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Debunking claims about Gobeklitepe

https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/debunking-claims-gobeklitepe-75895/

GH will constantly argue 'they don't teach you these in school'. Brother in Christ, you were being taught these things decades ago, we didn't know a lot of things back then because science is function of time, you get more discoveries in a unit of time. Göbeklitepe? Escavation started in 1994, UNESCO heritage by 2018. LIDAR, the holy grail itself, began its use in archaeology in late 1990. These years aren't even recent.

Bulk of his most notable books were written exactly durring 1900s. Bro used facts and discoveries from earlier years, older than 1990s. Time closer to his days at school. Of course he would've been taught about Göbeklitepe, how would he? He was taught information that was available at the time. And now he will even present these as 'new discoveries' while they've been studied for over 20 years now. He literally has gap in his timeline.

He will argue modern discoveries as if those were hidden from public eyes decades ago, therefore his rhetoric of dogmatic evil archaeologists that will gaslight anyone daring to question them. What a joke.

edit: truly a circlejerk community akin to a cult, what an interesting sight

Dusting for Fingerprints

https://jcolavito.tripod.com/lostcivilizations/id2.html

"Hancock is a soft-spoken Englishman with a soothing voice that bears the culture and learning of the Victorian professors romanticized in too many bad novels and worse films. His hair has begun to gray, and his small, round glasses make him look more learned than his fifty or so years. A journalist by trade, Hancock worked for the renowned newspaper The Economist for many years and wrote several critically-acclaimed books including AIDS: The Deadly Epidemic and Lords of Poverty before making a "life-changing" trip to Ethiopia where he became a convert to a new faith based on a great legacy allegedly handed down from the most ancient times.

Because of his nose for news and a large sum of money from the corrupt government of dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, Hancock undertook to write a history of Ethiopia in 1983. Mengistu granted the author free access to any site in the country and asked Hancock to emphasize the ancient cultures of Ethiopia and their achievements. Hancock later wrote in The Sign and the Seal that "I was under no illusions about how the project was viewed by senior figures in the regime." Mengistu wanted to justify his oppressive government and the greatness of Ethiopia to the world. Perhaps to no one's shock, Hancock made a sensational discovery during his stay at the ancient city of Axum, home to Ethiopia's most ancient rulers: the city housed the Ark of the Covenant.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,It is here that Hancock stopped being a journalist and changed roles, for it was here that he began to formulate an alternative theory to explain the enigmas he previously had been content merely to catalogue."

I found this article published last August (2024) describing a new discovery. Apparently a mild current (2-3 volts) applied to seawater sand containing ions and dissolved minerals can be turned to a "cement" (calcium carbonate). A higher volt (4 volts) apparently “becomes magnesium hydroxide and hydromagnesite”. They claim to be as solid as rock. And aparently this method works with a variety of marine sands as well.

So I am wondering how feasible it might be to have used such a technology in ancient times to create megalithic building blocks (right on site?)? With an appropriate sand or soil mixture containing the ions needed? Maybe the Baghdad battery was used? Or several strung together. Maybe the “nubs” on many megalithic building blocks might have been where the charges were attached? I have no idea if any shape is able to be formed before a current is applied however. Maybe the cement takes a more freeform shape as when lightning strikes a beach. If shapes cannot be made then the idea is over and out.

The title of the article is: "Fighting Coastal Erosion with Electricity” posted online by Amanda Morris.

The researchers mentioned in the article are Alessandro Rota Loria who headed the research team, Andony Landivar Macias (one papers first author), And Steven Jacobsen, co author. The research was out of Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering. The article was posted online by Amanda Morris on a news site for Northwestern in August 2024.

This might be a way out there idea but I am curious to hear thoughts on this as a possible ancient technology (re-discovered?). Tell me why it's not possible so I can stop thinking about it..?

https://youtu.be/GVr8pZmSa-c?si=DBdvR5Ciyi83j-Wr

It is Geocentric.

The gears are significantly more complex than Heliocentric gears would be in order to factor in Planetary retrograde motion.

It is in error being off one whole Zodiac house.

It calculated anyone's personal horoscope.

It calculated the Olympic Games.

It calculated Eclipses.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ppdn6NYke0hvG26P5FpKF?si=LLbZwcWjRm60p2Oy6hJ-Sg

Established archeologist making some interesting points about water raises, stone circles etc can't imagine the world 150/200 meters lower seawater

Listening to Graham's discussion of the possibility that metallurgy could explain ice age spikes in metals found in ice cores, I feel this is an important piece of evidence which potentially supports this view or at least ought to get more attention:

It is widely accepted that the oldest known mine in the world is 42,000 years old.

https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5421/#:~:text=Ngwenya%20on%20the%20other%20hand,cosmetics%20all%20over%20the%20region.

According to UNESCO they were mining red ochre but this is strong evidence that some people understood the concept of mining and could have encountered metal bearing ores at a time almost 4x older than the younger dryas.

UNESCO also claims the mine was in use until 20,000 years ago, i.e. 22,000 years of use. I am not qualified enough to understand whether this use required a permanent settlement at the site, but at the very least proves that a group in South Africa had enough surplus food to be doing this mining for millenia and enough ties to the site to keep coming back to it. As I've posted before*, there's ways besides agriculture to generate that surplus food, but it seems to indicate some level of sophistication.

• link to past post https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1c9b23l/could_there_be_iceage_megalithic_sites_built_by/

I like the ideas of Hancock. It’s fascinating, but it feels a bit far-fetched. In short, here is why; Hancock always discusses the similarities and common practices of ancient societies. He focuses on architecture, engineering, and even art, but what about the differences?

If there was an ancient empire that shared its high-tech technologies, why are all these different societies so different? For example, the walls in SE2. The focus on the perfectly fit stones is amazing, but five minutes later, he shows a different society that uses small bricks layered randomly without commenting on it.

Again, i find it fascinating and think he should get more funding to research it, but sometimes it feels like cherry-picking.