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David Wengrow (archeologist and co-author of The Dawn of Everything with the late David Graeber) wrote a piece on AA and Graham Hancock which was published last week:

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/ancient-apocalypse...

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The Guardian also did a bit of a hatchet job on it a couple of months back: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/nov/23/ancient...

I like the ending: 'If you don’t like Hancock’s story about the super-intelligent advanced civilisation being wiped off the face of the planet, here’s another that might explain how Netflix gave the greenlight to Ancient Apocalypse: the platform’s senior manager of unscripted originals happens to be Hancock’s son. Honestly, what are the chances?'

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