[world-vedic] Puranic Archeological impact

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Dear Hare Krishna Dasa,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhuapada.

I am doing very well without any degree. This year I have spoken at the

World Archeological Congress, in Capetown, South Africa, and the =

European

Association of Archeologists annual meeting in Bournemouth, England. I =

have

just received an invitation to speak at the Royal Institution, one of =

the

oldest and most prestigious scientific associations in England. Just

recently, I was invited by the geology department of the University of

Oklahoma to give a lecture there. They paid all my expenses. My paper =

that

I presented at the previous World Archeological Congress is being =

published

in a peer-reviewed conference proceedings volume, titled Time and

Archeology, edited by Tim Murray, publisher Routledge, a big scientific

publisher. I regularly lecture at universities and scientific =

conferences

all over the world. I have some plan to do the same in Latin America. It

just requires some organization.=20

 

Ph.D. or no Ph.D., one has to have something intelligent and Krishna

conscious to say and the ability to get people to listen. By the grace =

of

Krishna and Srila Prabhupada, I have something to say and the ability to

get people to listen. In the end, that is all that matters.=20

 

But it is good to have nice reviews from authorities. For your =

information,

I am putting below some reviews of FA, and also a review of my latest =

book

Forbidden Archeology's Impact.

 

>From your email message it is not clear what city you live in and what

university you study at. What is your field of study?

 

Your servant,

Drutakarma Dasa

 

 

FORBIDDEN ARCHEOLOGY

by Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson

Bhaktivedanta Institute

 

EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS

 

Forbidden Archeology is an extremely controversial book that has =

attracted

a great deal of attention in the academic world. As might be expected, =

its

anti-Darwinian thesis has provoked many negative reviews, some of which

misrepresent the substance of the book. But even those who disagree with

the book's conclusion have sometimes recognized it as a genuine =

scholarly

contribution and correctly represented the substance of the book to =

their

readers, as shown by the following excerpts.

 

"Michael Cremo, a research associate in history and philosophy of =

science,

and Richard Thompson, a mathematician, challenge the dominant views of

human origins and antiquity. This volume combines a vast amount of both

accepted and controversial evidence from the archeological record with

sociological, philosophical, and historical critiques of the scientific

method to challenge existing views and expose the suppression of

information concerning history and human origins." Journal of Field

Archeology, Vol. 21, 1994, p. 112.

 

"I have no doubt that there will be some who will read this book and =

profit

from it. Certainly it provides the historian of archeology with a useful

compendium of case studies in the history and sociology of scientific

knowledge, which can be used to foster debate within archaeology about =

how

to describe the epistemology of one's discipline." Tim Murray, in =

British

Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 28, 1995, p. 379.

 

"It must be acknowledged that Forbidden Archeology brings to attention =

many

interesting issues that have not received much consideration from

historians; and the authors' detailed examination of the early =

literature

is certainly stimulating and raises questions of considerable interest,

both historically and from the prospective of practitioners of sociology =

of

scientific knowledge." Jo Wodak and David Oldroyd, in Social Studies of

Science, Vol. 26(1), 1996, p. 196.

 

"So has Forbidden Archeology made any contribution at all to the =

literature

on palaeoanthropology? Our answer is a guarded 'yes', for two reasons.

First, while the authors go in for overkill in terms of swamping the =

reader

with detail . . . much of the historical material they resurrect has not

been scrutinized in such detail before. Second, . . . Cremo and Thompson =

do

raise a central problematic regarding the lack of certainty in =

scientific

'truth' claims." Jo Wodak and David Oldroyd, in Social Studies of =

Science,

Vol. 26(1), 1996, p. 207.

 

"All the reasons and evidence why modern humans are not rather recent =

but ÐAmost ancient." Cyprian Broodbank, in Antiquity, Vol. 67, December 1993, =

p.

904.

 

"The explicit aim of the authors is to reconcile paleoanthropology to =

the

Vedic ideas that 'the human race is of great antiquity' and that =

'various

human and apelike beings have coexisted for a long time.'. . . The =

argument

is simple: think of all the generalizations we can make about human

evolution. Now think of all the exceptions, paradoxes, mistakes, and

hoaxes. Now switch them. That is this book." Jonathan Marks, American

Journal of Physical Anthropology, Vol. 93(1), January 1994, p. 140.

 

"The theme of this book is that Homo sapiens 'existed on earth millions =

of

years ago' and that this fact has been suppressed or ignored by the

scientific establishment because it contradicts the dominant views of =

human

origins and antiquity. To prove this theory, the authors go over the

history of the principal discoveries bearing on human evolution and they

review much of the evidence which concerns human origins, especially =

that

which does not agree with the 'dominant paradigm.'" Ethology, Ecology, =

and

Evolution, Volume 6, 1994, p. 461.

 

"Forbidden Archeology . . . argues that anatomica