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5e148a8
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We are used to things starting out small and simple and then progressing--evolving--to become ever more complex and sophisticated, so this is naturally what we expect to find on archaeological sites. It upsets our carefully structured ideas of how civilizations should behave, how they should mature and develop, when we are confronted by a case like Gobekli Tepe that starts out perfect at the beginning and then slowly devolves until it is just a pale shadow of its former self.
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complex
develop
devolves
evolving
progressing
göbekli-tepe
sophisticated
civilizations
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Graham Hancock |
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af19252
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For more than half a century, [...] American archaeology was so riddled with pre-formed opinions about how the past look, and about the orderly, linear way in which civilizations evolve, that it repeatedly missed, sidelined, and downright ignored evidence for human presence at all prior to Clovis--until, at any rate, the mass of that evidence became so overwhelming that it took the existing paradigm by storm.
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history
smithsonian-institute
deep-human-history
prejudices
civilizations
ignorance
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Graham Hancock |
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2ad1c99
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As I studied the e-mail from Glenn Milne, I knew just how ancient the U-shaped structure [found a few kilometers away from the Indian coast] really might be - at least 11,000 years old. That's 6000 years older than the first monumental architecture of ancient Egypt or of ancient Sumer in Mesopotamia - traditionally thought of as the oldest civilizations of antiquity. Certainly, no civilization known to history existed in southern India - or anywhere else - 11,000 years ago. Yet the U-shaped structure off the Tranquebar-Poompuhur coast invites us to consider the possibility that it was the work of a civilization that archaeologists have as yet failed to identify - one whose primary ruins could have been missed because they are submerged so deep beneath the sea.
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deep-human-history
monuments
archaeology
civilizations
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Graham Hancock |
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e51562d
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Now we know that man is more than two million years old,' exlaimed Heyerdahl, 'it would be very strange if our ancestors lived like primitive food collectors for all that time until suddenly they started in the Nile valley, in Mesopotamia and even in the Indus valley, to build a civilization at peak level pretty much at the same time. And there's a question I ask that I never get an answer to. The tombs from the first kingdom of Sumer are full of beautiful ornaments and treasures made of gold, silver, platinum, and semi-precious stones -- things you don't find in Mesopotamia. All you find there is mud and water -- good for planting but not much else. How did they suddenly learn -- in that one generation just about -- where to go to find gold and all these other things? To do that they must have known the geography of wide areas, and that takes time. So there must have been something before.
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deep-human-history
geography
civilizations
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Graham Hancock |
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db3b9f6
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"The rolling hills we traveled through were lined with rows of crisscrossed crops- apple and pear trees, vines of grapes, and maize- creating bafflingly precise geometries. In the forested areas, the branches on the trees drooped lugubriously like the long sleeves of Druid priests. Jonathan pointed to the curved roads that cut through the hillsides and valleys. "Forged by Romans, Mina!" he said. "So many civilizations have come and gone on this land- Celts, Romans, Normans, Mongols, French. Who knows how many more?"
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crops
fruit-trees
hills
natures-beauty
civilizations
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Karen Essex |
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cadfc5e
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Cultele memoriei de orice natura, indiferent daca se prezinta in vesminte religioase, civilizatoare sau politice, trebuie privite... cu neincredere si asta fara exceptie: sub pretextul unei comemorari purificatoare, eliberatoare sau fie si numai fondatoare de identitate, ele dau inevitabil apa la moara unei tendinte ascunse de repetare si repunere in scena. ... masurile de stingere sau de domolire a flacarii mocnite cu care ard amintirile suferintelor trebuie sa faca parte din regulile de intelepciune ale oricarei civilizatii,
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civilizations
memorie
memory
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Peter Sloterdijk |