Telegraph Obituaries
Tue, 20 October 2026
Michael Cremo, who has died aged 78, was a self-described “Vedic creationist” and “alternative archaeologist” who devoted his life to contradicting the widely recognised account of Darwinian evolution; using the most spurious evidence he claimed that humans did not evolve from other species but have lived on Earth for millions of years.
Cremo’s theories were not, he insisted, the rantings of a religious zealot at odds with modern science, but instead des
