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32 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pushing back the Timeline, October 14, 1999
By A Customer
When I was at college in the 1970s, we undergraduate anthro majors would kick around the currently known "facts" we were being taught. Not having fully absorbed the approved dogma, we all came to the same conclusion -- the timeline of human development is too compressed. It does not allow enough time for the physical and social changes that had to occur for humans to develop from "proto-ape" to modern man. We felt that a 2 million mark was the absolute minimum required, and would have prefered 10 million, but even we weren't that daring. Today, I see news articles about discoveries that push the approved timeline further and further back. By reviewing evidence that has been labeled anomalous, Cremo and Thompson provide future researchers with the thought-provoking material that will lead to a better understanding of man's development. Human beings have been human --and little changed -- for a very long time.
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164 of 213 people found the following review helpful:
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The scientific method is not dead yet., September 21, 2000
"Forbidden Archeology" is a superb, well-documented compendium of both the evidence favoring the conventional picture of human evoluton, and the anomalous evidence that casts this picture into doubt. Its larger significance, however, lies in its detailed documentation and analysis of one particular exampe of a disturbing phenomenon that has increasingly crippled mainstream science: the establishment of a new scientific orthodoxy, i.e. a quasi-religious belief by leading scientists in the absolute and unquestionable validity of the basic theories of their field. These theories are then elevated to "facts" of which any dissenter is accused of being ignorant, which makes for a convenient, easy dismissal of any anomalous evidence. Since any such evidence is thus automatically ineligible for publication in the proper journals, this lack of documentation is then in turn taken by researchers in the field as proof that the evidence must be of low scientific value. With "Forbidden Archeology", Cremo and Thompson have attempted to break through this self-perpetuating cycle of ignorance and denial. The many angry dismissals by "experts" one can read on this page shows that they have done their job well. A truly educational book that will open the eyes of many who are searching for the true origins of humankind. Those who don't have the time or patience to peruse this 900-page tome should consider reading the abridged version instead. Either way, they will come to appreciate one of the fundamental tenets of true science: theory never overrides evidence.
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120 of 156 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Fascinated, then disappointed, August 26, 2000
I have recently started to research the topic of human origins... something I've always wanted to do. Never allowing myself to become too close-minded or to just accept *anything* people tell me without thought, I gathered all the info I could find. This book was perhaps the third significant item I read.At first I was absolutely fascinated by the finds discussed in the book. They seemed soundly researched and presented ... though at odds with the other information I was researching. So I decided to research some of the specific finds discussed in the book, starting with the Hueyatlaco site. One after another, the finds presented in the book lost their "hidden" aspect. Don't just swallow what this book says, do your own research. If you do, and are open-minded, you will be let down by this book like I was...What is really "hidden" is the authors' real agenda ... they do anything, even distort historical facts, to promote their faith. (And to think that, at first, I thought they were open-minded! Man, was I fooled.) Very, very disappointing.
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