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Dec 15 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Is this the source of Graham Hancock’s phrase “species with amnesia”? Does anyone remember who Immanuel Verlikovsky was? (This 1982 book was published posthumously.)
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Immanuel Velikovsky was a psychotherapist and popular writer of the mid-20th century. He proposed theories about rogue planets whose cycles had major impacts on ancient history. These ran directly counter to science, similar to the work of Graham Hancock.
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Scientists complained bitterly about Velikovsky, threatening to boycott his publishers (who also published textbooks). The complaints backfired and the public saw him as an underdog challenging “orthodoxy” much as with Hancock. But Velikovsky was wrong.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_…
“The Velikovsky Affair” is a sympathetic book that documents the errors that scientists made in attempting to suppress his work, ones that resulted in Velikovsky’s success as a trade book author despite presenting crackpot theories.
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Not only have we seen Graham Hancock’s theories before, but we have also seen his methods.

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Dec 17
Göbekli Tepe – The first 20 Years of Research – Tepe Telegrams

This is essential historical context for the archaeology of Göbekli Tepe. It was not the first site at which early T-shaped monoliths were identified over 30 years ago.
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“In 1994 [Klaus Schmidt] visited all Neolithic sites mentioned in the literature. Drawing on the experience gained at Nevalı Çori, Schmidt was able to identify the ‘tombstones’ at Göbekli Tepe as Neolithic work-pieces and T-shaped pillars.”
Klaus Schmidt’s “Aha!” moment in the discovery of Göbekli Tepe in 1994:

“One of those heaps held a particularly large boulder. It was clearly worked and had a form that was easily recognizable: it was the T-shaped head of a pillar of the Nevalı Çori type…”.
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Dec 17
Graham Hancock complains that “Big Archaeology” is hiding information from the public. One of the chief myths he promotes is that Göbekli Tepe overturned everything archaeologists knew about that time period. However, he’s the one who says nothing about the Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
It’s a period that was defined in the 1950s, largely on the basis of archaeologist Dame Kathleen Kenyon’s pioneering research at Jericho (Tell es-Sultan). Why does he never mention this famous woman archaeologist?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_…
Accurate information about the Pre-Pottery Neolithic is widely available, including on Wikipedia. This article provides information about other published sources. It has not been hidden or concealed, least of all by the archaeologists who wrote these.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Potte…
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Dec 16
This was the syllabus for "Fantastic Archaeology" (S-137) as taught by Prof. Stephen Williams at Harvard in the summer of 1983. Image
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Dec 16
It's Final Exam time!

This thread presents the final exam that was used in Prof. Stephen Williams' course "Fantastic Archaeology " (ANTH 139) at Harvard in Spring 1983.

To my knowledge, this was the first college course in the U.S. on the theme of pseudoarchaeology. Image
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Dec 15
A typical #AncientApocalypse fan.

“I’ll start off by saying that I’ve never read any of Graham Hancock’s books. I’ve seen him a few times briefly on Joe Rogan clips, but have never paid attention to him enough to form an educated opinion of his theories” medium.com/@davidhasheart…
The word “civilization” is confusing.

“Their opinion is that civilization first emerged between 6000 and 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia and the Indus River Valley. In fact if you Google search “when did the first civilization develop” you are confronted with the following image:” Image
I wish more people would read Bruce Trigger’s excellent book.
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amazon.com/Understanding-…
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Nov 29
Matt Walsh has a bunch of questions about Graham Hancock’s #AncientApocalypse. Can we help answer them?
“What in the world makes it racist?” he asks, and says that’s never explained.

In Episode 2, Graham Hancock suggests that Quetzalcoatl and Viracocha were survivors of a lost civilization who taught “simple hunters and gatherers” how to farm and build pyramids. They became gods.
Although Hancock avoids saying these culture heroes were white in #AncientApocalypse, he made that clear in his book “Fingerprints of the Gods” (1995), the title of which refers to these supposed white saviors of inferior brown people. Is that a racist scenario? I think so. ImageImageImageImage
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