Advanced Ice Age Civilizations and Atlantis
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In Theaters : 2006
DVD Release : 10 October, 2006 |
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I rented the first of these 3 disks from Netflix as a gamble, since the disk description was so vague I had no idea what I'd be getting. Unfortunately, I lost the gamble. The subject of human civilization during the last ice age is fascinating and there is obviously much to discover. Just don't look for much realistic information here. The producers take bits and pieces of actual scientific information and warp it fit their ridiculous theories.
The basic premise this set is based on is that once upon a time the environment was different from how it is today, such as the Sahara was once more rainy and fertile, and that the coastlines were once much lower than they are today due to much of the Earth's water being bound up in ice. Humans historically lived on coastlines and, when the water level rose, remnants of their civilizations were flooded and disappeared. This seems to be accepted by scientists and gaining in popularity. But from there the producers go wild.
It is presented as fact than there are dozens of underwater megalithic monuments scattered around the world, such as off the coasts of Japan, India, and the Mediterranean. Sites have been found but it's certainly no fact that experts agree humans built them. Then it's stated that, since known megalithic monuments such as the pyramids in Egypt, temples of Malta, and Stonehenge were built starting around 3000 BC, all underwater monuments had to have been built at the same time. Other vague, unsubstantiated "evidence" that I won't go into asserts that the last ice age actually ended and the seawaters abruptly rose not around 10,000 BC but at 1500 BC, which is how those "monuments" got underwater. Correspondingly, cultures such as the ancient Egyptians were actually "ice age civilizations". It is also stated the Great Pyramid in Egypt "just appeared out of nowhere" developmentally with no architectural precursors, which is absolutely false.
Further discussion focuses on more vague "evidence" that scattered worldwide cultures during that same building period were in touch with each other, traveling the oceans, and mapping the continents. Here the producers' theories are obviously based on the work of Charles Hapgood, though he is never given any credit. Graham Hancock is barely mentioned. This is one of my many issues with the DVD. Work is not credited or shown or gets perverted to fit the producers' theories. Another example, Robert Schoch appears in brief clips but I wonder how apoplectic he'll be seeing his ideas twisted and misrepresented. Schoch, whose work I respect, actually says he is not convinced structures such at Yonaguni off Japan were manmade and his main theories are that Egyptian monuments are actually much older than accepted by science. Yet here he is made to look like he is agreeing to the opposite and supporting the theories of the producers.
Indeed the "expert" who seems most influential to this DVD is author James Nienhuis, who I'd previously never heard of. He is the one saying repeatedly that the ice age actually ended so recently and all these monuments were built at the same time. I see here at Amazon he has written an out of print book that presents the same ideas as this DVD. I see he also has a book titled "Old Earth? Why not?". Added to his obvious disdain for Darwin (he often sneeringly and ignorantly refers to "Darwinian" cultural development), his scorn at the idea of "cavemen", and his desire to compress history makes me wonder if he is a Fundamentalist trying to prove correct the Bible's dating of the Earth . Like I said though, I know very little about him, so my own theory could be wrong.
The first disk is only 47 minutes long. I may still rent the other 2 out of curiosity. I do enjoy wacky theories as well as prehistoric cultures and now I know what I'll be getting. The DVD's are very cheaply and amateurishly produced. Much of what is shown is either experts talking from their offices, video shot while scuba diving, or stock footage (often inexplicably ancient black and white stock footage) of random workers at random archeological sites or random coastlines. I can't imagine who would actually buy this drivel. However, if you're a fan of shows like Coast to Coast AM, like I am, it might be worth the rental.
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