Hancock gives the Younger Dryas cold period as running from about 12,800 to about 11,600 years ago.
“The Younger Dryas, I'll round the figures off, begins around 12,800 years ago and it ends around 11,600 years ago.”
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Hancock says Göbekli Tepe's significance was recognized only after the German Archaeological Institute and Klaus Schmidt began excavating it.
“it wasn't until the German Archaeological Institute got involved, and particularly Klaus Schmidt, who I think was a genius, had real insight into this”
Hancock says American archaeologists surveyed the hill at Göbekli Tepe in the 1960s and abandoned it, thinking the cut stone was Byzantine.
“there was a survey of that pot-bellied hill in the nineteen sixties by, um, some American archaeologists.”
Hancock says Enclosure D at Göbekli Tepe holds the two largest pillars, about eighteen feet tall and roughly twenty tons each.
“enclosure D, which contains the two largest upright megaliths, about eighteen feet tall and reckoned to weigh somewhere in the range of twenty tons”
Hancock says Göbekli Tepe was in use from roughly 11,600 years ago until it was deliberately buried about 10,400 years ago.
“It stood from roughly 11,600 years ago to about 10,400 years ago to about 8,400 B. C.”
Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend wrote the 1960s book Hamlet's Mill, which argues that knowledge of precession is far older than the Greeks.
“they wrote, uh, an immense book in the nineteen sixties called Hamlet's Mill”
Hancock says the precession of the equinoxes is a cycle that repeats about every 26,000 years, with a conventional figure of 25,920 years.
“and it is a cycle, it repeats itself roughly every 26,000 years.”
Hancock cites the Tunguska event in Siberia on 30 June 1908 as an undisputed airburst of a cometary fragment.
“the Tunguska event in Siberia, which took place on the thirtieth of June, 1,908.”
Hancock says the settlement of Abu Hureyra, within 150 miles of Göbekli Tepe, shows impact evidence and was destroyed about 12,800 years ago.
“That was a a settlement within 150 miles of Gobekli Tepe, and it was hit 12,800 years ago, and it was obliterated.”
Hancock says the Alvarez impact theory of the dinosaur extinction was widely accepted only after the buried Chicxulub crater was found.
“when they finally did produce that deeply buried Chicxulub crater, that's when people started to say, yeah, they have to be right.”
Hancock says modern civilization solved the longitude problem only in the mid-eighteenth century with Harrison's marine chronometer.
“Our civilization did not crack the longitude problem until the mid-eighteenth century, with Harrison's chronometer, which was able to keep accurate time at sea.”
Hancock says geologist Robert Schoch concluded the Great Sphinx shows weathering from at least a thousand years of heavy rainfall.
“and say, Well, it looks to me like the Sphinx was exposed to at least a thousand years of heavy rainfall.”
Hancock says Caliph al-Ma'mun, in the ninth century, had workers cut into the Great Pyramid's north face to find an entrance.
“an Arab caliph, Caliph al-Ma'mun, who had already realized that other pyramids did have their entrances in the north face”
Hancock says Howard Vyse blasted his way into the Great Pyramid's upper chambers, where a graffito naming Khufu was found, and that its authenticity is disputed.
“a British adventurer and vandal called Howard Vyse, who who dynamited his way into those chambers in the first place”
Hancock says the Wadi al-Jarf papyri include the diary of Merer, which describes delivering limestone facing stones to the Great Pyramid during Khufu's reign.
“what is called the Wadi al-Jarf papyri, uh, where, uh, on the Red Sea, uh, a diary, the diary of an individual called Merer was found.”
Hancock says the Great Pyramid is aligned to true north within three sixtieths of a degree.
“it's aligned almost perfectly to true north, south, east and west, uh, within three sixtieths of a single degree”
Hancock says artist Oscar Hansen built a star map at the Hoover Dam to freeze the sky at the moment of its completion for future cultures.
“and Oscar Hansen, the artist who created that uh piece, uh, said so specifically that this would be so that any future culture would be able to know the time of the dam's construction”
Hancock says Fingerprints of the Gods, published in 1995, became a global bestseller and drew archaeologists' attention to him.
“when Fingerprints of the Gods was published in 1995 and became a a global bestseller, then I started to attract their attention”
Hancock says the Society for American Archaeology wrote to Netflix asking it to reclassify Ancient Apocalypse as science fiction.
“the Society for American Archaeology wrote an open letter to Netflix, uh, asking Netflix to reclassify the series as science fiction.”
Hancock says the figure of 3 million shipwrecks cited by Flint Dibble is a UNESCO estimate rather than a count of mapped wrecks.
“That is not a fact. That is an estimate, a UNESCO estimate.”
Hancock says the oldest boat found anywhere is the Dokos shipwreck off Greece, about 5,000 years old.
“The oldest boat that's ever been found in the world is the Dokos shipwreck off Greece, which is around 5,000 years old, if I recall correctly.”
Hancock says Francis Crick's 1981 book Life Itself suggested life was brought to Earth by directed panspermia.
“And Crick wrote a book called Life Itself that was published in 1981, and he suggested that life had been brought here by a process of panspermia.”
Hancock says the word ayahuasca comes from Quechua and means the vine of souls or the vine of the dead.
“Ayahuasca itself is not an Amazonian word. It it comes from the Quechua language, and it means the vine of souls or the vine of the dead.”
Hancock explains that DMT taken by mouth is deactivated by a gut enzyme unless combined with an MAO inhibitor, as in the ayahuasca brew.
“D M T is not accessible orally, unless you combine it with a monoamine oxidase inhibitor”
Hancock says his talk on the war on consciousness was a TEDx event that was pulled from TED's main channel.
“it was a TEDx talk, not a TED talk organized by a local TED TED group”