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Human Antiquity : Did Mainstream Science Get It Wrong?

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Human Antiquity: Did Mainstream Science Get It Wrong?
Modern anthropologists and paleontologists are in relative agreement regarding the timeline of modern humans, Homo sapiens, and how long they have been in existence. According to mainstream science, popular belief holds that the history of our species is confirmed to be confined to the past 12,000 years. This figure is a culmination based on what we know about evolution and what we have been able to gather through fossil analyzation and dating of artifacts as well as human remains. Although the subject of human antiquity, also referred to as human origins, does not prompt a great deal of debate there may actually be the need for some. A reexamination of the notion that humans have only existed a mere 12,000 years should be considered as there may be evidence to support a much greater antiquity of modern human life. Alternative researchers have offered up evidence of “forbidden archeology” that contradicts the mainstream beliefs of human origins, however these discoveries seem to have been swept under the scientific rug.
“Forbidden archeology” is the terminology used to describe the alternative theories that are held against mainstream science in regards to human origins and the history of both us and our ancestors. Within forbidden archeology is scientist and specialist on the subject Cremo, who suggests that there is adequate proof that modern man did not evolve as previously thought from
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