Worlds Before Our Own

I got this book after reading about human habitation sites 250,000 years old found in central Mexico, and finding that the Clovis culture must have orginated in France or Spain not Siberia, and that more and more North American finds are indicating there were people living here long before 12,000

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years ago, I was of course interested in this book's subject matter. I'm dissapointed though. What the author does is reprint old, odd news reports of anomolies in the past as written. There is no follow up to see if any of this stuff is actual, if any of the found objects are still around to be examined in modern light. Not that the book isn't interesting, more like reading "Ripley's Believe It or Not" than reading a scientific investagation of what may prove to be truly incredible finds. I've had it with here-say sensationalist, make-a-buck "studies" that aren't real investigations, just rumours. There are fabulous discoveries to be made about early human life, I've no doubt. That our present knowledge is scant and most likely wrong, again, no doubt. But mucking up the picture with uninvestigated innuendo is wrong and unprofessional. The author should follow up his reports and tell what he finds.

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