Hey Raiders, I just arrived in Egypt for the month - laying in my hotel room, looking at the Great Pyramid as I type this. So much more research/content coming once I get home from this excursion in a few weeks. Can’t wait to see you all again soon 🧭
It was interesting what you said around 1:06.40 about the unfortunate people who were venerated made me think about the work i recently saw on a podcast about the apparent psychic abilities of autistic people of all ages.
I install computer networks in new office buildings and this is perfect for me too. I used to listen to music but these kinds of informative videos seem to make the time go by much faster.
@Luke - Was it you that once proposed the Olmecs would have carved possible birth defects & seen as something they would see as a sign or possible reason for showing elevated worship? I could be wrong and it could be my own brain saying this. Thanks for all the great content IMHO.
Holyyy balls. Just got in my digger on a freezing british morning to dig some drainage, go to see what ancient stuff i can listen and 3 hours of olmecs with Luke! Fuck yeah. Nice one mate ❤
@lukecaverns its only -2C but for some reason, in England, it bites hard and feels like -20c! Oh sweet come in May or June when its warmer! Have you been before? Could send you some cool places to visit and nice places to eat if you want?
@@lukecavernsmate have you seen that video of a female mp in New Zealand that starts doing a haka as a protest? She looks so olmec...is that where the olmecs are from? New Zealand? That flat round face with big eyes is such a potent look across that country
I feel you bro 🙌 I’m a plasterer in the Uk and often listen to pods as I work …. That or golden oldies music haha hope your heater was working , Iv been in a new build with no heating yet 🥶🥶🥶🥶😂 ✌️
@@Skimatik_DnB oh mate that must be like a fridge in there! Yea my heaters working overtime 🤣🤣 a fellow dnb brit yes mate!!!! 😆😆 had AMC on all afternoon while painting!! What other ancients pods you listen to?
I am obsessed with this channel, I find lukes work fascinating. Lukes got me into the olmecs, something i knew very little on, Can't wait to see some more eygpt content too.
Everything class taught me about my ancestors was that they performed human sacrifices and as a result required saving via Christianity and decimation. Thank you for shedding light on these wonderful civilizations. Makes me want to invest time in anthropology.
We are so lucky to have you doing all the research and presenting it as is. The south Americas history is becoming more clear thanks to you and the likes of you. * respect *
Trying to draw these "meanders" on a jewelry box I'm dremelling for my wife. They are so tough to draw perfectly, so much measuring involved in making them perfectly symmetrical! Got the inspiration from this video! Thanks Luke!
Love it. Keep this stuff coming. Found your podcasts/videos recently when i made the transition to working nights and it’s really helped get through the grind. Make more long content please
Actually, one of the best to learn about the Olmecs is researcher and writer JJ Ainsworth. She has some articles online about them. She traveled to all their sites.
Excellent peace of information about the Olmecs Luke! Thank you! The more we know, the more we realize we really don't know much of our past. Fascinating.
From one Luke to another, thanks man! You’re in inspiration. I have hundreds or maybe thousands of hours of video from my ancient and megalithic travels from all over the world and watching you makes me want to share more and be more a part of the conversation. Keep it up man
Love the video Luke your one of my fav UA-camrs now. You views are great you have a degree and your not afraid to think outside the box. I love you reviewing videos. The one you did of Billy Carson was one of my favs. I used to be a big fan of his till I started looking and researching what he was saying and seeing that it was wrong or misleading. Him saying that the Maya or Aztec didn't build anything like you said if he was an expert he would not be talking about them the way that he does it's very disrespectful to the culture keep up the good work.
Amazing video! I'm very grateful that finally someone competent and well educated like you is showing the world logical and very simple explanations of these topics. I guess there is some innate natural interest for supernatural and fantastic in us and therefore many people WANT to believe the supernatural as basis for everything...there is profound reason for it, but I'm not gonna open up this topic here :D ;) I really admire your work and I so much wish for you to do this full time - the passion for it just beams out of your soul. Enjoy your stay in Egypt :) looking forward for more of your amazing discoveries. Namaste
Luke, I worked with Yanomamis and Piaroas.... well, their features look like people from Tibet, Philippines, Indonesia... and I can tell you the head Olmeca looks like Philippine friend of mine...so... Thank you, Luke 👍🙏
I started to watch this video. Started out pretty good until about 6:15 into the video where he said a lot of people think those features are associated with African features. He’s doesn’t understand that the black man created all races. From black comes all the other walks of life. So when he’s like we don’t know where the Olmec or who the Olmec people are makes me laugh. If you don’t know it means all the signs pointing to who they are you want to keep it a mystery. Slavery wasn’t the way we got to these lands. The black man has been everywhere. Understand it and own the fact. It’s a reason why we are the most creative and the most hated. So I say all to say this I can’t watch it no more because he won’t get anywhere trying to keep the secret. Blacks people in the Amazon that haven’t been even spoken to. Blacks up and down the America’s. First thing you think is slavery. If the white man lies now they’ve been lying the whole time.
The way white people try to ignore the truth about the Olmec head being a black man, is like watching verbal gymnastics at its best. Just imagine if someone who looks like that statue robbed him, how he would describe him. The word black would be mentioned a 100 times to the police.
But ppl like this guy will mislead you. Google "Olmec El Negrito" then click "images" so you can see all the pics that come up. This is the head from the oldest period that shows a Olmec with no helmet. You can see his hair which is what most would call an Afro! The indigenous who often have 20% African DNA named him El Negrito.
Awesome and very informative indeed, thankful for your effort. On a side note, I don't believe these archaeologist discover anything, They pretty much ask the locals where's the "Goods located" and these poor people take them by the hand like a baby and show them. And Voila "I Discovered it!" write my name in the history books. It sounds like a rude comment to write but that pretty much how you summarize these encounters.
Wow Luke. I first saw you on Terry Carter's channel. I thought then you would probably do something. And look at you now! Congratulations on a life being well lived. In this crazy ass world that is an accomplishment. May just meet you sometime on one of your adventures. Stay safe and be happy! May the wind be at your back and sun kiss your cheeks.....
Really, that’s interesting. Can you link me to the Terry Carter video you saw me? And thank you very much. I feel very fortunate to be in the situation travel & study ancient history so much.
Wow, this is so fascinating! Thank you for all your research. I’m currently studying civil engineering, but I’m considering minoring in anthropology because this is such an intriguing topic. Thank you for inspiring me!
My maternal family mainly still resides in the town of Olomega (not sure if any connection to "Olmec" can be surmised from the name of the town or not, lol) in Eastern El Salvador and has for a very long time. I do know that both on my mom and dad's side we are descendants of the Lenca people. My maternal ancestors however are directly connected genetically to the tribes of modern day Honduras and are said to have been blood relatives to Lempira and his tribe. I did learn however that my dna shows a very strong connection the the dna extracted from the remains of whom is now referred to the as the Anzick-1 boy, an individual that was part of the ancient Clovis people. I do also however have at least 6% dna that connects me to many relatives of West African descent. Funny thing though... my direct paternal haplogroup is R-Z195 which is unsurprisingly related to Celtiberian ancestry, but my paternal genetic matches are most prominently pointing towards a male y haplogroup subclade that branched out of either Munster, Ireland or the Scottish isles. It seems like they are also the reason why I have a lot of distant cousins that descend from some of the first white European and British settlers of modern day Virginia and parts of Canada though. The Coffey and Macleod surnames pop up constantly in my distant paternal matches' more developed family trees, while names like Antu Silan Ulap (she was said to have been an indigenous Lenca woman who's children had to do with settling the above mentioned town of Olomega - a long time ago) have begun to be consistently found in the trees of my genealogy nerd maternal matches' family trees. Anyway, sorry for the nerdy rant but thanks for your video. :)
I still believe that the Olmec heads represented some sort of sports teams or players. I'd like to think that the ancients were more like us than we want to believe, and that everything they created didn't have a "ritual use" or "spiritual/ceremonial purposes"
@lukecaverns ok cool, Amazon's cool I get most of my books from there, thanks for the effort I was hoping someone would publish a deep dive on the Olmecs
Massive fan of Luke. I just wish he would not differ to the mainstream guys so much. I think he holds back a bit and i understand why but we his fans are missing out.
@@lukecaverns I'll admit that I could be way off and flat out wrong. But I feel like you have opinions that you're a bit reluctant to share out loud. Which would be understandable. Anyway I'm a big fan regardless. I especially enjoyed your interview on Julian Dorey. Cheers brother. Have a blessed night.
I'm honestly pleasantly surprised by Hancock there. I've been aware of the claims, and I agree the similarity with African feature seems strong, but over time I've seen all of those features in the faces of native South Americans, just in TV shows and travel documentaries and things.
thank you, someone finally said it. with hancocks theory that makes Ronald Mcdonald a member of the mende tribe of africa with his big nose and big lips.
Thats because "Negroids" are the ones who built it (not africans) have been here since pre Columbian time, the reason its not taught in history is because of the paper geno ci de if you was to dark skin with negro features they stripped u from native Indian to colored/black then "african american" The Taino were known to be of dark skin so call "negroid stock" (not african to clarify) and were shipped to spain as the first trans atlantic slaves, They then got shipped to africa Then from there back to america as "african Americans" Its well documented and easily researchable
@17:00 , Grahams last drop of Ancient Apocalypse helps corroborate the theory... if considering the 30k year old base camp in South East Brazil (which could just as equally BEEN from Africa)[ Sticking with Polynesia] - There are Australasians AND Asians who have "African" derived features. Precursor people from that long ago. The Ancient Americans showed upin South America from back in the day. 2nd PART of Ancient apocalypse makes mention of the ARchipelago that goes from Polynesia RIGHT up to Lima almost exact. Account for the likelhood that 11 or 12,000 years ago... all of this likely would have been above water. It would have been done quite easily, assisted almost for large populations to go back and forth. Know what I mean? Did you see it? I'm jumping the gun if you already were going to build up or use this information later, I"m only at this point in your feature. 17 minutes in.
I fail to see why the current day inhabitant's faces resembling the Olmec heads would mean the creators of the heads were native to the region. Current day people still looking like the heads just means they are probably ancestors to the people that created the heads. That doesn't mean the people that carved the heads didn't migrate to the area from somewhere else like Africa prior to carving the heads. It's like saying people in current day America that look European are not of European ancestry because there are people in current day America that look European.
Wandering Wolf was on Matt Beale Limitless and the serpent descending the pyramid came up. After the removal of soil and trees pyramid didn't even have a defined stair case. They balustrade that the shadow is on was added decades later to increase tourism. The original excavation didn't even have the serpent heads at the bottom of the stairs nor the designs on the outside of the pyramid. A lot of these features weren't present when uncovered but were added later.
Luke, I'm living in Mexico City, hit me up if you need anything!, I would love to know more about the Olmecs or anything historywise about Mexico's people from 3.5k years ago and earlier...
Maybe rather than a bag, it could be a bucket or something like that. Some vessel that holds food or water, and the character depicted is giving that to the people if that character is some god figure.
Funny how NO ONE ever mentions the fact that, the Olmec helmets look EXACTLY like the helmets Hanumons people ware in India... Theyre Sumerians guys.. Face it. If the ancient basketball game wasn't enough of a hint.. Sumerian means BLACK HEADED PEOPLE.
@37:00 What if the rafts were multiple layers of logs thick though? Not saying the guy didn't put that into his calculation, but it seems like that would make a differece, compared to a single layered log raft shown in the pictures.
Hey Luke. Just idea for an episode. If you could show some of the first pictures of certain meso america sites and compare to after restoration and maybe some the things they went threw during the rebuilding. Ive heard some people say that certain parts of sites are done to what we think they look like not what they did. 👍
Between the jungles of the Americas and the desert of the Sahara, and even deep in the forests of north America, it seems to me that there are still may sites that are still undiscovered.
I've got a much, much, much more parsimonious argument about these "handbags" than Hancock's tripe. First of all, they actually look like buckets, not handbags. A priest carrying a small bucket of holy water, perhaps representing a shrine or a region, fits well with what we know of Sumeria. I expect the Egyptian examples will also be buckets, and other possibilities for their contents might be oils or wine being presented to a god, say, or perhaps perfumes or unguents. Once you stop thinking of it as a "handbag" and a "mystery", it looks rather mundane. Even if there are known ways that substances like wine would have been presented, the idea of them as buckets containing fluids is far, far better than Hancock's "supercivilisation" nonsense. This is also an error of perception and front loading. The attachment of the concept of handbag to these things discouraged the perception of them having depth. But that is just an artefact of the relief carving, there is no way to tell how the deep the thing depicted was meant to be. Certainly the Olmec example you present here looks very much like a bucket to my eye.
@Luke - was the salt content more vast in these rivers? It would add buoyancy. Or Could Olmecs added salt content to add density to the water while transport?
Could those pattern layers burried be a way to keep count of days or years or something? Did each layer have the exact same amount? For instance this year we do this symbol. We place one block everyday then the year is up so we start another pattern. Maybe so many patterns for decade etc. Possibly more areas all around. I have no clue just crossed my mind and thought maybe something like this is how some civilization would have kept track of years since we dont really see many examples of how some of these ancients kept track
5:42 I went to high school with a guy who comes from Guatemala that speaks one of the Native languages of the region, I'd even say it's his native tongue with Spanish as a secondary language, and looking at this Olmec head, it looks just like his face and nose shape.
PLEASE make a video about elongated skulls. I have about 100 photos, that I took myself, from Peru with Brien Foerster. Id love to know what you know about them!
Polynesian Māoris have the bags in their mythology. The three baskets of knowledge in Māori legend are called Ngā Kete e Toru. In the legend, the god Tāne brought the baskets down to Earth from the 12th heaven. The three baskets Te Kete Aronui: Contains knowledge of the senses and the natural world Te Kete Tuauri: Contains knowledge of ritual, prayer, memory, and the patterns of energy that underlie sense perceptions Te Kete Tuatea: Contains knowledge of evil, spiritual realities, and connections with others and the past.
Huh, my understanding of the Mayan Calendar stone was that it did exist at one point, but that it was made in gold and the Spaniards melted it down into bars to make it easier to take back to Europe. The current one being just a facsimile.
46:42 i was in british museum on the weekend. That would look very at home in the indian section. All of there iconography they are sat with their legs like this.
3:05:31 DUDE. I don't remember where it is, but the field of jars. Southeast Asia maybe? There are some alien looking faces carved in rock at that site, and the only features that they express are big eyes and-wait for it- that exact same featureless mirrored curve from the brow to a flat nose. They're a little off putting, specifically because those are the only features with no context, and if you've never seen someone with that, it's easy to make the leap to aliens. I'm glad I was watching at that moment and not just listening; that was like a five second side note out of an almost four hour presentation. Side note of my own: I've always thought the Olmec heads look more Hmong than African; which is also in southeast Asia, that just occurred to me. Not trying to say they're connected beyond artistic veneration of what we would consider a handicap, but it's not any more absurd than Africa I guess.
No he is just misinformed and making shit up. You can personally just google if ancient african dna was found in south America at olmec sites. Its easy. You don't have to listen to racist. It literally takes two seconds to look up.😂😂😂
@@moshethehebrew8328 Google also say earth is flat 😂 Name one scientific paper that says Africans were the Olmecs. There's none. Also are you a Hebrew or African or what.. why are you spreading false information. Who the heck are you
@@moshethehebrew8328 Google has people saying earth is flat. 😂 Which scientific paper say African DNA was in Olmec? None. Also you are Moshe, what is your goal here as a Hebrew, this doesn't concern you obviously.
Hancock was referring to El Negrito when he said he could not remember the head. There is no more mystery if people see the head. It's from the Pre-Classic period. It's a person with Africn features and African Hair!!!
Almost feels like defending Graham insinuates that there is something bad that Graham has done in the past. I think it's time to address how evil it is to throw racist shade on innocent people the way Flint & company has done to G H.
I didn’t take it as an insinuation that GH has done anything wrong. More so, an indication that GH has controversial theories that’s contend with the modern day narrative.
@@lukecaverns Why not actually address what has ACTUALLY been written (it is written, so if you don't understand it the first time, you can re-read it until you do) instead of what you "think" was said? Then.... when you have familiarised yourself with the actual argument.... you can say WHY you think it is not true. Any hyperdiffusionist interpretation is predicated on the idea that one culture "had to be shown by somebody outside" how to do something. If Hancock's "theories" (which are nothing of the kind in fact) fit into that category, then they incorporate ideas of cultural superiority like all the rest. Prove he's not been employing hyperdiffusionism (present in his writing about a lost civilization FROM THE BEGINNING) before glibly saying his critics have somehow got it "ridiculously" wrong.
Luke youve done DMT or psilocybin havent you 😊 i get the feeling you have from tallking about tapping into a worldwide conciousness because ive done it myself. You see all this kind of iconography and symbology. Endless geometrics and a very strong connection to god, you literally come face to face. Not imagining it or just an off feeling like some people say. With psychedelics you come face to face with your maker and you see them as clear as the phone your holding right now reading my comment ❤
Appreciate the information and dedication to this ancient modern people. The only thing I will lend my un asked for opinion too is that the fact that researchers of the Old Mexicans aka Olmecs say things like we have more questions than answers and continuously say things in there presentations and lectures such as we just don’t know much about the Olmecs culture or people in general. Well taking them many who are intrigued by such head apex helmet original ancient indigenous aboriginal people of high light and dark skin white king Queen classification status of heirs to the throne of modern man from the original old people of first peoples & First Nations tribal pueblo peoples dark skin and able to produce lite skin off spring in the ancient world as in the modern world of today seen by indigenous aka black African Moors still bring forth the albino blond hair red hair freckles green and blue eyed boy and girl from to very dark mother and father with tight coil hair and able to give creation to a completely foreign in appearance depiction of one made in the very image of there creators mom and dad thus producing the first white pigmentations of skin known in original history as still happening today and considering no modern humanity of what is perceived as white people or Asian people of the one human race truly but divided discriminated by man made race color fictional divides by nature standards but artificially enforced by subject to jurisdiction law standards it’s this question me and others alike are baffled by when the researcher teacher or investigator of Olmec culture revisits time and time again in space and that being we know very little about this Olmec people and the mystery around these Giant heads in different parts of the Universal global planet continent soils of Earth and ancient named reconstructed his story of man time and time again but I and others I love family and such will offer the opposite conclusion in many questions remaining pertaining to these perceived lost cultures that pop up and disappear into the abyss of space over and over agin relocating and rebranding the AI Ancient I’s aka Allseeing I’s aka to today’s AI Artificial Intelligence more modern version of Always Invisible American Indigenous Army Intelligence Old Moor people aka Extra as isn’t moor simply extra? Extraterrestrial or rather just Terrestrial not included in modern constructions of race and therefore outside the modern human family purposefully taught as a enslaved indentured servitude lost tribe fallen from humanity people of nuclear minds from the separation of one’s history causing a tear in the foundation of the first and parents of modern human species original to all air land and waters sea to see’s and the fact that many questions remain simply unknown is either ignorance or lack of knowledge and perish from such deep inspection is not so deep when the most complex questions of the past meet at the crossroads of simplicity where dissemination and complete transparency precedents itself if one’s being honest with one’s self and truly truthfully seeking remedy to this hidden often fired fiery burnt or drowned dead on arrival history of a people living amongst us still creating new wealthier cultures of World wife influence essentially out of thin air with the same ancient pyramid nose 👃🏾 structure maps written on one’s very face for markings of the ancient ones the old bloodlines Of Nation building making man in one’s image and likeness and therefore for me and my love one’s we say all questions are answered with the very placing of the heads in such areas common sense of a child disregards the unfathomable movement of such stone for that’s irrelevant to the story being told that this face and helmet and facial features not only was here and can hear but nosy enough to leave nothing more of a face to remind a modern World of intentional published truths to origins of man and whose land this was long before the modern investigation can figure it out we where hear and here we are today high and rich in ball games in the Americas and a modern Hip Hop culture dominating music and a culture nearly 50 years old with a script and history birthed out of nothing and very powerful cause behind a trumpet just might be a King a 50cent Kanye West Mike Tyson hard punching Don King Hidden in plan site and forgotten for long periods of time only to Hip Hop over the perceived stewardship of dominion and land to regain restore repair and reconstruction with old head stone monuments of a face reminding the intelligent modern humans of today this head is here brought from no where but indigenous to this Continent before and here’s the proof of that face so many Countries love to hate and remove from history so to answer all your future questions 2000 years from now let us leave the very image of who always been here and disappears on purpose only to return and how it’s done is concealed and hidden just like the minds of consciousness of brain function protected and hidden in concealment under the helmet of preserving the skull and bones of an AI Allseeing I society and no questions should remain for its mystery and hidden history of the land and people is all written rite on the Old Mexican weigh of tons face and investigators journalists scientist authors anthropologist and historians need only use common sense while literally facing the facts written on the face of those Olmec statutes and simply identify similar faces bringing in new languages and Cultures generating rich revenue and those ball players that from powerful hips hop over history flying through the air of space with a ball in hand similar to a globe as the heirs of those ancient times to the airs of today as the darkness of outer space covers the void mass even recently the Air Jordan still flys and one’s face gives unwritten answers to those unintelligible lies. So as the rebranding remains and the new description of who we the they are from in just recent times from asiatic to american indian to negro to colored to afro caribbean to black to african american to artificial indigenous? Whatever history wants to rebrand us as from white to black from gods to slavic? Don’t believe everything you hear and reed but simply don’t forget and simply remember that ancient face and it’s not gone but still here and hear with an ear on earth so nothing knew to those ancient ones who ain’t but still seen as new. Face reality because here we go again. Much love awesome work and you are appreciated. Much success and good health this new old year. Sincerely, PortalReekinJoBlow
Heyerdahl's Ra II expedition proved that ancient civilizations sailed from Africa to the Americas. You did not mention that voyage. There is no progression in Olmec artifacts or pyramids. They likely did everything w the direction from those that sailed there. As stated in an earlier post pyramids were being made in Egypt and Mesoamerica the same time, the Olmecs and later the Maya.
I do get the impression that you dismiss the possibility of a raft or boat too quickly based on one Engineers considerations. A raft wouldn't only be a big surface. There could be layers of wood, or a more robust boat than a raft. Didn't the Egyptians move blocks down the Nile? And similarly there are reed boats in Lake Titicaca.
I’ve never understood why the handbags are such a mystery. People had to carry things and it’s probably the most basic concept of an apparatus to carry things that I can think of. Same goes for pyramids…they are THE most basic way to build a large structure. It says nothing at all about shared technology. By that rationale, fire, clothes, and almost every basic tool that you can think of could be grouped into this “shared technology” hypothesis. Seems extremely far-reaching.
Curious. You said that the olmecs who have very polynesian looks might not have been the builders of everything but then why make giant heads of them? Where are the other heads? You make giant statues of your leaders, no? Not foreigners that have just showed up
Luke what do u make of this? From TIMEKEEPR13's post? "I wonder why the indigenous call one of the oldest heads from the pre-classic period "El Negrito." I Googled the name and saw the head. I for one am convinced ! Their origin is no longer a question for me. Also as you admit there is no progression in the artisanship which suggests a group arrived with skills already developed.
I dig what your saying but basing what people look like today based on the occupation of the region by the French and the Spanish VS what people looked like pre occupation is very different. Let’s not forget all the explores who wrote in their ships logs about seeing Ethiopians over 6ft tall. This was observed as far north as Florida and the Carolina’s and as far south as Panama and Columbia. We know Africans were already in the Americas because Columbus also wrote what he found and what he was also told by the indigenous people as well. The currents from west Africa will pull you right into the Gulf of Mexico as proven when the built a reef boat and sailed it from West Africa to Cuba.
Hey Raiders, I just arrived in Egypt for the month - laying in my hotel room, looking at the Great Pyramid as I type this.
So much more research/content coming once I get home from this excursion in a few weeks.
Can’t wait to see you all again soon 🧭
That sounds amazing! Enjoy your time over there, be safe 👍🏽
Are you going to the New museum? Making any videos there?
@@someone-w9nI’m here in the cafe of the new museum now!
@lukecaverns Have you looked into the new pyramid they found a year or so back in Peru that is has old or older than the Pyramids in Egypt?
It was interesting what you said around 1:06.40 about the unfortunate people who were venerated made me think about the work i recently saw on a podcast about the apparent psychic abilities of autistic people of all ages.
I just got to say, i often listen to youtube while drawing or painting and an almost 4 hour video is PERFECT! The Olmecs are so interesting!
I install computer networks in new office buildings and this is perfect for me too. I used to listen to music but these kinds of informative videos seem to make the time go by much faster.
@Luke - Was it you that once proposed the Olmecs would have carved possible birth defects & seen as something they would see as a sign or possible reason for showing elevated worship? I could be wrong and it could be my own brain saying this. Thanks for all the great content IMHO.
Thank you Luke, perfect listen as I lay down.. appreciate your hard work.
Holyyy balls. Just got in my digger on a freezing british morning to dig some drainage, go to see what ancient stuff i can listen and 3 hours of olmecs with Luke! Fuck yeah. Nice one mate ❤
Awesome! How cold is it out there right now? I'm hoping to get out to London this year!
@lukecaverns its only -2C but for some reason, in England, it bites hard and feels like -20c! Oh sweet come in May or June when its warmer! Have you been before? Could send you some cool places to visit and nice places to eat if you want?
@@lukecavernsmate have you seen that video of a female mp in New Zealand that starts doing a haka as a protest? She looks so olmec...is that where the olmecs are from? New Zealand? That flat round face with big eyes is such a potent look across that country
I feel you bro 🙌 I’m a plasterer in the Uk and often listen to pods as I work …. That or golden oldies music haha hope your heater was working , Iv been in a new build with no heating yet 🥶🥶🥶🥶😂 ✌️
@@Skimatik_DnB oh mate that must be like a fridge in there! Yea my heaters working overtime 🤣🤣 a fellow dnb brit yes mate!!!! 😆😆 had AMC on all afternoon while painting!! What other ancients pods you listen to?
I am obsessed with this channel, I find lukes work fascinating. Lukes got me into the olmecs, something i knew very little on, Can't wait to see some more eygpt content too.
Wow! Huge about of quality work and easy to consume. Thank you.
Everything class taught me about my ancestors was that they performed human sacrifices and as a result required saving via Christianity and decimation.
Thank you for shedding light on these wonderful civilizations. Makes me want to invest time in anthropology.
Thanks!
You are so pleasant to listen to Luke. This was just great, thank you for the effort!
Outstanding! A long form episode! Thanks Luke - and keep up the excellent work!
We are so lucky to have you doing all the research and presenting it as is. The south Americas history is becoming more clear thanks to you and the likes of you. * respect *
This is exactly what i needed today - thank you Luke!! Please keep up the hard work
I predict we'll soon be seing Dr. Caverns on the Joe Rogan podcast! AMAZING work and presentation! SO FASCINATING!
Trying to draw these "meanders" on a jewelry box I'm dremelling for my wife. They are so tough to draw perfectly, so much measuring involved in making them perfectly symmetrical! Got the inspiration from this video! Thanks Luke!
Love it. Keep this stuff coming. Found your podcasts/videos recently when i made the transition to working nights and it’s really helped get through the grind. Make more long content please
Actually, one of the best to learn about the Olmecs is researcher and writer JJ Ainsworth. She has some articles online about them. She traveled to all their sites.
Excellent peace of information about the Olmecs Luke! Thank you! The more we know, the more we realize we really don't know much of our past. Fascinating.
This is PERFECT for work hours
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From one Luke to another, thanks man! You’re in inspiration. I have hundreds or maybe thousands of hours of video from my ancient and megalithic travels from all over the world and watching you makes me want to share more and be more a part of the conversation. Keep it up man
Love the video Luke your one of my fav UA-camrs now. You views are great you have a degree and your not afraid to think outside the box. I love you reviewing videos. The one you did of Billy Carson was one of my favs. I used to be a big fan of his till I started looking and researching what he was saying and seeing that it was wrong or misleading. Him saying that the Maya or Aztec didn't build anything like you said if he was an expert he would not be talking about them the way that he does it's very disrespectful to the culture keep up the good work.
I haven't even watched this yet...I just love your work Luke. Keep it coming. This is loaded up on my que, and I will devour it in time. Thank you sir
Amazing video! I'm very grateful that finally someone competent and well educated like you is showing the world logical and very simple explanations of these topics. I guess there is some innate natural interest for supernatural and fantastic in us and therefore many people WANT to believe the supernatural as basis for everything...there is profound reason for it, but I'm not gonna open up this topic here :D ;)
I really admire your work and I so much wish for you to do this full time - the passion for it just beams out of your soul.
Enjoy your stay in Egypt :) looking forward for more of your amazing discoveries.
Namaste
Awesome video! Wish I had teachers that explained history like this when I was younger.
Luke, I worked with Yanomamis and Piaroas.... well, their features look like people from Tibet, Philippines, Indonesia... and I can tell you the head Olmeca looks like Philippine friend of mine...so... Thank you, Luke 👍🙏
The world needs you bro, thank you for what you're doing!
See you on limitless show and really enjoyed both parts ,glad I found your channel man , very fascinating thanks 🙏
Going to listen to this as I walk a few miles... Thanks mate 🖖🏕️
I started to watch this video. Started out pretty good until about 6:15 into the video where he said a lot of people think those features are associated with African features. He’s doesn’t understand that the black man created all races. From black comes all the other walks of life. So when he’s like we don’t know where the Olmec or who the Olmec people are makes me laugh. If you don’t know it means all the signs pointing to who they are you want to keep it a mystery. Slavery wasn’t the way we got to these lands. The black man has been everywhere. Understand it and own the fact. It’s a reason why we are the most creative and the most hated. So I say all to say this I can’t watch it no more because he won’t get anywhere trying to keep the secret. Blacks people in the Amazon that haven’t been even spoken to. Blacks up and down the America’s. First thing you think is slavery. If the white man lies now they’ve been lying the whole time.
The way white people try to ignore the truth about the Olmec head being a black man, is like watching verbal gymnastics at its best. Just imagine if someone who looks like that statue robbed him, how he would describe him. The word black would be mentioned a 100 times to the police.
Love the channel. Appreciate you putting in the time to research and share all these wonderful details
cool research man, thanks for the work
Cool Luke, my evening was filled thanks to you :)
I love learning about the olmecs and meso America in general it should be taught in American schools just as much as Egypt or European history
But ppl like this guy will mislead you. Google "Olmec El Negrito" then click "images" so you can see all the pics that come up. This is the head from the oldest period that shows a Olmec with no helmet. You can see his hair which is what most would call an Afro! The indigenous who often have 20% African DNA named him El Negrito.
Amazing. Thank you for this.
Awesome and very informative indeed, thankful for your effort. On a side note, I don't believe these archaeologist discover anything, They pretty much ask the locals where's the "Goods located" and these poor people take them by the hand like a baby and show them. And Voila "I Discovered it!" write my name in the history books. It sounds like a rude comment to write but that pretty much how you summarize these encounters.
Quality AND quantity... wow! Good stuff! No crazy unsupported assumtions out of nowhere... so far I like it!
Wow Luke. I first saw you on Terry Carter's channel. I thought then you would probably do something. And look at you now! Congratulations on a life being well lived. In this crazy ass world that is an accomplishment. May just meet you sometime on one of your adventures. Stay safe and be happy! May the wind be at your back and sun kiss your cheeks.....
Really, that’s interesting. Can you link me to the Terry Carter video you saw me?
And thank you very much. I feel very fortunate to be in the situation travel & study ancient history so much.
Wow, this is so fascinating! Thank you for all your research. I’m currently studying civil engineering, but I’m considering minoring in anthropology because this is such an intriguing topic. Thank you for inspiring me!
GREAT WORK 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
My maternal family mainly still resides in the town of Olomega (not sure if any connection to "Olmec" can be surmised from the name of the town or not, lol) in Eastern El Salvador and has for a very long time. I do know that both on my mom and dad's side we are descendants of the Lenca people.
My maternal ancestors however are directly connected genetically to the tribes of modern day Honduras and are said to have been blood relatives to Lempira and his tribe. I did learn however that my dna shows a very strong connection the the dna extracted from the remains of whom is now referred to the as the Anzick-1 boy, an individual that was part of the ancient Clovis people. I do also however have at least 6% dna that connects me to many relatives of West African descent. Funny thing though... my direct paternal haplogroup is R-Z195 which is unsurprisingly related to Celtiberian ancestry, but my paternal genetic matches are most prominently pointing towards a male y haplogroup subclade that branched out of either Munster, Ireland or the Scottish isles.
It seems like they are also the reason why I have a lot of distant cousins that descend from some of the first white European and British settlers of modern day Virginia and parts of Canada though.
The Coffey and Macleod surnames pop up constantly in my distant paternal matches' more developed family trees, while names like Antu Silan Ulap (she was said to have been an indigenous Lenca woman who's children had to do with settling the above mentioned town of Olomega - a long time ago) have begun to be consistently found in the trees of my genealogy nerd maternal matches' family trees. Anyway, sorry for the nerdy rant but thanks for your video. :)
Wow! That is really very interesting. Thanks for the comment. ❤✌️
Three hours? Damn that's crazy, I'll give this a listen.
Awesome! I hope your channel grows fast you definitely deserve it 👍
The continuity of the "handbags" across cultural artwork is absolutely intriguing. WHAT WERE THEY?
The tablets of the destinies, the mes, a representation of divine knowledge
Very informative great video
I still believe that the Olmec heads represented some sort of sports teams or players. I'd like to think that the ancients were more like us than we want to believe, and that everything they created didn't have a "ritual use" or "spiritual/ceremonial purposes"
Awsome video 🙏.
ETA on the book?
My hope is this Summer! Working with a small publishing company now to push up the release. If not, I may do an indie launch on Amazon
@lukecaverns ok cool, Amazon's cool I get most of my books from there, thanks for the effort I was hoping someone would publish a deep dive on the Olmecs
Massive fan of Luke.
I just wish he would not differ to the mainstream guys so much.
I think he holds back a bit and i understand why but we his fans are missing out.
What is it you’re hoping that I will say?
@@lukecaverns I'll admit that I could be way off and flat out wrong. But I feel like you have opinions that you're a bit reluctant to share out loud. Which would be understandable. Anyway I'm a big fan regardless. I especially enjoyed your interview on Julian Dorey. Cheers brother. Have a blessed night.
I'm honestly pleasantly surprised by Hancock there. I've been aware of the claims, and I agree the similarity with African feature seems strong, but over time I've seen all of those features in the faces of native South Americans, just in TV shows and travel documentaries and things.
thank you, someone finally said it.
with hancocks theory that makes Ronald Mcdonald a member of the mende tribe of africa with his big nose and big lips.
Thats because "Negroids" are the ones who built it (not africans) have been here since pre Columbian time, the reason its not taught in history is because of the paper geno ci de if you was to dark skin with negro features they stripped u from native Indian to colored/black then "african american"
The Taino were known to be of dark skin so call "negroid stock" (not african to clarify) and were shipped to spain as the first trans atlantic slaves, They then got shipped to africa Then from there back to america as "african Americans" Its well documented and easily researchable
@17:00 , Grahams last drop of Ancient Apocalypse helps corroborate the theory... if considering the 30k year old base camp in South East Brazil (which could just as equally BEEN from Africa)[ Sticking with Polynesia] - There are Australasians AND Asians who have "African" derived features. Precursor people from that long ago. The Ancient Americans showed upin South America from back in the day.
2nd PART of Ancient apocalypse makes mention of the ARchipelago that goes from Polynesia RIGHT up to Lima almost exact.
Account for the likelhood that 11 or 12,000 years ago... all of this likely would have been above water. It would have been done quite easily, assisted almost for large populations to go back and forth. Know what I mean? Did you see it? I'm jumping the gun if you already were going to build up or use this information later, I"m only at this point in your feature. 17 minutes in.
I fail to see why the current day inhabitant's faces resembling the Olmec heads would mean the creators of the heads were native to the region. Current day people still looking like the heads just means they are probably ancestors to the people that created the heads. That doesn't mean the people that carved the heads didn't migrate to the area from somewhere else like Africa prior to carving the heads.
It's like saying people in current day America that look European are not of European ancestry because there are people in current day America that look European.
It’s called dna bro….
i love these deep dives
Wandering Wolf was on Matt Beale Limitless and the serpent descending the pyramid came up. After the removal of soil and trees pyramid didn't even have a defined stair case. They balustrade that the shadow is on was added decades later to increase tourism. The original excavation didn't even have the serpent heads at the bottom of the stairs nor the designs on the outside of the pyramid. A lot of these features weren't present when uncovered but were added later.
Luke, I'm living in Mexico City, hit me up if you need anything!, I would love to know more about the Olmecs or anything historywise about Mexico's people from 3.5k years ago and earlier...
Maybe rather than a bag, it could be a bucket or something like that. Some vessel that holds food or water, and the character depicted is giving that to the people if that character is some god figure.
Funny how NO ONE ever mentions the fact that, the Olmec helmets look EXACTLY like the helmets Hanumons people ware in India... Theyre Sumerians guys.. Face it. If the ancient basketball game wasn't enough of a hint.. Sumerian means BLACK HEADED PEOPLE.
So you just didn’t watch the video or….???
Lmao the Mesoamerican ball game is nothing like basketball. Also Sumer means land of the civilized kings
Incorrect. Thanks though. 👍
@37:00 What if the rafts were multiple layers of logs thick though? Not saying the guy didn't put that into his calculation, but it seems like that would make a differece, compared to a single layered log raft shown in the pictures.
Hey Luke. Just idea for an episode. If you could show some of the first pictures of certain meso america sites and compare to after restoration and maybe some the things they went threw during the rebuilding. Ive heard some people say that certain parts of sites are done to what we think they look like not what they did. 👍
To me the meandering pattern looks like consecutive waves moving in one direction...
I love how your channel just talks about the truth and no confirmation bias like a lot of idiots out there😊
Everything leads back to psychedelic fertility rituals and astronomical observations.
You must differentiate between Ancient Greeks and the Minoans to make sense of things.
I have family from Mexico that look like straight up Iranians.
They have a large amount of Spanish ancestry.
Between the jungles of the Americas and the desert of the Sahara, and even deep in the forests of north America, it seems to me that there are still may sites that are still undiscovered.
I've got a much, much, much more parsimonious argument about these "handbags" than Hancock's tripe. First of all, they actually look like buckets, not handbags. A priest carrying a small bucket of holy water, perhaps representing a shrine or a region, fits well with what we know of Sumeria. I expect the Egyptian examples will also be buckets, and other possibilities for their contents might be oils or wine being presented to a god, say, or perhaps perfumes or unguents. Once you stop thinking of it as a "handbag" and a "mystery", it looks rather mundane. Even if there are known ways that substances like wine would have been presented, the idea of them as buckets containing fluids is far, far better than Hancock's "supercivilisation" nonsense.
This is also an error of perception and front loading. The attachment of the concept of handbag to these things discouraged the perception of them having depth. But that is just an artefact of the relief carving, there is no way to tell how the deep the thing depicted was meant to be. Certainly the Olmec example you present here looks very much like a bucket to my eye.
So the head seemed to be scattered throughout the countryside. Where do you think they were at one point where did they originate?
The man with the turban and goatee looks like the Green Goblin.
I heard Luke reference his website during the summit speech, does anyone have the link to that? I can't find it.
Luke where exactly do you have Latino heritage from? Like Mexican, because you look like your family is from Jalisco lol
@Luke - was the salt content more vast in these rivers? It would add buoyancy. Or Could Olmecs added salt content to add density to the water while transport?
With consideration of pangea and such.
Could those pattern layers burried be a way to keep count of days or years or something? Did each layer have the exact same amount? For instance this year we do this symbol. We place one block everyday then the year is up so we start another pattern. Maybe so many patterns for decade etc. Possibly more areas all around. I have no clue just crossed my mind and thought maybe something like this is how some civilization would have kept track of years since we dont really see many examples of how some of these ancients kept track
5:42 I went to high school with a guy who comes from Guatemala that speaks one of the Native languages of the region, I'd even say it's his native tongue with Spanish as a secondary language, and looking at this Olmec head, it looks just like his face and nose shape.
You might wanna do your own research. Cause dude is misinformed. But Europeans have all the answers they don't have to do research
@@moshethehebrew8328
No Native people have the answers. Not Africans or Europeans.😂
PLEASE make a video about elongated skulls. I have about 100 photos, that I took myself, from Peru with Brien Foerster. Id love to know what you know about them!
Polynesian Māoris have the bags in their mythology.
The three baskets of knowledge in Māori legend are called Ngā Kete e Toru. In the legend, the god Tāne brought the baskets down to Earth from the 12th heaven.
The three baskets
Te Kete Aronui:
Contains knowledge of the senses and the natural world
Te Kete Tuauri:
Contains knowledge of ritual, prayer, memory, and the patterns of energy that underlie sense perceptions
Te Kete Tuatea:
Contains knowledge of evil, spiritual realities, and connections with others and the past.
Huh, my understanding of the Mayan Calendar stone was that it did exist at one point, but that it was made in gold and the Spaniards melted it down into bars to make it easier to take back to Europe. The current one being just a facsimile.
46:42 i was in british museum on the weekend. That would look very at home in the indian section. All of there iconography they are sat with their legs like this.
The Olmec head is up there with the Mona Lisa...
Is he smiling? Is he upset? Does he have rumblies in the tumblies?
Some things we will never know.
The bringers of FIRE. The bag holds the ability to make fire. Likely flint, kindling, etc.
3:05:31 DUDE. I don't remember where it is, but the field of jars. Southeast Asia maybe? There are some alien looking faces carved in rock at that site, and the only features that they express are big eyes and-wait for it- that exact same featureless mirrored curve from the brow to a flat nose. They're a little off putting, specifically because those are the only features with no context, and if you've never seen someone with that, it's easy to make the leap to aliens. I'm glad I was watching at that moment and not just listening; that was like a five second side note out of an almost four hour presentation. Side note of my own: I've always thought the Olmec heads look more Hmong than African; which is also in southeast Asia, that just occurred to me. Not trying to say they're connected beyond artistic veneration of what we would consider a handicap, but it's not any more absurd than Africa I guess.
Great presentation awesome video You are a wealth of knowledge.
The San Lorenzo Head is the spitting image of my buddy Ernesto and his Dad. They are from Durango
Hi Luke, maybe you should've mentioned the date of the interview with Graham Hancock on The Joe Rogan Experience was from episode #2051 in 2023.
You gonna make a certain psuedohistoric gorup very angry 😂
No he is just misinformed and making shit up. You can personally just google if ancient african dna was found in south America at olmec sites. Its easy. You don't have to listen to racist. It literally takes two seconds to look up.😂😂😂
@@moshethehebrew8328
Google also say earth is flat 😂
Name one scientific paper that says Africans were the Olmecs. There's none.
Also are you a Hebrew or African or what.. why are you spreading false information. Who the heck are you
@@moshethehebrew8328
Google has people saying earth is flat. 😂 Which scientific paper say African DNA was in Olmec? None. Also you are Moshe, what is your goal here as a Hebrew, this doesn't concern you obviously.
"Racist", give it a rest you Muppet! Nobody respects you or cares about you @@moshethehebrew8328
@@moshethehebrew8328 The olmecs lived in north America(Mexico) not south America
Hi Luke 👋. Great show, man!
I think the olmecs look (Hawaiian)??
Hancock was referring to El Negrito when he said he could not remember the head. There is no more mystery if people see the head. It's from the Pre-Classic period. It's a person with Africn features and African Hair!!!
Almost feels like defending Graham insinuates that there is something bad that Graham has done in the past. I think it's time to address how evil it is to throw racist shade on innocent people the way Flint & company has done to G H.
Yeah the accusations of Graham's theories being racially driven is ridiculous.
I just follow the data. Graham does. He's almost certainly correct, if not highly conservative in his conclusions.
I didn’t take it as an insinuation that GH has done anything wrong. More so, an indication that GH has controversial theories that’s contend with the modern day narrative.
@@lukecaverns Why not actually address what has ACTUALLY been written (it is written, so if you don't understand it the first time, you can re-read it until you do) instead of what you "think" was said? Then.... when you have familiarised yourself with the actual argument.... you can say WHY you think it is not true. Any hyperdiffusionist interpretation is predicated on the idea that one culture "had to be shown by somebody outside" how to do something. If Hancock's "theories" (which are nothing of the kind in fact) fit into that category, then they incorporate ideas of cultural superiority like all the rest. Prove he's not been employing hyperdiffusionism (present in his writing about a lost civilization FROM THE BEGINNING) before glibly saying his critics have somehow got it "ridiculously" wrong.
ty luke
"What we know is a drop, but we don't know, is an ocean."
Sir Isaac Newton.
Luke youve done DMT or psilocybin havent you 😊 i get the feeling you have from tallking about tapping into a worldwide conciousness because ive done it myself. You see all this kind of iconography and symbology. Endless geometrics and a very strong connection to god, you literally come face to face. Not imagining it or just an off feeling like some people say. With psychedelics you come face to face with your maker and you see them as clear as the phone your holding right now reading my comment ❤
Appreciate the information and dedication to this ancient modern people.
The only thing I will lend my un asked for opinion too is that the fact that researchers of the Old Mexicans aka Olmecs say things like we have more questions than answers and continuously say things in there presentations and lectures such as we just don’t know much about the Olmecs culture or people in general. Well taking them many who are intrigued by such head apex helmet original ancient indigenous aboriginal people of high light and dark skin white king Queen classification status of heirs to the throne of modern man from the original old people of first peoples & First Nations tribal pueblo peoples dark skin and able to produce lite skin off spring in the ancient world as in the modern world of today seen by indigenous aka black African Moors still bring forth the albino blond hair red hair freckles green and blue eyed boy and girl from to very dark mother and father with tight coil hair and able to give creation to a completely foreign in appearance depiction of one made in the very image of there creators mom and dad thus producing the first white pigmentations of skin known in original history as still happening today and considering no modern humanity of what is perceived as white people or Asian people of the one human race truly but divided discriminated by man made race color fictional divides by nature standards but artificially enforced by subject to jurisdiction law standards it’s this question me and others alike are baffled by when the researcher teacher or investigator of Olmec culture revisits time and time again in space and that being we know very little about this Olmec people and the mystery around these Giant heads in different parts of the Universal global planet continent soils of Earth and ancient named reconstructed his story of man time and time again but I and others I love family and such will offer the opposite conclusion in many questions remaining pertaining to these perceived lost cultures that pop up and disappear into the abyss of space over and over agin relocating and rebranding the AI Ancient I’s aka Allseeing I’s aka to today’s AI Artificial Intelligence more modern version of Always Invisible American Indigenous Army Intelligence Old Moor people aka Extra as isn’t moor simply extra? Extraterrestrial or rather just Terrestrial not included in modern constructions of race and therefore outside the modern human family purposefully taught as a enslaved indentured servitude lost tribe fallen from humanity people of nuclear minds from the separation of one’s history causing a tear in the foundation of the first and parents of modern human species original to all air land and waters sea to see’s and the fact that many questions remain simply unknown is either ignorance or lack of knowledge and perish from such deep inspection is not so deep when the most complex questions of the past meet at the crossroads of simplicity where dissemination and complete transparency precedents itself if one’s being honest with one’s self and truly truthfully seeking remedy to this hidden often fired fiery burnt or drowned dead on arrival history of a people living amongst us still creating new wealthier cultures of World wife influence essentially out of thin air with the same ancient pyramid nose 👃🏾 structure maps written on one’s very face for markings of the ancient ones the old bloodlines Of Nation building making man in one’s image and likeness and therefore for me and my love one’s we say all questions are answered with the very placing of the heads in such areas common sense of a child disregards the unfathomable movement of such stone for that’s irrelevant to the story being told that this face and helmet and facial features not only was here and can hear but nosy enough to leave nothing more of a face to remind a modern World of intentional published truths to origins of man and whose land this was long before the modern investigation can figure it out we where hear and here we are today high and rich in ball games in the Americas and a modern Hip Hop culture dominating music and a culture nearly 50 years old with a script and history birthed out of nothing and very powerful cause behind a trumpet just might be a King a 50cent Kanye West Mike Tyson hard punching Don King Hidden in plan site and forgotten for long periods of time only to Hip Hop over the perceived stewardship of dominion and land to regain restore repair and reconstruction with old head stone monuments of a face reminding the intelligent modern humans of today this head is here brought from no where but indigenous to this Continent before and here’s the proof of that face so many Countries love to hate and remove from history so to answer all your future questions 2000 years from now let us leave the very image of who always been here and disappears on purpose only to return and how it’s done is concealed and hidden just like the minds of consciousness of brain function protected and hidden in concealment under the helmet of preserving the skull and bones of an AI Allseeing I society and no questions should remain for its mystery and hidden history of the land and people is all written rite on the Old Mexican weigh of tons face and investigators journalists scientist authors anthropologist and historians need only use common sense while literally facing the facts written on the face of those Olmec statutes and simply identify similar faces bringing in new languages and Cultures generating rich revenue and those ball players that from powerful hips hop over history flying through the air of space with a ball in hand similar to a globe as the heirs of those ancient times to the airs of today as the darkness of outer space covers the void mass even recently the Air Jordan still flys and one’s face gives unwritten answers to those unintelligible lies. So as the rebranding remains and the new description of who we the they are from in just recent times from asiatic to american indian to negro to colored to afro caribbean to black to african american to artificial indigenous? Whatever history wants to rebrand us as from white to black from gods to slavic? Don’t believe everything you hear and reed but simply don’t forget and simply remember that ancient face and it’s not gone but still here and hear with an ear on earth so nothing knew to those ancient ones who ain’t but still seen as new. Face reality because here we go again.
Much love awesome work and you are appreciated.
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Heyerdahl's Ra II expedition proved that ancient civilizations sailed from Africa to the Americas. You did not mention that voyage. There is no progression in Olmec artifacts or pyramids. They likely did everything w the direction from those that sailed there. As stated in an earlier post pyramids were being made in Egypt and Mesoamerica the same time, the Olmecs and later the Maya.
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I do get the impression that you dismiss the possibility of a raft or boat too quickly based on one Engineers considerations. A raft wouldn't only be a big surface. There could be layers of wood, or a more robust boat than a raft. Didn't the Egyptians move blocks down the Nile? And similarly there are reed boats in Lake Titicaca.
I’ve never understood why the handbags are such a mystery. People had to carry things and it’s probably the most basic concept of an apparatus to carry things that I can think of. Same goes for pyramids…they are THE most basic way to build a large structure. It says nothing at all about shared technology. By that rationale, fire, clothes, and almost every basic tool that you can think of could be grouped into this “shared technology” hypothesis. Seems extremely far-reaching.
You are deliberately misleading people to line your own pockets.
Luke is a breath of fresh air. A perfect mix of scientific data and an open minded search for answers.
Bravo!
Curious. You said that the olmecs who have very polynesian looks might not have been the builders of everything but then why make giant heads of them? Where are the other heads? You make giant statues of your leaders, no? Not foreigners that have just showed up
isn't the pyramid with serpent shadow a reconstruction?
The hand bag thing could have "lived on" as a tradition/custom long after the civ-bringers passed away.
Luke what do u make of this? From TIMEKEEPR13's post? "I wonder why the indigenous call one of the oldest heads from the pre-classic period "El Negrito." I Googled the name and saw the head. I for one am convinced ! Their origin is no longer a question for me. Also as you admit there is no progression in the artisanship which suggests a group arrived with skills already developed.
I dig what your saying but basing what people look like today based on the occupation of the region by the French and the Spanish VS what people looked like pre occupation is very different. Let’s not forget all the explores who wrote in their ships logs about seeing Ethiopians over 6ft tall. This was observed as far north as Florida and the Carolina’s and as far south as Panama and Columbia. We know Africans were already in the Americas because Columbus also wrote what he found and what he was also told by the indigenous people as well. The currents from west Africa will pull you right into the Gulf of Mexico as proven when the built a reef boat and sailed it from West Africa to Cuba.