FORBIDDEN ARCHAEOLOGY (BOOK REVIEW)In their massive, 900 page book, Forbidden Archaeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race, authors Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson present an overwhelming array of anomalous evidence that challenges the prevailing story of human origins. The book begins with a thorough discussion of incised and broken bones, evidence of human activity from strata dated between the Pleistocene and Eocene. There follows a compelling presentation of flint tools that bear evidence of human workmanship, like the scraping and boring tools (left) from the Red Crag in England (Pliocene-Eocene). The book moves on to discuss more advanced tools, like the arrow-head embedded in a toxodon femur found in an Argentinean Pliocene formation (right), the small zinc and silver vessel (center) found in a Massachusetts rock layer supposed to be 600 million years old, and the advanced stone tools found in California gold mines. Professor J.D. Whitney, the state geologist of California, published a lengthy review of these implements, including spear points, mortars and pestles, verifying that they were found deep in mine shafts underneath thick, undisturbed layers of lava thought to be from 9 to 55 million years old. After completely reviewing both anomalous and accepted human skeletal remains (including human bones found in a coal bed), the authors conclude their compelling case that double standards, prejudice, and buried evidence have led the scientific establishment to a completely flawed view of human origins.