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g~ Edited koro A L;1ura tee interview;witH Mlchaef Cremo/: @ 1995 Co-;aut,hbt of Uie book fJrbidden Archeology Extracted from . ownsend I.elter for· Doctors: !\1!l-y1995 jU NE -JULY 1995 Laura Lee (LL): Let me tell you about some of the most extraordinary finds in archaeology. A grooved metal sphere was found in South Africa dating to the Precambrian period. A shoe-J2rint was found·tn Antelope Springs, Utah, dating to the Cambrian period. A metal vase was found in Dorchester, Massachusetrs, dating to the Precambrian. An iron nail in a stone was found in Scotland, dating to the Devonian peri­ od!. A gold thread in a stone was found in Tweed, England, and an iron pot in Wilburton, Oklahoma, dating to the Carboniferous era. What do some of these finds have to say about our early history? Well, they're not allowed to say very much because we happen to be operating under a theory of our prehistory that would rather discard such anomalies­ which are defined by their being outside the model-than to try to incorporate them or study them fairly. Here to tell the story of forbidden archaeology-and the co-author of a book by the same name-is Michael Cremo. Michael, thanks for joining us. Michael Cremo (MC): You're welcomc, Laura. LL: Tell me a bit about forbidden archaeology and why you decided to snudy the field, and a bit about your background as well, please. MC: WeD, I began studying forbidden archaeology in 1984. At that time I was having some discussions with my co-author, Dr Richard Thompson, about human origins in antiquity, and we had heard a few of the reports about anomalous evidence. We decided we would do a thorough research, and I was really surprised with what we found. LL: What did you find? Just give me a general overview, and then we'll get to the details in a little bit. MC: Well, if you look at what you see in modem textbooks you'l] get an idea that humans like ourselves-Homo sapiens--evolvcd fairly recently within the past 100,000 years from more ape-like ancestors. All ~he evidence that's in these books supports that idea, so it looks like a pretty solid case. But when I started looking into it, I found that over the past 150 years anthropologists have really buried almost as much evidence as they've dug up, and most of that evidence that they reburied-in a sense of getting sup­ pressed or !forgotten or ignored-is evidence that goes against this idea. It's evidence that rather supports the idea that humans like ourselves have been on this planet for hundreds of millions of years. You named in the beginning a few of the more startling pieces of evidence such as that exquisite metallic vase that was b!ilsted out of some Precambrian rock in Dorchester, Massachusetts: that would make it over six hundred million years old. LL: Isn't it astounding? Six hundred million years old? Tell me, in your opinion, what would happen if all the evidence were laid out on a level playing field, if thcre were no discrimination, ,if there weren'n a theory in place, and someone were to comc along and say, let's look at the history of the human race on planet Earth and look at the wide range of evidence. What would they conclude? MC: Well, the first thing you should understand is that if you do put all the relevant evidence 001 the table, it would require several tables, really, instead of just the small por­ tion of the evidence that's currently being sludi.ed. So when you take all of that evidence into account, what it looks like is that you have human beings like ourselves co-existing with othcr sorts of beings on this planet as far back as you care to tract(-hundreds of mi]­ lions of years, literally. LL: The co-existing theory isn't so far-fetched because now they Ithink that Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man co-existed for a hundred thousand years in our history, side by side, contcmporaneously. [t's the current theory. Isn't that correct? MC: Right, and there are even scientists Itoday such as Myra Shackley, an English anthropologist, who would say that we are still co-existing with creatures like the NEXUS • 11