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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Forbidden Archaeology.

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Or, as I sometimes call it, paleolithomania.

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Now, we've heard something today about megaliths.

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Megalith is a word that means big stones used in structures.

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And I was very fortunate last night to be able to go out to Stonehenge and visit the classic

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megalithic structure here. I'm very grateful for that opportunity.

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And although my main focus of research is not megaliths, sometimes in my travels around the

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world, I do see some megalithic structures. For example, last year I was in India at a place

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called Hampi in west central India, and I just happened to notice this megalithic structure

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sitting on a hill next to a boulder perched in a very interesting position. I don't know what

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it means or what it's for or how old it is, but it is a megalithic structure that I've seen.

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Also, a couple of years ago I was speaking at a meeting of the World Archaeological Congress

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in Osaka, Japan, and I visited the Osaka Castle there, and some of the interior walls

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of the castle have some megaliths as part of them. This one is 48 square meters, weighs 108 tons,

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and this wall is full of stones of such size and weight, taken from distant places.

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So I have seen some megaliths, but it's not what I'm speaking about tonight.

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Tonight I'm going to be talking about paleoliths, and that means old stones.

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Not those old stones, who I dearly love, but other types of stones, old flint objects,

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and also human bones, human footprints, and very ancient layers of stone. And the question

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that I'm really looking at is how old is the human stone. And I'm going to talk about this

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the human species. Some researchers are looking into how old are different civilizations. I'm

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looking at the age of our human species on this planet. So how old is our species?

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Today the most common answer to that question comes from the modern followers of Charles Darwin,

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and they tell us that the first human beings like us appeared about 150,000 years ago.

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Before that, they tell us there were no human beings like us. There were only more primitive

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ape-like human ancestors. However, the writings of different ancient wisdom traditions, such as

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the ancient Sanskrit writings of India, tell us a different story. They tell us humans have

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existed on earth for many millions of years, going all the way back to the very beginnings

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of life on earth. And there is some evidence for this. It's not simply mythology, and I've

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documented this evidence in these books, some copies of which are here today. This evidence is

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not very well known because of what I call a process of knowledge filtration that operates

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in the world of science. We can call the blue box the knowledge filter. What it represents is

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the dominant consensus in the scientific community about a particular question. In this

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case, human antiquity. And reports of evidence that support the dominant consensus will pass

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through this filter very easily, which means, for example, that students will read about this

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evidence in their textbooks. But if we have reports of evidence that radically contradict

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the dominant theories, this evidence tends to be filtered out, forgotten, set aside, dismissed

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for unfair reasons. And therefore, most people, even in the professional scientific community,

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are unaware of this evidence, which contradicts the ideas being promoted by the modern followers

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of Charles Darwin. Now, I've spoken about this evidence in some unusual places. For example,

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the Royal Institution in London. Many of you who are a little bit older will recall that the

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backside of the old 20-pound note shows the Royal Institution lecture hall with Michael Faraday,

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the physicist Michael Faraday, speaking there about 150 years ago. One thing I really love

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about England is how much the English people love their traditions. The same table is there

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in the Royal Institution that was there 150 years ago, where Michael Faraday was speaking.

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150 years later, Michael Cremo speaking at the same table, and some of the same people in the

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audience. But I don't speak only at these scientific institutions and universities. This

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is me speaking at an eco camp in Alto Paraiso, Brazil. And I enjoy speaking to all kinds of

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gatherings, but not everyone appreciates what I have to say. This was a little bit of a discussion

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after my lecture at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. One of the evolutionary biologists there

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took exception to some of the things I was saying. But now I'm going to go over some of the kind of

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evidence that I'm talking about that I document in my books. This is a geologist, Dr. Virginia

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Steen-McIntyre. She was involved in dating an archaeological site in Mexico at a place called

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Puea Laco. It's near the town of Puebla in central Mexico. And there archaeologists discovered human

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artifacts. This is the excavation at Puea Laco. It was a very professional excavation. The

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artifacts were photographed in the layers of rock in which they were found. And of course,

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the archaeologists wanted to know how old these things were. So they called a team of geologists

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to date the site. Virginia Steen-McIntyre and her colleagues used four methods to date the site.

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And they concluded that the site must be at least 250,000 years old. But the archaeologists said

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that's impossible. According to their theories, human beings capable of making the artifacts

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did not exist anywhere in the world 250,000 years ago. So they refused to publish the age

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for the site given by their own handpicked team of geologists. So Virginia Steen-McIntyre

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and her colleagues were a little upset by that. So they independently published the age for the site

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in a scientific journal. But when they did that, they experienced an extreme negative backlash

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from their colleagues in the scientific world. Virginia Steen-McIntyre lost a teaching position

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that she held at a university in the United States. And her career as a geologist was

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suddenly finished because she had dared to publish something that contradicted the dominant theory.

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She wrote to the editor of the scientific journal that published her report,

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not being an anthropologist, I didn't realize how deeply woven into our thought the current

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theory of human evolution has become. Our work at Wyatt-Locko has been rejected by most archaeologists

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because it contradicts that theory, period. Now, some more work has been done in that area

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in recent years. There's an archaeologist named Sylvia Gonzalez who now works at a university here

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in the United Kingdom. She announced the discovery of footprints at the Valsakia Reservoir, which is

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right near Wyatt-Locko. She found dozens of footprints and layers of solidified volcanic ash.

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So she used the radiocarbon method to date the layers of ash and got an age of 41,500 years,

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which is old for North America. Generally, scientists think there were no human beings

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in North America until about 20,000 years ago maximum, but it's well within the range of the

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anatomically modern human species. As I said in the beginning, most scientists today would say

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that humans like ourselves came into existence 150,000 years ago. So 41,000 years is not

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outside that range. However, another scientist from the United States went down there and did

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additional dating studies on the layer of volcanic ash containing the footprints. He used a different

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method, a method that he regarded as more accurate, and he got an age of 1.3 million years

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for those layers of ash. Now here's what his conclusion was. His conclusion was those prints

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cannot possibly be human footprints because human beings didn't exist 1,300,000 years ago.

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My conclusion is a little bit different. The impressions are human footprints showing that

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humans like us existed 1.3 million years ago. The footprints are human footprints. They're

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found in layers of rock, 1,300,000 years old. That's evidence for an ancient human presence.

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And there are other discoveries, if we look into the history of archaeology, that support that idea

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from the same part of the world. In the early 20th century, a human skull, skull cap, it's a partial

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skull, just the top part of it, was found in Buenos Aires. It was found in an excavation

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there. The excavators had gone down about 15 meters. At that level, they encountered a thick

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layer of limestone rock locally named by, locally called Tosca. And when they broke through that

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layer of limestone rock, they found the human skull. Now according to modern geologists,

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that layer beneath the Tosca at that place belongs to the Pre-Ensenaden Formation.

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And according to modern geologists, that formation is at least 1.5 million years old.

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So there's human skeletal remains over a million years old. There are human skulls,

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over a million years old. This discovery from Buenos Aires was announced to the scientific

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world by a prominent South American paleontologist, Florentino Amagino. Now here in England,

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an interesting discovery was announced at a meeting of the British Association for the

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Advancement of Science in 1881 by the geologist Henry Stopes. He announced the discovery of a

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shell with a simple but recognizable human face carved on it. This shell came from the red crag

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formation at Walton-on-Nays, which is on the North Sea coast in East Anglia, as you see here on this

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map. This is a photograph of the shore at Walton-on-Nays. And the red crag formation can be

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seen high up on the cliff there. It's that reddish band just a little bit from the top of the cliff

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there. And it is that formation that contains fossil seashells, including the fossil seashell

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with the human face carved upon it. Now how old is that red crag formation? Modern geologists

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here in the United Kingdom tell us that the red crag formation belongs to the geological period

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called the Pliocene, belongs to the Late Pliocene, which would make it between two and three million

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years old. Another interesting discovery was made in the same general area. A human jawbone was

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discovered 16 feet deep in the red crag formation at a place called Fox Hall. So Fox Hall is on the