American writer and Vedic creationist, co-author with Richard Thompson of Forbidden Archaeology (1993), a compilation of nineteenth and early twentieth century reports of human remains and artefacts in strata far older than the accepted chronology allows. The book’s lasting contribution to the field is not its case studies, most of which rest on excavation standards no longer accepted, but its term for how they were set aside: the Knowledge Filter. Cremo’s own framework is explicitly religious, arguing from Vedic cycles for a human antiquity of hundreds of millions of years, a commitment he states openly and which the writers who borrow the Knowledge Filter usually do not carry over. He appears in the ancient-mysteries literature mainly as a methodological authority rather than as a source of evidence, and Heather Lynn credits him with advising her to remain inside the academy as a renegade rather than leave it.
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Knowledge Filter · Heather Lynn · Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis · Lost Civilization Hypothesis · Graham Hancock