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Summary: Excellent scholarly work!
Review: An outstanding comphrehensive work. Factual, substantiated and well documented. Common Sense for years has cast dubious doubt on currently accepted theories taught in higher education and this work is like turning on the light and opening a window. It is wonderful two excellent scholars such as the authors went through the painstaking work to research, document, and support their observations and inevitable conclusions to be drawn. This book should become the baseline text book from which all archeology and anthropolgy curriculum emanates. Clearly it is time for a paradigm shift in academia. If personal bias and prejudice are suspended, then it is improbable that any scholar could argue against this outstanding work with a clear conscience. Unfortunately, it is more than likely many will object to the results of the research done in this book and continue to keep minds closed and in the dark. I encourage any reader considering purchasing this book to ignore those who cast doubt on its scholarly and factual basis for once you begin reading the book from the introduction on, it becomes clear the authors had objective scientific goals and discipline in their process and methodology. Armed with new factual data, the reader is then free to form their own conclusions and theories. Excellent book.
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Summary: Im glad they said so !
Review: Let this book wake you up closeminded people!
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Summary: Insight to make the scientific world squirm a little.
Review: Finally, a book for all believers and non- belivers which help one to come to a point where they ask those ontological questions, and have now have more evidence to back it up!
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Summary: Pseudo-science Classic
Review: To be fair, there are worse fantastic archeaology books, any of the Atlantis books will do, but not many that are so heavy-handed and so distinctly paranoid. Every classic ploy of pseudo-science is used in this tome- legititmacy envy, paranoid conspiracy, evidence selection, limited hypothesis, probabilisitic fallacies, citations of out of date (almost laughably out of date) work, distortion, and discussion of minutae at the expense greater information. Anyone who reads this book should read books by genuine archeaologists to see what the authors here missed. Brian Fagan's "From Black Land to Fifth Sun" is a good start. A shameful book, and those who accept it as a bona fide work of intellectual investigation are horribly mistaken.
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Summary: A Text Book of Forgotten Imformation for Archeologists
Review: What I enjoyed most about this book was content, lots and lots of superbly researched and argued content,complete with an exstensive bibliography. Any open-minded scientific person would have to acknowledge this work if they read it.Emotion is human nature,facts stand on their own.Anomalies and contradictions are percieved in all areas of science and everyday life. I have a question for Mr.Darwin; Sir,why did our brains get so large and complex,so long ago when mankind at the apex of evolution uses so little of it now?
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Summary: A masterpiece for the novice
Review: Simply put: - a masterpiece for the novice; - a good reference book for the (already) believer; - and a paper weight for the narrow-minded and blinded amoebic mass that is left.If you are a hard-core science person - religious person - or afraid of the awful truth - then DON'T buy this book and whine about it for ever and ever thereafter. On the other hand if you are open minded, inquisitive, and wish to make up your own mind rather than accept blindly the teachings of your high-school science teacher - than this is a must-have for you. It may not be the most hard-core academic thesis ever written - but was it written as an academic thesis? I think not. But it does provoke thought, debate and the imagination, which is a lot more than most of the so-called academic thesis's I have had to endure over the years.
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Summary: A MODERN-DAY SIC ET NON
Review: A thorough-going piece of scholarship. Many of the criticisms of this book (and I'd recommend getting "Forbidden Archeology's Impact" along with this work) have read as if Cremo and Thompson are advocating some kind of "creationist" alternative to Darwinism. They aren't. What the book does do is show the logical and rhetorical inconsistencies in the current mainstream view. A veritable modern-day "Sic et Non."
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Summary: alternative explanation
Review: My whole life I have been facinated with the origin of man. I am Christian but do not blindly accept the interpretations of the scriptures that are widely accepted. It would also, in my opinion, be foolish to ignore the hard physical evidence repleat throughout the world and say "well the bible says........" So how do you reconcile science and religion? The evidence presented in this book fall into place with some possibilities that I have pondered. Both disciplines tend to fall victim to assumption based on their own bias. Anyway the Bible indicates a truncated timeline for man. Current accepted scientific dogma puts the timeline way out of reach of the biblical version. I believe the biggest problem with the accepted scientific approach is the assumption (or need) to tie everything together as continuous. Blah blah blah....The history of earth has had many starts and stops. It's not continuous. I think that perhaps life did evolve (not neccessarily the Darwinian evolution) and maybe not even here on this planet. The bible indicates that there are 7 dispensations of man. 4,000 years from Adam to Christ and 2,000 since with the 7th dispensation yet to come as the Millinial reign of Christ per Revelations. With the evidence in the book in mind that possibly civilization was much more advanced than previously believed and at a much earlier date, perhaps we can suppose that 7 dispensations have passed before and that God's PLACING of Adam in the Garden was a short cut to start the next cycle of mankind without having to go through the arguably long process of evolution again. Biblical evidence of this tendency can be found in account of Noah's ark. Why go through all the trouble of gathering a wide variety of animals in a boat if "creation" is like magic? Obviously this is all laughable to those that dismiss religous ideas altogether. But the idea of a "recycled world" does make some scientific evidence more palatable. If you look at the zoological record you will notice many examples of the rise and fall of species and sometimes even a setback or devolution. There are many gaps. It doesn't all have to be directly linked. It may not be continuous.
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Summary: A disappointing look at a fascinating subject
Review: Admittedly, I start many books in the middle, and so it was with Forbidden Archeology. My disappointment began when I read the chapter on "ape men" and the possible survival of bigfoot-like hominids well into the modern era. While I'm not completely closed to the idea, the section smacked of pseudo-science: little better than the Bigfoot books of the 1970s and filled with dubious eye witness accounts and third-hand facts. Given all the silliness and exploitation within crypto-zoology over the years, we need a bit more than what the authors provide to take this seriously. And so it is for much of this book. Cremo and Thompson have collected a great deal of material, some if contradictory, much of is dubious, and crafted a thesis which is difficult to trust. That's a shame, because there is more than enough fascinating, legitimate material on anomalous discoveries to easily fill a book this size.
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Summary: I am NOT laughing...
Review: You must be joking. This book, and the accompanying NBC television special hosted by Mr. Heston, are simply full of pseudo-scientific, non-logical misconceptions hammered together to push an anti-science agenda. My favorite example is that of an American researcher in Peru who was laughed out of geology for using radioactive decay dating to calculate the age of stone tools. The authors would have you believe evil mainstream scientists hushed up her findings and drummed her out of the field. The technique she used provides a very accurate, very old date for when the ROCK cools from volcanic birth, NOT when a human made the TOOL from a piece of rock. An undergraduate geology student should know this. She didn't loose her job due to a conspiracy, but rather because of how science works. If you prove you are an idiot, people won't cite your research. Don't reward the publisher by buying this book. On the other hand, if you like Barry Fell, you will LOVE this text. Why can't I give ZERO stars?
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