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I wonder how long it will be before other theories of Graham Hancock are found to be plausible or true instead of him being dismissed as a crackpot fringe conspiracy person?


Which of Graham Hancock's claims do you think this supports? It certainly isn't the one about a global seafaring proto-British empire from the last ice age, considering how far inland it is, the technology is off, and it vastly predates his hypothesis for the global apocalypse.

The Santa Elena Rock shelter people have been making this argument for years now. Between the questionable lithics, dating, and excavation methodologies they don't have sufficient evidence to support the claims they're making and they've offered no convincing explanations for why the standard of evidence should be lowered given the massive chronological issues their dates would suggest (<5000 years after Yana 10k miles away!).


I wonder how long it will be before theories, beliefs, superstitions, hunches, are no longer combined with grievance and pride and packaged up as somehow empirically relevant.


I would imagine a bloody long time, knowing the human race...




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