The Joe Rogan Experience lately seems to have become one of the epicentres of pseudoarchaeology. After Flint Dibble and Graham Hancock, and then Hancock on his own, it was Zahi Hawass’ turn to discuss ‘advanced’ ancient civilizations and other archaeological mysteries on the podcast. Overall, the episode is a useful and informative watch, but there…
Graham Hancock on the Joe Rogan Experience, October 2024: evidence, and the archaeological imagination
Graham Hancock was again a guest on the Joe Rogan Experience on October 17th, presumably in support of the release of season two (The Americas) of his Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse on October 16th. The opening move Hancock and Rogan begin by complaining that they were duped by archaeologist Flint Dibble (who was just given…
Should real archeologists appear on pseudo-archeological TV shows like Ancient Aliens and Ancient Apocalypse?
Tony Trupp recently asked this question on twitter. It’s not a new question, but given the impending release of Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse: The Americas, it’s a good time to give it some thought. I have long argued that archaeologists must be an active and vocal presence in the public conversation about archaeology, and about…
The Göbekli Tepe calendar and the Younger Dryas Impact: another major media fail
Major media outlets have recently been reporting on a new sensational claim that animal carvings on a stone pillar at the archaeological site of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey are a very early form of calendar, and that they commemorate a cosmic impact about 13 000 years ago that triggered the Younger Dryas cold snap (Sweatman…
Yes, archaeologists know virtually nothing about the pharaohs, but to paraphrase Miracle Max, there is a big difference between virtually nothing, and nothing at all
The National news website recently published a piece that proclaims that “Archaeologists know virtually nothing about the Pharaohs”, this according to “leading archaeologist John Romer.” On the one hand, of course we know some things about the Pharaohs. We know some of their names, we know when they lived, and we know some of their…
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