ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Graham Hancock, Scientific Method
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Doing archeological work is very different then what it shown on television. When did we get smart and develop math and engineering skills. The idea that they needed electricity to create things inside the dark pyramids. People make stuff up but egyptians wrote about them, wrote about why they built them. Insist that egyptians were the first to build the first structures of that magnitude. Gobekli tepe stone structures built 11,600-9300 b. p made by hunter gatherers, so small groups but looks like they got together to build the stone structure, only domestic objects found. Hancock and bauval credentials as construction and writer. Saying that it"s hard to conceive a king building a tomb and not putting his name on it. Saying pyramids were built for future generations. Ironic that he himself is sticking to one story. 6500-4500 as environment changes, nile was forming cultures adapting to changing habitats, nabla playa traces of people managing animals (cattle, not native), takes them.
