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Flooded Kingdoms (Graham Hancock)

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Psyber said:
Being so skeptical, you apparently have evidence in refutation of prehistoric cities and/or a rise in sea level.
No.

I just haven't seen anything very convincing in the last thirty years. I'm still waiting for the sort of proof, images, structures, or artifacts, that are unequivocal in their authenticity.

I'm a bit too long in the tooth to fall for wish fullfilment, that's all.

I remember the pleasure I got reading, Ignatius Donnelly's 'Atlantis: The Antediluvian World,' as a lad, way back in the early Seventies.

I also remember reading von Daniken, back then, and the sort of liberties he took with his evidence, to make it fit his theories.

So, when someone makes posts, such as,
Originally posted by Psyber
Of course, many other mysteries exist from mankind's distant past such as out-of-place artifacts and pyramids of an unknown origin. The implication is that records were either destroyed or are undiscovered. Especially when considered together, the evidence is much more than suggestive of a large human civilization existing prior to 10,000 years BP.
It seems natural to ask for some sort of references to such wonders.

A grab bag of hyperlinks as a "small taste" doesn't really cut it.

So, ponder this: There are accusations of a cover up in the archæological world, to hide the truth about our ancient origins. In order to maintain the status quo, l'ancien régime, or what ever.

Now, if the Indian and the Cuban Governments, had such paradigm shifting, ancient sites on their territory, what power on Earth could stop them from investigating these sites and presenting findings and proof that would blast the West's version of the past to smithereens, to the greater glory of their own prehistoric past?

I await further developments, with interest.

One more point: Where do you get the fact that, "humans are at least 600,000 years old as a species." ?

Since most authorities reckon on 'homo sapiens sapiens,' or modern man only having been around for some 200,000 years (maybe 300,000 at the very outside). Although 'homos sapiens,' our ancestors have been around for some 400,000 years. I'd be interested to see your evidence, as long as it's not just another long list of links.

'Hominid Timeline' :p
 
I don't have all the links in one place and could supply many more gradually. Also, I don't want stretch your credulity. Because it seems as if we may have read some of the same books, you may be aware of some of the relics that I mentioned. Similarly, I had the presumption that those who read and posted on the board also had read likewise.

The 600,000 year figure comes from finds in 1997 on the Plain of Afar in Africa. While the evidence was found several years ago, only recently were bones finally assembled and such and the conclusion made that humans existed in that time-frame. Unfortunately, I am unable to find that report at the present time.

As to my other assertions, I realize that the burden of proof is mine. Fortunately, the resources are virtually immediate for us. I guess I thought it would be fun to share ideas on the board, but feel bogged down with tediousness at this juncture.

One of the books I read decades ago was "Book of the Damned" by none other than Charles Fort. In fact, I still have it though haven't read it in thirty years. That original "Forteana" was full of conspiracy theory, as I recall. While such hypotheses are proliferate in the tome, little proof of them is offered.
 
In an effort to fortify my credibility, I am including links germaine to my prior assertions. Namely, I contend that a global civilization flourished prior to the current geological epoch (>10,000 years ago). Unfortunately, little exists in central locations regarding out-of-place artifacts and other evidence of my contention. Because I am very interested in the topic, and have been since reading "Beyond Star Wars" and other books in the 1970's, my inquiry is highly piqued. As can be noted in consecutive posts of mine with Androman, neither of us is satisfied that the assertion is irrefutably true. Hopefully, I may help to remedy that. To start out, I reference the ancient and very similar histories accounted by the Sumerians, Egyptians and Hebrews. The following references are not necessarily concerned with those but the ancient histories provide "historical" accounts of events in "prehistory." Also incorporated by reference are links previously mentioned on the board. In compiling the following, a great deal of winnowing was accomplished to try to separate evidence from the merely speculative. As a caveat, the list is by no means exhaustive.

http://kurellian.tripod.com/lostcv2.html

http://www.atlan.org/articles/guanches/

http://www.geocities.com/tasosmit2001/technol.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/688536/posts

http://www.pureinsight.org/pi/articles/2003/6/30/1678.html

http://asianresearch.org/articles/1432.html

http://www.arianuova.org/arianuova.it/arianuova.it/Components/English/A20-Atlantis.html

http://www.gggg.com/best/books/33NJX9WZU5SOK.html

http://www.cryptodesk.com/Jranl5801.htm
 
rynner said:
Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age (C4 last night), presented by Graham Hancock....
.......This episode focused mostly on Malta, above and below water, and the 'Bimini Road'. Intrigueing stuff.

To bring us full circle the lasted work on Malta suggest that the mysterious grooves in the limstone bedrock were the work of farmers, artficial growing beds on a landscape with very thin soils.

Still doesn't tell us who the temple builders were though.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1055683,00.html

It wasn't little green men, just farmers scratching a living

Maev Kennedy, arts and heritage correspondent
Saturday October 4, 2003
The Guardian


The mystery of a prehistoric site cited as, variously, a launch site for little green men or the tracks leading to Atlantis, could be finally solved.
Known as the Maltese Clapham Junction, the expanse of scrubby fields and barren rock is a bewildering complex of tracks believed to be up to 6,000 years old, gouged into solid limestone of the island whose megalithic temples are the oldest stone buildings in the world.

Now an Australian archaeologist, inspired by the evidence of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland, has demolished both the myths and the con ventional explanations. Claudia Sagona, from Birmingham University, suggests the site may be simply a relic of stone age agricultural enterprise.

Like Stonehenge and Avebury, the Maltese temples are magnets for alternative theories and new age believers, who see the island as a centre of goddess worship, and the builders as creators of solar, lunar or star observatories or giant stone calenders.

The tracks which can be seen all over the island, forming a traffic jam at Clapham Junction, have been called "cart ruts". Failing any expert agreement, alternative theories have rushed in to fill the void. The wildest include the tracks of outer space landing craft, or coded messages to the gods scrawled in runes across the landscape. Because in places the tracks plunge into the sea they have also been embraced as evidence that Malta was the lost Atlantis.

One of the most distinguished archaeologists in the field, David Trump, who has been excavating on the island since 1954, has called the cart ruts "one of the most intriguing problems in Maltese archaeology".

The conventional explanation has been that the ruts were worn by heavy carts or sledges, moving tons of stone miles across the landscape. However, there are problems with this theory: the tracks continue up steep slopes, across deep fissures and chasms, and to sheer cliff faces.

At an international conference in Malta, Dr Sagona offered a more prosaic explanation. She suggested that as thunderstorms and torrential rain washed away up to a metre of soil from exposed sites, the farmers 6,000 years were struggling to feed a growing population from the scarce poor soil of islands which are basically solid rock.

Her clue came from the Aran Islands, where generations of farmers created fertile fields out of sand and rotted seaweed, protected by dry stone walls, through generations of backbreaking work.

Dr Sagona suggested the Maltese farmers built up similar fields, and also scored channels into the rock to channel away and save rain water, and protect the precious soil.

Her theory could also explain the greatest mystery on Malta, what happened to the temple builders. They appeared 7,000 years ago, and over the next 3,000 years manipulated slabs of limestone into temples decorated with elegant carvings of animals, spirals, and the statues rudely described as "fat ladies".

The three stories underground Hypogeum mortuary temple, needed an estimated 22,000 tons of rock to be picked away with antler and bone tools.

Having created what one architect speaker called "mankind's first great architecture", the temple builders apparently downed tools, stopped work, and vanished from the face of the earth around 4,500 years ago.

Dr Sagona believes the farmers had pushed agriculture to its limits, so that minor climate change could have caused catastrophic crop failures.

Recent floods left suggestive stripes in modern fields on the island. "It may be that where we see cart ruts we are seeing failed and abandoned fields."
 
More on the study of these cart ruts:

Web posted on October 24, 2004 at 9:30:00 AM CET

Study on significance of cart-ruts

Juan Ameen

Heritage Malta yesterday launched a project entitled "The Significance of Cart-Ruts in Ancient Landscapes" which will document and interpret two archaeological sites.

The project is part of the EU Culture 2000 Project Application and Heritage Malta is the Project Leader.

Three principle partners are involved in this programme: The National Museum of Archaeology, the Faculty of Environmental Sciences of Urbino, Italy, and APROTECO, an association for the economic development of the Lecrin valley in Granada, Spain. The local partners in the project are Restoration Unit, University of Malta and Malta Environmental Planning Authority (MEPA).

The study of cart-ruts is critical for the understanding of past human interaction with certain landscapes across Europe. The project aims to document and interpret two archaeological sites which have cart ruts.

One is Ghar Il-Kbir in Rabat, Malta and the other is Camino des los Molinos, Granada in Spain. These two particular sites were chosen as they are still largely untouched by present development and therefore may shed new light and clearer evidence on the real use, function and date of the cart-ruts.

Among the speakers present at the launch were Herman Bonnici, co-ordinator of the Restorative Unit, Dr Mario Tabone, chairman of Heritage Malta, Anthony Mifsud, permanent secretary in the Ministry for Resources and Infrastructure, and Minister for Resources and Infrastructure Ninu Zammit.

Mr Zammit pointed out that this is not the first collaboration between the Ministry and Heritage Malta. The project will "provide an important tool to historians and archaeologists interested in the study of this phenomenon. Furthermore, it will help to instil greater awareness of these sites".

The project will be completed in a year, starting this October and finishing in September 2005. It involves a total budget of euro296,906, of which 49.14 per cent shall be funded by the European Commission.

Mr Bonnici said that during the first phase of the project the "formulation of suitable documentation techniques" will take place and is expected to take three months. The vast experience acquired in this field by the University of Urbino will be utilised, with the help of the experts in both Malta and Spain. The second phase will analyse and interpret the data from both sites and should take about four months. During the eighth and ninth months workshops for the experts will be held in Italy, Spain and Malta. The final phase will be dedicated to a travelling exhibition which will be hosted by the participating countries.

The technology which will be used in the project was developed by a team of experts from the University of Urbino. It will consist of aerial and ground surveys using the latest techniques including photogrammetry and laser scanning. The data from the cart-ruts in the Maltese landscape will be documented and correlated with the results of the data collected from the site in Spain. The scientific data will be used as a basis for a study of those features which have puzzled experts for centuries.

http://www.independent.com.mt/daily/newsview.asp?id=28324
 
rynner said:
Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age (C4 last night), presented by Graham Hancock.

Couldn't see any other thread mentioning this, so here's one for your comments.

My book and 4 videos are about the great flood. Which I say is produced by the catastrophic build up of enriched ice in the upper atmosphere; at the height of glacial growth.

www.H2onE2.com to wake up

Pyramid and Eye Secret Solved Pyramid and Eye Secret Solved
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1073586/p ... et_solved/


Exodus Uncovered as a Climatic Switch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLwZM4XaGX8


Proof to Evolution Found in the Two Promoting Conditions http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1131578/p ... onditions/

The Simplicity of Space
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1105639/t ... _of_space/
 
uair01 said:
Reminds me of this guy on Flickr. Strange esoteric ideas:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10749411@N03/
I think you've been smoking too many Clysma cigarettes.

If any of the stuff on that page is relevent to this thread, you should link to it directly, and not expect us to wade through all the links.

And what's 'esoteric' about underwater archaeology anyway?
 
That Flickr bloke does have weird ideas: he can see faces ('portraits') in aerial photos. That's not the 'alf of it though. :shock:

You could spend days on that page. Thank you VERY much, uair01. :roll:

;)
 
Just been reading about the underwater pyramidal structure some 40 metres below sea level off the Azores:

http://portuguese-american-journal.com/terceira-subaquatic-pyramidal-shaped-structure-found-azores/

coincidentally, 40 metres is estimated as how much lower the level of the Atlantic would have been 10,000 years ago:

http://www.citylab.com/weather/2013...-rise-doesnt-freak-you-out-nothing-will/5751/

So it is possible that any stone age or possibly early bronze age inhabitants of what is now the Azores could have walked around or climbed on this feature. Hope subsequent investigations prove it is artificial!
 
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Hope more about this emerges soon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_underwater_city

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Don't hold your breath ... :cool:

To the best of my knowledge, this whole 'Cuban Atlantis' storyline died over a decade ago. More details on the background to its demise can be found in this ATS (Above Top Secret) thread:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread374842

Here's a summary of my recollections from years past ...

There was supposedly a return expedition circa 2005 / 2006, but it found nothing noteworthy before technical problems with a submersible(?) caused its termination.

There also seemed to have been some wrangling with potential sponsors / publishers over funding levels and rights to any documented results, leading to the original discoverers (the Canadian survey folks) dropping the matter.

It didn't help that there were two pesky facts that apparently dampened potential funders' enthusiasm:

(1) The imagery purported to illustrate megalithic-style structures wasn't direct sonar output, but rather computer-generated images derived from sonar data (thus raising concerns the anomalies were artifacts of data processing rather than artifacts on the sea floor).

(2) The depth of the alleged structures was 'way too deep to be accounted for by anyone's estimates of sea level changes since the last Ice Age(s).
 
I'm putting this in here as it does look at several major Floods:

timewatch-guide-series-4-1-decoding-disaster

From earthquakes to tsunamis to volcanic eruptions, natural disasters are both terrifying and fascinating - providing endless fresh material for documentary makers. But how well do disaster documentaries keep pace with the scientific theories that advance every day? To try and answer that question, Professor Danielle George is plunging into five decades of BBC archive. What she uncovers provides an extraordinary insight into one of the fastest moving branches of knowledge. From the legendary loss of Atlantis to the eruption that destroyed Pompeii, Danielle reveals how film-makers have changed their approach again and again in the light of new scientific theories. While we rarely associate Britain with major natural disaster, at the end of the programme Danielle brings us close to home, exploring programmes which suggest that 400 years ago Britain was hit by a tidal wave that killed hundreds of people, and that an even bigger tsunami could threaten us again.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08xxsw5/a-timewatch-guide-series-4-1-decoding-disaster

First shown: 9pm 13 Jul 2017: 60 mins
 
Colavito on Hancock's upcoming Netflix series.

However, I want to briefly make note of two important developments that are worthy of note. First, next month Graham Hancock is getting a splashy eight-episode Netflix series to present his false claim that a lost Atlantis-like civilization was destroyed by a comet at the end of the last Ice Age. The series is dishonestly framed around the notion of Hancock as a truth-teller locked in battle wih a blinkered “academia,” a favorite theme of Hancock’s since his Fingerprints of the Gods phase. Hancock will be appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast on the day of release to promote the series, in which Rogan also appears. I imagine I’ll have something to say about the show when it debuts on Nov. 11.

https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/...ormal-conference-plus-hancocks-netflix-series
 
Colavito reviews Hancock's Netflix series.

Graham Hancock has made this show before. Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse is in substance and style very much like the Channel 4 / TLC series Quest for the Lost Civilization that Hancock made nearly twenty-five years ago, albeit with different archaeological sites.

In the intervening decades, all that has really changed is the use of drones for better aerial footage, a lot more dramatic music to paper over gaps in logic, and a growing bitterness behind Hancock’s carefully rehearsed enunciation. Each episode, for example, starts with an angry rant about Hancock’s greatness and his critics’ meanness. He opens time and again with some variation on “many archaeologists hate me” and poses as a truth-teller who will singlehandedly overturn archaeology.

Ancient Apocalypse is, loosely, an eight-part, four-hour adaptation of Hancock’s Magicians of the Gods, with a bit of his America Before, both of which I have reviewed at length and to which reviews I direct readers for more substantive criticism. In this review, I will try to highlight what is new or different rather than what repeats the books, sometimes nearly line-for-line.

Hancock has not lost his ability to communicate clearly and engagingly. His series is slick, and his presentation could give the History Channel’s shaggy pseudo-documentaries pointers on being compelling. But beneath the surface level, the show feels very much like a score-settling vanity project. Hancock’s son, Sean Hancock, is an executive overseeing unscripted programming at Netflix, and perhaps this explains why the streamer allowed Hancock to show old clips of his “enemies,” edited to make them look like arrogant buffoons, while only Hancock’s point of view is presented as valid. It’s one-sided to the point of undermining its own credibility.

Each of the eight episodes centers on a different ancient site, followed by Hancock’s theorizing, a discussion of myths and legends of some Flood hero or another, and then supposed connections to other sites across time and space. There is a lot of overly dramatic music and golden hour aerial drone shots, a blatant appeal to pathos to lend portentous grandeur to the proceedings. ...

https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-netflixs-ancient-apocalypse
 
More criticism of Ancient Apocalypse.

... Sure, the series is entertaining, I guess, and it's cool to see many of the ancient structures he visits.

If it were just a wacky tale of Atlantis or aliens or such, it might be easy to laugh off. But the whole theory is steeped in racism and white supremacy, so it's not just harmless entertainment. Rebecca Onion, writing for Slate, interviews an actual archaeologist, John Hoopes, who teaches at the University of Kansas. Dr. Hoopes explains:

Here's something else that happens in the second episode. The first person he talks to is Geoff, on this tour of Cholula, but the second person who he talks to, who takes him to a couple of different sites? This is a guy named Marco Vigato, who last year published a book on the lost continent of Atlantis called The Empires of Atlantis, which is one of the most white supremacist, racist books that I have ever seen. He's not an archaeologist; he's not a historian. He's sort of an entrepreneur who has been able to get some permits to work at archaeological sites in Mexico. You could not have a more stark contrast between Geoff McCafferty, who is a highly respected qualified archaeologist, and Marco Vigato, who is basically a hack who writes very bizarre things, including this Atlantis book.
He goes on to reveal more about Graham Hancock's troubling engagement with white supremacy:

If you research Graham Hancock and look at his books over time, as I have, one of the things that you discover about him is that he self-edits. He doesn't use the word Atlantis now except very sparingly. He has also edited himself since 1995, when, in Fingerprints of the Gods, he came out and said that it was an ancient white civilization. He no longer says the "white" part in the series. If you pay careful attention, he does talk about "heavily bearded Quetzalcoatl" who arrives, according to myth, to give the gift of knowledge, but he doesn't mention the other part of that trope, which all of us know about, which is that this visitor supposedly had white skin.
It's similar to the way that [a certain politician] operates. He will get to the edge of something, but he won't say it, because he knows that his followers already know it. He can say, "I didn't say that," and he didn't say it, but everyone knew what he said because it was already known, right?

So why is this on Netflix? Lots of people are asking that question. Stuart Heritage, writing for the Guardian, provides one possible explanation:

If you don't like Hancock's story about the super-intelligent advanced civilisation being wiped off the face of the planet, here's another that might explain how Netflix gave the greenlight to Ancient Apocalypse: the platform's senior manager of unscripted originals happens to be Hancock's son. Honestly, what are the chances?

https://boingboing.net/2022/11/27/a...sense-behind-netflixs-ancient-apocalypse.html
 
I've read some pretty damning reviews online. Mostly via Twitter, and from the likes of Dr Adam Rutherford, Prof Alice Roberts, Dr Janina Ramirez, et al.
All people I would regard as highly respected science communicators, as well noted specialist in their own fields, all of which either overlap or border on Hancock's work. None have much good to say.
 
Hancock's core belief - that the development of human civilisation hasn't been a linear thing and that we have a sort of collective amnesia about civilisations that came before us, is very difficult if not impossible to disprove.
He's been saying this since the 80s and now he can sit back smugly and point at archaeological revelations like Göbekli Tepe (first carbon dated in 1998) and say "See? This proves that sophisticated megalithic architects and astronomers existed way before the first official civilisations in Mesopotamia." As more astonishing evidence is dug out of the ground , Hancock will always be onto a winner and claim that he predicted it.
 
With all the recent talk about Hancock, I thought it was time I revisited this massive doorstop of his (750 pages), that I bought around 20 years ago:

atlantis3.png


The Azores barely get a mention, except for a teaser about "weird geology" in the surrounding ocean.
I do note though that Hancock dismissed it at the time as "highly unlikely" that a now flooded civilisation may have existed on the Azores.
This is though, before the discovery of prehistoric megalithic remains on the islands was widely publicised, so perhaps Hancock may revisit his opinion on this?

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Things slowed down a little bit thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States this week. However, that didn’t stop the media from discussing Ancient Apocalypse, with the British papers being especially rowdy. The Sun—a Murdoch paper, the same Rupert Murdoch who employs conspiracy theorist Tucker Carlson—called the series “absurd,” while another Murdoch paper, the Times, called it “fishy,” and the Mirror called it the “most dangerous” show on Netflix. In Norway, I was interviewed for a major newspaper’s feature on Hancock’s “conspiracy-theory pseudoscience.”

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If the gutter press tabloids hated it, then Hancock will, justifiably, regard it as a badge of honour!
 
So, this is bad, not because he is wrong, but because he has bias???

If a Non European said such stuff, what would be say in return?
 
If a Non European said such stuff, what would be say in return?
I see Afro-centric stuff and Indian centric stuff online almost as often as I see euro centric stuff.
Regardless of who is originating it, the result is attempting to erase the culture that existed and claim ownership of it.
A good example would be the large Olmec heads which are stated to bear African features.
This is because people just seem to have a very simplistic view of facial features and ethnicity. The people living in the region are descendants of the Olmecs and their attributes reflect the carved heads.

There are a lot of myths about gods being the original teachers of who whoever worshiped them. It makes sense when you think about it.
Someone had to teach you to write and build, and so on. That's most people's standard experience. And it's natural to wonder who was first and how they gained that knowledge.
Gets you to an ultimate teacher. Spirits, gods, what have you.

What makes it a problem is when you get people who decide what they were actually talking about is their people being the ones who taught them.
 
More criticism of Ancient Apocalypse.




He goes on to reveal more about Graham Hancock's troubling engagement with white supremacy:

I do not believe Hancock's Atlantis theory; the specific Atlantean race teaching humanity knowledge.

I do though find his work interesting and believe he is onto something, regarding historical chronology, and that some knowledge could be younger/older in human hands than currently believed, and some of it taught to humanity by (known/unknown) others rather than simply discovered by humanity.

But if one did believe Hancock word for word, then just because the Atlanteans were in his view white, does not mean they had superior knowledge because they were white.

Nor does it demean those who learned, used, and further developed that knowledge/technology.
Which has been all of humanity.
 
Archaeologists slam Ancient Apocalypse.

The leading international organization for archaeologists "dedicated to the research, interpretation, and protection of the archaeological heritage of the Americas," the Society for American Archaeology, recently wrote a letter to Netflix requesting that the "docuseries" Ancient Apocalypse be reclassified as "science fiction." SAA explains on its website:

The SAA's letter to Netflix and ITN Productions highlights our grave concerns with "Ancient Apocalypse," a show that disparages archaeology and archaeologists and aligns with racist ideologies.
We have requested Netflix and ITN remove any labels that state or imply that this series is a factual documentary or docuseries, reclassify the series as "science fiction," and to balance the deleterious content in the show with scientifically accurate information about our human past.
Here's an excerpt from the letter:

The assertions Hancock makes have a history of promoting dangerous racist thinking. His claim for an advanced, global civilization that existed during the Ice Age and was destroyed by comets is not new. This theory has been presented, debated, and refuted for at least 140 years. It dates to the publication of Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882) and Ragnarok: The Age of Ice and Gravel (1883) by Minnesota congressman Ignatius Donnelly. ...

https://boingboing.net/2022/12/25/s...fy-ancient-apocalypse-as-science-fiction.html
 
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