Forbidden Archeology

548 Pages·2012·25.13 MB·English

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Introduction and Acknowledgments
• 1 THE SONG OF THE RED LION
o 1.1 Darwin Hesitates
o 1.2 The Neanderthals
o 1.3 Haeckel and Darwinism
o 1.4 The search Begins
o 1.5 Darwin speaks
o 1.6 The Incompleteness of the Fossil
Record
o 1.7 The Geological Timetable
o 1.8 The Appearance of the Hominids
o 1.9 Some Principles of Epistemology
o 1.10 Theories and Anomalous
Evidence
o 1.11 The Phenomenon of Suppression
• 2 INCISED AND BROKEN BONES: THE
DA WN OF DECEPTION
o 2.1 St. Prest, France (early Pleistocene
or Late Pliocene)
o 2.2
A Modern example: Old Crow
River, Canada (Late Pleistocene)
Anza-Borrego Desert,
o 2.3 The
California (Middle Pleistocene)
o 2.4 Val D'arno, Italy (early Pleistocene
or late Pliocene)
o 2.5 San Giovanni, Italy (late Pliocene)
o 2.6 Rhinoceros of Billy, France
(Middle Miocene)
o 2.7 Colline de Sansan, France ( Middle
Miocene)
o 2.8 Pikermi, Greece (late Miocene)
o 2.9 Pierced Shark Teeth from the Red
Crag, England (Late Pliocene)
o 2.10 Carved Bone from the
Dardanelles, Turkey (Miocene)
o 2.11 Balaenotus of Monte Aperto, Italy
(Pliocene)
o 2.12 Halitherium of Pouance, France
(Middle Miocene)
o 2.13 San Valentino, Italy (Late
Pliocene)
o 2.14
Clermont-Ferrand, France
(Middle Miocene)
o 2.15 Carved Shell from the Red Crag,
England (Late Pliocene)
o 2.16 Bone implements From Below
the Red Crag, England (Pliocene to
Eocene)
Elephant Trench,
o 2.17 Dewlish
England (Early Pleistocene to Late
Pliocene)
o 2.18 More on implements From Below
the Red Crag (Pliocene to Eocene)
o 2.19 Implements from Cromer Forest
Bed, England (Middle to Early
Pleistocene)
o 2.20 Sawn Wood from Cromer Forest
Bed, England (Middle to Early
Pleistocene)
o 2.21
Concluding Words about
Intentionally Modified Bone

• 3 EOLITHS

• 3.1 Anomalously Old Stone Tools
o 3.2 B. Harrison and the Eoliths of the
Kent Plateau, England (Pliocene)
o 3.2.1 Young Harrison
o 3.2.2 Neoliths and Paleoliths
o 3.2.3 Eoliths
o 3.2.4 More on the Geology of the Kent
Plateau
o 3.2.5 The Relative Antiquity of Eoliths
and Paleoliths
o 3.2.6 A.R. Wallace Visits Harrison
o 3.2.7 More Objections
o 3.2.8 The British Association Sponsors
Excavations
o 3.2.9 The Royal Society Exhibition
o 3.2.10 The Problem of Forgery
o 3.2.11 "The Greater Antiquity of Man"
o 3.2.12 On the Treatment of Anomalous
Evidence
o 3.2.13 More Honors for Harrison
o 3.2.14 More Opposition
• 3.3
Discoveries by J. Reid Moir in East
Anglia
o 3.3.1 Moir and Harrison
o 3.3.2 The Age of the Crag Formations
o 3.3.3 Tools from Below the Red Crag
(Pliocene to Eocene)
o 3.3.4 The Foxhall Finds (Late
Pliocene)
o 3.3.5 Cromer Forest Bed (Middle or
Early Pleistocene)
o 3.3.6 Moir Versus Haward
o 3.3.7 Warren's Attack on Moir
o 3.3.8 An International Commission of
Scientists Decides in Favor of Moir
o 3.3.9 Continued Opposition
o 3.3.10 Silence Ends the Debate
o 3.3.11 Recent Negative Evaluations of
Moir's Discoveries
o 3.3.12 A Slightly Favorable Modern
Review of Moir's Finds

• 3.4 Breuil and Barnes: Two Famous
Debunkers of Eoliths
o 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
o 3.6.1 Eoliths of the Kent Plateau
o 3.6.2 East Anglian Tools and the
African Origins Hypothesis
o 3.6.3
Recent Pakistan Finds (PlioPleistocene Boundary)

• 3.7 Acceptable Eoliths: The Stone Tools of
Zhoukoudian and Olduvai Gorge
Accepted Implements from
o 3.7.1
Zhoukoudian (Middle Pleistocene)
o 3.7.2
The Oldowan Industry (Early
Pleistocene)
o 3.7.3 Who Made the Eolithic and
Oldowan Implements?
• 3.8 Recent Examples of Eolithic Implements
from the Americas
o 3.8.1 Standard Views on the Entry of
Humans Into North America
o 3.8.2 Texas Street, San Diego (Early
Late Pleistocene to Late Middle
Pleistocene)
o 3.8.3 Louis Leakey and the Calico Site
in California (Middle Pleistocene)
o 3.8.4
Toca da Esperanca, Brazil
(Middle Pleistocene)
o 3.8.5 Alabama Pebble Tools
o 3.8.6 Monte Verde, Chile (Late
Pleistocene)
o 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)
o 4.1.1 A Summary History of Ribeiro's
Discoveries

• 4.2 The Finds of The Abbe Bourgeois at
Thenay, France (Miocene)
o 4.2.1 Debates About the Discoveries at
Thenay

• 4.3 Implements From the Late Miocene of
Aurillac, France
o 4.3.1 A Find by Tardy
o 4.3.2 Further Discoveries by Rames
o 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)
o 4.5.1 Flint Implements
o 4.5.2 Cut Shells
o 4.5.3 Incised Bones
o 4.5.4 Possible Human Footprints
o 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
o 5.1.1
Monte Hermoso (Middle and
Early Pliocene)
o 5.1.2 Hrdlicka Attempts to Discredit
Ameghino
o 5.1.3
Willis Stacks the Geological
Deck
o 5.1.4 A Demolition Job by W. H.
Holmes
o 5.1.5 Other Finds by F. Ameghino
o 5.1.6 Evidence for the Intentional Use
of Fire
o 5.1.7 Primitive Kilns and Foundries?
Ameghino on the South
o 5.1.8
American Origins of Hominids
• 5.2 Tools
Found by Carlos Ameghino at
Miramar (Pliocene)
o ?A?5.2.1 Age of Site Commission of
Geologists Confirms
o 5.2.2 A Stone Point Embedded in a
Toxodon Femur (Pliocene)
o 5.2.3
Romero's Critique of the
Miramar Site
o 5.2.4 Boule on the Toxodon Femur
with Arrowhead
o 5.2.5 Boman, the Excellent
Ethnographer
• 5.3 Other Bolas and Bolalike Implements
o 5.3.1 The Sling Stone from Bramford,
England (Pliocene to Eocene)
o 5.3.2 Bolas from Olduvai Gorge (Early
Pleistocene)
• 5.4
Relatively Advanced North American
Paleolithic Finds
o 5.4.1 Sheguiandah: Archeology as a
Vendetta

• 5.5
Neolithic Tools From The Tertiary
Auriferous Gravels Of California
o 5.5.1 The Age of the Auriferous
Gravels
o 5.5.2 Discoveries of Doubtful Age
o 5.5.3 Tuolumne Table Mountain
o 5.5.4 Dr. Snell's Collection
o 5.5.5 The Walton Mortar
o 5.5.6 The Carvin Hatchet
o 5.5.7 The Stevens Stone Bead