RE: How Accurate is Graham Hancock in His Theories?
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There are a lot of things I agree with him on. I don’t know of one thing in particular I could say he’s wrong about but I am not sure about all the topics.
What I think is most important about people like him - we need to question the way things are! We shouldn’t just take interpretations as law in things like archeology. We have no clue about so many things! I think the amazon jungle is a clear example of this - there have been DNA evidence of people that came from Australia, the aboriginals, found in ancient South American tribes! It could be the other way around but the point is, we have no clue how those people traveled such great distances when we assume that people only did ocean voyages back in rhe 1400’s. It’s absolutely preposterous to think we have been exploring for only that long.
I appreciated what flint brought to the table - he had the discussion with Graham that many people refused to from the archeological community. They are a little arrogant when it comes to people who haven’t paid lots of money for college courses on topics they write books on. It’s really annoying!
Biggest thread we have now is IVC. Their script was decoded. Turns out it's post vedic sanskirt. So vedic texts have been around for at least 6K years. IVC is at least as old as 9K years. That's 1000 years after Göbekli Tepe was abandoned. We have a continued civilization with stories and many traditions intact till present day!
That's awesome thanks for sharing I will have to see if I can find more stuff to dig into this.
I was listening to the Easter island stuff and that was sad - the elders that remembered their history were killed and people isolated so we lost a lot of their tradition. It could have been a lot older than we realize.
Sanskrit is definitely a fascinating language, I dont hear enough about it.
This happened a lot. Religion and wars had lots of conflicts with history. What's in vedic traditions originally passed orally have some serious astronomy records that happen 1 after next. These stuff leads earlier than last ice age.
This iceberg video is really good. But even that's missing some info 👇
Then we have this video that get everything completely messed up.
IVC script is written sanskrit in abugida script. It's actually a later form of sanskirt with many features missing from vedic sanskirt. IVC was from 7000 BCE to 1300 BCE according to archaeology. 2600 - 1900 BCE is given as the mature phase. IVC script was used to write CLASSICAL sakskrit at this time. We don't have much archaeological evidence before that.
Since Brahmi is just an evolution of IVC abugida everything related to Brahmi should be called a descendant of IVC abugida. It's generally accepted that abugida is a late invention. IVC script may have older versions. We could even be looking at a post apocalyptic world trying to reinvent some of their old tech.
These are some of the coolest stuff I've seen
Thank you for sharing. I will eventually have to write about this in depth.
Amazon is a great place for archaeological exploration. They had massive civilizations unlike most places, cities did not get built over them. instead they were covered by the forest.
One of the most underrated fields IMHO is astro-archaeology. When you keep seeing a civilization mentioning some events that happened thousands of years before the accepted origin of civilization, we have to accept that either they had astronomy that was many millennia ahead of rest of the world or someone was there to see these things happen and it was passed down over the ages.