Archaeologists Ask Netflix to Reclassify Graham Hancock’s Docuseries as Fiction

Re:Archaeologists Ask Netflix to Reclassify Graham Hancock’s... by Shorel on Monday December 05, 2022 @03:51AM (#33863077)

It's not farfetched. But at the same time, it puts a lot of pressure in the immutability of oral traditions.

Back then, distances were simply bigger, both in actual distance and in time.

For a single culture to have been the origin, their message and mythos needed to be reproduced with precision through countless generations.

I am not saying this is impossible, and in fact it is plausible, just that this is a factor to take into account.

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Re:Archaeologists Ask Netflix to Reclassify Graham Hancock’s... by zozbot234 on Monday December 05, 2022 @04:20AM (#33863270)

> Back then, distances were simply bigger, both in actual distance and in time.

I think it's been amply demonstrated that long-distance sea voyages were always feasible - which is how Oceania was populated in the first place. So the tales of ancient mariners bringing advanced knowledge to all sorts of peoples may well have some merit.

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Re:Archaeologists Ask Netflix to Reclassify Graham Hancock’s... by cryptonector on Monday December 05, 2022 @11:48AM (#33868024)

It's plausible, but keeping all that knowledge and opsec going across 1,000 generations (or more) is... very challenging -- so challenging that I doubt it actually happened.

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