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So in summary: Hancock's theory lacks any evidence of an advanced civilisaiton that surely would have left something, and Schmidt's research shows plentiful evidence that supports the theory (already accepted by the time he studied at the site) that a hunter-gatherer society created the site.
Nov 18, 2022 · John Hoopes: Graham Hancock is not and does not want to be seen as a scientist or a historian. He is coming from a metaphysical place. He’s inspired by Western esoterica. For him, the ...
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Apr 18, 2024 · The long awaited discussion between Graham Hancock and archaeologist Flint Dibble on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast is now available. Here are my thoughts after listening to the whole four and a half hour thing, and after following many more social media threads on this than I wanted to.
Jun 1, 2017 · Graham Hancock is an audacious autodidact who believes that long before ancient Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Egypt there existed an even more glorious civilization.
Jun 9, 2023 · Who are the “magicians of the gods,” in Graham Hancock's alternative history series Ancient Apocalype on Netflix, and where did they come from?
- Big Bad Academia
- Mainstream Archaeology?
- What Makes Hancock’s Civilization Advanced?
- Gunung Padang
- Utterly Confounded
- What About The Dates?
- Those Mean Skeptics
- Nationalist Archaeology?
- Conclusions
Right out of the gate, Hancock leads with a derision of academia noting its “defensive, arrogant, and patronizing attitude” which he believes stifles exploration and discovery. Or, more precisely, the exploration and discovery of that which he’s already concluded to be true, which is: an “advanced human civilization much older than our own” existed...
There is no “mainstream” in archaeology. Such a descriptor implies that there are one or more other, alternative, archaeologies. There aren’t. One is either doing scientific archaeology or one isn’t. There is no alternative archaeology just like there is no alternative geology or alternative astronomy or alternative physics. I suppose Hancock is tr...
I don’t know. He never says in episode one. I suppose he might be saving the reveal for a later episode—maybe the end of the last episode. But I doubt it. I suspect this is something he might rather not be pinned down on. Did his civilization have airplanes? Spaceships? Some sort of automobile? Or were they just horse and buggy advanced? Ostensibly...
The main topic and primary site of the first episode is a small mountain in Indonesia called Gunung Padang. It was initially described by Dutch geologist R.D. M. Verbeek in 1891 as upright columns arranged in four terraces. Gunung Padang was later recorded in 1941 by NJ Krom, a Dutch researcher, and he described the pillars as being similar to Shai...
In first episode of Ancient Apocalypse, Hancock says Gunung Padang “utterly confounds ‘mainstream archaeologists’ because it calls into question everything they’ve taught us about the prehistory of humanity.” So we’re supposed to be completely and without qualification surprised or confusedby Gunung Padang, which is what it means to be “utterly con...
But it’s also difficult to date. Ali Akbar, an archaeologists featured in this episode, put the “First Cultural Layer around 500 BC, while the Second Layer Culture is 5200 BC or 7200 years ago.” Also featured by Hancock was Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, a geologist with even more extreme dates at up to 24,000 years ago. The site of Gunung Padang is a d...
If I’m skeptical yet hopeful for Akbar’s Second Layer Culture dates, I’m not at all hopeful for Natawidjaja’s claim of 24,000 years. Sure, it would be a wonderful discovery. But it has far too many holes in it as even an hypothesis to be taken more seriously than Horton’s Land of Who in a mote of dust on a dandelion bloom. Hancock calls the samples...
There is subtext tot he Gunung Padang story that wasn’t even suggested by Hancock or his favored academics. One of nationalist archaeology that isn’t all that dissimilar from what we can see happening with the so-called “Bosnian pyramid” in Visoko, Bosnia. Some of the clues to nationalist archaeology, which is a form of pseudoarchaeology, come in t...
Hancock leaves Gunung Padang and opines about how scholars somehow don’t “get to grips with […] how the Ice Age was a very special time when the world was very different” and “the Earth didn’t look the same.” I think he truly believes this is something that those in fields of science related to archaeology and geology don’t get but he does. And yet...
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Nov 11, 2022 · In Ancient Apocalypse, journalist Graham Hancock takes his three decades of research on early human civilizations that may have existed before the time period historians and archaeologists upon...
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