This content explores the controversial theory, discussed by Graham Hancock on The Joe Rogan podcast, that an advanced, global seafaring civilization existed during the Ice Age, predating accepted archaeological timelines.
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in a world where we often think we have
uncovered all the secrets of the past a
conversation between Joe Rogan and
Graham Hancock on The Joe Rogan podcast
reveals a fascinating story of ancient
seafaring cultures
while archeology acknowledges the
Polynesian expansion as the first great
seafaring Adventure Hancock questions
the evidence and points to DNA evidence
from the Amazon and ancient maps as
proof of a global navigating culture in
the Ice Age the discovery of an old map
that shows the world as it looked during
the last ice age incorporating precise
relative latitudes and longitudes is
hard to explain
what could this mean was there an
advanced civilization that existed long
before ours that had mastered the art of
when archaeologists talk about seafaring
humans what do they date that too the
great seafaring Adventure that is
accepted by archeology is called the
Polynesian expansion and it's a
remarkable story and that occurs roughly
3 000 to 3500 years ago and those
Polynesians were amazing ocean
Navigators they could they could cross
distances of thousands of kilometers
with pinpoint accuracy I mean it's not
an accident that the Polynesians found
Easter Island finding Easter Island is a
really challenging project Easter Island
is 2 000 miles from the coast of South
America it's two thousand miles from the
nearest other Island which is Tahiti
it's just a little speck in the middle
of the ocean but the Polynesians found
it and settled there and appeared to
have brought a reproductively viable
population there and appear to have made
voyages back and forth but that was
three thousand to three thousand five
hundred years ago that was not 12 800
years ago and this is this is where
archaeologists add adamant position that
ocean voyaging was begun by the
Polynesians and that there was no major
ocean voyages before that I think needs
to be strongly questioned and it needs
to be strongly questioned in the light
of this DNA evidence from the Amazon
rather than rejecting the evidence and
temp should be made to consider what
that might mean well it's interesting
because we know that the Egyptians had
boats yeah and so why I mean if there
were boats four thousand five hundred
years ago why do we think that they
didn't try them out in the ocean that
doesn't make any sense especially if
there existed A Thousand Years prior
which is also possible archaeologists
wouldn't argue that the Egyptians had
boats but but that is that is still
within the the framework of accepted
history it's it's the notion of a of a
global navigating culture in the Ice Age
that archaeologists can't swallow it's a
subject that I've kept on coming up
against over a number of years I think
the best evidence for it is ancient maps
which show the world as it looked during
the last ice age we're talking about
Maps that were drawn roughly between the
1300s and the 1700s in other words in
relatively recent history however these
Maps were largely based on much older
Source Maps which they copied and we can
say that for sure because one of the
famous Maps is the piriris map which was
created by a Turkish Admiral called
Perry Reese in the year 1513. actually
only a corner of his map has survived it
was originally a world map we now just
have a bit that shows the east coast of
South America and North America and the
west coast of Africa Perry Reese writes
in that map that it is in his own
handwriting that he based it on more
than 100 older Source Maps some of which
had come from the Library of Alexandria
in other words that Maps had been when
the Library of Alexandria had been
destroyed in the 4th Century A.D or
whenever it was some of its contents had
been rescued and brought to
Constantinople which became the Turkish
capital and piriris had access to those
maps and he incorporate information from
those maps on his Maps as well as
incorporating more recent navigational
information and this is one of a whole
category of maps which are extremely
hard to explain all of them based on
older Source Maps now lost all of them
incorporating extremely precise relative
longitudes and latitudes latitude is not
that difficult to technological feat but
longitude is a difficult technological
feat longitude involves a chronometer it
involves knowing the time at the place
you began your voyage and the local and
local noon as well and calculating the
difference between them you need a
chronometer that will keep accurate time
at Sea with the Motions of a ship and
it's just a plain fact that our
civilization did not invent such a
chronometer until the late 18th century
before that we didn't know what
longitude we were at and ships were
constantly sailing unexpectedly into
coastlines that they thought were
hundreds of miles further away so the
discovery of the technique to do
longitude was a major civilization
Advance its presence in maps based on
much older Source maps that actually
show the world as it looks during the
last ice age suggests that somebody
during the last ice age was mapping the
world and had mastered the technique of
calculating longitude
classic example of these maps and I make
a point at this is what's called the
Pinkerton world map which was drawn in
the year 1818 and it was based on the
latest navigational information at that
time I reproduced that map in the in in
the book what's missing from the map
entirely missing is Antarctica there's
just a hole at the bottom of the world
there's nothing there the reason that
Antarctica is not there is that our
civilization hadn't discovered
Antarctica in 1818. so they couldn't
authentically put it on a map in 1818
actually we discovered it in 1819 and
that's when it starts appearing on
Modern Maps the problem is that
Antarctica appears repeatedly on these
much older maps and it appears in the
right place and a bit bigger than it is
today but very much as it looked during
the last ice age so what all of this
suggests to me is that the world was
mapped and explored by a global
seafaring culture with a level of
technology that was at least equivalent
to ours at the end of the 18th century
during the Ice Age wasn't there also a
map of Greenland that showed it
underneath the ice yes there are and and
and and uh another intriguing thing I
met I mentioned the Perry Reese map just
now shown on the periris map lying off
the east coast of North America is a
large island with a row of megaliths
like a road of megaliths running up the
middle of it
um that island is in the exact place of
the Grand Bahama Banks so this island is
sitting there off the Southeast coast of
North America look at the way they used
to draw things back then too and and
what you see running down the middle of
it is this road-like feature of of
um I see right there yeah
now the thing is there was a long period
of my life when I I did a lot of scuba
diving and I was looking at underwater
structures and one of the sites I dived
on was the Bimini Road which is in the
Grand Bahama Banks and the Bimini Road
is exactly where that island is and the
the here's the issue I don't care
whether the Bimini Road is natural or
man-made for me the mystery is that it
is shown above water on that map and the
last time it was above water was
thousands and thousands of years ago so
for me this is all evidence that we
shouldn't dismiss the possibility that
our ancestors had achieved a level of
Technology where they could explore and
map the world's oceans we shouldn't
dismiss that and the whole effort of
archeology has been to dismiss the
significance of the Bimini Road how
would they dismiss that well they say
it's just me they say it's totally
natural I can tell you I absolutely do
not think it's natural I think it's a
man-made structure but the argument is
that it's a kind of beach rock that
forms in these blocky formations yes
Beach Rock does form In Blocky formation
but here I believe that the beach rock
has been used as a construction material
but I repeat the key issue is not
whether the Bimini Road is man-made or
not the key issue is that it features on
a map above water and that is a dating
project that tells us that somebody was
mapping that bit of the world when it
was above water takes us back a very
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