[Mail online]: Were Aboriginees the First Americans? Native tribes in Amazon found to be closely related to indigenous Australians: Genetic study finds three Native American tribes share more DNA with Australian Aboriginals than any other present-day population. Beyond Ancient Apocalypse lecture Graham Hancock, Logan Hall, Youtube 2024
‘Currently no-one has a good explanation of the Australo-Melanesian signal.’ ibid. Professor Willerslev
None of it is in North America. ibid.
New evidence from the Americas threatens to overturn the paradigm that places the origins of civilisation in the Middle East. ibid.
Rather abruptly around 11,500 years ago the Ice Age came to an end, and the whole fact of the Earth changed. ibid.
The Clovis culture were supposed to be the first inhabitants of North America. ibid.
Migration mystery: Who were the first Americans? ibid. New Scientist article 2013
The Clovis Police was a real real thing. ibid.
‘Rather than launching a major new search for more early evidence, the finds stirred fierce opposition and a bitter debate: ‘one of the most acrimonious – and unfruitful – in all of science’ noted the journal Nature … Today, decades later, the Clovis first model has collapsed. ibid. Smithsonian online
But the study also raises serious questions about the effect of the bitter decades-long debate over the peopling of the New World. Did archaeologists marginalise dissenting voices on this key issue? Smithsonian 8th March 2017
A few archaeologists were saying it but the majority were ganging up on them with the forces of the Clovis Police. ibid.
The Clovis First Theory is put to rest at Paisley Caves. EurekAlert! online article
We have still not got rid of that zombie yet. ibid.
‘Academic discussions of first people in the lands we know today as the Americas continue to be framed in agnotology, defined as ‘how knowledge has come to be’ and ‘how ignorance is produced through neglect, secrecy, suppression, destruction of documents, unquestioned tradition, and sociopolitical selectivity’. Educational materials framed in agnotology support colonization of the mind, teaching people to think in ways acceptable to the nation-state and not to question so-called scientific authorities.’ ibid. Paulette F C Steeves, The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western World
‘After more than a century of professional archaeological investigations, we find no archaeological evidence to support the existence of an ‘advanced, global Ice Age civilisation’ of the kind Hancock suggests.’ ibid. Society for American Archaeology 2022
That changed completely with Gobekli Tepe, which is a deliberately buried site, buried 10,600 years ago … The story of Gobekli Tepe is just beginning. ibid.
Baalbek: Each of these three blocks weighs 900 tons … built into a wall and raised 30 feet above the ground. ibid.
Evidence of much earlier megalithic construction is hiding in plain view. ibid.
The Sahara Desert was green during the last Ice Age. ibid.
Gunung Padang, Java, Indonesia: This site originated more than 20,000 years ago. ibid.
I’m suggesting the possibility of a remote common source. ibid.
This theme of Seven Sages keeps coming up. ibid.
The myths speak repeatedly of the coming of the sages in context of a great cataclysm, a derangement of the heavens, cosmic serpents, a global flood, a time of cold and darkness. ibid.
There is only one epoch in the lifetime of anatomically modern humans that fits the bill. ibid.
The Younger Dryas – from 12,800 to 11,600 years ago. ibid.
What happens on Earth begins in the Sky. ibid.
And what we discovered changed my vision of the past for ever. BAM: Builders of the Ancient Mysteries, Amazon Prime 2020
A minuscule island lost in the middle of the Pacific ocean: Rapa Nui, Easter Island. ibid.
The people from Rapa Nui are believed to have sculpted about 1,000 volcanic stone giants. ibid.
There’s strong similarities in the style between Ahu Vinapu [precise giant stones] and the structures instigated by the Incas of Peru. ibid.
Peru: Civilisation had been there for a very long time. ibid.
Machu Picchu: What surprised us was at the heart of the site built in a totally different style: huge andesite blocks, a very hard stone, had been assembled with precision, without any seal, stone against stone. ibid.
Bihar Area, India: 7 caves entirely excavated from massive granite blocks spread across 2 main sites … These are unique because of their precision. ibid.
From Easter Island to India via Peru we can see two very different styles. The work that is the most ancient is also the largest and most precise. ibid.
Why the need for accuracy? ibid.
‘The oldest material at Gobekli Tepe is the best. Did they wake up one morning with some magical inspiration?’ ibid. Graham Hancock
Let’s go from Easter Island taking a 30 degree orientation, and draw a line about 100 kilometers wide. The strip passes through Nazca in Peru and Machu Picchu, Ollantaytambo, Sacsayhuaman, Cuzco and Naupa Iglesia; it crosses the Atlantic to go over the sacred caves at Tassili N’Ajjer in Algeria, then through the Oasis of Siwa, by the Giza Pyramids in Egypt, over Petra in Jordan, Ur in Iraq, Persepolis in Iran, Mohenjo Daro in Pakistan, Khajuraho in India, Pyay in Berma, Sukhotai in Thailand, Angkor Wat and Preah Vihear in Cambodia, all likely to be connected a long time ago. And then over to the little known island of Aneityum in New Calodonia, then Easter Island. ibid.
Nobody was surprised to see the Golden Ratio showing up again. ibid.
These sites are built in the most earthquake-sensitive areas. ibid.
What is the importance of the Precession of the Equinoxes? ibid.
Incredible megalithic sites unearthed after thousands of years. Mysterious subterranean dwellings that stretch for miles. Could recent discoveries provide evidence of a civilisation that existed for earlier than ever imagined. Ancient Aliens s19e3: Mystery of the Lost Civilisation, History 2023
Abu Shahrayn, Iraq: 6,000 years ago, this ancient mound was the site of Eridu, the oldest city of the Sumerian empire. ibid.
And one key source is the writings of the Sumerians themselves. Ancient cuneiform tablets list kings that ruled tens of thousands of years ago. And they tell of an earlier age when humans lived among powerful beings that came down from the sky called Anunnaki. ibid.
Much like Gobekli Tepe, Derinkuyu was thought to be an anomaly. ibid.
A subterranean network known as Kaymakli which spans several miles and extends thousands of feel below the earth. ibid.
‘Kerahan Tepe is really something quite spectacular.’ ibid. comment
One of the greatest mysteries of mankind is where did we come from. The Mysterious Origins of Man, Charlton Heston presenting, NBC 1996
Footprints resembling modern man’s were discovered in Texas side-by-side with dinosaur tracks. ibid.
Ancient maps have been discovered which correctly predict the continent of Antarctica. ibid.
Sometimes artefacts are found that break all the rules. ibid.
‘These archaeologists and anthropologists have covered up as much evidence as they’ve dug up.’ ibid. Michael Cremo
South Africa: Hundreds of metallic spheres were found by minors. ibid.
Do you ever have the feeling that the world is full of disasters, calamities, catastrophes. Well so did our ancient ancestors. Alice Roberts, Curse of the Ancients s1e1: Ancient Global Warming, History 2022
Scientists are now unearthing the evidence for cataclismic events in the past and their disastrous consequences.
The rise of civilisation in the Bronze Age. A time of great architecture, literature and the arts. But most of these Bronze Age civilisations collapsed. ibid.
6200 BCE: Doggerland was a fertile landscape lost in time. ibid.
The tsunamis unleashed were the largest ever in the northern hemisphere. ibid. landslide off coast of Norway
Doggerland survived the catastrophic tsunami but it couldn’t escape the deeper impact of climate change. ibid.
1600 BCE: Southern Europe, the Bronze Age. Greek civilisation was in its infancy. The mainland and the Aegean Islands were dominated by the Mycenaeans, a warrior elite society ruled by a legendary king and living in fear of the gods. ibid.
The Minoan culture spread across the Aegean Islands with Crete in League One of several major trading centres. ibid.
The Minoans were about to experience a catastrophe that must have seemed like a real curse from the gods. ibid.
What brought about the violent end of the Bronze Age and heralded the dawn of a new era? ibid.
A brave new world: the dawn of the Iron Age. ibid.