Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction and Acknowledgments

1 THE SONG OF THE RED LION

1.1 Darwin Hesitates

1.2 The Neanderthals

1.3 Haeckel and Darwinism

1.4 The search Begins

1.5 Darwin speaks

1.6 The Incompleteness of the Fossil Record

1.7 The Geological Timetable

1.8 The Appearance of the Hominids

1.9 Some Principles of Epistemology

1.10 Theories and Anomalous Evidence

1.11 The Phenomenon of Suppression

2 INCISED AND BROKEN BONES: THE DAWN OF DECEPTION

2.1 St. Prest, France (early Pleistocene or Late Pliocene)

2.2 A Modern example: Old Crow River, Canada (Late Pleistocene)

2.3 The Anza-Borrego Desert, California (Middle Pleistocene)

2.4 Val D’arno, Italy (early Pleistocene or late Pliocene)

2.5 San Giovanni, Italy (late Pliocene)

2.6 Rhinoceros of Billy, France (Middle Miocene)

2.7 Colline de Sansan, France ( Middle Miocene)

2.8 Pikermi, Greece (late Miocene)

2.9 Pierced Shark Teeth from the Red Crag, England (Late Pliocene)

2.10 Carved Bone from the Dardanelles, Turkey (Miocene)

2.11 Balaenotus of Monte Aperto, Italy (Pliocene)

2.12 Halitherium of Pouance, France (Middle Miocene)

2.13 San Valentino, Italy (Late Pliocene)

2.14 Clermont-Ferrand, France (Middle Miocene)

2.15 Carved Shell from the Red Crag, England (Late Pliocene)

2.16 Bone implements From Below the Red Crag, England (Pliocene to Eocene)

2.17 Dewlish Elephant Trench, England (Early Pleistocene to Late Pliocene)

2.18 More on implements From Below the Red Crag (Pliocene to Eocene)

2.19 Implements from Cromer Forest Bed, England (Middle to Early Pleistocene)

2.20 Sawn Wood from Cromer Forest Bed, England (Middle to Early Pleistocene)

2.21 Concluding Words about Intentionally Modified Bone

3 EOLITHS

3.1 Anomalously Old Stone Tools

3.2 B. Harrison and the Eoliths of the Kent Plateau, England (Pliocene)

3.2.1 Young Harrison

3.2.2 Neoliths and Paleoliths

3.2.3 Eoliths

3.2.4 More on the Geology of the Kent Plateau

3.2.5 The Relative Antiquity of Eoliths and Paleoliths

3.2.6 A.R. Wallace Visits Harrison

3.2.7 More Objections

3.2.8 The British Association Sponsors Excavations

3.2.9 The Royal Society Exhibition

3.2.10 The Problem of Forgery

3.2.11 “The Greater Antiquity of Man”

3.2.12 On the Treatment of Anomalous Evidence

3.2.13 More Honors for Harrison

3.2.14 More Opposition

3.3 Discoveries by J. Reid Moir in East Anglia

3.3.1 Moir and Harrison

3.3.2 The Age of the Crag Formations

3.3.3 Tools from Below the Red Crag (Pliocene to Eocene)

3.3.4 The Foxhall Finds (Late Pliocene)

3.3.5 Cromer Forest Bed (Middle or Early Pleistocene)

3.3.6 Moir Versus Haward

3.3.7 Warren’s Attack on Moir

3.3.8 An International Commission of Scientists Decides in Favor of Moir

3.3.9 Continued Opposition

3.3.10 Silence Ends the Debate

3.3.11 Recent Negative Evaluations of Moir’s Discoveries

3.3.12 A Slightly Favorable Modern Review of Moir’s Finds

3.4 Breuil and Barnes: Two Famous Debunkers of Eoliths

3.4.1 Breuil’s Attempt to End the Eolith Controversy

3.5 Cement Mill Eoliths?

3.6 Impact of the English Eolithic Industries on Modern Ideas of Human Evolution

3.6.1 Eoliths of the Kent Plateau

3.6.2 East Anglian Tools and the African Origins Hypothesis

3.6.3 Recent Pakistan Finds (Plio-Pleistocene Boundary)

3.7 Acceptable Eoliths: The Stone Tools of Zhoukoudian and Olduvai Gorge

3.7.1 Accepted Implements from Zhoukoudian (Middle Pleistocene)

3.7.2 The Oldowan Industry (Early Pleistocene)

3.7.3 Who Made the Eolithic and Oldowan Implements?

3.8 Recent Examples of Eolithic Implements from the Americas

3.8.1 Standard Views on the Entry of Humans Into North America

3.8.2 Texas Street, San Diego (Early Late Pleistocene to Late Middle Pleistocene)

3.8.3 Louis Leakey and the Calico Site in California (Middle Pleistocene)

3.8.4 Toca da Esperança, Brazil (Middle Pleistocene)

3.8.5 Alabama Pebble Tools

3.8.6 Monte Verde, Chile (Late Pleistocene)

3.8.7 Early Humans in America and the Eolith Question

3.9 A Recent Eolithic Discovery from India (Miocene)

4 CRUDE PALEOLITHIC STONE TOOLS

4.1 The Finds of Carlos Ribeiro in Portugal ( Miocene)

4.1.1 A Summary History of Ribeiro’s Discoveries

4.2 The Finds of The Abbé Bourgeois at Thenay, France (Miocene)

4.2.1 Debates About the Discoveries at Thenay

4.3 Implements From the Late Miocene of Aurillac, France

4.3.1 A Find by Tardy

4.3.2 Further Discoveries by Rames

4.3.3 Verworn’s Expedition to Aurillac

4.4 Discoveries By A. Rutot In Belgium (Oligocene)

4.5 Discoveries By Freudenberg Near Antwerp ( Early Pliocene to Late Miocene)

4.5.1 Flint Implements

4.5.2 Cut Shells

4.5.3 Incised Bones

4.5.4 Possible Human Footprints

4.5.5 The Identity of Freudenberg’s Palaeanthropus

4.6 Central Italy (Late Pliocene)

4.7 Stone Tools From Burma (Miocene)

4.8 Tools From Black’s Fork River, Wyoming (Middle Pleistocene)

5 ADVANCED PALEOLITHS AND NEOLITHS

5.1 Discoveries Of Florentino Ameghino In Argentina

5.1.1 Monte Hermoso (Middle and Early Pliocene)

5.1.2 Hrdlicka Attempts to Discredit Ameghino

5.1.3 Willis Stacks the Geological Deck

5.1.4 A Demolition Job by W. H. Holmes

5.1.5 Other Finds by F. Ameghino

5.1.6 Evidence for the Intentional Use of Fire