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Forbidden Archaeology Archaeology Forbidden Overwhelming evidence shows that humanity has been on planet Earth for much, much longer than mainstream science cares or dares to admit. Not only that, it appears some of our ancient ancestors were more than mere ‘cave-dwellers'! 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-print was found in Antelope Springs, Utah, dating to the Cambrian period. A metal vase was found in Dorchester, Massachusetts, 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 welcome, Laura. LL: Tell me a bit about forbidden archaeology and why you decided to study the field, and a bit about your background as well, please. MC: Well, 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 modern textbooks you'll get an idea that humans like ourselves—Homo sapiens—evolved fairly recently within the past 100,000 years from more ape-like ancestors. All the 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 blasted 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 there were no discrimination, if there weren't a theory in place, and someone were to come 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 on the table, it would require several tables, really, instead of just the small por- tion of the evidence that's currently being studied. 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 other sorts of beings on this planet as far back as you care to trace—hundreds of mil- lions of years, literally. ; LL: The co-existing theory isn't so far-fetched because now they think that Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man co-existed for a hundred thousand years in our history, side by side, contemporaneously. It's the current theory. Isn't that correct? MC: Right, and there are even scientists today such as Myra Shackley, an English anthropologist, who would say that we are still co-existing with creatures like the Not only that, it appears some of our ancient ancestors were more than mere ‘cave-dwellers'! Edited from A Laura Lee interview with Michael Cremo, © 1995 _ Co-author of the book Forbidden Archeology Extracted from Townsend Letter for Doctors May 1995 JUNE - JULY 1995 NEXUS ¢ 11