Graham Hancock
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The Dokos shipwreck.
And especially when you consider the possibility of ships having gone through a cataclysm. But there's a more central point than that, which really needed to be brought up by the archaeologists in this, which is that archaeology universally accepts that human beings were seafarers as much as 50,000 years ago. And I put the evidence on this into the video. It's not even in dispute.
Like the island of Cyprus. The nearest Turkish coast is about 60 kilometers from there. It's always been surrounded by huge deeps. It's always been an island, even at the peak of the sea level, lowest sea level during the Ice Age. Cyprus was always an island. And yet, there's evidence now that it was settled 14,000 years ago, certainly 14,000 to 12,500 years ago.
It was settled, in other words, during the Ice Age. And these were large planned migrations. When you're going to migrate to an island, you can't just go two or three people by accident because you'll become extinct. You have to bring in quite a large population.
And they reckon that populations of 1,000 or so were being brought across that water, across the ocean, across the Mediterranean Sea to Cyprus. near the end of the last ice age, but not a single ship has survived to testify to that. Same with Australia.
50,000 years ago, human beings got there, and even at the lowest sea level, they would have had to cross about 90 kilometers of open water in large numbers. And again, no ships have been found to testify to that, yet archaeologists accept that they got there by ship. So to say that we haven't found any ships from the ice age is not really evidence about anything.
I think the odds are very, very low.
It does.
That's not true either, no. It's not true. And the whole notion of the origins of agriculture, I think archaeologists got a great deal more work to do on that. Often, I'm misrepresented as saying that survivors of my supposed lost civilization would have brought crops with them. I think that's most unlikely in a cataclysmic situation.
What they brought with them was the knowledge that crops can be domesticated. And it's precisely during the Younger Dryas that we see that shift from undomesticated to domesticated crops in the archaeological record. And what I'm suggesting is that these were people who had already... conquered that problem. They'd already solved that problem. They knew it could be done.
And they brought that knowledge with them and shared that knowledge with the people that they took refuge amongst. Because I don't think we're looking at a mass migration. I think we're looking at a few survivors who are taking refuge after a global cataclysm.
I think it's very bad for archeology.
It does. I mean, to be honest, I felt beaten up after that debate. But looking back in retrospect on the whole thing, I think it actually makes the point that we have a very arrogant, very controlling discipline in archaeology which has established a narrative about the past and which will fight tooth and nail to maintain that narrative, including using dirty tricks. And I...
I think instead of smearing people who talk about the possibility of a lost civilization or people who even talk about aliens, I think instead of smearing them, archaeology should understand why people are asking those questions. People are asking those questions because they're not satisfied with what archaeology is offering.
It's not providing a nurturing, satisfying resolution to many of the problems that come from the past. And that's what drives me is curiosity about anomalies in the past. I'm often misrepresented as saying that somehow I've proved that a lost civilization existed. And I don't claim to have proved that. What I do say is, join me on this journey. There are mysteries in the past.
Let's see if they're explained by archaeology or if they're not explained. And I found quite a number that are not explained by archaeology. And that's particularly to do with astronomical alignments, with traditions that are shared all around the world. It's to do with things that archaeologists by and large don't study.
Further and further back.
That's right. Which is, by the way, White Sands. Have you been there? No, I haven't. What an incredible, ethereal, otherworldly place. And Alamogordo is sitting right in the middle of that. This is where they did the nuclear tests and the trinitite, which was created there. And there's gypsum sand. It's not normal. It's just the most amazing, amazing place.
And there, yes, they found human footprints dated back more than 23,000 years. What do they think that environment was like 22,000 years ago? Well, it would still have been like that. It would have been gypsum dunes then in that place. Gypsum dunes. They wouldn't have left the footprints. I'm not exactly sure why the gypsum is there, but there it is.
I reckon so, yeah.
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