I Have A Question

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Well, actually, I have a lot of questions, but this one here is the one that's bothering me right now and I thought I'd ask you guys about it and stuff.

I've been listening to a documentary about the book Dead Men's Secrets by Johnathan Grey. Now, it is my humble opinion that Johnathan Grey is a possibly insane, certainly dumbass, inveterate headline seeker of the first order, so let's get that part out of the way. However, as we all know, even a blind squirrel can run the football up the center's ass once in awhile.

Grey, along with dudes like Ivan Sanderson, Michael Cremo, and Richard Thompson have apparently gone full-on nuts with this idea of "out of place artifacts", or strange objects seemingly belonging to an advanced civilization found in geologic strata where it doesn't belong.

Many of these artifacts have been overstated or debunked right out the dig. But, what is beginning to bother me is this notion that most, if not all, of these artifacts are almost immediately discounted by traditional science without either discussion or investigation.

Items like the Dorchester Pot, or the Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca head, or the Goddard coin, and Antikythera mechanism are all examples of items that were initially discounted by "science" only to be ultimately listed as "partially validated" at best. Often, when all else fails, somebody will concoct a claim of "hoax" regardless of the truth. That's happened pretty often, in fact.

Still, writings like the Mahabharata, Sumerian texts and even some ancient Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs speak of some pretty amazing technologies that are written off as myth or fantasy or legend.

It seems to me that the field of traditional science and, more specifically, archaeology is too quick to discount the idea that prior civilizations might have been very different from the stone-age, nose-boned, knuckle-draggers we've been led to believe they were.

I'm curious. What do you guys think?

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