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Forbidden Archeology

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AT-1797

Michael Cremo

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Catalogue record for Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson's 1993 primary claimant work; establishes authorship and first-publication history while remaining evidence of the claim, not proof of it.

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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.

Some source reports exist historically, but the central scientific conclusion is not supported by controlled evidence and conflicts with multiple independent lines of human origins research.
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Cremo is documented as an author and primary claimant in alternative human-antiquity literature, not as a mainstream archaeologist or paleoanthropologist.

Answer / theory: He is best described as an alternative-history writer and researcher, not a mainstream archaeologist or paleoanthropologist. Evidence level: Strong Evidence for his role as a writer and claim source.
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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.

Answer / theory: No. It argues this, but the cases do not meet the evidentiary standard needed to overturn human evolution. Evidence level: Weak Evidence.
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Cremo's framework is a Vedic-creationist deep-time alternative to standard human evolution, not a young-Earth chronology.

Answer / theory: No. It rejects the standard evolutionary timeline, but uses deep time rather than a recent Earth chronology. Evidence level: Strong Evidence for the distinction.
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Limiting / critical citation for public claim

Securely excavated 3.3-million-year-old tools do not demonstrate that Homo sapiens existed at the same age.

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