Forbidden
Archeology
and Banned Books Week
from Lori Erbs
Celebrate Banned Books Week with Forbidden Archeology's Impact
The book that uncovered decades of "buried evidence" challenging the standard
views on Human Evolution was itself threatened with censorship!
September 26 - October 3 is Banned Books Week, a time to cherish Intellectual Freedom and
the right to express one's opinion even if that opinion may be considered unorthodox or
unpopular. Forbidden Archeology's Impact: How A Controversial New Book Shocked the
Scientific Community and Became an Underground Classic by Michael A. Cremo documents
the explosive reaction of the scientific community and other establishment groups to his
first work, Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race.
In this provocative compilation of reviews, correspondence and media interviews readers
get a stunning inside look at how Establishment Scientists felt so threatened by The
Mysterious Origins of Man, an NBC prime time special hosted by Charlton Heston and
featuring Forbidden Archeology, that they lobbied the Federal Communications
Commission to censure and fine NBC for airing it! This documentary also presents more
subtle nuances of Academia's Knowledge Filters at work as reviewers ridicule Forbidden
Archeology because of conflicts with deeply held beliefs and institutional doctrines
instead of lack of scholarly content.
Forbidden Archeology co-authors Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson spent
eight painstaking years retrieving hundreds of significant archival documents from obscure
depositories in libraries that had been practically buried over the course of time. What
they discovered was that massive quantities of perfectly good evidence for alternate
theories of human evolution had been suppressed and ignored by the academic community. Forbidden
Archeology has restored this evidence to modern scrutiny.
When books are challenged, restricted, removed, or banned, an atmosphere of suppression
exists. Unexpressed ideas, unpublished works, unpurchased books are lost forever.
Intellectual freedom can exist only where two essential conditions are met: first, that
all individuals have the right to hold any belief on any subject and to convey their ideas
in any form they deem appropriate; and second, that society makes an equal commitment to
the right of unrestricted access to information and ideas regardless of the communication
medium used, the content of the work, and the viewpoints of both the author and receiver
of information.
On August 30, 1998 the Japanese edition of Forbidden Archeology was released with
7,000 copies in print. For more information visit the Michael Cremo and Forbidden
Archeology Etc. website at http://www.mcremo.com
Forbidden Archeology's Impact
by Michael A. Cremo
592 pages 6" x 9" ISBN: 0-89213-283-3
Category: Science/Archeology/Anthropology
$35.00 Harcover Publication date: May 1998
Available in bookstores nationwide or by calling 1-800-897-7857 (Access Code
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Distributed by Torchlight Publishing, Inc.
Contact Lori Erbs—Unlimited Resources (360) 728-9813
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