Thanks ml/nj.
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Posted on 09/29/2020 11:54:45 AM PDT by ml/nj
According to archaeologist John Hoopes, writing in the magazine of the Society for American Archaeology, "Pseudoarchaeology actively promotes myths that are routinely used in the service of white supremacy, racialized nationalism, colonialism, and the dispossession and oppression of indigenous peoples."
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The attractive thing about the theory (to me; and to Albert Einstein - Einstein wrote a forward to Earth's Shifting Crust which one can read via Amazon's Look Inside feature.) is that it simply explains so many geologic mysteries.
Due to criticisms that such ice imbalances would be insufficient to initiate such a shift Hapgood seemingly gave up on the polar ice mechanism and also on the nearly instantaneous nature of the shift. The problem is that the rapid shift is very important to explaining things that have been observed such as the mammoths found flash-frozen in the Siberian tundra.
To my mind, the mechanism is unimportant. The evidence that such shifts have occurred that Hapgood has presented is overwhelming.
So, today I was poking around on the internet to see what I might find that discredits Hapgood's theory other than objections to the initiating mechanism. The first link I looked at was Wikipedia's Hapgood entry. Right at the top is the link to Wikipedia's Pseudoarchaeology entry. And I thought it just so absurd that I felt a need to comment about it. Among other things, Hapgood's book is about GEOLOGY. Almost nothing in it is about human history (ANTHROPOLOGY).
ML/NJ
Hmm. University of Kansas lists Hoopes as a professor of anthropology primarily. That’s a “discipline” with deep leftist roots.
Sounds like the makings of yet another “Grievance Studies” degree.
I guess real archaeology promotes myths that Jews, real a Jews, were black and all civilization started in the sub Sahara...
I have a friend at church who has a PhD in archaeology and teaches at a Community College. I’ve learned a lot about the pure fakery that goes on in archaeology and by extension anthroplogy. An incredible amount of the stuff these “disciplines” claim is purely invented out of thin air.
For example, those hominid finds in Africa. The ages of these bones are usually determined by having an expert look at them and then just make up a number based on how old they look. Bones found in the exact same strata will be given wildly different ages so as to not interfere with the “settled science”. Don’t like anomalies? Just hide them in university archives.
Problem with the ice theory is that the southern ice cap in **the last glacial period** was as large or larger than the northern one.
The flash frozen mammoths is typical of a fast comet fragment strike - the fragment drags a portion of space cold behind it as it descends, bringing outer space temp to the earth’s surface.
Geology affects human history: example Mt Toba eruption 74,000 ya wiped out most hominids as well as most homo sapiens; more recently Mt Vesuvius erupted and buried Pompey.
Geology and Anthropology, and Human History are intertwined and inseparable.
If you don’t wear a hat and carry a whip, you’re not an archaeologist. Hollywood taught me that.
To say that something is "typical" implies that numerous, similar incidents have occurred to which the incident in question may be compared.
Name three.
As for ...drags a portion of space cold behind it, a weather Cold Front brings a MASS of cold air with it and the cold air (low energy) molecules absorb some of the heat energy (molecules in motion) from surrounding warm air and from our hands, faces, etc. Your theory posits a "cold" vacuum with no molecules to be accelerated. Expansion of warm air into a vacuum will cause adiabatic cooling. Infrared radiation from a warm earth occurs through the atmosphere out into space.
Space is "cold" because heat radiates from a warm body. There is no heat loss from Conduction or Convection, only Radiation.
The main problem is that the Kinetic energy of a "fast comet fragment" would be converted into enormous amounts of heat energy.
Meteorite impact caused the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth's surface
Thanks ml/nj.
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You beat me to debunking the “drags a portion of space cold behind it” theory. I suppose you could have some kind of event where a hole gets punched in the atmosphere and super cold upper atmosphere air fills the vacuum somehow, sucking the heat out of everything. But that would take some pretty contrived circumstances and an explanation of where the kinetic energy from such an event went.
As for the sudden shift of the Earth’s crust flash-freezing Mammoths, even if shifting the crust that fast somehow didn’t leave any evidence of massive tectonic disturbances, there would still be a lot of residual heat. Stuff would simply not freeze that fast.
What ever the explanation is, the hypotheses presented so far are not viable.
Hapgood is one of my heroes. His book “ Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings” was an inspiration to me. I was in the Army in Vietnam in 1968-9 and worked with a warrant officer who had helped him with his book. When I got out of the Army in the summer of 1969 I flew from NY to Keene NH. He picked me up at the airport and I spent a fascinating afternoon discussing all sort of weird phenomenon at his house. He was friends with Einstein and Ivan T. Sanderson. He was into reincarnation and ESP. Look up “Acambaro figurines”.
I thought ‘Pseudoarchaeology’ was ‘grave robbing’?....................
UMASS destroyed it excellent anthro dept. by renaming it the dept. of Feminist anthro. It all fell apart thereafter.
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