# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-cremo
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:57:30.333Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-cremo"
name: "Michael Cremo"
slug: "michael-cremo"
description: "Michael A. Cremo, also known by his devotional name Drutakarmā dāsa, is an American independent researcher who describes himself as a Vedic creationist and an \"alternative archeologist.\" He argues that humans have lived on Earth for millions of years. Based on artifacts allegedly found in the Eocene auriferous gravels of Table Mountain, California and discussed in his book Forbidden Archeology, Cremo argues for the existence of modern humans on Earth as early as 30 to 40 million years ago. Forbidden Archeology, which he wrote with Richard L. Thompson, has attracted criticism from mainstream scholars, who describe it as pseudoscientific."
tagline: "American alternative archeologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Cremo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-07-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.25
  momentum:             10.13245033112583
  historical:           7.030924
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/MichaelCremoItsReallyMe"
    handle:    "MichaelCremoItsReallyMe"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.mcremo.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Cremo"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D1%8A%D0%BB_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE"
    title: "Майкъл Кремо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cremo"
    title: "Michael Cremo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cremo"
    title: "Michael Cremo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cremo"
    title: "Michael Cremo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cremo"
    title: "Michael Cremo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cremo"
    title: "Michael Cremo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Кремо, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2494817"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump