Now posted! PC News ISSUE#6

Challenging the Myth

Steen-McIntyre

OriginsNet.org

VanLandingham

The First American

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PC News Issue #6

Challenging the Myth

Steen-McIntyre

OriginsNet.org

VanLandingham

The First American

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions
to the creed of any party of men whatever,
in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else
where I was capable of thinking for myself."

- Thomas Jefferson, 1789 -

PLEISTOCENE COALITION MEMBERS

Researchers with evidence challenging the standard view of early man
as promoted by mainstream science

Challenging the Myth	Palaeolithic geometry, cartography, and linguistics If you believe that early peoples such as Homo erectus and Neanderthals were less intelligent than we are today, then you are placing far too much trust in the objectivity of mainstream science and especially anthropology. Unlike in other fields of science, and due to the less-rigorous nature and weaknesses of its tenets, the anthropology community often withholds from the public any evidence that challenges its core paradigms resulting in public perceptions that are by no means accurate. On this page (The Graphics of Bilzingsleben, in lieu of the forthcoming page), you can learn the story of how empirical and unequivocal geometric data challenging a paradigm and presented in a mainstream forum has been held back from publication by the European, Australian, and U. S. scientific communities. Learn how this data (held back since 2006) demonstrates beyond any doubt that there has been no change whatsoever in human cognitive ability for at least 400,000 years. (J. Feliks)
Steen-McIntyre	People have been in the New World for 250,000 years If you are absolutely convinced that people first arrived in the Americas a mere 15-30 thousand years ago, this is because you have been spoon-fed by an institution that will not allow you to see conflicting data. When scientific institutions withhold empirical data in order to promote a single belief system they can manipulate a trusting public into believing whatever paradigm they wish to impose upon them. Those who trust the institutions but do not investigate the evidence themselves are easily prodded along. On this website you can view actual archaeological data straight from a tephrochronologist (volcanic ash expert, Ph.D). Re-claim your ability to think for yourself. Go beyond what you read on blogs or watch on standard science programs and be prepared to question what you have long been taught regarding the peopling of the Americas. (This website is under construction. However, much of the data on the archaeological sites can be viewed temporarily on the Valsequillo and Hueyatlaco forums of the website.) New articles in Pleistocene Coalition News coming May-June 2010.
OriginsNet.org	Art and religion have been around since the beginning The website of James B. Harrod, Ph.D. Do you have a picture of early peoples such as Homo erectus or Neanderthals as just barely intelligent enough to walk around or throw a few spears? Is your picture one in which early peoples spend their entire lives in little more than a desperate struggle for survival without stories or philosophies? On this website you can learn through images of actual artifacts how the archaeological evidence for early art, myth and religion is both immense and vast. If you are prepared to think in 3D and enter into the spiritual and philosophical minds of early people, then it is time to look beyond the mundane interpretations of artifacts so long promoted by mainstream science and realize with confidence what you probably already intuitively knew - that human beings have always thought and felt deeply about their world.
VanLandingham	Mainstream science runs when its precepts are challenged Scientists absorbed in the long-unquestioned paradigm that Homo erectus never made it to the New World may tell you to steer clear of "fringe" ideas. They often do whatever it takes to make certain that you, as a consumer of science, are left to know of only one perspective in regards how American archaeological sites are dated and when early peoples first appeared in the Americas. Often, they have provided dates for artifacts and even human remains specially-tailored to fit the preconceived notion that only modern Homo sapiens made it to the New World. See where this is heading? Rest assured, these scientists are now running scared in the face of hard-fast data. Here you can read the actual reports from one of the world's leading diatomists, Ph.D (reports these scientists would rather you didn't have access to) demonstrating beyond any reasonable doubt that archaic people were in the Americas 80-400 thousand years ago.
The First American	Science can sometimes suppress what it doesn't understand This website is based on the comprehensive volume by archaeologist, Christopher Hardaker, detailing the entire story of how a whole generation of science readers have been deliberately steered away from data that might confuse them regarding the aggressively-promoted paradigm of no-early-peoples in the Americas. Are you, as an objective thinker, concerned by those attempting to do your thinking for you? You should be. Hardaker's page also features updates on an American archaeological site deemed invalid by promoters of the above-mentioned paradigm though one taken seriously by famed anthropologist Louis Leakey. All in all, it is the data that matter. Rather than allowing yourself to be prodded along, take a look at the data and think for yourself. Keep in mind that if one piece of data (e.g., VanLandingham diatoms) establishes the reality of even a single early site, then the entire New World frontier will change in an instant.

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• If you realize that human prehistory must have been far more complex than what you've been taught...
  
  
• If you cannot reconcile an image of human beings intelligent enough to create fire, yet, for some reason, unable to speak or even to think as we do...
  
  
• If you wonder whether or not to trust scientific institutions that participate in the suppression of empirical data while aggressively promoting a simplistic and narrow-minded ideological agenda...

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Ishtar's Gate	United Kingdom "Not only did our ancestors exist at a much earlier time than we originally thought, we are coming to understand that they were extremely intelligent and in touch with a greater and deeper spiritual reality than the limited viewpoint that we are left with today." -Ishtar Babilu Dingir, DISCUSSION FORUM Articles in PC News: Book review, The mind in the cave by David Lewis-Williams Book review, Forbidden Archeology by Michael Cremo New: The origin of Hubris
Alan Cannell	Brazil International civil engineer and author of "Throwing behaviour and the mass distribution of geological hand samples, hand grenades and Olduvian manuports." Slide show by Alan Cannell: The Deep Roots of Some Aspects of Aesthetic Design Articles in PC News: The next decade: What do you think will happen? Deep roots of aesthetic design: Winklepickers and Phi Phi, beauty, and the Neolithic Chimps and bonobos: Gently putting the molecular clocks back Google Earth as a support tool in paleoanthropology New: Sexual selection in archaic populations: Were Neanderthals 'cute' in their own way?
Paleo-camera Theory	United States The website of Matt Gatton. "Harsh climates in the Paleolithic era forced humans and their predecessors to adopt heat-retaining dwelling strategies, including the use of hide tents in cave mouths, under rock overhangs, and in the open. Small random holes in these hide tents would have coincidentally and occasionally formed camera obscuras, projecting moving images inside the dwelling spaces. These ghostly images carried with them spiritual, philosophical, and aesthetic implications." Book chapter by Matt Gatton, "First light: Inside the Palaeolithic camera obscura," in Acts of seeing: Artists, scientists, and the history of the visual Articles in PC News: Paleo-camera and the concept of representation. New: Paleo-camera, Phase II: Projected images in art and ritual
Rock Art Blog	United States The website of Peter Faris of the Colorado Rock Art Association (Archivist/Publications/and former president). "I began studying rock art back in 1979... I am particularly interested in using clues within the rock art, the culture, and its mythology, to attempt interpretations of meaning." DISCUSSION FORUM Articles in PC News: Debate article, In Plain Sight Book review, World Trade and Biological Exchanges Before 1492
NEW Groups forming on the edge	International In the past several years not only have researchers battling suppression questioned the objectivity behind mainstream science and anthropology but so has an increasingly Internet-savvy general public. Online researchers are less inclined to simply trust science once they realize that a single ideology rather than scientific objectivity has been driving interpretations of evidence in areas as important as human origins or human prehistory. Prior to the Internet, the peer review system in anthropology so effectively blocked conflicting data from publication that the general public had no way of knowing that conflicting data even existed; it believed that mainstream science was giving them a true and balanced interpretation of all known evidence. However, the Internet has changed everything; more people are privy to the fact that dissenting evidence—awareness of which is an absolutely crucial part of critical thinking and objectivity—is being withheld in anthropology while selected evidence is being presented as unchallenged and in the context of what is increasingly being recognized as a belief system or worldview. As a response, more and more people have joined together to form discussion groups to weigh out the evidence for themselves, express doubts, and otherwise openly challenge proclemations in anthropology presented as science that would never pass as science in any other field. This page will contain links to various such groups. Btw, it should make no difference to readers whether these groups are motivated by science alone (if even possible) or contain members whose concerns are colored by religions or philosophies. What matters, and what skeptics should pay attention to, is that these groups have mounting impirical reasons to doubt the veracity and objectivity of what is presented to them as fact by mainstream science. In one way or another, groups of this nature support a premise of the Pleistocene Coalition that mainstream scientific behaviors such as suppression of conflicting data need to be fought, that is, unless we are all content to become puppets of an international belief system presented as science yet which is somehow immune to the standard scientific requirement of testability in real time. IMPORTANT NOTE: Most of these groups feature regular contributions by mainstream scientists in university positions though these contributors, for obvious reasons, often write under the safety of anonimity via avatar or nicknames. It is likely that many of these scholars will come out publicly when the paradigm changes and the evidence starts to be considered in an equitable manner.
Discoveries in context	United States Oftentimes, the history behind great discoveries is just as informative and intriguing as the discoveries themselves. This is especially the case when the discoveries in question challenge the standard paradigms of mainstream science. Learn some of these fascinating stories right here from Patrick Lyons, BA, BS, MBA. One may discover that the value scientists place on various artifacts or archaeological sites often has as much to do with their belief systems as it does with the actual data. Articles in PC News: Mystery of the Dorenberg skull (Part 1) Mystery of the Dorenberg skull (Part 2)
Jörn Greve	Germany "There has to be stated a continuous line showing how ethnocentristic our scientific view is focussed and thereby rejecting our ancestors like the Neandertals as being only another aberration and not at all a part of our ancestral line." -Jörn Greve, PD, MD, neurologist, author "Pre-Symbolic Interaction and the Palaeo-Ecology of Religion." Articles in PC News: Jörn Greve, Gerhard Neuhäuser, Diversity not Darwinism Jörn Greve, Lutz Fiedler, Does symbolism represent progress? Jörn Greve, Gerhard Neuhäuser, Ardi and Ida: On their way - not only out of Africa New: Jörn Greve and Gerhard Neuhäuser, Determinants of human development - exemplified by Homo floresiensis	Neanderthal range in Europe and the Middle East charted by Ryulang
Gerhard Neuhäuser	Germany Department of Pediatrics, Neurology (retired), Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen. Head of Child Neurology and Social Pediatrics, 1978-2001. Professor Neuhauser is especially interested in developmental problems and neurobiology of behavior. Articles in PC News: Jörn Greve, Gerhard Neuhäuser, Diversity not Darwinism Jörn Greve, Gerhard Neuhäuser, Ardi and Ida: On their way - not only out of Africa New: Jörn Greve and Gerhard Neuhäuser, Determinants of human developoment - exemplified by Homo floresiensis
Beth McCormack	United States Beth McCormack's background and interests are diverse. She did her dissertation (M.A. Univ. of Reading, UK) on altered states of consciousness and is interested in Lower Palaeolithic societies as well as exploring the union of art and science. McCormack has studied data from Lower Palaeolithic sites such as Bilzingsleben and applied ideas formulated by those studies to the prehistoric passage graves of Wales and Ireland. Also influencing McCormack's approach to archaeology is a strong background in music. She is currently studying Neanderthal musical culture as well as Palaeolithic campsites. McCormack is project manager and editor for a U. S. archaeological company. Articles in PC News: Bilzingsleben gave us the big picture
Lutz Fiedler	Germany State archaeologist, Hesse, Germany. Fiedler is the discoverer of the early Stone Age (Acheulian) figurine known as the "Venus of Tan-Tan" which is regarded as one of the earliest examples of sculpture in archaeology. It was found during excavations on the north bank of the River Draa in Morocco right next to Acheulian handaxes between undisturbed layers dated 300,000-500,000 years old. Articles in PC News: Jörn Greve and Lutz Fiedler, Does symbolism represent progress? New by Lutz Fiedler, At the core of language and culture.
Babel's Dawn	United States The website of Edmund Blair Bolles, author of Einstein Defiant, Galileo's Commandment, and The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age. Babel's Dawn is a highly-rated blog about the origins of speech. DISCUSSION FORUM
Adrienne Mayor	United States Author of Fossil Legends of the First Americans, The First Fossil Hunters, and many other publications including military history. Mayor's broad-scoped research has been featured on NPR, the BBC, and the History Channel as well as in The New York Times and National Geographic. In addition to researching classical Greek and Roman literature, Mayor also writes about other "'pre-scientific' myths" and parallels to modern scientific methods.

The links in this section are to current Pleistocene Coalition News articles or artwork

Carl L. Johanessen Tony Mitton Neil Steede Michael Winkler

Carrie Malde Gerhard Neuhäuser Peter Faris Ed Gutentag

Thomas Bargatzky Lee Laughlin David Campbell Paulette Steeves

Richard Dullum Virginia Steen-McIntyre Michael Cremo Ishtar Babilu Dingir

Lutz Fiedler Laura Lyons Jim Harrod Chris Hardaker

Tom Baldwin Jean Raab John Feliks

- Pleistocene Coalition News back issues -

#1 Oct 2009 Patrick Lyons Virginia Steen-McIntyre David Campbell Ishtar Babilu Dingir Alan Cannell John Feliks

#2 Nov-Dec 2009 Jörn Greve Gerhard Neuhäuser Lutz Fiedler Peter Faris Patrick Lyons Beth McCormack David Campbell Laura Lyons Virginia Steen-McIntyre Ishtar Babilu Dingir

#3 Jan-Feb 2010 Carl L. Johannessen Richard Dullum Tom Baldwin Jim Harrod Alan Cannell Virginia Steen-McIntyre Ishtar Babilu Dingir John Feliks

#4 March-April 2010 Sam VanLandingham Michael Cremo Jörn Greve Gerhard Neuhäuser Virginia Steen-McIntyre Alan Cannell Peter Faris Richard Dullum

#5 May-June 2010 Michael Winkler Matt Gatton Ed Gutentag Alan Cannell Lutz Fiedler Virginia Steen-McIntyre John Feliks

#6 July-August 2010 Alan Cannell Sam VanLandingham Matt Gatton Jörn Greve Gerhard Neuhäuser Chris Hardaker Ishtar Babilu Dinger Virginia Steen-McIntyre

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