Episode 90: Ancient Apocalypse: The Americas, Episode 6 (2024)

Today we’re making a sacrifice to the gods of the algorithm and reviewing an episode of Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse: The Americas (2024). To help carry this burden, we’re joined by Dr. Andrew Kinkella, who helps us evaluate claims about the ancient Maya in this series’ sixth episode. How did ancient people learn to count? How did they find out that the sun exists? It’s a real mystery.

Check out Andrew Kinkella’s shows:

The Pseudo-Archaeology Podcast: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/pseudo

The CRM Archaeology Podcast: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/crmarchpodcast

Kinkella Teaches Archaeology: https://www.youtube.com/@KinkellaTeachesArchaeology

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In this episode:

Fingerprints of the Gods (1995) by Graham Hancock: https://ia803100.us.archive.org/8/items/fingerprintsofthegodsbygrahamhancock/Fingerprints%20of%20the%20Gods%20by%20Graham%20Hancock.pdf

Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882) by Ignatius Donnelly: https://archive.org/details/atlantisantedilu00donnuoft

Kukulkan/Quetzalcoatl: https://www.worldhistory.org/Kukulcan/

Palenque: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/411/

Palaeolithic Calendars: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_115

How to track the solstices and equinoxes yourself: https://johnmuirlaws.com/sun-shadows-exploring-the-solstice-and-equinox/

Milky Way Mythology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way_(mythology)

Ayahuasca: https://adf.org.au/drug-facts/ayahuasca/

The Mayan Numeral System: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/waymakermath4libarts/chapter/the-mayan-numeral-system/

Serra da Paituna: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5173343/

The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825211000262

Flint Dibble livestream with Ken Feder for #RealArchaeology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEimOPN_pO8

Homer Simpson deceptively edited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGFaOeUm2A