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.
#AncientApocalypse dainst.blog/the-tepe-teleg… “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.”

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_…

This was the syllabus for "Fantastic Archaeology" (S-137) as taught by Prof. Stephen Williams at Harvard in the summer of 1983.

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.

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:”

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.)
#AncientApocalypse 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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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.

I was disappointed that “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” didn’t draw more heavily upon the Maya murals of Bonampak. The lobster guy from the North Wall in Room 1 deserves a scene or two in the next film about Tlalokan. If it had been up to me, I would have had a scene in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever with Namor cliff-diving into the Cenote Ik’kil at Chichén Itzá.

I finally watched “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” It was fun to see several scenes that featured MIT and Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA. One of the things that annoyed me in “Wakanda Forever” as it does in real life: when Namor introduced himself to Princess Shuri, he clearly pronounced his name as “NahMORE,” but for the rest of the movie she and the other Wakandans pronounce it as “NAYmore.”

Get it right, peeps.

Graham Hancock goes on the defensive, calling archaeologists “hysterical” and invoking “sock puppets.”

Also Hancock: “In the academic world we do not do ad hominem arguments.” 😂

https://twitter.com/Graham__Hancock/status/1596958466069102593

The video.

Is #AncientApocalypse the World Ice Theory of the 21st century? Are fans of Graham Hancock going to be like the fans of Hanns Hörbiger?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welteisle… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_H%C…

One of the debates in archaeology right now is about the origins of “urbanism”. Some identify Neolithic/Chalcolithic sites such as Nebelivka in Ukraine as among the first places where urbanism occurred, but most people have never even heard of it.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebelivka… The site of Talianki, in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, was the location of a major settlement of the ancient Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, dating to around 3800 BCE. It is currently the largest-known Neolithic settlement in all of Europe.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talianki_…

Remember when the world was going to end on December 21, 2012?

Remember when we were all going to experience a transformation of consciousness?

It’s been ten years. What happened?

My chat with @KurlyTlapoyawa and @tlakatekatl
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talesfromaztlantis.com/?episode=episo… Graham Hancock was a huge booster of the imaginary Maya Apocalypse prophecy, dedicating many pages to it in “Fingerprints of the Gods” (1995), which contributed to a counterculture mythology that began in the 1960s and 1970s.
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psychologytoday.com/us/blog/realit…

For those interested in Egyptology, especially the dating of the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid, here are some recommendations of reliable web resources and publications, starting with archaeologist Mark Lehner’s AERA website.
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aeraweb.org “Who Built the Sphinx?”, an article by archaeologist Mark Lehner.
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From Alan Landsburg to Graham Hancock.

Yes, it’s about aliens.
#AncientApocalypse To my knowledge, Graham Hancock has never retracted his claim for the original, really, really #AncientApocalypse: the one that destroyed a civilization on Mars, causing the surviving refugees to flee to Earth, where they founded an Ice Age civilization.
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For filmmakers, journalists, and pop culture and television historians:

Graham Hancock’s #AncientApocalypse is the direct, lineal descendant of “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau” (1968), created by Alan Landsberg, the grandfather of #RealityTV.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Land… Alan Landsberg also created the “In Search of…” series, narrated first by Rod Serling (of Twilight Zone and Night Gallery) and then by Leonard Nimoy (of Star Trek).

It ran from 1977 to 1982.

The series presented pseudoarchaeology and pseudoscience.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search…

In our critiques of Graham Hancock and his fans, the role of Ancient American magazine doesn’t get mentioned often enough. Hancock, like the magazine, is hyperdiffusionist.
ancientamerican.com The banner on the Ancient American website features “American Antiquities and Discoveries in the West”, a book by the extremely racist 19th century author Josiah Priest, whose name few people recognize today.

What troubles me the most about Graham Hancock is that he is metaphorically nodding and winking to white supremacists who know the tropes and phrases, ones that have been used over and over and over again in the worst possible ways, from British Israelism to Nazis. British Israelism is the belief that the people of Great Britain are "genetically, racially, and linguistically the direct descendants" of the Ten Lost Tribes of ancient Israel.”

It was the ideological milieu within which pyramidology was born.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_I…

At the beginning of the first episode of #AncientApocalypse, Graham Hancock uses the phrase “species with amnesia.” It’s repeated over and over again.

Surely he knows this is the title of a book by the repugnantly racist, white supremacist, neo-Nazi, author Robert Sepehr. In the second episode of #AncientApocalypse, Graham Hancock relies upon the interpretations of Italian businessman Marco Vigato, whose frankly white supremacist book on Atlantis (published by Inner Traditions) is a racist wet dream. It is laughably bad.

Let's discuss #LostCityOfTheMonkeyGod by starting with this open letter published on March 6, 2015. It's time to renew the conversation.

Letter from International Scholars: Archaeological Finds in Honduras.
realhonduranarchaeology.wordpress.com/letter-from-in… A relevant blog post by @rajoyceUCB on March 3, 2015:

There’s a real archaeological surprise in Honduras…
blogs.berkeley.edu/2015/03/03/the…
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A really cool paper was published yesterday in Nature Human Behaviour:

Origins and spread of formal ceremonial complexes in the Olmec and Maya regions revealed by airborne lidar. It reports on 478 sites with rectangular complexes like one at San Lorenzo.
nature.com/articles/s4156… Origins and spread of formal ceremonial complexes in the Olmec and Maya regions revealed by airborne lidar
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