Forbidden Archeology_ The Full Unabridged Edition - Michael A. Cremo [222]
As we have seen, an important confirmation of human or protohuman status is the presence of stone tools, such as those found in Bed I of Olduvai Gorge. These tools, among the oldest given unqualified recognition, are attributed to Homo habilis in the Early Pleistocene. According to the monogenetic evolutionary assumptions underlying modern paleoanthropology, one should expect to find tools dating from the very early Pleistocene only in eastern or southern Africa.
Florentino Ameghino, however, discovered stone implements in strata dating back to the Early Pliocene (3–5 million years b.p.) and even as far back as the Miocene—and in Argentina instead of Africa. Along with stone implements, Ameghino found abundant signs of human occupation, such as evidence of fire, burned bones, incised bones, and human skeletal remains.
So one might wonder, do we intend to give support to Ameghino’s claims that humankind originated in Argentina? Hardly. But we do feel that the evidence uncovered by Ameghino lends strong support to the conclusion that the whole concept of a monogenetic evolutionary origin for humanity, be it in Kenya, Argentina, Siberia, China, or Kashmir, is incorrect. If at various points around the world one can find stone implements and other evidence for the presence of human beings dating back as far as 20 million years, there is good reason to suspect that the current picture of human origins and antiquity is completely wrong.
It just might be that the version of human ancestry promoted by the dominant Anglo-American school of anthropology, namely that humans originated in former British possessions in Africa, deserves no greater credibility than an Argentine scientist’s claim that humans originated in South America. Indeed, humans may not have evolved at all. Human beings may have been present on this planet, in their current form and at essentially the same level of cultural advancement, for as far back in time as we can carry our investigations. That is what the totality of the evidence—not the carefully edited selection of evidence found in current textbooks—actually suggests. Or to put it another way: the hypothesis that human beings of the fully modern type have existed on this planet for several millions of years accounts for all the available evidence, in the form of stone implements, incised bones, and human skeletal remains, more fully than the modern evolutionary theory, which survives only by discarding, under various excuses, a vast number of discoveries made by scientists over the past 150 or so years. The discoveries of Florentino Ameghino are a case in point.
5.2 Tools Found by Carlos Ameghino at Miramar (Pliocene)
AfterAles Hrdlicka’s attack on the discoveries of FlorentinoAmeghino,Ameghino’s brother Carlos launched a new series of investigations on the Argentine coast south of Buenos Aires. From 1912 to 1914, Carlos Ameghino and his associates, working on behalf of the natural history museums of Buenos Aires and La Plata, discovered stone tools in the Pliocene strata of a barranca, or cliff, extending along the seaside at Miramar.
A 5.2.1 Age of Site Commission of Geologists Confirms
In order to confirm the age of the implements, Carlos Ameghino invited a commission of four geologists to give their opinion. The geologists were Santiago Roth, chief of the paleontology