (Kenyanthropus).
that it's a hominid, a human
ancestor, who lived between six and seven million years ago
in the Sahel region of the
Central African nation of Chad. Making "anthropus" (human) is
a deliberate ploy to make
us think this must be one of us, a direct human ancestor. And
the media swallow it, and
play it back to us in magnified terms. The July 22 issue of Time
features a double page painting
of the creature, with the title Father of Us All? blazoned
across the top.
beyond all doubt that humans
like us have evolved from more primitive apelike creatures.
Therefore, when scientists
find any apelike bones from the period of 4 to 7 million years ago,
they strain their brains
to find in them some humanlike features, so that they can be declared
human ancestors.
modern humans existing at
the same time and in fact in even far earlier times. If we look at the
scientific literature of
the past century or so, we see that scientists in all parts of the world
have
uncovered human skeletal
remains in layers of rock up to 300 million years old.
hallucinating. Their seeing
humanlike features in the bones of extinct apes is hardly different
from seeing humanlike features
in the clouds in the sky. The real revolution in hominid paleontology
will come when scientists
accept the fact that humans have always existed on earth, and that we
did not come from the apes.
human ancestor from Chad.
Brigitte Senut and others suggest that they may have simply
found the bones of a female
ape somewhat like a gorilla, with no connection to humans at all.
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mcremo.com update
New links at http://www.mcremo.com/links.htm
Michael Cremo’s Ukraine
Tour in his Travel Diary: http://www.mcremo.com/darwin.htm
books is this. Why does
there seem to be a consistent finding of
ancient gorilla or other
like creature skulls, while ancient human
skulls seemingly never are
found? Throughout my 54 years, I
have read about researchers
coming up with older and older
animal skulls, but they
don't find older and older human skulls.
Is it because there were
very few humans, or the humans were
all in the one place that
has not been found? In any case, it has
always puzzled me that there
were supposed to be all these
humans millions of years
ago, but we seem to only find ape
skulls and not the same
age human skulls. Your response
would be appreciated. Thank
you.
scientists, in layers of
rock millions of years old. Most of these
were found by scientists
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, before the timeline
of human evolution became very
fixed. Once it became fixed
in scientists' minds that the oldest
humans date only to the
most recent times (the last two
hundred thousand years),
they stopped looking for such
things. Scientists tend
to find what they are looking for. Right
now, they are not looking
for evidence of anatomically modern
humans in very ancient layers
of rock, so of course they do
not report such things.
But still, some things slip through. Not
necessarily skulls, but
other kinds of evidence for anatomically
modern humans. For example,
Richard Leakey in 1979 reported
finding a thigh bone that
he said was indistinguishable from a
modern human thigh bone.
It came from layers of rock almost
2 million years old. And
Mary Leakey found footprints, which
she said were not different
from modern human footprints, in
layers of rock almost 4
million years old. But if you look at the
whole history of archeology,
you will find that human skulls
have been found in very
old layers of rock. Forbidden
Archeology documents many
such discoveries.
Michael A. Cremo
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ANOMALOUS DISCOVERIES
giant foot print in stone
found at Cleveland National Forest
near Ramona, California.
I have searched everywhere on
the internet and can not
fin any information on this. It was a
very large clear human footprint.
If you have seen this or have
any information I would
like to have it.
Tonya at <tonnitt@eoni.com>
Argentina, there are two
large, extremely old columns of large
diameter, perfectly cylindrical,
lying on the slope of the hill. The
columns appear identical.
It is not known what lies underneath,
or where the foundations
of the column are/were, for the hill has
not been explored/dug.
shrug them off as of "natural"
origins.
artifacts that were obviously
manufactured to my perception (and his).
The chances for one such
gigantic column to be created "naturally"
are great, for two identical,
nearby and toppled over in the same
direction, the odds must
be stronomical (as far a natural occurrence goes).
He is very interested in
anomalous artifacts and human history.
antiquity, evidence that
humans have existed for over one or two hundred thousand years.
that would be interesting.
columns going back more
than six thousand years or so. Of course, crude stone
monuments like Stonehenge
and other megalithic sites could be older than that,
but even that sort of thing
would not go back more than fifteen or twenty thousand years.
would be quite interesting.
theories, humans first came
into the Americas about 15,000 years ago, max. So
if these things are older
than that, that would be interesting. They would also be
interesting if they were
over a few thousand years old. They would also be interesting
if they gave signs of influence
from one of the known civilizations of the Old World.
I shall have to rely on
you and your brother for more information about these discoveries.
The key items would be to
try to get some confirmation of the intelligent manufacture of
the objects, any visible
cultural influences, and of course the age of the objects.
discovered in the back yard!
We are looking for solid,
well-documented evidence,
but all accounts are welcome.
Send to:
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