Hidden History of the Human Race

Hidden History of the Human Race By Michael Cremo Free PDF

Hidden History of the Human Race By Michael Cremo

n Part I of The Hidden History of the Human Race, we look closely at the vast

amount of controversial evidence that contradicts current ideas about human evolution. We

recount in detail how this evidence has been systematically suppressed, ignored, or

forgotten, even though it is qualitatively (and quantitatively) equivalent to the evidence

favoring currently accepted views on human origins. When we speak of suppression of

evidence, we are not referring to scientific conspirators carrying out a satanic plot to

deceive the public. Instead, we are talking about an ongoing social process of knowledge

filtration that appears quite innocuous but has a substantial cumulative effect. Certain

categories of evidence simply disappear from view, in our opinion unjustifiably.

This pattern of data suppression has been going on for a long time. In 1880, J. D.

Whitney, the state geologist of California, published a lengthy review of advanced stone

tools found in California gold mines. The implements, including spear points and stone

mortars and pestles, were found deep in mine shafts, underneath thick, undisturbed layers

of lava, in formations ranging from 9 million to over 55 million years old. W. H. Holmes of

the Smithsonian Institution, one of the most vocal critics of the California finds, wrote:

"Perhaps if Professor Whitney had fully appreciated the story of human evolution as it is

understood today, he would have hesitated to announce the conclusions formulated [that

humans existed in very ancient times in North America], notwithstanding the imposing

array of testimony with which he was confronted." In other words, if the facts do not agree

with the favoured theory, then such facts, even an imposing array of them, must be

discarded.