HOMINOLOGY

Official Website of

The International Center of Hominology

and the  Herald of Hominology  journal(Rus),

representing the non-commercial

CRYPTOSPHERE Fund for Furthering Scientific Searches and Explorations

This special systematic site is aimed at plainly telling the TRUTH about the so-called "snowman" problem, i.e. enigmatic manlike bipeds pupularly known in different countries as Yeti, Yeren, Almas, Bigfoot, etc. The site's founders are specialists of hominology, organizers of The CRYPTOSPHERE Fund, The International Center of Hominology and The Herald of Hominology.

For half a century, since the 1954 Himalayan expedition in search of the Yeti, the public has been fascinated by reports of "wildmen", with the mass media interest in the phenomenon going up and down, and rising again at present as a result of fresh information.

As a matter of fact, research in this sphere is conducted not by academic institutions but by enthusiasts, as there are no diplomaed hominologists in world science so far. But some enthusiasts, engaged in this study for decades, have become virtual specialists on the subject, well-known in the scientific community and – through the media – among the general public.

More or less stable groups of enthusiasts are active in this field in different countries, in the USA, Canada, China, Australia. In Russia corresponding seekers and investigators have been united over many decades by the Smolin Seminar on the Questions of Hominology under the auspices of the Darwin Museum.

Unfortunately, information on this subject in the mass media and on various non-specialized websites is often fraught with errors and sometimes even deliberate fabrications. Our site, on the contrary, is called upon to shed true light on this research and offer objective information. Being systematic, it should give the visitor an idea of the subject as a whole, as well as the state of research at present and in the past.

The founder of hominology is the late Professor B.F.Porshnev, who, back in the 1960s, named the creatures under investigation "relict hominoids". Hence the name of this branch of primatology. A short technical term proposed by Dmitri Bayanov to indicate wild hairy bipeds is "homin".

In spite of the abundant testimonial and substantive evidence for the existence of homins, mainstream scientific institutions pay no attention to this subject, while few scientists who are bold enough to take it seriously are subjected to ridicule and ostracism. The struggle for a new discipline in science is going on, dubbed by B.F.Porshnev "the struggle for troglodytes". Our site will acquaint you with the particulars of this struggle, tell you of the people who are engaged in the research and of the creatures that are being studied.

We also hope that our site will unite the seekers and help them organize themselves for a successful search of the homins.

Authors of the site – founders of the Cryptosphere Fund: