Joe Rogan Experience #2136 - Graham Hancock & Flint Dibble

Graham Hancock, formerly a foreign correspondent for "The Economist," has been an international bestselling author for more than 30 years with a series of books, notably "Fingerprints of the Gods," "Magicians of the Gods" and "America Before," which investigate the controversial possibility of a lost civilization of the Ice Age destroyed in a global cataclysm some 12,000 years ago. Graham is the presenter of the hit Netflix documentary series "Ancient Apocalypse." https://grahamhancock.com https://www.youtube.com/GrahamHancockDotCom https://twitter.com/Graham__Hancock Flint Dibble is an archaeologist at Cardiff University who has conducted field work and laboratory analyses around the Mediterranean region from Stone Age caves to Egyptian tombs to Greek and Roman cities. Flint enjoys sharing archaeology - from the nitty gritty to the grand - with people around the world. Subscribe to his YouTube channel, "Archaeology with Flint Dibble," or follow him on X/Twitter for behind-the-scenes deep dives into 21st century archaeology. www.youtube.com/flintdibble https://twitter.com/FlintDibble Links for donations to: the Archaeological Institute of America: https://www.archaeological.org/donate/ the Council for British Archaeology: https://www.archaeologyuk.org/support-us/donations.html the Society for American Archaeology: https://ecommerce.saa.org/saa/Member/SAAMember/Fundraising/SAA_Donate.aspx

Graham HancockguestJoe RoganhostFlint DibbleguestGuest (very short clip, unidentified)guestDr. Danny Hilman Natawidjaja (likely, Gunung Padang geologist)guestCurly TlapoyawaguestMarika Stahlguest

Apr 16, 20244h 26mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: April 16, 2024
Duration: 4h 26m
Channel: The Joe Rogan Experience
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Graham Hancock, formerly a foreign correspondent for "The Economist," has been an international bestselling author for more than 30 years with a series of books, notably "Fingerprints of the Gods," "Magicians of the Gods" and "America Before," which investigate the controversial possibility of a lost civilization of the Ice Age destroyed in a global cataclysm some 12,000 years ago. Graham is the presenter of the hit Netflix documentary series "Ancient Apocalypse." https://grahamhancock.com https://www.youtube.com/GrahamHancockDotCom https://twitter.com/Graham__Hancock Flint Dibble is an archaeologist at Cardiff University who has conducted field work and laboratory analyses around the Mediterranean region from Stone Age caves to Egyptian tombs to Greek and Roman cities. Flint enjoys sharing archaeology - from the nitty gritty to the grand - with people around the world. Subscribe to his YouTube channel, "Archaeology with Flint Dibble," or follow him on X/Twitter for behind-the-scenes deep dives into 21st century archaeology. www.youtube.com/flintdibble https://twitter.com/FlintDibble Links for donations to: the Archaeological Institute of America: https://www.archaeological.org/donate/ the Council for British Archaeology: https://www.archaeologyuk.org/support-us/donations.html the Society for American Archaeology: https://ecommerce.saa.org/saa/Member/SAAMember/Fundraising/SAA_Donate.aspx

SPEAKERS

Graham Hancock
guest
Narrator
other
Joe Rogan
host
Flint Dibble
guest
Guest (very short clip, unidentified)
guest
Dr. Danny Hilman Natawidjaja (likely, Gunung Padang geologist)
guest
Curly Tlapoyawa
guest
Marika Stahl
guest

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Graham Hancock and Narrator, Joe Rogan Experience #2136 - Graham Hancock & Flint Dibble explores archaeology vs. Ancient Apocalypse: Testing Claims of a Lost Civilization Joe Rogan hosts archaeologist Flint Dibble and author Graham Hancock for a long-form debate on whether evidence supports an advanced Ice Age civilization. Flint outlines how modern archaeology works—big datasets, underwater surveys, paleo-botany, radiocarbon dating—and argues that current evidence strongly supports mobile hunter‑gatherers, not a global advanced culture. Hancock counters that archaeology has under-explored key regions (submerged coasts, Sahara, Amazon), mishandled past paradigm shifts, and underestimates myth, astronomy, and geological signals like the Younger Dryas impact and Sphinx erosion. The conversation repeatedly returns to evidence standards, dating methods, and how academic and alternative researchers treat each other in public discourse.

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