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Why have we forgotten some of the basics? With Maaike Coppens

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Are We a Species With Amnesia?

I think that the analogy that I sort of use is, have you seen have you seen Graham Hancock's latest Netflix series? It's called ancient apocalypse. So what he does is he goes around a load of ancient sites across the world. And all of these sites have been carbon dated to something like 11 and a half to 12,000 years ago. According to history, according to archaeology, modern civilizations that are capable of building those kind of structures really didn't emerge until like 3000 years ago or 2000 years ago. Well, basically, the evidence points to advanced civilizations that could build massive monolithic structures that existed well before we believed that humans could do that stuff.

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