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Episode Notes I have to apologize as I cannot find the article to link to for the Isotope Study. And yes, I know that some of the dating that I mention might conflict with other dates in the various sub-theories to the one I have suggested, that is good, hopefully you will search the theories and decide for yourself the most likely and share your thoughts with us. Support Conversations With Cassi by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/conversations-with-cassi Find out more at https://conversations-with-cassi.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes In this episode we discuss a couple of Mr. Hancock's previous works as well as his upcoming new title. Hi, welcome to conversations with Cassi. As always I'm Cassi, the host of the show. We hope you've had a good week. We hope that you have fed curiosity and that you have learned something new. If you haven't, hopefully you will during the episode. This morning, as is usual, in my email, I had book suggestions from Amazon. I, usually, end up just deleting the emails, they either don't have books that I would read, or it's books I already actually own. However, this morning, the list was much more intriguing than usual. The top book, which, got my interest, right off the bat, was a brand, new neanderthal book. This book seems like a very good update of our current understanding, and information, regarding neanderthal, and his place, in the story of us. So, I clicked the link to check out all the details about the book. Now, if I find a book that I like I, usually, tend to do my best, to just grab it up, that being said, if, I find a book, that's of great interest to me, and what I mean, by that, is a book that I feel I will either read multiple times, or after, reading I will reference multiple times, then, I prefer to have the copy or a copy in hardback. I will confess, there are certain titles, that, I do have in multiple formats; either, I have an e-version and a paperback, or hardback, or I have both, hardback and paperback versions. There's probably a few I have all three for and this is why, if I'm going to use a book, regularly, or extensively, I feel like hardback holds up better. The cover, the bindings, and the pages are all more durable than in paperback. So, that being said, I felt that this Neanderthal book would be one that I would prefer in hardback, for those reasons. The link took me to the paperback option, for amazon.com, it also gave me tabs to check out the Kindle option, or the hard back option. Naturally, I clicked on the hardback option, and much to my dismay, I discovered that, at least via Amazon, the hardback is available on the other side of the pond, but, this side, of the pond, gets the paperback. Now to make that, even, a little more discriminatory than it already is, the publisher is PBS, an American company. Thank you, PBS, for not letting me have the hardback. Yes, I actually am being a little bratty, cause, yes, I can actually order it, via Amazon, from the UK, the point is I shouldn't have to. I will probably end up buying the paperback, at least, to get my hands on it, read it, see if it's as good as I'm hoping it is, and, maybe, by then the hardback will be an option, on this side of the pond, or I won’t mind waiting, so, I'll go ahead and order it from the other side of the pond. Also, in the same email was a book that I'm excited about, that I've been waiting for. But, that no, I will not pre-order from Amazon. Why? Here's a tidbit, if you haven't pre-ordered books from Amazon (or another shipping/online seller). Amazon used to be great, in that, if you pre-ordered a book, from Amazon, based on their 2-day shipping, they would ship your book 2 days prior to the release date, so, that you can get it on the release date. However, due to the tyrant JK Rowling this all changed, in the height of Harry Potter fame. See, sometimes, what would happen, is certain addresses are close enough to Amazon that they might get their books the day before the release date, big boo hoo JK. Now, I don't remember which year, four, five or six that a huge fan, I believe, a young lady, was lucky enough to get her book a day early, and she promptly, devoured the book and posted about how good it was. And, yes, JK people can read your books in a night or a day, I have! But, JK had a huge huge fit, that HER books were being leaked, unfortunately, for the world, that one, single woman had so much power that she got the rules changed. Amazon wasn't the only company that would ship the books,...

Episode Notes In this episode we introduce Dr. Robert Schoch, a geology professor from Boston, MA, whom was asked to analyze the Sphinx and its enclosure from a geologic point of view. Dr. Schoch then went on to look at other ancient sites using his geological expertise and the possibilites are intriging. Support Conversations With Cassi by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/conversations-with-cassi This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes You can read more about these and other locations here: Lost Cities...Myths Or More High In The Andes~On The Sea Floor Support Conversations With Cassi by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/conversations-with-cassi This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes We discuss some of the more common theories about the purpose behind the Giza plateau. Follow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ConversationsWithCassi or on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/conversationswithcassi/ Support Conversations With Cassi by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/conversations-with-cassi This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes In this episode we discuss how words can impact the knowledge we know, gain, and pass on. Support Conversations With Cassi by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/conversations-with-cassi This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes In this episode we introduce Neanderthal as one of our direct ancestors. A fact that has only been being accepted within the last decade. Want to support us without having to donate? Download the RadioPublic App from GooglePlay or App Store where we are an earning podcast! Thank you for all your support. Support Conversations With Cassi by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/conversations-with-cassi This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes My thoughts on the use of AI in archaeology and in general. Hello and Welcome to Conversations With Cassi. I’m Cassi, the host of the show. Today, in scrolling through news feeds, I came across an article that stated AI would possibly be replacing archaeology as a profession. This is based on the fact that supposedly, an AI program has discovered "an unidentified Human ancestor", and in reading the article what I found is that AI basically or more accurately this AI program run by several DNA Labs has basically caught up with human knowledge. AI has not found anything that at least I as an independent researcher didn't already know. See, there is a cave in Siberia that is considered the origin of our discovery Denisovans as an ancestor to modern-day, man. One of the great finds, in this cave in Siberia, are the bones of a child, whose parents were one of Denisovian ancestry and one of Neanderthal ancestry. In analysis of the DNA of other individuals, not specifically in the Denisovian research area, but in the general Siberian area, there has been discovered the DNA of an as yet unidentified ancestor to the human population. And this residual DNA has survived all the way through to modern man and just as most of us have roughly 3% Neanderthal DNA within our own genes, we've also discovered that there are those in Asia and other places, Nepal, Tibet, the higher elevations being a higher preponderance of individuals who have specific Denisovan DNA still within their gene pool. Pacific Islanders and South Asians have a third ancient ancestor's DNA still present within current gene pools. We have not identified the identity of this unknown ancestor. We had no finds, so far this ancestor in its original or pure form. So to claim that AI is somehow going to steal away the position of archaeology, I find reprehensible. First and foremost, as I stated originally, this AI program merely discovered the same thing that human researchers already knew, secondly, I will be upfront and honest, I'm not a fan of AI for a multitude of reasons. The first, I do not believe that we need absolutely any other reason, excuse, justification, or mechanism to make humans any stupider than they have already become. An article the other day stated that the average IQ of people today is 85 to 110. Uhm, 85 is actually mentally challenged, so for that to now be considered normal IQ proves that we have not gotten smarter in the last three or four generations. We have gotten dumber. When I was a child the average IQ for an average individual was 100 to 120, to be considered anything special at all you had to have an IQ over 120, to be considered a genius you had to have an IQ over 140. We keep lowering standards, so that we can keep telling kids that they're better than the adults. We're deluding them. We're deluding ourselves and AI does not help with that. AI actually, encourages that. We have leaders in education that state that we no longer need to actually teach knowledge to students, to children; all we need to teach them is how to find the knowledge, how to use Google, how to use AI, how to use GPS. You have kids that do not know how to do math if they're handed pencil and paper, because, they were taught only how to do math using a calculator. We have children that have no idea how to actually use a map to get from point A to point B, because I have a cell phone with GPS. What happens if there's a catastrophe that destroys technology? That knocks out all satellite communication? There go GPSes, so how will people get to and from places with no GPS? Because that's what they're being taught to navigate with these days. Another thing is AI poses some very scary side effects. Now you can argue all you want to that AI has at its foundation three basic, supposedly unbreakable rules. And the first, of these unbreakable rules, is that any creation that is based on AI cannot harm a human. Yet, what happens when AI has to make a choice to...

Episode Notes In this episode we take an introductory look at how anthropologists access ancient man with regard to religion and or scientific understanding. Photo Credit: Martin B. Sweatman and Dimitrios Tsikritsis . Hi! Welcome to Conversations With Cassi. I'm Cassi, your host. Today, I thought we would discuss a couple preconceptions and a couple of theories that might finally be correcting those preconceptions. One of the things that you will find if you start studying and reading about the history of humanity and especially reading about it from an anthropological and or archaeological point of view, almost everything that is discovered is put either in to living and by living I mean, daily life. Your home or it's put in the context of religion. There doesn't seem to be a lot of room for cultural differences, for societal differences. Everything has to be either a residence or a temple, with very few exceptions and even when you point out that there are maybe some exceptions the experts have some way of tying those exceptions directly to home or temple, thus limiting ancient man’s world. That being said, Priests tended to have a lot of power according to the story and I'm not totally denying that, as a matter of fact, I actually agree with that. However, I think the word priest is limiting to the responsibility and the influence and duties of this class of individuals within an ancient society. I think ancient societies had what we might consider more of a Renaissance approach to their duties and their positions and their responsibilities. Therefore, a priest was not merely the spiritual leader, the spiritual ceremony overseer, the religious head in Society. I think what we identify as priests were actually more along the lines of, in some cases, the societal elders, in other cases they would be a cross between the bureaucrats and the pillars of morality, the wisdom keepers and wisdom information disseminators of a group. So, while they were Priests, by title, they were not merely a religious spiritual leader as we would assume based on that duty or occupational title today, which, actually meant something different in ancient history and that can create problems. Words, or certain word usage creates problems and that's a whole episode all in itself, and possibly, maybe even the next episode. So as I said, I'm not doubting the use of the word priest, and I am not doubting their affluence and influence within the community and history, I just think that it needs to be looked at in a more appropriate scope, and more individually for each community. I just think that it should not be the first thought that we have when we study an ancient culture, especially one that no longer exist in the present day and thus there are no points of reference for how it might truly have been. The reason I bring this up is because there have been some new theories making it into the public arena and the public media that are broaching how we view certain complexes of ancient history and prehistory. And taking it quasay out of the automatic religious component, something that I've always questioned. Why did man in the past, uncivilized man, barbaric man, Stone Age man, prehistoric man, however you want to label him, have to be religious? Why did he have to be superstitious? That seems to be the mentality of most archaeologists and anthropologists. They're very very focused on that. There's a couple other things that they are also very focused on that I think may be over done as well. But today we're going to stick to the religious component. I've often wondered why when you hear the myths or look at some of the carvings and some of the temples using the textbook term, it never suggests any logical or rational or scientific basis. Yet, a lot of the layouts of ancient sites and structures are based on science, math, numbers not all random or I don't want to say all willy nilly, or super religious, but the science aspect, the math aspect,...

Episode Notes This is a brief discussion about a new theory suggestng that Aboriginal Australians build Gobekli Tepe. Hi! Welcome to Conversations with Cassi. I'm Cassi. So I have to be honest. I have kind of struggled with the topic for this episode for lots of reasons. Where do you start? What's the most interesting and enigmatic subject that can Enlighten, interest, and captivate you guys? Do you start with the pyramids? Do you start with Gobekli Tepe? The Mayans? The Incas? The Nazca Lines? The cave paintings of Europe? There's just so many options to choose from and yes, hopefully over the course of the podcast we will get time to discuss all of them, and the multitude of new things that are being discovered and studied and proposed and in some cases, finally accepted. So I settled on a topic that regards Gobekli Tepe. It's my first impressions of a theory that I heard via YouTube. I have not read the work and research by the original, or as I have heard it, the original proposer of this particular theory regarding Gobekli Tepe. I believe the gentleman's name is Ben Reneer. I could be wrong about that. I would have to double-check for sure, but the gentleman is purposing that the builders of Gobekli Tepe are the Aborigines of Australia and just on the surface I would have to disagree with that for several reasons. One of the basises which was used when the theory was presented in the means that I was exposed to it, was that some of the symbols that you see at Gobekli Tepe, in the carvings and reliefs, are also present in Aboriginal body design and some of their artwork. Now, there are no known and or confirmed original indigenous people in the locality of Gobekli Tepe, as we all know there are indigenous populations still residing in Australia. However, the fact that Australia has an indigenous population that uses symbols that are present at Gobekli Tepe to me in and of itself does not make them builders of Gobekli Tepe. Especially, when you look at the geographic distance between the two localities, in addition to that when you look at the Aborigines of Australia they are not, at least certainly not in recent history, which you would think the way that they have preserved the rest of their culture, this would also be something that they would preserve, at least in their prolific storytelling, they do not seem to be wanderers or explorers there doesn't seem to be much in their history of going out and seeing the world, settling the world, conquering the world. They seem to have been very content for thousands and thousands of years residing on and very near, as in surrounding islands, to Australia. With one known South American exception. So, when you have a group of people that seem to have been that contently settled in one locale that is so distant from a second locale it seems counter intuitive to credit them, at one point approximately 11 or 12 thousand years ago picking up what you would have to consider their best and brightest individuals and trekking halfway around the world to Gobekli Tepe and building the monuments and structures you see there, of which you see no counterpart in Australia. While the Aborigines have an amazing, rich storytelling culture and cave art culture they do not seem to have a prolific stone carving or stone building history, something that is the central focus of Gobekli Tepe. In addition, the skill required for the constructions at Gobekli Tepe are not something that is present in the Aborigines culture of Australia in any comparable form. I will, in the future, actually pursue the research done by this gentleman, who has purposed this theory, for lots of reasons; I've heard that he has done solid research. So I think there is probably some merit to the evidence and data that he has gathered, I think his conclusions and suppositions are just a little bit off. If it were me, initially from what I know, as I just shared with you, I would flip his theory around and suggest and...

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