Re: [tied] OIT and Atlantis

What I find particularly surprising is that any responsible official should have wished to discuss these things with Michael Cremo. Those on the list who know anything about palaeoanthropology will probably have heard of "Forbidden Archaeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race". The title says it all. The book is a mixture of pseudoscientific sensationalism and demagoguery in equal proportions, with a superficially scholarly façade to make it look more respectable than the average anti-evolutionary trash. What next, I wonder? Will von Däniken be invited to express his opinion as well?

Piotr

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Subject: [tied] OIT and Atlantis

A separate piece regarding this discovery indicates: "What was found has surprised archaeologists around the world and was the subject of a private meeting two weeks ago attended by the Indian Minister in charge of investigating the underwater site about thirty miles off the coast from Surat. An American [who was invited to] that private meeting was Michael Cremo, researcher in the history of archaeology for the Bhakti Vedanta Institute in India and author of the book "Forbidden Archaeology".... "Now, [said Cremo] another American archaeologist, Richard Meadows of Harvard University, is proposing there should be an international effort here. On the surface that sounds like a good idea, but it also may be an effort of American archaeologists and others to control the project." "I don't think they want to see a civilization being as old as it appears to be according to these new finds at 9500 years ago. So, I would hope the Indian archaeologists and government would be very cautious about letting outsiders in there..." So forgive my mistake if you thought I meant Micheal Witzel was Atlantean. I only meant that the public relations regarding all these wonderful new discoveries is getting Atlantean. Which it plainly is.