NEW on SAPIENS Reviewing Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse, an anthropologist explains how its host Graham Hancock devalues both archaeology and Indigenous heritage.
The survivors of this advanced civilization, according to Hancock, introduced agriculture, architecture, astronomy, arts, maths, and the knowledge of “civilization” to “simple” hunter-gatherers. The reason little evidence exists, he says, is because it is under the sea or was destroyed by the cataclysm.“Perhaps,” Hancock posits in the first episode, “the extremely defensive, arrogant, and patronizing attitude of mainstream academia is stopping us from considering that possibility.
From my perspective as an archaeologist, the show is surprisingly lacking in evidence to support Hancock’s theory of an advanced, global ice age civilization. The only site Hancock visits that actually dates to near the end of the ice age is
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