The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael A. Cremo

His work on 'Puranic Time and the Archaeological Record' was published in ISKCON Communications Journal and Time and Archaeology.Ĭremo's central claim in Forbidden Archeology is that humans have lived on Earth for tens to hundreds of millions of years, and that the scientific establishment has suppressed the fossil evidence of extreme human antiquity. In the end of the 1990s he authored a paper on the official ISKCON statement on capital punishment. Cremo told Contemporary Authors that he decided to devote his life to Krishna in the early 1970s, after receiving a copy of the Bhagavad Gita at a Grateful Dead concert. He has also been a contributing editor to the magazine Back to Godhead and a bhakti yoga teacher. He has written several books and articles about Hindu spirituality under the name Drutakarmā dāsa. He attended George Washington University from 1966 to 1968, then served in the United States Navy.Ĭremo is a member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) and the Bhaktivedanta Institute.

They spent several summers traveling throughout Europe. Michael Cremo lived with his family in Germany, where he went to high school.

Cremo's father, Salvatore Cremo, was a United States military intelligence officer. Thompson, has attracted attention from mainstream scholars who have criticized the views given on archeology and describe it as pseudoscientific.Ĭremo was born in Schenectady, New York. In case of artifacts allegedly found in the Eocene auriferous gravels of Table Mountain, California and discussed in his book Forbidden Archeology, Cremo argues for the existence of modern man on Earth as long as 30 to 40 million years ago.įorbidden Archeology, which he wrote with Richard L. Cremo (born July 15, 1948), also known by his devotional name Drutakarmā dāsa, is an American freelance researcher who identifies himself as a Vedic creationist and an ' alternative archeologist' and argues that humans have lived on Earth for millions of years.

The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael A. Cremo