THEY KEPT THIS HIDDEN | This Is What Archaeologists Don't Want You To Know | Graham Hancock

if we were to have another event like the event that happened twelve thousand eight hundred years ago I can say with absolute confidence that our civilization would not survive it [Music] scholars who attempt to investigate the possibility of a past Cataclysm often find themselves in the crosshairs of very vicious attacks from their from their colleagues the mammoths the the master dolls the saber-tooth Tigers the you know the the the giant sloths all of these all of these creatures were in the world until twelve thousand eight hundred years ago and then they lived on overnight very very radical rapid change in dealing with history and particularly in dealing with prehistory there is a difference because history is based primarily upon written documents and prehistory you're dealing with objects artifacts that are dug up dug up out of the ground I began to realize how how ideological this is but that actually when I'm dealing with academics with archaeologists or professional skeptics of anything of any kind I'm I'm dealing with people who already have an ideological position and that ideological position is confronted by the position I take so in an ideological war what you try to do is to destroy your opponent in any way fair or foul and it's how it's helped me to understand that there is an ideological war over our past for example when it comes to large-scale animal extinctions which happened at the end of the Ice Age what they call the megafauna the mammoths the the mastodons saber-toothed Tigers the you know the the the giant sloths all of these all of these creatures were in the world until twelve thousand eight hundred years ago and then they were gone overnight very very radical rapid change now the mainstream for some reason in this ideology doesn't like cataclysms it doesn't like cataclysmic events it doesn't want to think that there have been that that cataclysms have played a role in the human story so seeking for a way to explain the disappearance of the megafauna the natural option from mainstream archeologists is to say oh that was human predation that did it that was human human hunting that did it then suddenly we're required to picture a group of hunter-gatherers who are so incredibly efficient and so ruthless that they wipe out the entire megafauna of for example North America in a matter of months uh I don't know any come together a community that behaves that way they respect their prey they live with them they they co depend upon them they don't wipe them out what does wipe them out is a giant comet impact which melts the ice sheets and causes huge flooding over over North America so there's a there's a tendency in in the study of prehistory to want to keep the past kind of nice and calm and just the way it is now there's even a word for it it's called uniformitarianism that that and it's a doctrine that things should and have unfolded in the past much in the way that we see them unfolding now so if we don't have any giant cataclysms happening in the earth now then there wouldn't have been any cataclysms in the past then yeah we know about the dinosaurs and they were made extinct by an asteroid but that was 65 million years ago surely within the human story there's been no such thing and and as a result scholars who attempt to investigate the possibility of a past Cataclysm often find themselves in the crosshairs of very vicious attacks from their from their colleagues as though somehow they're upsetting the applecart in some way and as though we shouldn't think about these things I don't think that it's deliberate planned censorship right I think it's the I think it's the mindset of the of the individuals who we have entrusted with interpreting our history for us and that is a mindset that is troubled by tactical isms doesn't want them to have happened whether consciously or subconsciously and and looks for other reasons to explain why things are the way they are yeah it's important you say that because it's not in your mind that conspiracy it's just a natural tendency for them to shy away from these things yes because also keeping things in the status quo keeps everything yet the way it should be yep stem in their same jobs their institutions alive absolutely and so they just naturally become uncomfortable and resist when they hear these new theories very much so and and this is a classic example that I go into in this in this new book of archaeology going radically drastically wrong and it's partly connected to that so called overkill theory where the megafauna were supposedly wiped out by this ruthless hunter-gatherer population and it's an archeological theory called Clovis first and it dominated American archaeology for 50 years the notion that there's a culture that archaeologists call the Clovis culture we don't know what they call themselves they're called the Clovis culture because what's called the type site they're the classic site that they were at is near the town of Clovis New Mexico in a place called Blackwater draw near Clovis New Mexico and apparently the archaeologist needed to go to Clovis to get the beer so they called it the Clovis culture and this Clovis culture there's no there's no evidence of it in North America before thirteen thousand six hundred years ago it flourishes for about eight hundred years and twelve thousand eight hundred years ago it bashes completely from the picture the position of archaeology for 50 years is those were the first human beings to enter American no human beings entered the Americas before thirteen thousand six hundred years ago and those are the same archaeologists who repeatedly called me a pseudo scientist or a pseudo archaeologist for suggesting other possibilities but lo and behold what do we find round about 2010 onwards the evidence becomes overwhelming that Clovis was not first not first at all not first by even a tiny margin a huge margin first by it first by a huge margin not twenty five thousand thirty five thousand fifty thousand it's part of the research for this book I went to the San Diego Natural History Museum and interviewed dr. Tom de Murray who's the chief paleontologist there the reason I interviewed him was because he just had an extraordinary paper published in in April 2017 and that paper documents human presence in North America 130,000 years ago that's ten times as old as the Clovis culture and all archeologists admit this now that the Clovis first was a mistake they got it wrong completely wrong human beings had been in America for much longer than that what they don't comment on is the cool ears that were ruined as a result people like Jackson Mars who excavated bluefish caves in the Yukon he had his career literally ripped to shreds by his colleagues because he was proposing humans in America 25,000 years ago he had his research funding withdrawn he could only continue on his own on his own buck nobody was supporting him but he was right he was right and this happens this happens again and again so what when archeologists of that type say you know Hancock is a pseudo scientist I say hang on a minute you guys are the pseudo scientists you guys sold us Clovis first for 50 years you guys withdrew funding from research that might have exposed that lie earlier you wouldn't let it happen and that's not right it shouldn't be that way archaeology archaeal archaeologists should not take the view that they have got a firm and fixed picture of the past because actually we know so little about the past they should always be saying this is our provisional position but we are open to other possibilities because if they don't say that those other possibilities are going to come along and kick them in the ass pretty soon and that's what's that's what's happened with Chloe's first and close' first is not a small matter because if human beings have been in the Americas for a hundred and thirty thousand years instead of for 13,000 years why there's a hundred thousand plus years that archaeologists just haven't looked because of their preconceived notion that there was going to be nothing to find there was actually a dictum against digging below Clovis levels you know how in archaeological strata it's like a layer cake and you have certain levels and the view was let's not waste research funds digging below Clovis because we know there was nothing before Clovis what idiotic what a ridiculous position to take those archaeologists who did risk it and who dug deeper like our Goodyear at topper in the Carolinas they found human stuff going back tens of thousands of years earlier so you know I think we're dealing we're dealing with an ideological discipline and I think it should be it should be more provisional in what it says in what it claims and it should be less it should be less despising of people who consider other possibilities because that's a useful thing to do it's useful to consider other possibilities even if they're well we should never saw it should never get locked in a narrow channel and say everything outside the bounds of this channel is not subject to investigation it's really a mistake I mean I was surprised when you went to America with this book because I thought what's in America you know and because of all of the assumptions I had making yeah I had been taught as a kid you know this simple the de narratives was simple as little as I knew that there was nothing else exactly this was this was the view and this is why America is so is so interesting because what we have in the the Americas North and North and South America is a gigantic landmass enormous Lee rich in resources just the kind of place where a civilization could emerge and then you take the Ice Age and you recognize that for very long periods the Americas were cut off from the rest of the world but yet incredibly rich in resources so now we know that there were human beings there from 100 2,000 years ago and we know that archaeologists haven't been looking at what they were doing now's the time to ask what were they doing what was what was going on in in in the Americas in in that time and again a need for archaeologists to be more humble how much have they really looked at take the Mississippi Valley Civilisation which plays an important role in this book the famous sites are sites like Cahokia or Poverty Point or the the Ohio sites such as highbank and Newark amazing you know huge geometrical earthworks absolutely stunning but the trouble is that in the 18th and 19th and 20th centuries there was massive large-scale destruction of these ancient monuments they were not considered to be worth preserving the needs of agriculture and industry were more important so what we can say is that round about 90% of the monuments that were in the Mississippi Valley in say 1700 are gone now they're not there so archeologists in drawing their conclusions about that culture are drawing it on a tiny fraction that's randomly left by chance from the mass scale wipe out that was that was caused and then when the archaeologists come to it with preconceived ideas about what sort of culture it should be that's another form of censorship that imposes itself upon the past we should let the past speak for itself and was that just human destruction without people thinking about it well I mean first first of all there there was the view you know things have changed we live in it we live in a different world today but America in the 18th and 19th centuries was in an aggressively expansionist expanding westward and that in and that involved taking the land of the indigenous inhabitants well if you're going to take away you know millions of acres from people and stuff them somewhere else then you need a good excuse to do so so so what you do is you depict them as savages and you say that actually we're doing them a favor you know there's that there's a quote I put in the in the book concerning the horrific project called the boarding schools project in America where Native American children about 90% of them were physically removed from their families and stuck in morning schools in another state far away punished if they wore any traditional clothing given the whole ideology of Western civilization and encouraged to cut themselves off from their roots well of no wonder we're a species with amnesia if we take the entire cultural memory banks of the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas and deliberately white women [Music] you [Music]

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Published: Tue May 07 2019