Forbidden Archeology is a remarkably complete review of the scientific evidence concerning human origins. It carefully evaluates all the evidence, including the evidence that has been ignored because it does not fit the dominant paradigm. Anyone can learn a great deal from the authors` meticulous research and analysis, whatever one concludes about their thesis regarding the antiquity of human beings. -- Dr. Phillip E. Johnson, University of California, Berkeley, author of Darwin on Trial I perceive in Forbidden Archeology an important work of thorough- going scholarship and intellectual adventure. Forbidden Archeology ascends and descends into the realms of the human construction of scientific `fact` and theory: postmodern territories that historians, philosophers, and sociologists of scientific knowledge are investigating with increasing frequency....With exacting research into the history of paleoanthropological discovery, Cremo and Thompson zoom in on the epistemological crisis of the human fossil record, the process of disciplinary suppression, and the situated scientific handling of `anomalous evidence` to build persuasive theory and local institutions of knowledge and power. -- Dr. Pierce J. Flynn, Department of Arts and Science, California State University, San Marcos Forbidden Archeology, written primarily for the layman, provides a critical review of evidence relevant to human evolution. In addition, the book will serve as a valuable resource of forgotten literature, which is usually not easily accessible. If it stimulates professional reinvestigation of reports not fitting the current paradigm on human evolution, Forbidden Archeology will have contributed to the advancement of knowledge of the history of mankind. -- Dr. Siegfried Scherer, Institute for Microbiology Technical University of Munich, Germany" OVER THE PAST TWO CENTURIES, researchers have found bones and artifacts showing that people like ourselves existed on earth millions of years ago. But the scientific establishment has suppressed, ignored, or forgotten these remarkable facts. Why? Because they contradict dominant views of human origins and antiquity. Evolutionary prejudices, deeply held by powerful groups of scientists, have acted as what Michael A. Cremo and Richard I.. Thompson call a `knowledge filter.` And the filtering, intentional or not, has left us with a radically incomplete set of facts for building our ideas about human origins. According to Cremo and Thompson, we have come to accept a picture of prehistory that is largely incorrect. Forbidden Archeology is a call for a change in today`s arbitrarily rigid mindset. Deploying an unexpectedly great number of convincing facts, deeply illuminated with critical analysis, Cremo and Thompson challenge us to rethink our understanding of human origins, identity, and destiny. In Forbidden Archeology, we accompany the authors on a fascinating intellectual expedition. We take part in the literary excavation of a vast store of hidden knowledge that adds a new dimension to our understanding of the history of our species. This journey of exploration takes us across five continents to key archeological sites -- some long forgotten, some the center of ongoing research. Along the way, we encounter many famous and infamous pioneers of prehistoric research, all with secrets to share. Forbidden Archeology is bound to inspire controversy, challenging as it does one of the most fundamental components of the modern scientific world view. Meticulously researched and carefully written, Forbidden Archeology takes us to a crossroads of knowledge and invites us to take a courageous first step in a new direction of truth. MICHAEL A. CREMO is a research associate of the Bhaktivedanta Institute specializing in the history and philosophy of science. His persistent investigations during the eight years of writing Forbidden Archeology documented a major scientific cover-up. RICHARD L. THOMPSON, a founding member of the Bhaktivedanta Institute, received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell University. He is the author of scientific books and articles on evolutionary biology. In 1984, he initiated the intense research effort that culminated in the publishing of Forbidden Archeology. The Bhaktivedanta Institute, founded in 1975, is a center dedicated to the advanced study of the nature and origin of life and the universe in light of ancient India`s Vedic literature.