there is something really poetic about being a renowned archaeologist and being named Flint

@Alarix246

Ай бұрын

I think it's typical. Your name forces you to think about it. Like, John Brown, who was white, why did he championed the plight of brown people? And was willing to die for their freedom?! Imho his surname made him think about it. Maybe his peers teased him because of his surname since childhood and that prompted him to do what he did.

@alexanderkappelhoff2819

Ай бұрын

you mean Flint the Time detective

@unclescipio3136

Ай бұрын

Especially since a dibble is a pointed implement for making holes in the ground.

@LoreTunderin

Ай бұрын

Nominative determinism, perhaps? It must be entirely possible, as we've only studied less than 5% of the world's surnames, and we just haven't looked in the right places... 😉

@geert6291

Ай бұрын

Well, his father was a Paleolithic archaeologist who specialized in lithic reduction (aka flint napping). So no surpise he named his son Flint.

I think the point that hunter-gatherer tribes left a bigger archeological record than a supposed contemporaneous advanced, globe-spanning civilization is pretty damning. In all other cases, the larger the civilization, the more they leave behind, but not for Atlantis apparently 😂

@user-wb7nv9ht1g

Ай бұрын

I guess you get all your information from Hancock instead of doing a KZread search 😂

@coreyander286

Ай бұрын

Well all their architecture was made out of psionic energy. Sitting on a chair of levitating psychic power, the rain cascading down roofs and walls of psychic power to keep you dry, you sip the psychedelic wine resting in an invisible goblet of levitation. Entire cities dwarfing the biggest conurbation of our world, made out of thought. Yeah, that's it.

@UsmevavyPanacek

Ай бұрын

They were really environmentally conscious, just like those aliens that didn't left even one laser saw after they left. Some people just don't like to pollute:)

@taranullius9221

Ай бұрын

It all fell into the sea somehow though and government (yes, only one!) is hiding that innit.

@thebobman69

Ай бұрын

​@@user-wb7nv9ht1gyou can't read

I used to be hugely into Graham Hancock's work. Then I saw the Stefan Milo video from a few years ago. The argument that food should be all over the world if there was a global civilization ended my belief in Hancock's ideas. Tomatoes and potatoes would not have been isolated to the Americas.

@dustinhatfield22

Ай бұрын

For me it was Ancient Aliens Debunked on youtube. Pretty much made me reconsider ALL the conspiracy theories I was into at the time.

@iraniansuperhacker4382

Ай бұрын

@@dustinhatfield22 and now you associate skepticism with intellectualism so you are still wrong.

@Irish0wl

Ай бұрын

Same!

@DrJD123

Ай бұрын

@@dustinhatfield22 Its like looking behind the curtain at a puppet show... Once you see it clearly demonstrated how ridiculous a certain conspiracy theory is, it doesn't take long to see the same thing with nearly all of them. They never lead anywhere. Had the same experience myself.

@christianwhittaker6718

Ай бұрын

Not quite what I saw, saying what we've found so far doesn't support it is a bit smug. I'm not convinced either way but I'm still open to learn. Archeology is the best known answer on evidence we have at a point in time. New evidence for many things is discovered over time and the story changes. Like I say, Im not and can't be 100% either way .

An archeologist named Flint? The aliens aren't even trying with the simulation anymore 😂😂😂

@francosfarms1573

Ай бұрын

his father is a famous archeologist who studies flint tools

@user-gl5dq2dg1j

10 күн бұрын

@@francosfarms1573 That would be like a guy named Smith going to work at a forge :)

Hancock doesn’t really need a whole lot of evidence, because he’s mostly talking to people who want to believe.

@Great_Olaf5

Ай бұрын

No, he's mistype talking to people who don't have a strong opinion at all

@robertspies4695

Ай бұрын

Kind of like one of our presidential candidates.

@pencilpauli9442

Ай бұрын

Exactly, and like flat earthers they won't be swayed by solid arguments against their pet hobbyhorse. They will continue galloping around thinking they are on a real thoroughbred.

@Great_Olaf5

Ай бұрын

@@robertspies4695 You mean all of them?

@marsovac

Ай бұрын

@@pencilpauli9442 this is different. Flat earth can be scientifically proven false, while this cannot. This is more like religion as he says, it cannot be proven wrong. Flat earth is not a religion, it is a mental deficiency or a delusion.

Hancock's 'argument' for the existence of Narnia is basically that we havent checked everybody's wardrobe yet. That is his level of debate now, and his millions of followers will focus their confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance based beliefs on that bundle of straws. As long as we havent retroactively researched every wardrobe, Narnia will always be real to them, instead of a fairytale CS Lewis made up to illustrate his ideas about morality and spirituality and imagination.

@bandanaman

Ай бұрын

Classic!

@jahtea7849

Ай бұрын

What percentage of wardrobes have been checked by pseudoarchaeologists? Less than 1%? checkmate!

@Pos3id0n.

Ай бұрын

For real, another thing that really pissed me off was how he would hold Flint's claims to such an insane degree of evidence that it essentially disallows inferencing (the back and forth about Quezlcoat and how the myth changed after Spanish subjugation)

@redrix3731

Ай бұрын

@@Pos3id0n. indeed. I think it was Carl Sagan who said something along the lines of 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence' which in Hancock's bubble means that everybody has to perform biblical miracles to proof him worng, while he can just lean back in his pile of Patreon money , fabricating stories to fit his narrative and spouting plattitudes when confronted by his 'nemeses and enemies', basking in the warm support of the Ahnenerbe devotees, pissdrinkers, and dowsing rod peddlers . No Graham, the burden is not on US to proof YOU are wrong, the burden is on on YOU to proof YOU are right!

@fredbergeron2193

Ай бұрын

Ahahaha im dead

"Atlantis can only exist in the gaps of our understanding" Dude you just summarized the whole of the pseudo science community and their theories. From the alternative historians to the Alien hunters to the HAARP theory peddlers to even the Flat earthers. Great characterization, I'll be using that in discussions thank you 👍🏼

@WaaDoku

Ай бұрын

Why are theories without evidence "pseudo science"? They are by definition not science. Why claim otherwise? Theorizing (or more accurately hypothesizing) is the first step in the scientific method after which thorough research and testing of evidence follows. Humans haven't reached this level of technological advancement and knowledge by sticking to what we already know to be fact and "facts" have been debunked countless times through constant research and testing. I find this argument of calling something that no one claims to be scientific "pseudo science" misleading. There's real pseudo science out there e.g. all of astrology or Chinese medicine, latter of which, ironically enough, is being taught at Chinese universities. You also mention Flat Earthers. That's actual pseudo science that claims to be scientifically accurate.

@thisusedtobeme

3 күн бұрын

exactly. we haven't found leprechauns yet, either. of course, we haven't looked everywhere =)

Hancock is like the ancient alien people, doesn't care if its true as long as he sells books.

@Pangora2

Ай бұрын

Its a bit more sad than that. He thinks if he builds up enough momentum someone else will come along and bail him out. When he says no one looked in the Sahara yet, he's hoping someone goes out there and finds another Golbeki Tepe 2.0 so he can jump up and say "I was right all along, Atlantis was real, apologize to me!" He, himself, won't be doing that work.

@adammchugh5456

Ай бұрын

he is one of their main offenders......!!

@LordVader1094

Ай бұрын

@@Pangora2 Exactly. He has all this time, money, and resources, yet he can't start up his own digsites? He can't actually do the work to try finding it instead of waiting for actual archeologists to go on a wild goose chase? Come on.

@mnomadvfx

Ай бұрын

@@LordVader1094 "He can't actually do the work to try finding it instead of waiting for actual archeologists to go on a wild goose chase?" Worse, archaeologists can and will do the work of the rich for money as long as they get their own funding to excavate something else of their own choosing. I believe this happened with the Koch billionaire funded radiocarbon dating of the Egyptian pyramids. Graham has the money to do this - to send archaeologists off to do what he claims to want. But of course he doesn't want that - he just wants to keep the mystery and ambiguity which helps him sell books. Plus the whole aim is making money, so funding archaeology would be a double whammy of loss for him.

@jneponsixt

7 күн бұрын

Bingo

He made an entire 8 episode Netflix series about the existing archeological evidence for this civilization. He said he found possible evidence of this civilization in Indonesia, Mexico, Malta, the Bahamas, Turkey, and the United States. He said the only reason mainstream archeology wouldn't accept his theories wasn't because he had no evidence, but because they were either ignorant or suppressing alternative views. And now he admits none of what he presented was evidence of his theory and actually it's somewhere else in either the Amazon, Sahara, or on the continental shelf.

@mikechang6737

Ай бұрын

The evidence or lack there of made no difference to Graham, his audience is laymen who take Netflix and JRE seriously. Evidence never had any part... He's grifting a narrative to an uneducated audience prone to conspiracy and sensationalism because that's what sells.

@Leo_ofRedKeep

Ай бұрын

You can tell crooks the moment they start complaining about the "mainstream suppressing" them. Same trick as left wing politics. It always catches enough fools to make a living.

@mooseitself

Ай бұрын

@@Leo_ofRedKeep This has to be bait.

@reefnreefer

Ай бұрын

Hahahaha Cray MAGATS!!​@@Leo_ofRedKeep

@reefnreefer

Ай бұрын

​@@Leo_ofRedKeepcrazy MAGAT 🤡🐑

When they say that Flint came off as "arrogant," what they mean to say is: 'Flint came off as well researched and correct, and I can't handle that right now, so I'm going to call it arrogance instead.'

@Adsper2000

Ай бұрын

They view arrogance as not immediately bowing down and accepting that their garbage theories have the same level of plausibility as actual theories.

@vjc2270

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂 So true. It’s like trying to present an argument based on facts to stupid people. The minute you offer actual evidence that doesn’t agree with whatever unfounded, ill-informed twaddle they’re spouting, they accuse you of denying them their right to an ‘opinion’. (And as evidence for this statement, I offer ‘pretty much any KZread ‘comments’ column.) 😂😂😂

@polyoptika4382

Ай бұрын

he was passionate. I’ve noticed that people who aren’t passionate for truth but are motivated by status get really uncomfortable with earnestness, especially if they can’t exploit it.

@AureliusIX

Ай бұрын

Arrogance is conveyed by tone, attitude and a myriad of other cues both verbal and non verbal, not by being well researched and prepared. Dibble could have done much better than he did.

@arkboy3

Ай бұрын

Just like when President Not Sure opened his mouth all the Idiocrats just wanted to slap him.

I appreciate the 10 minute summary of this 4 hour debate! 😮

It wasn't archaeologists that disproved Atlantis for me, it was classicists. It's far more convincing that Plato was just writing what was essentially fiction. We have no other source for Atlantis.

@erook2019

Ай бұрын

You say fiction but he described a place in the world perfectly.. Look up the Richat Structure in the Sahara. Consentric circles, 2 of water 3 of land. Mountains to the north Opening to sea to the south Large flat plains all around Buildings made of black, white and red stones All this above describes the Richat Structure in Sahara perfectly. Alongside there being outlines of huge structures (20+ metres long) around the Richat and Solon was told by ancient Egyptians in 600BC that its destruction happened 9000 years ago (which equals 11.600, the end of the Ice Age Younger Dryas) Also a lot of salt deposits found around the richat, showing that there could be water.

@goober479

Ай бұрын

I wonder if one day George RR Martin’s partial works survives without much context in 1000 years after current storage degradation… will people argue that King’s Landing was real in the same way?

@mobiteh

Ай бұрын

@@goober479 it was, its in Dubrovnik 😂

@Bingobanana4789

Ай бұрын

Yes we do have other sources for Atlantis

@DrumToTheBassWoop

Ай бұрын

I always thought it was a fictionalised version of Athens, and it's woes.

Indiana Jones found Atlantis.

@jeanettewaverly2590

Ай бұрын

It’s in that big government warehouse somewhere.

@brucetucker4847

Ай бұрын

It belongs in a museum!

@richjordan6461

Ай бұрын

So did MacGyver

@marsovac

Ай бұрын

found fate in it as well

@ryann6067

Ай бұрын

One of the best games ever

what if they built all their buildings out of Styrofoam so that when the flood came their civilization just floated away leaving no trace. checkmate archeologist.

@Big_Tex

Ай бұрын

Nonsense. They made their buildings of sugar cubes.

@TSmith-yy3cc

Ай бұрын

Lmao 👑

@scipioafricanus2071

Ай бұрын

good hypothesis! I'd like to propose one of my own. the ancient atlantians had acces to vast amounts of either helium, or hydrogen. filling billions of balloons they created a sort of Laputa situation. if it was hydrogen it would also explain why there's no evidence left of them.

@Armyjay

Ай бұрын

Or out of tissue or rice paper? Then it could’ve just dissolved.

@OdditiesandRarities

Ай бұрын

you're so mistaken. they built everything out of sand and had to rebuild every time the tide came in and washed it away.

I never understood why people want to believe in things such as Atlantis or ancient aliens while what actually happened in history is just as if not way more fascinating

@Rhaenarys

Ай бұрын

I believe in it, but not in the same way as Hanncock or the story is told. I also dont "want" to believe, per say, more want to learn about the past. That said, i dont think it was some advanced civilization that spread the globe lol, i dont even think its in the Atlantic or was even called Atlantis. I think its a site LIKE Globeki Tepe, though more i think about it, Gobleki Tepe does make more sense, and the tellings of the place and people spanned for so long orally, the truth was just heavily exaggerated to the fantasy Plato wrote down. I think it would be interesting if that were true, it would show us how that story changed through time, as well as how Plato viewed the past and people of it even more. And it might teach us that hunter gatherers, at least in that area, were possibly slightly more advanced than what people thought. We went from thinking Neanderthals were dumb cavemen, only to now know they were pretty smart with language and spirituality of a sort, holding a form of funerals. It would be interesting if we could learn that hunter gatherers 12000 yrs ago were just slightly more advanced than we think now, and way more advanced than what the Greeks thought of them when Plato wrote about Atlantis. But i also recognize that its true, this can be only be true in the gaps of our knowledge. We cant find evidence of oral tradition as easily as written, and for my theory to be true, it requires a ton of oral retellings getting mistranslated throughout those years.

@Rhaenarys

Ай бұрын

Oh! But i 100% agree! Real history is much more interesting than ancient aliens lol. I just dont exactly see this one the same, only the way other people like Hanncock like to push. They werent some magical race that got their info from aliens and were more advanced than the Greeks lol. If it is real, if the people are real, they are regular people that just figured out a how to make stone buildings earlier than others, and retold so many times in a way that became the fantasy we know today. Thats it.

@Freefall347

Ай бұрын

Because most people can't appreciate complexity, just grandeur. Complex things are only amazing to people if they put in the mental work to understand how complex it really is, and then imagine someone from the stone age actually doing all that, step by step, over hundreds or thousands of years. Or... BAM! Gobekle Tempe magically appears one day out of nowhere! How did it get there?! Where did it come from?! Nobody knows! Since we don't know, I'll just say it was ancient super people with mental powers who levitated all the rocks into place! Isn't that amazing! ZOMG LOLOLOL amazeballs.

@rtk3543

18 күн бұрын

Yep facts are stranger than fiction 👍

@cyrneco

18 күн бұрын

I see what you mean but the problem of real history is that, like reality, it doesn't suck up to biases, doesn't massage egos and -most importantly- is messy. The likes of Hancock, like priests, give a cozy orderly view of the world.

"The lost civilization I'm talking about is like a black hole, " is one of the funniest things he's ever said

@eugenemartone7023

Ай бұрын

Why? I mean, if he had a point at all that would be a great way to describe it.

Calling the opposing viewpoint 'arrogant' while you're getting lawyered is basically just giving up.

@shanereynolds8651

Ай бұрын

Flint was spitting facts with sourced evidence but he was mean :( 1-nil to Graham Hand cock

@hntrbdnspns

Ай бұрын

When all else fails, fall back to tone policing

@radieschen79

Ай бұрын

1:58 Nobody said, not even Graham Hancock, Atlantis was about bigger cities and culture etc as Stefan claims. Maybe Atlantis culture was Göpeklitepe etc and you guys are in fact arguing in vain about the same?

@brooklyna007

Ай бұрын

@@radieschen79 Gobekli is a standard megalithic site. There is nothing super advanced about it. It is just store masonry which has been around for thousands of years.

@-KillaWatt-

Ай бұрын

​​@@radieschen79 One can't make claim of a global civilization and not imply that the culture wasn't massive. A global spanning civilization would by default be a large culture. Especially if it left its fingerprints as Graham likes to say in all these places around the world. The more time goes on the more it seems Graham is just throwing stuff at a wall and hoping something sticks. He's searched high and low from the Middle East to the Americas. From Africa to Asia and when one site fails he's onto the next. I think this Flint fella did an amazing job dismantling Graham as the snake oil salesman he is.

Atlantis is a hotel in the Bahamas. How dare you! 😂😂😂

@arawilson

Ай бұрын

Theres one on the NC coast. Dog friendly.

@josephjanitorius797

Ай бұрын

@@arawilson I stayed in the Shih Tzu suite.

@MsTiggytoo

Ай бұрын

That’s right! I saw it two days ago. In Nassau. Atlantis exists

I don't need aliens, gods, or supreme civilizations, to use a rock....

"it only exist in the gaps in our knowledge" is a big crux of what these folk believe down in their hearts, with or without realizing that

"Atlantis is dead". Same as saying, "Unicorns are extinct".

@rippspeck

Ай бұрын

@Israelisnotourfriend Big Equine caused this.

@MrShankaPerera

Ай бұрын

No, they live in my head :)

@kookbrah640

Ай бұрын

No Atlantis is real but there civilization was destroyed by big archaeology by flinging down the shapes of under water rocks and refusing graham handcock to do an excavation in the Mariana Trench

@polyoptika4382

Ай бұрын

I want to logically analyze this statement very earnestly, but oh what a trap it is. a veritable riddle penned by either a genius or a fool, for I cannot tell which.

@neatwheat

Ай бұрын

​@Israelisnotourfriend If you are being literal, maybe. But people generally refer to the unicorn as a very specific cryptid 😊 The narwal "horn" is actually an elongated tooth, BTW 😉

Hankook is the Deepak Chopra of archaeology…making the world a little dumber one podcast at a time.

@Velereonics

Ай бұрын

He is the Avi Loeb of SidMeyers LostCiv5

@damiansilva2454

Ай бұрын

Why is big archaeology/physics suppressing all the research about Quantum Atlantis.?..

@pedros1917

Ай бұрын

Bro, get out of this hole​@@damiansilva2454

@wout123100

13 күн бұрын

@@damiansilva2454 atlantis must be in some hidden parralel dimension.

Flint Dibble stole my bike when we were children. I never confronted him because I knew he would probably make better use of it in the long run… Go Flint go!

@Bingobanana4789

Ай бұрын

So lying about the data and now stealing as a youth. What a prick

I can't believe Stefan Milo personally sunk the city of Atlantis

It was great to see the difference in an expert presenting academic research vs pseudoarcheology and speculation

@Bingobanana4789

Ай бұрын

It’s a shame flint lies about the data

Graham is a con-man. During the Robert Schoch/Sphinx section, all Graham could say was how much he respected Robert and how he was brave for sticking to his eroision theory. He doesn't come with facts, just sentimental fluff.

@HahaDamn

Ай бұрын

I mean he supports that view, what else is he supposed to say besides that he agrees with that point

@solalvergara

Ай бұрын

It might be a stronger argument to present a view's evidence and arguments than just saying how much of a great view it is and how much you like it

@SakuraAsranArt

Ай бұрын

Hancock wouldn't know a fact if it walked up and kicked him in the teeth

@varyolla435

Ай бұрын

You will notice in life that people who shall we say "lack understanding/education" tend to follow a similar approach to questions. They incorrectly assume making poorly formed assumptions supposedly represents "reasoning" and the fervent repeating of those incorrect beliefs represents logic in their minds. You see with the Hancock fanboy club they'll simply go round and round trapped in their superficial reasoning and poor assumptions deluding themselves into believing they understand what they clearly do not. It is a self-generated fantasy for their part which is exceedingly difficult to break them free of. It requires the one thing they are loathe to do = educate themselves. 🤷

@ccoodd26

Ай бұрын

Not enough evidence to say he's a con-man. Stop using belief and seek the truth instead.

BBC Horizon pretty much debunked Hancock's claims nearly 25 years ago. How he has managed to continue to sell books is beyond me.

@NinjaMonkeyPrime

Ай бұрын

Because anti-intellectualism is still a viable market. Sadly.

@adrianwebster6923

Ай бұрын

⁠@@NinjaMonkeyPrime That's only part of it. There's also a strong streak of people who imagine they are the true intellectuals who know the "truth". They rely on what they perceive to be strong evidence and lack sufficient self awareness.

@dukeon

Ай бұрын

Also there are lots of people who lack the ability to understand the subject matter and think critically about it. Maybe they were brought up in an environment where they were discouraged from asking questions. Unwarranted belief (faith) was valued over reason. Even if they stop going to church (say), that mindset usually means they’ll latch on to something else, like pseudoscience. I’ve had family members who have done just that, and you can’t reason with them because that’s not how they work.

@mnomadvfx

Ай бұрын

Yeah I saw that a couple of years ago. The fact that he still managed to carry on is a testament to the gullible nature of mankind that on average prefers stories to objective evidence.

@JohnSmith-yd5wq

Ай бұрын

Just look at how popular Rogan is.​@@NinjaMonkeyPrime

Gotta give some credit to Joe for pushing Graham on that point in that moment. I think the viewers understand the concept of sampling better than Graham expects and understand that if you test 5% of the world and find tens of thousands of sites and not one is from what was meant to be a globe spanning high tech civilization.. that’s not precisely good news for what will happen in the other 95%.

@dylanrepetto2447

17 күн бұрын

Totally agree he made the debate awesome didn’t play to one side to much

Handcock's whole pitch is "you can't prove I am wrong". The best blag ever.

@josephjanitorius797

Ай бұрын

A guy's gotta make a living someway!

@bengiyardimli1925

Ай бұрын

It's just a belief not a real theory which is why it's 'difficult' to argue with them. It's like trying to disprove the existence of God. You can't prove a negative but a rational person will logically be skeptical and assume it's not real. Same goes for Atlantis/the so-called advanced civilization.

@cryptophasia8511

Ай бұрын

The guy is like 90 years old, I think he's retired. ​@@josephjanitorius797

@christophercripps7639

Ай бұрын

Handcock’s pitch is the base of a faith or religion. Mainstream science is supposed to be about making predictions and testing them. Heinrich Schliemann had a belief that Homer described ancient cultures, cities and conflict. He then tested his hypothesis by digging where he concluded were the spots described in the Iliad, etc. Being part early archeologist-antiquarian-looter-scammer he missed his Troy. Others said Schliemann didn’t find the grand city described by Homer but then others scanned & dug around the base of the citadel. And later archeologists did find a city. Arthur Evans said Linear B script is NOT Greek. M Ventris & Prof Chadwick proved that it was therefore testing Evan’s prediction.

@chad5537

Ай бұрын

His entire argument is a fallacy, he’s appealing to a lack of evidence to disprove his argument. He’s complete bs

I can’t believe anyone gives Hancock a moment of respectability. I read his “Fingerprints of the Gods” and one other book back in the 80’s and they make no sense. Interesting ideas, but not a shred of sense. He’s built a life on being a charlatan.

@SkylerinAmarillo

Ай бұрын

For instance, in the one book, he begins by citing Einstein and others vaguely about the Earth’s crust sliding around, the poles swapping to the equator. He takes that and goes to another point and then another and eventually erases the link to the pole movement but retains the conclusions from them. He fixates on the Mayans and their calendar, but that doesn’t fit the pole movement. If you aren’t paying attention you might think he was making sense. But he didn’t.

@_MikeJon_

Ай бұрын

Contrary to what Hancock likes to portray himself as the underdog but he's not. All of these Lost High Technology influencers and personalities have more influence than academics. Just look at the subscriber and view counts on someone like Brighy Insight vs this channel. Or look at how many times these pseudoscience pushers got on Joe Rogan, the biggest podcast in the world. They have reach and clout. It's important to push back against it. The academics let it fester and it was because they had the same idea as you. Now millions of people are indoctrinated into that cult and fund their nonsense.

@SkylerinAmarillo

Ай бұрын

@docwhammo Nah, I don't think even he believes himself.

@mnomadvfx

Ай бұрын

"He’s built a life on being a charlatan" *He REBUILT his life on being a charlatan, because it paid better and took less work than the journalism he was doing before that for years.

@Bingobanana4789

14 күн бұрын

Sad times for you Fannie’s letting a 70 year old man live rent free in your heads

Bro we shouldn’t even need to have this multi year conversation about this topic to understand how baseless it is. In completely lacked a logical sequence since the very beginning

@belinhe

Ай бұрын

Yet, here we are. We almost have to scream vaccines don't cause autism, Atlantis wasn't real, the Earth is round, and all that. But still, the crazy train doesn't seem to stop.

Don't forget that Hancock wrote the Mars Mystery, in which he said the only way to refute his claims are if archeologists went to Mars and did an excavation.

@lakewobegonesbest8725

Ай бұрын

Imagine the amount of garbage that will be peddled once we set foot on another planet. 🤦‍♂️

There is no lost advanced civilization, but there will be!

@PDXDrumr

Ай бұрын

We'll get ourselves there eventually lol.

@georgecisneros5281

Ай бұрын

Where’s your evidence?🤔

@short207

Ай бұрын

@@georgecisneros5281 look at America now and wait a thousand years.

@georgecisneros5281

Ай бұрын

@@short207 “A thousand years” from now, is not evidence that exists NOW. If we’re holding folks like Hancock to such a rigorous standard of requiring hard observable evidence for their claims to be taken seriously, then surely one must hold themselves to such a standard when making a claim of that nature regarding the prospective fate of our own society, especially if we’re talking about such long time frames as an entire millennium. I mean…wouldn’t want to be a hypocrite here…right?😉

@short207

Ай бұрын

@@georgecisneros5281 I was making a joke...

It's a story old guys told. What if Atlantis is just a case of granddad telling his grand kids about the good old days as they remember it? "The people made special spear points that were pressure flaked, and this was great technology to everyone. They pissed on animal skins to clean them up and make them softer, and this was far advanced beyond all other cultures!" And it was just average stone age, but to an average stone ager, this was very advanced, and that's how he told it.

@johnassal5838

Ай бұрын

Interestingly there are a few other seemingly distinct legends of lost islands that all happen to follow the Mid Atlantic Ridge. Places that figure into very old myths like the ones concerning where the original inhabitants of Ireland supposedly came from. It's curious how that and several other islands that only appear on medieval maps are all along that MAR that just happens to eerilly mirror the location and extent of the island chain in that old Greek myth. What are the odds of several unconnected lost island myths from opposite ends of the Mediterranean all being set fairly near each other and aligning with a major geological feature that none of them could possibly have known of? So what if... When the sea level drops the massive glaciers depress the continental plates half a mile. We know this. But what about the equilibrium between the weight of all that lost water vs the material under the oceanic plates pressing up? The lost hundred meters makes a hundred tons of net force trying to push every square meter of the entire Atlantic plate up. The stuff below the plate, the "asthenosphere" is about 25% more dense than water so the result should be the entire ocean plate trying to rise 80 meters. Only it can't, not evenly at least. There's also interesting geometric consequences when you figure on structures extending way over the horizon trying to rise or fall as one. In fact the odd and poorly understood transverse faults that run perpendicular to the MAR could be what gives way when exactly such movements try to happen. Any way you cut it the likelihood is only a small fraction of the seafloor can move in response to such vertical forces but both the seawater and underlying asthenosphere would be incompressible and therefore convey the vast majority of those forces large distances to these weak spots. Just imagine 90% of that movement occuring at the 10% of the seabed near these transverse faults and the MAR. Basically the edge of the ocean plate would curl upwards or bend back down as that mass leaves or returns to the oceans. That could cause 700 meters of rise and fall in those areas beyond the 100 meters of actual sea level change. That's a half mile all together which would actually be enough to leave a dense chain of islands along the MAR and the Azores an island almost as big as Ireland. That's a pretty funny coincidence when you just read the bits about the geography from the Greek story. Sure it seems pretty out there but there have been controversial geological findings suggesting some of these seamounts were at least a half mile closer to the surface within the last million years (the minimum resolution of the tests used, it could've been say 10,000 years ago) but its mostly been discounted as no accepted geologic theory can explain that result since that has been deep ocean for fifty million years. There was a core of accurate information in the -Odyssey- _Iliad_ that could be verified by the scientific method with the discovery of Troy when someone finally bothered to try. Whatever distortions or embellishments might've been introduced by Plato his story might've had a basis in objective fact after all.

@DDanV

Ай бұрын

​@@johnassal5838 _"There was a core of accurate information in the Odyssey that could be verified by the scientific method with the discovery of Troy when someone finally bothered to try."_ Troy, the city, was referenced by way more accounts than Odyssey (and Iliad, btw), and we found the historical Troy beneath several layers of several cities built on top of one another. What it is unclear if it is myth or really happened is the Trojan War (of Homeric stories), it remains an open question. It's the Troy being the setting of the Homeric Trojan Wars that is in question, even to this day when we already know where Troy is (beneath several layers of other "Troys"). Whereas Atlantis is only ever mentioned by Plato and no one else (all other references are based on his), and it's done as a rhetoric instrument to tell an allegory in two _dialogues._

@hrathweg

Ай бұрын

“The good ole days”

@AIenSmithee

Ай бұрын

Well I think we forgetting that Atlantis was created in a day by the literal god of the sea and a continent island sank in one day due to an earthquake. When you remember that part it’s obviously not a true story yeah?

@TheHothead101

Ай бұрын

That's literally what it was. Plato was just making up crap to make a point about how even with all the tech in the world, if your society wasn't well-disciplined it wouldn't last.

Graham wants every inch of the earth to be excavated for his mega civilisation to be found

@Spielkalb-von-Sparta

Ай бұрын

Open each and every cupboard to disprove Narnia exited.

But why does Atlantis have to be real? Why can’t it stay as satire of ancient Athens?

But these archaeologists never mention all the video footage we have of Atlantis from 1996 when the olympics were held there!

Lemuria is where it's at now

@trondsi

Ай бұрын

Only problem is that at least Atlantis has the appeal of being an ancient invention, Lemuria is a recent one.

@jm8080ful

Ай бұрын

nahh it is in the dark side of the moon

@pripegalapobedonosni3324

Ай бұрын

Lemuria got nuked by Atlantis. I got evidence, it's the big giant black hole of lack of evidence

@vjc2270

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@Armyjay

Ай бұрын

Is that where Lemurs come from?

Graham is terrible at debating! He gets way too sensitive and fails to challenge easy targets. Flint's opening referenced 68,000 unexplored Mayan sites uncovered with Lidar. Graham doesn't even touch on this, but lack of exploration was his entire premise (besides whining). Then he goes in on Bimini Road which is wholly unconvincing. The YDIH is intriguing. Flint didn't feel comfortable with the topic. Graham could've dunked on him but he drifted back into whining. It was embarrassing. He should retire

I don't even know why people indulge "debate invitations" from people who take claims that are made up out of whole cloth and then put the onus on others to positively disprove them.

@stewartlee8858

Ай бұрын

Police do it all the time.

@user-eq6pp1wl2y

Ай бұрын

Context matters here. Debate invitations from someone who made some things up, and from someone who made some things up on a Netflix show with millions of followers who believe in a conspiracy theory are two different things. Randoms don't matter, but influencers definitely do. The youth already have a problem with authority and established ideas, so when they hear an influencer start influencing people in the other direction and nothing is done about it, well... You get to where we are today. Millions of people who listen to a podcast to and from work now believe in a claim with no evidence. So by Flint debating this guy, he's forcing Graham's audience to think a bit harder about the topic, and maybe find some evidence for it. People who make crazy claims shouldn't be listened to, but they should be debated if they have access to LITERALLY the largest podcast audience in the world.

@coreyander286

Ай бұрын

Will more progress in fighting misinfo be made by _not_ accepting debate invitations? Misinfo spreads plenty well when credentialed academics _don't_ platform or debate misinfo-spreaders.

@josephjanitorius797

Ай бұрын

They need the money or they have a book to sell.

@paddyr1568

Ай бұрын

@stewartlee8858 they may try, but remember, never talk to cops (that’s what lawyers are for)

its all a grift in my opinion is Graham passionate yes but so are most grifters or else nobody would buy into the books, schemes , and most importantly the BOOKS for sell

@rebekahdavis5935

Ай бұрын

Exactly, he got used to the money and clout and then there was no turning back...it's a grift

@bennybenny55

Ай бұрын

I think yes he has found his audience and it would be self destructive at least financially to do something say something else. But he decided to do this in the first place before it was so well known and spends his life travelling around and exploring. I think he was a journalist before like on war i think not sure though and just stumbled into this stuff while working and eventually it consumed him and it brought success and money. I think a true grift it when you dont have any belief or passion for it.

@rebekahdavis5935

Ай бұрын

@@bennybenny55 When you know something is fake but you play into it and allow the money n attention to make you believe your own lies or ignore any self correction, still a grift..

@bennybenny55

Ай бұрын

@rebekahdavis5935 I don't think he thinks it's fake... but he is too intelligent to not interact with the damning evidence in sincere way. I dont know Hancocks actual believes but I think its his version of religion. Like a Christian who accepts the big bang evolution and everything can't really say anything against it but still wants to hold on to his belief no matter what. As the evidence doesn't exactly disprove the theory just makes it more and more unlikely.

Loved every second watching Graham get dismantled. You can hear his voice change when he knows he's lost

@josephjanitorius797

Ай бұрын

That's called archaeological puberty.

@Bingobanana4789

Ай бұрын

You must have liked the dibble ohh I read but can’t provide any citations part then. Here’s some evidence here’s some lies, all dibble done was dismantle he him they she self

I definitely agree with you, im working on my own response video but i thoroughly enjoyed listening to your thoughts on the debate 😁 Have a great week Milo!🌷

@ingelapalsson6273

Ай бұрын

My other favorite creator of You Tube content, Kayleigh! Lovely! ❤ Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪

@dukeon

Ай бұрын

Hi Kayleigh! 👋🏼 Love your channel!

@HistoryWithKayleigh

Ай бұрын

@@dukeon thanks!

The biggest news here is that there's a person called "Flint Dibble" on this earth. Legendary. I need a noir film about this man immediately. Or a band. I have three bands now: The Clem H. Fandangoes, The Fuggers of Augsburg and Flint Dibble.

@camillastacey4674

Ай бұрын

His dad was an archaeologist and named him flint because of that! But I like the flintstones idea too.

@Rhaenarys

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

The sad part is that Hancocks supporters won't acknowledge that he was exposed. They will just say that Flint "wasn't willing to listen".

@bennybenny55

Ай бұрын

if you look at the comments in the joe rogan video they are all character attacks on Flint, they have no interest in engaging with evidence that does not support their ideas.

@josephjanitorius797

Ай бұрын

That definitely parallels the religion debate. Faith is what people have in the absence of evidence.

@Irishfist

Ай бұрын

Flint does nothing but add some weak denial to everything

@Irish0wl

Ай бұрын

I used to be a hancock fan and I can safely say it's comfier for people to believe some fairytales are true because it gives you a sense of wonder and whimsy which is lacking in the modern world. I don't blame them, I just think it's a misplaced avenue for it.

@Irish0wl

Ай бұрын

​@@josephjanitorius797lol. Go read aquinas.

"Where does this leave the idea of Atlantis. . ." ~10:00. I would say "Atlantis is a handle for the earliest culture in the greater Mediterranean region." Until the "Eye of the Sahara" is fully excavated, or the civilizations like Crete considered to be where this "myth" sprang from, there can be no absolute conclusion. It is no more "dead" than the journey of Odysseus. Some basis in fact, but surely not the modern version hyped by Hollywood! Superb work on your part, Stefan.

My guy plato wrote a fanfic and this happened I thought it was only for Wattpad¿

Not a currently a Hancock fan but I loved his work back when the 2nd or 3rd JRE came out. Nowadays I'm an Archaeology student so firstly I have alot to thank GH for for sending me down this path, even if his ideas aren't all that. I thought Dibble represented Archaeolpgy fantastically, great evidence, great presentation. Graham likewise did a good job at always making room for skeptiscism, but I think even Joe was coming round to the fact there that theres absolutely zero half solid evidence for the lost civilisation, and we have infact done enough archaeolpgy to a point we'd expect to see SOMETHING. Thanks to Flint and Stefan and the rest of the Archaeological community for ypue contributions x

From early adulthood, I started reading books by Erich Von Daniken and loved Graham’s early books where he said that He differed because he followed the evidence to see where it led. Rather than deciding to find evidence to fit a theory. I started to fall out of love with him when he decided that Zawi Hawass was deliberately concealing evidence about a chamber under the Sphinx and further, when my Son pointed me to your Channel after Hancock’s Netflix programme. Graham speaks to a need to believe in something beyond our understanding. Unfortunately, he has fallen into the same trap as Von Daniken!

@Bingobanana4789

Ай бұрын

So your sons a muppet who buys into archeological lies. Anyone with half an interest in the lost civilisation theory was laughing at the amount of lies flint told about the data. Have a look at the lead spikes in the ice core data going back tens of thousands of years it fairly easy to find it’s a shame flint lied about it

THANK YOU! I've been researching, hearing about, and cringing over 50 years worth of Atlantis conspiracy stuff. It seems that all conspiracy theorists think Atlantis is the link to everything on Earth. It's exhausting LoL

The most logical interpretation of Atlantis is that’s mostly a myth but based on true events that we know happened, like the sunken city of Pavlepetri, and was written about thousands of years later

I'm not a fan of Graham Hancock and I don't watch Joe Rogan or follow the other guy, but I know Atlantis enthusiasts won't stop based on one person's idea being debunked. I recall there was a Professor Santos who claimed Atlantis was in Sundaland. I started writing stories based on the idea that Atlantis is Arabia. The level of technology can range from science fiction to magical to mundane to near contemporary neolithic. Of course, if you can invoke magic or miracles, then that can always explain the lack of archeological evidence. Heck, with enough story development, one could conclude that Atlantis exists on an alternate timeline caused by a God, Science Fiction, or the Universe as a Simulation. Killed Atlantis? Oh, no no no, the lack of archeological data will open the floodgates to even more spectacular ideas.

@LuisAldamiz

Ай бұрын

Yeah. I even don't know who Hancock may be (the name sounds vaguely familiar but from this video he seems delusional or a sensationalist mass-scammer or both). However Atlantis is real, just not that old nor fantastic, much less underwater (it was destroyed by a huge tsunami but tsunamis don't sink landmasses except for a brief time). It is the Copper and Bronze Age civilization of Vila Nova de São Pedro (VNSP) culture of what is now Portugal, the only civilization (with fortified towns) in the whole Atlantic Ocean basin in those days (at least for what archaeology knows so far). Its capital (the barely researched Castro do Zambujal, near modern Torres Vedras) was linked to the sea by a "marine branch" of the exact length Plato said (50 stadia = 10 km roughly), which was silted at the time of the civilization's collapse (by a tsunami necessarily). They had 10 royal megalithic tombs in the area, they were very influential since its inception (pre-Bell Beaker, later also major center of Bell Beaker but surviving until well into the Late Bronze Age collapse period) and "ritual bull hunt" is practiced there to this very day. What don't fit from Plato are: the absurd Paleolithic date, the elephants (they did import ivory anyhow, from Africa and also from Syria, where they or related peoples left a megalithic legacy in the early Bronze Age) and the mineral wealth (which was however in the nearby less civilized country of Eastern Iberia, from the Galician tin and gold to the Western Andalusian fabled Tartessian mines that even get a cameo in the Bible as the source of Solomon's wealth). What doesn't fit with the "popular" versions of the legend varies, depending on the best seller author you may read, but definitely it was not truly sunk and thus there's nothing that big to be found underwater.

@paulisfat8077

Ай бұрын

​@@LuisAldamiz what do you think the location of Plato's cave is? Might help to inform yourself a bit more on the matter.

@LuisAldamiz

Ай бұрын

@@paulisfat8077 - WTF! Plato's cave is apparently where you live...

@LuDux

Ай бұрын

@@LuisAldamiz Nice try, but Atlantis, with Solomon mines and El Dorado and stuff like that, is in my backyard, not in your backyard.

@LuisAldamiz

Ай бұрын

@@LuDux 🤣🤣🤣 Solomon didn't have any mines: he invested in Phoenician businesses and got a nice cut from the colonial profits of Tarshish (Tartessos, a well known SW Iberian civilization of the Iron Age, which probably replaced Atlantis after the LBA destruction but at different geography). This also helps to calibrate the likely chronology of the legendary king, which can't be 9th century as Biblical scholars claim (in their literalistic idiocy) but rather 7th century BCE, when Tyre had already founded Gadir as their outpost and the first Phoenician influences arrived in South Iberia (incl. steel making, which makes the Basque word for iron, "burdin", probably derived from the Canaanite one "berzel"). Which is your backyard? There were no other civilizations in the whole Atlantic Ocean basin (that we know of) in those Bronze Age dates.

It was delplorable how he was continually fall back to the point " we need more archeology". Yes graham i think thats why archeologists are still a thing.

@buntsbanter1380

Ай бұрын

My response to this is well fucking fund some them Graham. He could crowdfund huge sums to finance archaeology - but it shouldn't really be spent on furthering his narrative.

@raina4732

Ай бұрын

@@buntsbanter1380Exactly, he could fund archeology in all the areas he wishes had more grant money to do digs. He could donate that needed money into the research at specific locations. Instead, he complains that they don’t do it all for free at his request.

@Bingobanana4789

14 күн бұрын

@@buntsbanter1380he regularly does fund raising for archaeologists. His website is full of areas you can donate to, he is in the middle of raising funds for more Lidar surveys of the Amazon. Stupid fanny

The only reason to cling to fanciful notions lacking any evidence is the meaning it offers you.

Flint Dibble is the prime example of an American. Never question anything and never attempt a paradigm change. All my friends from California visit me by flying east from LA to NYC then to London and via Dubai to Manila in the Philippines. A 48 hour trip as that is how it's done. Only my Hawaiian friend flies west to Maila in 8 hours directly from LA.

@varyolla435

12 күн бұрын

As Willy Wonka would say: _"strike that - reverse it."_ LAHT devotees are your stereotypical example of muppets who *ASSUME* validity solely because they "want to believe" + and stereotypically based upon unreliable sources such as internet clickbait videos and even worse what "their friends" on Fakebook or Twit-Tok told them. p.s. - your "friends" must be morons then....... Philippine Air has nonstops from LA to Manila....... Other airlines also travel from the West Coast to Manila save for they might have a stopover in say Taipei or Seoul....... I coincidentally have flown over the Pacific twice and the Atlantic 6 times - so I know you are spouting BS. p.p.s. - the fact that your sockpuppet account "just happened" to have been created also says it all........ You LAHT trolls unable to argue facts and logic are reduced to nonsensical screeds via endless sockpuppet accounts as you show us. Doing thus is therefore = an admission of defeat for your part.

Now you are going to tell me that Unicorns are not real.....i said sarcastically. FYI I was a fan of Graham for a short time. I guess because he was talking about things no one else was talking about, like Gobekli Tepe. But he is a story teller, an investigative journalist, and knows how to sell books. I like to read and listen to scientist, historians and archeologist, not story tellers.

@spamfilter32

Ай бұрын

Unicorns are real. They live in Africa, and we typically call them rhinoceros.

@jeanettewaverly2590

Ай бұрын

I like to listen to storytellers who are upfront about being storytellers.

@wanderlpnw

Ай бұрын

There's a KZread video from the guy leading the excavation of Gobekli Tepe. Well worth a watch. I think not too many archeologists talked about it previously because so little was known. Very little of the site has been excavated Even today, but he has plenty of interesting stuff to talk about.

@jakeaurod

Ай бұрын

Elasmotherium? They were real.

@a787fxr

Ай бұрын

@gregcollins7 Don't ya wish there was a symbol like the question mark that represented sarcasm? !:- )

Just finished the pod then you upload! Also geeked when Flint shouted you out at the end! I like Graham in the way it's entertaining to think of alternative theories. I wholeheartedly agree with Flint's belief that archeology is working backwards with the evidence that is found, and it fully pokes holes in Graham's way of trying to find evidence to dispute and uplift his theories. I hope Flint is invited back on Joe Rogan alone to just talk about his own work.

@pil3driverwaltz164

Ай бұрын

That would be great if Flint or Stefan went on without Graham. I'll have to finish the pod so I can hear the reference 😮

graham was smoked, but he makes hell of a stories about the past. Graham deserves every penny he's gotten, and Flint deserves his respected statue within academic archeology.

great stuff! ..just wondering if ä model of Ätlantis" was given and/or agreed upon? Or is atlantis short-hand for any pre -younger dryas cities/megalithic architecture? thank you!

On to the next grift for Gramcock.

@rootbeer4888

Ай бұрын

His core audience are not looking for objectivity.

"The discussion was rigged. And my crowds were MUCH bigger."

@dukeon

Ай бұрын

Someone much crazier and more dangerous than Graham!

Didn’t know about it, but enjoyed the video and trust your assessment after following you for years. You’re my go to ape in matters of archeology and related areas.

Something that lives in the gaps of knowledge will always exist, atlantis, or, the idea of the fantastic will always be appealing, and will always capture people's curiosity.

Our man Flint is no flake!

@donny5886

Ай бұрын

Snowflake perhaps… *his radical left twitter*

@drts6955

Ай бұрын

I respect the time taken to gift us with this

@josephjanitorius797

Ай бұрын

...and sharp as an arrow...

@Bingobanana4789

Ай бұрын

Liar comes to mind

The Quetzalcoatl bit alone was so embarrassing for Graham. His confirmation bias shined through in that moment. He let his mask slip.

Hancock fans will just parrot whatever he says. It's far easier to follow someone who claims to know and tells a fascinating story than to do the volumes of research it would take to actually know the information yourself. For anyone who is interested in the information and seeking more information than you can find on this incredible channel here are a few other channels to watch: Ancient Americas, History with Cy, North 02. North 02 actually deals the most with ancient humans before the modern food farming revolution in the last 10k years and that story is extremely fascinating and you can learn a lot from that channel that will help you dispel the myth of alternate history if you're caught in the spell of Hancock like I used to be.

you are flippin right on all accounts!

Saw the podcast in my recommended and thought "the other guy" besides Graham would be another supporter like Randall Carlson. But now that I now it was an actual debate I might actually wanna listen to it.

Congratulations on the Rogan shout out! Wooo! Well deserved.

My understanding is that Atlantis was a fable about national hubris, but what it became was modern grifter hubris

@Forge366

Ай бұрын

I'm sure any elements of truth it may have became greatly exaggerated through any retellings.

@Rhaenarys

Ай бұрын

​@@Forge366this is my thinking as well. I believe there was a place, but yea, like a game of telephone, through thousands of years of retelling orally, the truth is exaggerated heavily into the fantasy Plato wrote down.

@hedgehog3180

15 күн бұрын

@@Rhaenarys Plato wasn't recounting a well known myth though, no other records of the story exist before he wrote it down. Sure he might have been inspired but it's in the same way any modern fiction writer can be inspired.

@Rhaenarys

15 күн бұрын

@@hedgehog3180 thats why i specifically said orally retelling. Lots of stories are gone because thats the only way they were told.

Stefan just seems so huggable! 😆 But that aside, it’s refreshing to hear such rationality in a sea of conspiratorial thinkers (KZread). I love this channel! 😁

I love how you bring reason and clarity - 😊

My favorite part is when the sociologist says the archeologist is in the hot seat😂😂😂

I've followed Graham for many years and always took the data with a grain of salt (which he advises in his books and shows as he is a journalist and not an archaeologist). There is still an interesting story somewhere in prehistory explaining where all the skills and capabilities came from to build the huge structures of the time, and also how they seem to be linked to other places on earth that were supposedly inaccessible. It doesn't mean Atlantis or aliens etc. It could be a group of hunter gatherers that had genius capabilities of the time and developed that over generations. Either way it's undocumented and it would be one of the most interesting chapters of history

@NinjaMonkeyPrime

Ай бұрын

_"There is still an interesting story somewhere in prehistory explaining where all the skills and capabilities came from to build the huge structures of the"_ Is there really though? After nearly a decade of ignoring evidence, Hancock is finally admitting that Gobekli Tepe wasn't something that happened suddenly. In most cases we have evidence of gradual learning to work with stone. Hancock just ignores it because it doesn't sell his books.

@berer.

Ай бұрын

@@NinjaMonkeyPrime It's irrelevant what Hancock admits or doesn't. Wherever those skills came from is the core of what hooks people into this whole subject. Specifically, it's more possible earlier pyramids builders of Nubia migrated north along the Nile valley as the climate changed and brought those skills with them.

@NinjaMonkeyPrime

Ай бұрын

@@berer. You're saying it doesn't matter if Hancock lies about existing research? He hooks people by selling them an anti-intellectual narrative that scientists are incompetent fools and he supports that by lying about evidence. His core isn't evidence or lack of it, it's that you are smart and scientists are mean and dumb. Sadly there's a market for that.

@hedgehog3180

15 күн бұрын

@@berer. But the history of how pyramid building in Ancient Egypt developed is well documented, there's no need to invoke climate change when the history of Old Kingdom Egypt is very well preserved in texts. I'd recommend watching “Ancient Egypt: Dynasty by Dynasty” by History with Cy if you're interested.

Thanks for jinxing it for us skeptics, Stefano. When they find Atlantis tomorrow that'll look really bad for us and we'll never hear the end of it!

I happened to watch Bethany Hughes BBC documentary on this. She convinced me that Plato's Atlantis reflected distant memories of an eruption of Santorini.

It sounds like Russel's Teapot argument saying we haven't looked everywhere. Where are the other 64 comments? Weird.

@MrOttopants

Ай бұрын

They are don't existing.

@dschonsie

Ай бұрын

the atlantians have deleted them

@ortuignis3782

Ай бұрын

KZread never posts replies real-time. At the time of my watching this, this video is 11 minutes old with 97 comments and only 20 showing. This happens on every video. It's not some Atlantis sleeper cell censoring information, I promise.

@samthecan3116

Ай бұрын

Bots being blocked probably

@solitudessilentgroove

Ай бұрын

Won't show replies to your comment either. 143 comments atm, but only 2 are shown.

as a flint knapper and someone who studies lithic technology from all time periods from very early paleolithic until the bronze age i have always been interested in this topic. i used to be open to grahams theories as a possibility until my knapping journey and lithic studies contradicted him . some of what he says may be correct , like the growing evidence of humans in the americas for many thousands of years before clovis but this is not evidence of a lost civilisation , it just means some brave paleolithic sailors in log boats perhaps got lost and very luckily landed on the american/south american continent with a few breeding age females , who knows ? perhaps we will find definitive evidence for earlier than clovis migration from the old world and the methods used and mechanism of arrival . what is very unhelpful to your cause and to opening the eyes of believers in grahams theories is the accusations of racism and white supremacy as this type of thing just turns people against archaeologists who are pushing back with facts and allows them to be labelled as the usual crybaby leftists who cry racism and all other isms any time they hear something they do not agree with . i think parts of grahams theory may still be slightly possible , like a slightly advanced seafaring " culture" able to use stars and navigate using the sky . perhaps early/ middle paleolithic , based on whaling or fishing and a few made it to the americas . evidence for the migration may have sunken beneath the sea during some sort of catastrophic geological event and one day there may be evidence found on land but until that day i think we have the past pretty much sussed out . evidence for this culture that may have made it to the americas can perhaps be seen as pre clovis lithics like those from cactus hill . how they got there remains to be seen but i am pretty sure these lithics were no more advanced technology than the mesolithic hunters from europe had . anyway i like the idea of graham working with archaeologists and perhaps there can be future work done in order to nail down the real mystery , the peopling of the new world ... many unanswered questions, like hueyatlaco !

@LadyLeda2

14 күн бұрын

Well said.

The one thing that tells me we're missing a big chunk of prehistory (and please correct me if I'm wrong) is when excavated the settlements of early Sumer, I recall they found that they were already masters of things like astrology and math with no signs of the learning process...I'd that correct or am I misinformed?

@LadyLeda2

14 күн бұрын

I believe you are right.

As soon as I saw Joe Rogan’s episode, I immediately thought it would rather be you who debated against Hancock. I deeply admire your work, keep it going. Hope one day you make it to the show 😊👍🏻

@kageminato2127

Ай бұрын

Would've been way stronger than Flint, that's for sure.

Hancock got steamrolled in that debate. No doubt about it. RIP Graham and his pseudoscientific "ancient civilization." Also, his Netflix mockumentary ("Ancient Apocalypse") is pure, unadulterated, hot garbage.

@Bingobanana4789

Ай бұрын

Steamrolled with lies by flint. Have you looked at the ice core data showing lead spikes going back tens of thousands of years or do you just like getting spoon fed nonsense by KZread content creators?

Not to sour the mood, but most people who listen Joe Rogan's podcast are not going to take away the same conclusions you did. I am not by any means discounting the efforts of Flint Dibble or any other professional who gives a vigorous defense of the epistemology of our field. It is important work. But it is perhaps more important to provide entertaining, engaging, and accessible content for archaeology to the public. Most people who go down the pseudo-archaeology rabbit hole, perhaps more than other pseudosciences, do so out of a genuine interest in the past. In my humble opinion, the best way to fight people like Mr. Hancock is by showing the wonder of what we do while also teaching them the how and why. Thank you for providing some of the best archaeology and paleoanthropology content on this platform! ✌️

@Lee-bv6iv

Ай бұрын

Glancing through the KZread comments and some stuff on Reddit, it did appear a few people had reassessed their belief in Hancock's "ideas." But, overall, it appeared a larger percentage doubled down in their beliefs. There was lots of talk about Dibble's attire, size of his hands, etc, real silly stuff.

@IvanIvanoIvanovich

Ай бұрын

@@Lee-bv6iv I would absolutely love to see their opinions of archaeologists upon seeing a bunch of crusty shovel bums who just got back from the field.

@skynet5828

Ай бұрын

People simply have to learn that science doesn't exist for their amusement. It has no obligation to be funny or even interesting.

@PeachysMom

Ай бұрын

@@Lee-bv6ivwhenever someone has to resort to ad hominem attacks, you know they’ve lost.

@_MikeJon_

Ай бұрын

Not all, but some. Those that are diehard fans will be diehard fans. The people in the middle are the key.

That was a very cool interview

Great again. I was really happy to see flint mention you in the end. Would love to see you on the jre!

What about the Santorini hypothesis? Not an Atlantis believer, but the Santorini cataclysm, time, location etc kinda matches Plato

Flint Dibble is the GREATEST name I’ve ever heard. And possibly nominative determinism

@Bingobanana4789

Ай бұрын

It’s a shame he lied about the data

@hedgehog3180

15 күн бұрын

Kinda the opposite, his dad was a renowned archeologist who specialized in flint knapping so he named his kids after that.

Stefan, your content is strong as you present it but would really love to see you give a long format deep dive into some topics. Summaries are good but really leave lots up in the air about the topics. Longer, more in depth interviews. Debates analyzed in relation to evidence. Emerging discoveries and their effect on standing hypotheses and theories. Pretty much what you do, but with more topical substance and evidence analysis. Pleeeeze! Stream it and take the chats/stickers!

I'd coincidentally been watching your video of his Netflix series when that went up 😂

I don’t see the need of a lost advanced civilization to explain human culture evolution. Atlantis is Plato’s tale based on the Thera Island colapse which could have lived in the minds of the people of Antiquity for many centuries

I've always thought the Atlantis folklore was an amalgamation of handed down stories about real observations coming after sea levels started rising.

@erinrising2799

Ай бұрын

my thought was just that it was a slightly more advanced civilization. Like (for a silly example) if the neighbors have put shells on sticks, inventing spoons, and you still just have shells, you are gonna see the neighbor as more advanced.

@hedgehog3180

15 күн бұрын

It's a story that Plato made up, he might have been inspired by earlier myths since one of his big things was that you shouldn't trust myths unquestionably so he likely copied elements from real myths to make his own story seem more like a myth. However there's no real question about the fact that Plato made it up, no sources talking about Atlantis or with a similar story exist before his work. The fact that the stort contains multiple inaccuracies that Plato would have known were false (like a claim that you can't sail out of the Mediterreanan) indicates that this was a deliberate attempt to try to get people to think critically about myths.

To quote Laplace, "I had no need of that hypothesis."

Is there any other source for Atlantis other than Plato?

What always struck me is despite the relatively small "evidence" for Atlantic. None of the "experts" have read it. If they had they would know it was at war with Athens at the time of its demise. So don't waste time searching for Atlantis, just do Archaeology at Athens which was also an "advanced" civilisation. Except of course it wasn't and the earliest settlements are minor and date to thousands of years later.

@LesterBrunt

Ай бұрын

Exactly. Plato even offers actual landmarks for reference in his description of ancient-ancient Athens, some of which still exist today.

@hedgehog3180

15 күн бұрын

God I wonder if the philosopher who famously advocated scepticism towards myths perhaps was making a point when he included a ton of clearly wrong claims in his myth.

To quote Hancock from this very podcast at 1:27:00, Rogan Asks Hancock: “Can we say there is no evidence for an advanced civilization...?”. Hancock replies: "...Yes, we can say there is no evidence for an advanced civilization". -Poof, Hancock's entire hypothesis just evaporated.

@kageminato2127

Ай бұрын

That is why it is a hypothesis..... He knows he does not have hard evidence.

@ryann6067

Ай бұрын

@@kageminato2127 calling Hancock’s ideas, a cogent hypothesis, is a bit of a stretch. Especially more so given he admits there is no evidence to even support it. Making what he espouses purely ideas of fantasy fan-fiction.

@kageminato2127

Ай бұрын

@@ryann6067 it's still a hypothesis, no matter what your opinion of the hypothesis itself is. Sorry.

Hey! What camera are you filming this on?

On the topic of religion, and the logic of peoples of the Middle Ages, I highly suggest you listen to Robin Pierson's episodes on the History of Byzantium. He explains medieval people weren't stupid. They would know that if there house collapsed and they found termites that the collapsed because of the termites. They would just insert the extra step of "Why did the termites come to my house, and not my neighbors"? They had an expanded set of logical reasoning that we have since abandoned. But they way you simplify the reasoning of our ancestors is not the most respectful. Not saying they were correct in their reasoning, but their capabilities of reasoning were greater than you give them credit for. Listening to Robin's explanations is quite interesting.

Flint was so well prepared. I think the only thing he could've articulated better was the way that these theories and racism connect.

@drts6955

Ай бұрын

The one thing that frustrated me is he didn't hone in on the point that of how unbelievable Hancock's conclusions. It was obviously implied and he did mention it but honestly I think he needed to make it clearer, especially for Hancock's fans

@rootbeer4888

Ай бұрын

Flint just showed his woke bias. However he nailed the debate if you could call it that because handcock only had feels and fairytales.

@polyoptika4382

Ай бұрын

there’s still a lot of work to be done in this area.

@philmusson1265

Ай бұрын

If you have to explain racism, it probably isn't racism. I'm a Hancock fan and while his stories might be fantastical, they're certainly not racist.

@TomTasker

Ай бұрын

@@philmusson1265 you don't think it's racist to believe that the people of pre-Columbian south america could not have figured out how to stack stones without some kind of outside influence? which is what the ancient alien/atlantis idea boils down to " brown people to dumb to stack stones."

Engaging in journalism does not make one educated in the skill of investigative journalism. Graham Hancock(sp?) has tertiary education focusing on sociology. One college degree. He graduated over 50 years ago. What knowledge has he acquired since his B.A. equivalent earned in the early 1970s. He is a man living in facts of the far past.

It was archeology of the gaps Edit: you made the comment after I commented . I loved his passion for seeds

C'mon man. I thought I finally found a channel with a sensible creator. Plato is the only source for the myth of Atlantis. He was using it in both the Timaeus and Critias as an allegory. There is no "lost city of Atlantis". Plato may have based the idea of the place on ports such as the one in Carthage, and the one pictured in the fresco found in the ruins of Akrotiri, on Santorini (classical Greek Thera). It's fiction written to make a point while also being entertaining enough to hold people's attention. There are so many great archaeology sites to be excited about, I wish they'd stop bringing this old chestnut up again and again.

@jabberwoke1

Ай бұрын

Do you think that Stefan is an Atlantis conspiracy theorist? If so, I have absolutely no idea how you came to that conclusion. He's very much not.

@ellen4956

Ай бұрын

@@jabberwoke1 Nope. I have watched and enjoyed several of his videos and I think I even subscribed. It's also okay to disagree on a topic without disliking a person or their videos or channel. I like Stefan's channel and videos. I was voicing my disappointment in this topic. If you read my comment, you'd know I said, "There are so many great archaeology sites to be excited about, I wish they'd stop bringing this old chestnut up again and again."

@jabberwoke1

Ай бұрын

@ellen4956 I don't know how, but only the first couple of sentences of your comment were visible to me. Maybe I didn't see the "read more" button, but it only showed the first two sentences before that and nothing more. Clearly, you weren't saying what I commented. Sorry, and I actually agree with you.