One thing I will say about this show is that it comes off as very convincing and makes great efforts to portray itself as being straightforward and honest, but as you watch, you quickly find out that's only on a superficial level.
They factual information is twisted and misconstrued to support the views that they want to disseminate without any sort of critical analysis or asking questions. For example he says there is a "cultural layer", under a site, but doesn't explain what artifacts or remnants suggest such a layer. Was there pottery? Remains? It's never mentioned. They do carbon dating, but don't explain the complications associated with using carbon dating to accurately pinpoint a time period or even what exactly they are carbon dating.
They give the false impression that there are two sides by frequently stating how the big bad "field of archaeology" doesn't want to learn about certain information, and just dismisses out of hand anything that doesn't fit the current narrative. Which is preposterous.
If this were true, we would never advance our knowledge of anything or make new discoveries, yet we make new discoveries all of the time. If the entire field is skeptical of certain claims, there is probably a good reason other simply than not wanting to disrupt the "status quo" otherwise we would still have the same thoughts and ideas that we did in the Middle Ages. And we don't.
But it's all one sided, and there is no expert of an opposing viewpoint to debate or offer an alternative explanation for anything the host claims. He just repeatedly and defensively says "they don't want you to believe what I'm saying" without letting anyone scrutinize the wild claims being spouted.
Really disappointing program.
They factual information is twisted and misconstrued to support the views that they want to disseminate without any sort of critical analysis or asking questions. For example he says there is a "cultural layer", under a site, but doesn't explain what artifacts or remnants suggest such a layer. Was there pottery? Remains? It's never mentioned. They do carbon dating, but don't explain the complications associated with using carbon dating to accurately pinpoint a time period or even what exactly they are carbon dating.
They give the false impression that there are two sides by frequently stating how the big bad "field of archaeology" doesn't want to learn about certain information, and just dismisses out of hand anything that doesn't fit the current narrative. Which is preposterous.
If this were true, we would never advance our knowledge of anything or make new discoveries, yet we make new discoveries all of the time. If the entire field is skeptical of certain claims, there is probably a good reason other simply than not wanting to disrupt the "status quo" otherwise we would still have the same thoughts and ideas that we did in the Middle Ages. And we don't.
But it's all one sided, and there is no expert of an opposing viewpoint to debate or offer an alternative explanation for anything the host claims. He just repeatedly and defensively says "they don't want you to believe what I'm saying" without letting anyone scrutinize the wild claims being spouted.
Really disappointing program.
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