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Hominin Evolution
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Forbidden Archaeology
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Paleolithic Period
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Michael Cremo
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The identity of the hominins who made the Lomekwi 3 stone artifacts remains unresolved.
Most direct ancestor-descendant links, languages, beliefs, and the identity of many toolmakers are unrecoverable or unresolved.
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Controlled evidence does not equate very old toolmaking with anatomically modern humans: Jebel Irhoud is dated to about 315,000 years, while the 3.3-million-year-old Lomekwi tools have no identified Homo sapiens maker.
The extreme-human-antiquity conclusion is weakly supported, and broad coordinated suppression is not demonstrated; scientific rejection of inadequate evidence is not itself proof of a conspiracy.
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The cited scientific record does not establish anatomically modern humans millions of years before the accepted Homo sapiens record.
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The identity of the makers of the earliest known stone-artifact assemblages remains unresolved.
Earliest artifact makers, control of fire, behavioral-modernity labels, and regional periodization.
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Securely excavated 3.3-million-year-old tools do not demonstrate that Homo sapiens existed at the same age.
Answer / theory: Yes. Bias and paradigms can exist, but weak evidence can still be weak. Evidence level: Mixed Evidence for the sociological point; Weak Evidence for the conclusion.
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Cremo and Thompson’s 1993 book claims that anatomically modern humans existed millions of years earlier than accepted chronology and that scientific institutions filtered contrary evidence.
The evidence does not automatically support broader causal, technological, transmission, or literalizing claims beyond the cited record.
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Cremo and Thompson argue that humans like us existed in deep geological time and that contrary evidence was filtered out; the catalog documents this claim but does not support it scientifically.
The evidence does not automatically support broader causal, technological, transmission, or literalizing claims beyond the cited record.
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Forbidden Archeology is a primary source for the extreme-antiquity claim, but its catalog record is not scientific validation and the listed human-origins evidence does not overturn Homo sapiens chronology.
The evidence does not automatically support broader causal, technological, transmission, or literalizing claims beyond the cited record.
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