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Challenging the Myth

Steen-McIntyre

OriginsNet.org

VanLandingham

The First American

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PC News Vol.2, Iss.1

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 -

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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 cherished 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.
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.)
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...
  
  
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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." DISCUSSION FORUM New: Book review by Ishtar, The mind in the cave, by David Lewis-Williams
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
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." New: Book chapter by Matt Gatton, "First light: Inside the Palaeolithic camera obscura," in Acts of seeing: Artists, scientists, and the history of the visual.
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 New: Debate article by Peter Faris, In Plain Sight
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. New: Article by Patrick Lyons, Mystery of the Dorenberg skull (Part 1) New: Article by Patrick Lyons, 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." New: Article by Jörn Greve and Gerhard Neuhäuser, Diversity not Darwinism New: Article by Jörn Greve and Lutz Fiedler, Does symbolism represent progress?	Neanderthal range in Europe and the Middle East charted by Ryulang
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. New: Article by Beth McCormack, Bilzingsleben gave us the big picture
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
Gerhard Neuhäuser	Germany New: Article by Jörn Greve and Gerhard Neuhäuser, Diversity not Darwinism
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.

Additional members of the Pleistocene Coalition

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Tony Mitton Neil Steede

Carrie Malde Gerhard Neuhäuser

David Campbell Richard Dullum

Thomas Bargatzky Lee Laughlin

Lutz Fiedler Laura Lyons

Tom Baldwin Jean Raab

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