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| Authors | Michael A. Cremo Richard L. Thompson |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | History |
| Published | 1993 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 914 |
| ISBN | 978-0892132942 |
Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race is a 1993 pseudoarchaeological book by Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson, written in association with the Bhaktivedanta Institute of ISKCON. Cremo states that the book has "over 900 pages of well-documented evidence suggesting that modern man did not evolve from ape man, but instead has co-existed with apes for millions of years!",[1][2]: 13 and that the scientific establishment has suppressed the fossil evidence of extreme human antiquity.[3] Cremo identifies as a "Vedic archeologist", since he believes his findings support the story of humanity described in the Vedas.[4] He says a knowledge filter (confirmation bias) is the cause of the supposed suppression.[2]
The book has attracted attention from some mainstream scholars as well as Hindu creationists and paranormalists.[5] Scholars of mainstream archaeology and paleoanthropology have described it as pseudoscience.[2][6]
- ^ "Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race". Michael Cremo. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
- ^ a b c Wade Tarzia, Forbidden Archaeology : Antievolutionism Outside the Christian Arena "Creation/Evolution" Issue XXXIV Summer 1994
- ^ "Michael (A.) Cremo". Contemporary Authors Online. September 23, 2002. Retrieved on August 17, 2008
- ^ "Cremo, Michael". Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained. Ed. Una McGovern. Chambers Harrap, 2007. p. 135.
- ^ Ina Belderis. Will the Real Human Ancestor Please Stand Up! Sunrise magazine, April/May 1995; "Cremo, Michael". Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained. Ed. Una McGovern. Chambers, 2007. p. 135.
- ^ Wodak, Jo; David Oldroyd (1996). "'Vedic Creationism': A Further Twist to the Evolution Debate". Social Studies of Science. 26. SAGE: 192–213. doi:10.1177/030631296026001012. S2CID 170662013.