Hancock is clever in that he works around a core idea that’s effectively impossible to disprove, and more importantly genuinely plausible

this is the idea that civilisation goes back [a lot] further than our current understanding suggests

he then wraps this up in dramatic language with an us-vs-the-establishment demeanour, adds a few extremely tenuous pieces of evidence, and sells it to the public

lots of this “evidence” is just a clever way to get people to pay for his trips to exotic holiday destinations. the episode of his Netflix doc on the Bimini Road (in the Bahamas) being the perfect example. humongous pile of bollocks, but I bet it was a lovely holiday

it’s a clever con, with little to no real harm, and I applaud him for it. it’s even possible that it’s a net good for the world. he without doubt interests more people in history and archaeology than would be otherwise, and it’s not a bad thing to challenge scholarly consensus now and again