This new limited series on Netflix is causing a lot of controversy in the archaeological community. Graham Hancock, the host, loves to say, āHuman beings are a species with amnesia.ā To prove this he travels around the world to pre-historic sites and makes the argument that an advanced human civilization existed during the last Ice Age before being wiped out by asteroid strikes around 12,800 years ago. Iām a natural born skeptic, but Iāve read several of Hancockās books and they raise a lot of questions that archaeologists havenāt, or canāt, sufficiently answer.Ā Ā Sometimes I wonder why Iām so interested in the mysteries of prehistory. The conclusion Iāve come to is that they calm me by making my own problemsāfinishing my Perfectly Imperfect, writing the next book, deathāfeel less significant.
