Ice Age on the Joe Rogan Experience
3 fact-checked claims across 2 episodes · Apr 2024 to Oct 2024
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- Flint Dibble (2)
- Graham Hancock (1)
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“level, lowest sea level during the Ice Age. Cyprus was always an island. And yet, there's evidence now that it was settled 14,000 years ago, certainly 14,000 t…”
Cyprus, always an island even at lowest Ice Age sea level, was settled 14,000 to 12,500 years ago by large planned migrations of populations of roughly a thousand people crossing the Mediterranean.
“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 …”
Dibble cites Peter Richerson and colleagues that Ice Age agriculture was likely impossible because atmospheric CO2 was too low for intensive plant growth.
“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 metallu…”
Dibble claims Arctic ice cores record lead emissions from Roman and medieval metallurgy but show no metallurgical emissions during the Ice Age, ruling out a large-scale metal-working civilization then.