Graham Hancock: Ancient Apocalypse: The Most Dangeorus Show on Netlix (2022) Prebunking Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse season 2 in the Americas with Professor John Hoopes, interview Archaeology with Flint Dibble, Youtube 1.57.03
I want the main antagonist and that’s John Hoopes from the University of Kansas. ibid. Hancock
Archaeology is a journey of discovery. We’re constantly learning new things. But it’s one in which we also gain an appreciation for what archaeologists do, and what the data tells us, and the evidence tells us, which is constantly being expanded upon. ibid. Hoopes
Fluted Clovis and Fishtail Projective Points from Costa Rica. ibid.
Underwater archaeology needs more funding. ibid.
A C Roosevelt: The Amazon and the Anthropocene: 13,000 years of human influence in a tropical rainforest. ibid.
The story of the Americas is how people adapted. ibid.
There is a lot of diversity early on. ibid.
You do exacavations at the site of the rock art. ibid.
Ideally, multiple lines of evidence … Archaeology is multi-disciplinary. ibid.
We’ve known about many of these places for over 100 years … It’s not a new discovery. ibid.
That’s what archaeologists do – we record the evidence of the past in a way that we are creating data that other people can use. So this ‘discovery’ trope! ibid.
Machu Pichu: And the way that it looks is thanks to archaeologists. ibid.
There’s been a lot of discussion online about megalithic architecture of the Incas … This is amazing stonework … The artefacts that we find around these are Inca artefacts … It was not done with lasers, it was not done with ancient high technology, it was done with a lot of elbow grease, a lot of hard work … A labor tax that provided an unlimited amount of unskilled labor … This is done through massive organisation of human labour – that was the technology, how labor was organised, now coming up with lasers. ibid.
The power of labor orgnisation! ibid.
We’ve seen these tropes again. These are being revived in the context of a new Netflix series which is going to say that in fact, you know, that there were ancient civilisations in the Americas … ibid.
Explorers Enter Jungles To Seek Lost White Race: Fawcett Party Will Pose as Gods to Overawe Savage Natives; Heat Kills River Fish … ibid. newspaper
Fawcett was also deluded by fake artefacts. ibid.
There were large settlements in the Upper Xingu, Brazil … A lot of the Amazon was occupied by people who were farmers. ibid.
Blowing us away with how large these populations were – that’s one of the main things that come from these LIDAR surveys. ibid.
We do care about astronomy! ibid.
The trope of unknown Amazonia has been around for a long time. ibid.
I realised I was confronted by an extraordinary mystery. Graham Hancock, lecture Fingerprints of the Gods, Youtube 1.45.02, 2017
Professor Walter Emery: Archaic Egypt: He drew attention to curious similarities between [the] ancient Sumerian civlilsation in Mesopotamia and the archaic Egyptian civilsation … He put forward an interesting hypothesis. He asked what if an earlier unidentified civilisation, a remote third-party civilisation, had influenced both ancient Egypt and Sumer? ibid.
This 1530 map: The sub-glacial topography of Antarctica … 300 years before Antarctica was discovered. ibid.
Like the Aztecs, the Maya believed that there had been four previous epochs of the Earth, and that we still live in the fifth epoch. ibid.
Something awful happened to the Earth at the end of the last Ice Age. ibid.
The subject that I’m investigating is human pre-history. Ancient Apocalypse s1e1: Once There Was a Flood, Graham Hancock reporting, Netflix 2022
My suspicion is humans are a species with amnesia. We have forgotten something incredibly important in our own past. And I think that that incredibly important forgotten thing is a lost, advanced civilisation of the Ice Age. ibid.
I’ve spent decades searching for proof of this lost civilisation at site around the globe. ibid.
An advanced human civilisation much older than our own, lost to history … New discoveries keep on pushing that horizon back. One such discovery has been made here in Indonesia. On the most populated island, Java, about four hours south of Jakarta, near the village of Karyamukti. ibid.
What if an advanced civilisation flourished here in Indonesia during the Ice Age? ibid.
Because Gunung Padang is like no place on Earth … You see these blocks scattered across the mountain. Oddly hexagonal stone slabs strewn about everywhere. Thousands of them. It’s quite a spectacle. ibid.
These rocks have been cut, repurposed as building materials and placed by human hands. ibid.
Traces of structures show up all over the hill … on carefully laid out terraces. ibid.
‘This site consists of two cultural layers.’ ibid. archaeologist
The entire hill is ringed by retaining walls of columnar basalt. ibid.
At least three large rectangular chambers. One around 10 metres down, perhaps an entrance hall of some kind … A third chamber between 20 and 30 metres deep. ibid.
Core drilling: Those sections had been laid out 11,500 years ago. ibid.
Around 100 feet or so he [Dr Hillman] hit the earliest layer of construction … as far back as 24,000 years ago. ibid.
What happened was a literal great flood. ibid.
One of the most mysterious and revealing mythologies in prehistory comes down to us through the ancient cultures of Mexico. Ancient Apocalypse s1e2: Survivor in a Time of Chaos
A land of fertile valleys and simmering volcanoes. This is the Puebla region, east of Mexico City. ibid.
This hill isn’t the natural feature it’s often mistaken for. It’s the most massive monument ever built anywhere in the world … This is the Great Pyramid of Cholula … [and] rose to at least 213 feet, 65 metres … 400 x 400 metres at its base. ibid.
They were stunned at what they discovered inside … 8 kilometres of tunnels … The Pyramid of Cholula is simply the latest in a whole series of more ancient pyramids hidden beneath. ibid.
You start off with a place that for one reason or another is regarded as sacred. ibid.
According to myth, the Great Pyramid of Cholula was built by a race of giants. ibid.
Malta: It’s called Ggantija. And it certainly is a giant of a megalithic structure. For decades, it was thought to be the oldest freestanding monumental structure on Earth. Ancient Apocalypse s1e3: Sirius Rising
The construction of these walls required the lifting of hundreds of massive megaliths. Some weighing up to fifty tons. And what we see today is only roughly half of the temple’s original height. ibid.
Two connected temples with over-shaped chambers, their walls were painted red. And a series of altars where charred remains of animal bones were found, suggesting ritual sacrifices or feasting.
Ggantija isn’t Malta’s only megalithic temple. ibid.
How much more of Malta’s prehistory lies hidden beneath the waves? ibid.
The Bahamas. These are the Bimini Islands. Just under 60 miles off the coast of Miami, Bimini is separated from the mainland of America by a deepwater channel known as the Straits of Florida. Ancient Apocalypse s1e4: Ghosts of a Drowned World
A massive structure of carefully laid giant stones with every appearance of being a megalithic roadway or paved terrace. ibid.
In their excitement they announced to the world they had found the road to Atlantis itself. ibid.
The slabs are remarkably straight-edged and parallel. ibid.
This part of the Bahamas has been underwater for thousands of years. ibid.
To the ancients, stargazing would have been the greatest show on Earth. The most entertaining way to pass their long dark nights. Ancient Apocalypse s1e5: Legacy of the Sages
Ancient pyramids and temples all around the world connect sky and ground with precise alignments of the Sun, Moon and stars. ibid.
Gobekli Tepe: It shouldn’t exist. Archaeologists accept that it dates back to around 11,600 years ago, making this the oldest acknowledged monument structure on Earth. It’s a highly sophisticated, highly advanced megalithic site. ibid.
It’s older even than the invention of the wheel. ibid.
What is this place? … How ambitious and imposing it must have been in its prime. ibid.
Megaliths weighing up to ten tons … How these massive blocks were lifted and set in place nobody knows. ibid.
Symbols of animals are to be found everywhere at Gobekli Tepe. ibid.
How did a community of Stone Age hunter-gatherers succeed so brilliantly at building with megaliths at their very first attempt? ibid.
Up to 20 other stone enclosures inside the hill and up to 200 pillars. Most remain unexcavated. ibid.
In 2019 Turkish archaeologists began excavations at another site about an hour’s drive east, called Karahan Tepe. ibid.
There was no agriculture at Gobekli Tepe when it was built. ibid.
Around 10,000 years ago all the structures were buried, rapidly and quite deliberately at the same time. ibid.