Reg,

Please, nobody mention Graham Hancock or his Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse where he misrepresents archaeology and undermines Indigenous heritage. He tends to creep into these conversations.

It’s high time that someone “Just ask questions” back to Joe Rogan, Graham Hancock, Erik Van Däniken, and others like them.

For instance, if it…[Read more]

It looks like we Homo sapiens may be much older species that previously understood to be.

Simon,

Surely they had all sorts of diagrams, and they had Stonehenge, which among other things is aligned with the Sun’s solstices and equinoxes.

One thing they could have done without writing would be to make a model of what they wanted on the ground, put stakes in at various points on the model, then used strands of cordage of equal length t…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
Many of these cultures, so far as we know, didn’t really have an effective way of documenting their knowledge and discoveries, so was astronomy carried on by an oral tradition? We may never know.

Surely they had all sorts of diagrams, and they had Stonehenge, which among other things is aligned with the S…

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Please, nobody mention Graham Hancock or his Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse where he misrepresents archaeology and undermines Indigenous heritage.  He tends to creep into these conversations.

Unseen wrote:
Many of these cultures, so far as we know, didn’t really have an effective way of documenting their knowledge and discoveries, so was astronomy carried on by an oral tradition? We may never know.

Surely they had all sorts of diagrams, and they had Stonehenge, which among other things is aligned with the Sun’s solstices and equinoxes.

The tombs in your viddies, Reg, date back 4900-5200 years ago, which is ancient, but only about half as ancient as Gobekli Tepe, which isn’t even the oldest site in Turkey, though it’s the most sophisticated of the ones we know.

Still, the understanding of the seasons, the universe, and stars of the Irish and other ancients (Mayans, Indians,…[Read more]