Has anyone else watched it? It drives me crazy!! I don't know if he actually likes the show or just the fact that it calms him down.
I get irrationally furious about all of the WICKED COOL AMAZING feats achieved by ancient civilisations that are blown off as “Youre too stupid -grunt grunt drool caveman grug- to have built these monuments! Clearly aliens had to have been involved.”
But that’s the archaeology student in me.
It doesn’t matter how much evidence of exactly how people back when did something, noooooooo… anyone from ancient civilisations (that often lasted thousands of years, rivaled Ancient Egypt/Greece/Rome/China, had trade routs spanning continents)? Yoo Dum Dum.
Brick wall. Bang. Head.
Not even cavemen-cavemen were the idiots car insurance ads & pop culture portrays them, but people from a civilization with a population in the hundreds of thousands to millions, and cities in the tens of thousands? Not. Cave. Men.
((And don’t even get me started on the Neanderthal bit… where we not only get pale skin, blue eyes, and red/blonde hair from… so the brown lumps of grug-grug-dum-dum mud creatures depicted by ignorant artists and movie studios can take a flying f*cking leap.. sorry. Point being? The first cities we thought were “ours” because of how advanced they were, and how much artwork was there… Theirs. Yep. Neanderthals building cities. And creating sculptures, jewelry, frescos, glass, metal, the lot. There’s even quite a bit of scientific debate as to if artistic and musical talent comes
solely from interbreeding with Neanderthals… which is what happened, by the by. They didn’t die out. They’re still here. It’s just that homo sapien sapien genes are more dominant, so we “look” more sapien than Neanderthal. Long bones, flat faces, etc. The debate about artistic talent? Is a DNA one. As most of the genes associated with artistic and musical ability haven’t been located… but the ones that have? Theirs. >.< Whoops. And this is me NOT going off on the Neanderthal rant. <whistling> To be fair, I wasn’t shouting and waving my arms, and it didn’t last for 2 or 3 hours? So it could be worse???))
Snicker… and then (but wait! For only $19.99)….there’s just the tricks-of-photography. Like some of the giant lithographs built on plains where “no one could see them”. Um… turn the camera around, and, yep. That’s a mountain you’re standing on.
Everyone could see them.
The thing is? Shows like this last for 17 seasons because people are actually
interested in this stuff. But rather than be honest about what we actually know (and have known for a long time, like 50+ years in a lot of cases)? No, no, no… let’s put a chick in a bikini on a sports car to sell it! Ooooooh. It must be ALIENS.
grumble grumble grumble.
((I’m not actually angry right now, even if I’m still half going off on a rant. But I lose it when it comes on the TV. Like, shouting at it, like they can hear me level of “Hon? Did you bang your head, again?” crazy person land
))
Come on it's easy if you try.
