extreme human antiquity book

Excerpts from Introduction by Michael A. Cremo

Today most archeologists and other scientists believe that humans like us first appeared on this planet less than 300,000 years ago. However, the scientific literature of the past two centuries contains many reports of geologists and archeologists finding human bones, human artifacts, and human footprints going much further back in time. How extreme could human antiquity possibly be? It could be many millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, of years. This would be consistent with the accounts of extreme human antiquity found in the Puranas, the cosmological texts of ancient India, and the records of other wisdom traditions. Fortunately, there are a few researchers who are looking for such evidence. In my book Forbidden Archeology, coauthored with Richard L. Thompson, I documented archeological evidence for extreme human antiquity. These discoveries showed that humans like us existed on earth millions of years ago. In Extreme Human Antiquity, I add many new cases to the original body of evidence .