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,a° AN aw’) 9,500-YEAR-OLD SUNKEN CITY dredging operations there and they pulled There were actually two radiocarbon dates: FOUND OFF INDIAN COAST up human fossil bones, fossil wood, stone one about 7,500 years old, and another An interview with Michael A. Cremo tools, pieces of pottery and many other about 9,500 years old. The 9,500-year-old by Linda Moulton Howe © 2002 things that indicated that it indeed was a__ one seems to be the stronger one. That's the human habitation site that they had. And one they are going with. This was lebruary 16, 2002, Surat, India - A they were able to do more intensive sonar announced by Minister Joshi [Murli Pes ago in mid-January, marine work there and were able to identify more Manohar Joshi is India's Minister for Ocean scientists in India announced they _ structures. These appear to have been laid Technology] at this meeting I attended in had sonar images of square and rectangular out on the bank of a river that had been Hyderabad, India. He said there is going to shapes about 130 feet down, off the north- flowing from the - western coast of India in the Gulf of Indian subconti- Khambhat (Cambay). nent out into that The Indian Minister of Science and area. Technology ordered that the site be Linda Moulton dredged. What was found has surprised Howe (LMH): archaeologists around the world and was According to the the subject of a private meeting two weeks news _ releases, ago, attended by the Indian Minister in they have done a charge of investigating the underwater site radiocarbon test- about 30 miles off the coast from Surat. ing on a piece of An American who travelled to that pri- wood from the vate meeting is Michael Cremo, researcher underwater site in the history of archaeology for the that is now yield- Bhaktivedanta Institute and author of the ing an age of book, Forbidden Archeology. I talked with 9,500 years, which him today in India about the dredging oper- would place it ation, what the ocean engineers found and _ near the end of the the implications of the first carbon-dating last ice age. = ri of artifacts at more than 9,000 years. MC: Yes, those The underwater archaeological site, which could be more than 9,000 Michael Cremo (MC): Within the past are the indications years old, is about 30 miles west of Surat in the Gulf of Khambhat few months, the engineers began some that are coming. (Cambay) in northwestern India. _—— — There were actually two radiocarbon dates: one about 7,500 years old, and another about 9,500 years old. The 9,500-year-old one seems to be the stronger one. That's the one they are going with. This was announced by Minister Joshi [Murli Manohar Joshi is India's Minister for Ocean Technology] at this meeting I attended in Hyderabad, India. He said there is going to 9,500-YEAR-OLD SUNKEN CITY FOUND OFF INDIAN COAST An interview with Michael A. Cremo by Linda Moulton Howe © 2002 APRIL — MAY 2002 NEXUS ¢ 67 www.nexusmagazine.com