Joe Rogan Experience #2136 - Graham Hancock & Flint Dibble

“For example, here are this publication by Canuto in 2018 records 61,480 structures still to be excavated, found with LIDAR and surface survey, right? And so at the same time... And this is for people…”

“Oh, the oldest seeds we have go back tens of thousands of years. The oldest domesticated crops we have go back about 11,000 years. And where are those from? From Syria, Turkey, the Fertile Crescent a…”

“And I'd say we could definitively prove there was no large-scale metallurgy in the Ice Age. If you look at ice cores in the Arctic, right, we can track metallurgy of the Roman period, If you look at…”

“And so the thing is at this point, we have something like three million shipwrecks from around the world. And so one of my questions for Graham is, if this is a global civilization with ships, why is…”

“So archaeologists named this culture the Clovis culture after that. And it was for a long while thought to be the first culture, the first human presence in the Americas. And the dating that was put…”

“this is Jacques Saint-Germain, who investigated bluefish caves in the Yukon and found evidence of human beings there more than 20,000 years ago. Now if that evidence were correct, it would blow the C…”

“Tom Dillehay discovered the site of, excavated the site of Monteverde in Chile, and he found evidence that human beings had been there 14,000, maybe as much as 18,000 years ago in the deep south of S…”

“But the fact of the matter is, round about 1% of the Sahara has been excavated and 99% hasn't. So to say that there's no possibility of any traces of a lost civilization in the Sahara seems to me a b…”

“and when you go down and you take up soil samples associated with that stonework you find that they date back to about 25,000 years ago. None of those cores came from that tunnel or chamber or any of…”

“Between 12,900 and 12,800 years ago, a very dramatic climate episode occurred and that's called the Younger Dryas. The world had been gradually warming up before that. And then suddenly, it went very…”

“The evidence for the Younger Dryas impact is found in what are called impact proxies and that's iridium, nanodiamonds, platinum, melt glass like trinitite, found in sites across a vast area of the Ea…”

“Exactly the same thing that happened over Tunguska in Siberia on the 30th of June 1908. That was an object that fell out of the sky, almost certainly out of the torrid meteor stream, which is thought…”

“So the younger dry ice impact hypothesis since 2007, it's been a compelling and thoroughly documented case. It's been put together by more than 60 eminent scientists. Of course, some scientists oppos…”

“you can see the population of rice at archaeological sites, it starts off mostly as brittle, meaning it shatters easily, and over time it takes about 1,500 years for rice to evolve to become fully do…”

“We have evidence against it from those pollen cores, but also this article by Peter Richardson and colleagues points out that agriculture, it was probably too hostile of a condition for agriculture i…”

“Now I give you some statistics. It's 481.39 feet high originally. It's a bit lower today. It lost some 30 feet from its top in an earthquake. Footprint of the base 13.1 acres, weight 6 million tons,…”

“And this monument is aligned to within three sixtieths of a single degree of true north. Why do I pick three sixtieths? Because degrees are divided into 60 minutes. So we're talking about three arc m…”

“and that time is around 12,600 years ago. It's not a single moment, it's an epoch of several hundred years. But the constellation of Leo, it was the age of Leo, was rising, housing the sun 12,600 yea…”