A human presence 1 million years ago conflicts with the standard evolution story that I was taught. There is a book titled, Forbidden Archeology, that also presented evidence of very ancient man.
“Forbidden Archeology”
That book is a real brain blower.
Needs to be read by anyone interested in Human history.
Science is a method, not a body of knowledge, IOW, new information is possible (basically inevitable), leading to no fixed belief.
FA is an interesting book. It’s pretty darned thick, so is its sequel (can’t lay hands on either one, but have them both). One million years is nothing on their time scale, they accept finds of artifacts from billions-of-years-old strata. Generally that’s rejected by scientists. :’)
In a world 4.5 billion years old, that apparently cooled down within 100 million years of forming (liquid water was present, based on fossil data), and that went from Asian primates 45 million years ago — one percent of the age of the Earth — to hominids 5 million years ago — 1.1 percent of that — it’s difficult to NOT think of intelligent life having plenty of time to arise and get wiped out over and over.
Not necessarily, since the trick word here is "human".
You and I would classify all of the following as "pre-human", and yet it seems science writers like to blur the distinctions:
All of which were alive one million years ago, and could have made stone tools such as those found near Untermassfeld, in Germany.