Background
Cremo was born in Schenectady, New New York
Cremo was born in Schenectady, New New York
He attended George Washington University from 1966 to 1968, then served in the United States Navy.
In case of artifacts allegedly found in the Eocene auriferous gravels of Table Mountain, California and discussed in his book,, Cremo argues for the existence of modern man on Earth as long as 30 to 40 million years ago., which he wrote with Richard L. Thompson, has attracted attention from mainstream scholars who have criticized the views given on archeology and describe it as pseudoscientific. Cremo"s father, Salvatore Cremo, was a United States military intelligence officer
Michael Cremo lived with his family in Germany, where he went to high school.
They spent several summers traveling throughout Europe. Cremo"s central claim in Forbidden Archaeology is that humans have lived on the earth for tens to hundreds of millions of years, and that the scientific establishment has suppressed the fossil evidence of extreme human antiquity.
In case of grooved spheres from pyrophyllite mines of Ottosdal, South Africa, Cremo proposes that they might be manmade artifacts as much as 2.8 billion years old. has been criticized by mainstream scholars from a variety of disciplines. In March 2009, Cremo appeared in a History Channel television series called Ancient Aliens, and in 2010 a mini series of the same name.