Perhaps, as suggested in the illustration on the opposite page, they coexisted with more ape-like creatures.Īs intriguing as this possibility may be, current ideas about human evolution forbid it. It seems permissible, therefore, to consider a possibility neither Tuttle nor Leakey mentioned-that creatures with modern human bodies to match their modern human feet lived in East Africa some 3.6 million years ago. In the March 1990 issue of Natural History Tuttle confessed, "We are left with somewhat of a mystery." Fossil bones show, he said, that the known human beings back then-the australopithecines-had feet that were distinctly apelike. Tuttle, a physical anthropologist at the University of Chicago. To them this meant only that 3.6 million years ago our human ancestors had remarkably modern feet.īut other scientists disagreed. The prints were indistinguishable from those of modern human beings, said Mary Leakey and other scientists. In 1979, researchers at Laetoli, Tanzania, in East Africa discovered footprints in deposits of volcanic ash more than 3.6 million years old. We present here, in condensed form, the Introduction. Their book uncovers a startling picture not only of what the evidence is and what it means but also of how science reached its story.
The authors are Michael Cremo (Drutakarma Dasa) and Richard Thompson (Sadaputa Dasa), both regular contributors to BTG, and Stephen Bernath (Madhavendra Puri Dasa). That evidence, says the book, has been fudged.
Now a book from the Bhaktivedanta Institute, Forbidden Archaeology, takes a new look at the scientific evidence. The Vedic writings say he has been here a lot longer. Modern science tells us that anatomically modern man has been around for only about 100,000 years.
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