Hey guys, I hope you like these longer in-depth lectures. They take a tremendous amount of time to research, write, film & edit-I do all of it myself & it would help my channel so much if you just hit “Like👍” or subscribe if you’re new! Thank you!🏛
Personally, I'm way more interested overall in longer, more in-depth content. Short videos are fine, but I listen to various lectures throughout the day (and to relax before sleep) so I have more time to pay attention.
@@MrBrachiatingApethis is great to know. Thank you. Most people know me from my short videos on social media, but I think these in-depth videos would be a good contrast to that. I also have always preferred lectures that I can turn on & listen to multiple times
I have lived and worked in Nicaragua doing archaeology. It drives me insane how people in my field of work are so scared to go against the narrative. I've stood on top of an island in the middle Lake Nicaragua where, sometime in the distant past, someone carved into the bedrock the story of the Polpol Vuh. There were vast, extensive trading routes who were distributing goods, services, languages, and religious ideals all over the American continents. But mainstream theory is like this: humans will travel 100's of miles to build something, meanwhile never interacting with ANYONE OR ANYTHING else. Take the Vedic texts on the building of Rama's Bridge. It is stated that he used 10,000 monkey men to build it. In my opinion, monkey men equals denisovan or neanderthal. Look at how they are depicted in school today: dumbass grunting, spear chucking knuckle draggers 😂
@@religionoffreedom Of course there were! We had Neanderthals, Denisovans, Australopithecus, and my favorite The Hobbit, homo Hobilis. So realistically, if we were to see these people today that's how we could classify them within a derogatory sense.
Great work Luke. I caught you on Forbidden Frontier and was fascinated by what you had to say. As an Irish man that 20 years ago somehow found himself at University with the Chippewa/Sioux/Lakota people in North Dakota learning Mesoamerican anthrolpology I've always had an interest. Keep up the good work!
My family is from one of the regions of where the olmec heads/sites are found and we resemble the Olmec heads YET we aren’t black lol. All you have to do is travel to that region and you’ll see their actual ancestors alive today.
Genetic studies say you're wrong and none of your intrusive and dishonest meddling in other people's history can change that. Black people only came to this continent in other people's ships, below decks...in chains.
They look Samoan. Polynesians were probably the greatest navigators in ancient times, they didn't hug coastlines, but shot straight out to sea. There are food similarities between the South Sea people and the early Americans.
@@KEK-dd4iu There's absolutely nothing wrong with hypothesizing the origins of world populations, it's part of the difficult process of establishing the history and identity of various people and tracing migration routes, trade routes and the ethnic make-up of our ancestors. Nobody's taking anything from you.
Great video Luke, keep them coming. I started to learn of the Olmecs about three years ago when it seemed everyone was talking about the Mayans. I'm heading to Veracruz in November to learn about the Olmecs and the Totonacas. It seems to me there is a connection...
This is amazing and as an avid historian esp to ancient civilizations and this is the first time seeing the jade pieces and elongated people sculptors. So amazing!
Im Indian-American and i've always been so infatuated by Mexico and Mesoamerica. I love learning about their shared history, from the Tikal-Calakmul wars, to the rise of the Nahua kingdoms in Nicaragua and El Salvador, its such a fascinating and rich history. And about the Olmecs, I theorize that their head gear was made of leather because not only was it used extensively throughout Mesoamerica but its also very strong and durable. It also explains why Olmec head gear has never been excavated or found in any burial sites because leather's biodegradable so therefore decomposes. Either way fascinating stuff, great video, and much love to the Mesoamerican nations 🇮🇳❤🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇸🇻
Luke, another great video. Yes, 30 minute long form is good, BTW, we met briefly at the Cosmic Summit and you had a great presentation. Can't wait to see your videos stemming from your next big trip and future trips with the Snake Bros into the Belize jungle.
Can you recommend any books or papers about the Olmecs? I find them fascinating but hard to find current literature on them. Thanks for doing this video.
Read the Book of Ether in the Book of Mormon. Before 2000 BC people led by inspiration from Tower of Babel to the Americas. As for physical evidence that remains to be seen, but I believe it will be soon.
The reason why the Olmec and Göbekli Tepe buried their structures was because they knew a cataclysm was coming and they were trying to pass their civilization on to us to give us a head start.
The idea that ancient people A. knew a cataclysm was coming, B. thought about future civilizations, C. Wanted to preserve their culture for us and D. were concerned with giving us a head-start is absolutely batshit crazy. The people of Gobekli Tepe were highly intelligent and industrious people who were still struggling out of the stone-age when the site was originally built, they were not characters out of a bad science-fiction novel and to spread falsehoods about them only obscures their actual accomplishments. This tendency to reframe every archaeological and anthropological discovery in the language and imagery of pseudoscientists and conmen is not "cool" or progressive or creative or revealing, it's lazy and misleading and, quite frankly, STUPID. The worst part is that you freely share this in an authoritative manner that gives the impression you are privy to inside information or that this is seriously considered valued information by anyone with half a brain. Anyway, if you're as well-informed as you pretend, explain to me why you haven't heard the recent research that determined that the site was buried because it's on the side of a hill and over the years rain and erosion has washed tons of dirt down the hillside and deposited it on the ruins...
Love the video! Were-Jaguars sound rad 😎, and I find it super interesting that so many cultures share a similar myth (werewolves, skin walkers, etc). Also, I would love for you to add some context in future videos on how archaeologists date these megalithic structures. While I’m not well versed in archaeology, I’m a little skeptical that archaeologists can give an accurate date to these buried Olmec heads. I understand that things like fossils can be accurately dated based on the geological layers that they’re wedged in between, but I just don’t understand how someone could accurately date a big rock buried under some topsoil.
This is the most comprehensive, well researched and documented, intelligent, and interesting presentation on the Olmecs I have listened to. Thank you for your research and expertise, and for your fact-based information. Keep on making these!
Found my way here from Nerdrotic and the Forbidden Frontier podcast. This was a great video, Ancient America fascinates me because its history was destroyed so relatively recently. I'm looking forward to all the new information you uncover.
Could the depiction of were jaguars have been inspired by cleft lips? For example, like how certain birthmarks might designate you as an astronomer, a cleft lip might designate you as being a were jaguar?
thank you for this. I want to be respected as a professional & an educator, but I really am a very casual person. It's a super tough line to balance. I'll work on cutting loose a bit more
The Moai in Easter island were huge heads… at first… then they kept digging… and unearthed the entire statue.. in any case, my theory is they used cymatic sound vibration to use the stones and the isotopic properties of a he stone may give clues to what purpose they served… whether it be energetic conductors for power along the lay line grid, or even super computer.. Polynesian people also don’t grow body hair
I’m glad you brought up the Phoenicians. They said they traveled the Atlantic and found a crescent harbor with a mighty river just like the Nile, running through a vast plain surrounded by mountain ranges on each side. If they were referring to America then there are a couple clues I’ve come across. First are the Phoenician type ships carved on rocks at the copper mines in Lake Michigan. Interestingly, the incredible amount of copper that was mined from the island and smelted where we find the boat carvings, all seemed to happen as Eurasia entered the Bronze Age. Another interesting find is the large river they spoke of and called it a new or 2nd nile Back then the Nile was referred to as the “river isis” A new or 2nd “river isis could be the “IsisIsis” river or “Mississippi river” This is a theory of mine and also the different flags around the Caribbean that use the crescent moon just as the Mediterranean areas.
@@blessingsflow8648 thanks. Glad someone else can understand what I've noticed. I've been looking into our ancient civilizations for over a decade now and you would be shocked at how much academia keeps hidden from us but openly discusses amongst each other. Or they will quietly publish papers without spreading awareness. Here's a topic that's consider pseudoscience amongst mainstream academics. Any mention of pre Columbian contact with the western hemisphere (minus the Erickson expeditions as that has become more mainstream) Here's an example of evidence of contact that would get criticized but is well known amongst some linguist, archeologist, anthropologist, academics ect. The Tunica Indians of the Louisiana, Mississippi areas, have over 500 words that are pronounced the same and have the same meanings as those that occupied Egypt 4,000 years ago. Majority of those words are associated with trade. Why hide that knowledge?
@@waynemyers2469 thanks for the acknowledgement. The academic stranglehold on the truth, about the populating of the America's; will get out soon. Just how today, clovis first is beinged challenged. I've only spoken of a few of my findings here but there is much more. Like the lie of the naming of America. Vespucci started calling himself Amerigo, AFTER America was first named. The name comes from the God of the Amaru tribe, Amaruca, and it means, "Land of the feathered serpent". Many tribes of northeast Canada are sadly extinct today, but even though they introduced the repatriation act to suppress any anomalous findings, we did get a good look at the genetic makeup of those tribes and they were more linked genetically to the people of Europe and East Asia than they were to the indigenous American Natives. Their dna had concentrations of the Rhesus negative gene that's found in higher concentrations in north Africa and the Mediterranean areas and was introduced by Cro magnon man over 30k years ago. The bog mummies, the caves in Central America, the 30k year old remains in the Carolinas, all showed genetic affinity with Europeans. The conquistadors in the 1500's came across a tribe of Caucasian looking people in the mountains in south America. They wrote that they had blonde and red hair prevalent and lived primitavely and were all very tall with very beautiful women, and yet chose to fight along side the Spaniards. There's even evidence of the Chinese treasure ships reaching America.
In my opinion the “plumed” serpent quetzalcoatl to the olmecs was actually a volcano. With columnar basalt looking like the scales of a snake from above. I think they had some kind of method to cast the basalt.
Bravo, very best doc I have ever seen on the Olmecs. Smart ebough to say we dont know. A bit too much "religious structures" which is the default for anything archeologists dont understand. You did miss how Olmec heads are suspected to depict the same chatacter in different stages of life. Interesting wrinkle. The coverage of the physics behind transporting the stones by raft was refreshing as an arxhirect and engineer, it drives me mad when they gloss over how logistically impossible their transportation theories actually are. 👍
You don't need written context to kno what is taking place. What is taking place is not rellevant but instead who are the characters. Are they uniformly dressed? do they look the same? What order are they arranged? What are they wearing? What geographic location can be associated with the appearance of each character? Thsese are the important questions to help shed light to the big picture
Oh, and i have coconuts that I dug out of SANDSTONE: its strange because I grew up in Oklahoma! The paleobotanist at the University of Oklahoma believes that I am lying about their context and origin...
I think there may be some evidence of Phoenicians in America. It is my understanding that a Phoenician shipwreck found in the Mediterranean Sea was found to be carrying high quality copper that is unique to a copper mine located in what is now Michigan . They were excellent ship builders with excellent materials and aren’t recognized enough for their sailing skills. We know they were in Britain and South Africa. Easy to see how one could ship of the 1000”s of expeditions could have been blown off course and landed on a piece of land that stretches from the bottom of the world to the top continuously.
People been trading worldwide befor they needed boats to do it. They were trading before the continents divided. Then after the divide they started shipping items the world has changed so much in a much shorter time them most realize.
@@mattmatt6572 this is completely false, continental drift took tens of millions of years to separate the continents and early in the process, when it may have been possible to travel between the land-masses by foot or smal boats there were NO humans.
The problem is that we know the Phoenicians got their copper from Cyprus where there are extensive copper mines even now, also, try-as-I-might I could find nothing about a Phoenician shipwreck with Michigan copper onboard.
18:00 i also want to point out that the calc for floating weight is grossly wrong. You dont need to displace much water to carry weight.... actually surprisingly little as water is really heavy.
I think it's possible that the Olmecs were also wiped out by viruses introduced by visitors from another continent before it happened again when the spaniards came later on.
@@chiefkeef8936 There's no ''suppressed knowledge'', the ones saying that loudly, people like Graham Hancock, allows them to make up absurdities and get rich selling books, get paid for interviews, conferences, or tv specials. We simply don't know because not enough information made it through the ages and faded away. The suppression happens on it's own through time.
@@Kevin.e.TurnerAfrican greatness? If Africa is so great why do Africans spend so much time trying to steal other people's history, accomplishments and culture? I mean, come-on, choose one, are you African, meso-American, Egyptian, Carthaginian, Hebrew, Ainu, Chinese, Viking, Irish, Atlantean, Alien or what??! Grow-up, read a book.
Many of these ancient cultures used building material from other spots than where they were going to build. There must be different materials in the stone from place to place. There have been studies done but has anyone done a complete investigation and compared all properties from each site? Usual stuff like electrical, mass etc. :O)
25:37 Looks a lot like the egyptian god Osiris. and the story goes that he traveld across the sea to give people the knowledge of the civilization before. Edit: look at he flag he has 25:47.very common in egyptian hieroglyphs.
Loved this, but do we know for sure they had no written language? You mentioned boo burning, seems like destroying written history might be a learned behavior, coulda happened to them too right?
I think 5000 yrs is a blip of human existence. We’ve been here so much longer. Is it so hard to believe,with the amount of civilizations antiquity? The date keeps getting pushed back and will continue to until it is our turn to be discovered and are just another civilization included with the Maya,Aztec and Olmec. Only we will be the most recent civilization without comparable rock work to the most ancient. Human history is not linear. It’s full of partial and complete resets. If a cataclysm happened tomorrow,what would be left of us that could come close the ancient stone workings? I can think of Mt. Rushmore and that is nothing compared to Giza or South American construction.
Cool video Luke…get us some core samples on those “carved” heads🤔 more likely to happen in S. America than Egypt. Food for thought: I know a lot of chubby Philipinos, Samoans, Koreans…some of those heads look pretty close. Also that tomb you showed with elongated stones reminds me of the Basalt complex (I think in Indonesia) made of elongated stones you can only get to by boat…can’t remember the name. ✌🏼 keep it up!
Amazing Video! I really enjoyed the systematic structure of the video. I really feel like having a firm understanding about what we do know aswell as whats still not known about the olmecs. :) Btw i always wondered (maybe u could do a Video in that regard?): How does archeology even work? When someone says:"its believed to be from around ... bc." what are the most comon methods through wich experts try to understand and interpret their findings? When do experts themselves start speculating?
You ask a very excellent question to which the answer is constantly taken for granted by both academics & laymans alike. The answer is a pretty hefty one with regards to the methods archeologists use to understand & interpret their findings, since those methods actually span across dozens of fields, which unfortunately, no archeologist is actually an expert in themselves. Archeologist are pretty much only experts at locating & recovering said findings, and only the very best whom are able to set their ego aside actually rely heavily on experts in other fields to understand what they excavate. Fields such as geology, anthropology, linguistics, evolutionary biology, and so many more. Any archeologist who doesn't rely on such overlapping fields to explain their findings really shouldn't be trusted with conclusions. So, a good rule of thumb is that out of the 5 W's (and 1 H) of investigations - (Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How?) - the speculation in archeology almost always starts with the "Why", and sometimes includes the "Who" and the "How". The "What, When & Where" is usually pretty reliable and rarely speculative. Generally speaking, the older an excavation is, the more likely it is that the "Who, Why, & How" of an excavation is entirely speculation and void of objective evidence to back it up. Ancient Egyptian pyramids are a great example of this. No one argues about "What" the pyramids are (ancient structures built by someone), nor does anyone argue about where the pyramids are (in Egypt). But to this day, the "Who, When, Why and How" of the pyramids is hotly contested.
Those highly detailed jade figurines look similar what has been found in western - central China. I wouldn’t be surprised if Olmecs are related to Polynesian people. DNA would help to map the history.
I don't know if you read these comments , my uncle Jorge ,has so much knowledge about Olmecs , but he only speaks Spanish, if you are interested in somehow talk to him about it , I could help you , he's 84 years old
Hey guys, I hope you like these longer in-depth lectures. They take a tremendous amount of time to research, write, film & edit-I do all of it myself & it would help my channel so much if you just hit “Like👍” or subscribe if you’re new! Thank you!🏛
Personally, I'm way more interested overall in longer, more in-depth content. Short videos are fine, but I listen to various lectures throughout the day (and to relax before sleep) so I have more time to pay attention.
@@MrBrachiatingApethis is great to know. Thank you. Most people know me from my short videos on social media, but I think these in-depth videos would be a good contrast to that.
I also have always preferred lectures that I can turn on & listen to multiple times
Great job, love the Indiana Jones style jacket. Keep it up
I do
This is expected from a young dude like you, good use of filler words but research the subject more before you push your empty rubbish out
I have lived and worked in Nicaragua doing archaeology. It drives me insane how people in my field of work are so scared to go against the narrative. I've stood on top of an island in the middle Lake Nicaragua where, sometime in the distant past, someone carved into the bedrock the story of the Polpol Vuh. There were vast, extensive trading routes who were distributing goods, services, languages, and religious ideals all over the American continents. But mainstream theory is like this: humans will travel 100's of miles to build something, meanwhile never interacting with ANYONE OR ANYTHING else. Take the Vedic texts on the building of Rama's Bridge. It is stated that he used 10,000 monkey men to build it. In my opinion, monkey men equals denisovan or neanderthal. Look at how they are depicted in school today: dumbass grunting, spear chucking knuckle draggers 😂
Wrong
People were turned into monkeys at the end of the 2nd Sun, according to the Aztec. So there probably were monkey men around.
@@religionoffreedom Of course there were! We had Neanderthals, Denisovans, Australopithecus, and my favorite The Hobbit, homo Hobilis. So realistically, if we were to see these people today that's how we could classify them within a derogatory sense.
@@sempi8159 how? Please explain
@@salty82ndveteran every part of the original comment is wrong
Great work Luke. I caught you on Forbidden Frontier and was fascinated by what you had to say. As an Irish man that 20 years ago somehow found himself at University with the Chippewa/Sioux/Lakota people in North Dakota learning Mesoamerican anthrolpology I've always had an interest. Keep up the good work!
Recent DNA show they have no African bloodline with them study from Oxcaca and Veracruz state of mexico
DNA evidence can be fabricated, your using, fake reasoning. Negroid phenotyped, black people were in every part of the world, not only Africa.
Long form presentations are my favorites. Lecture away
At your command sir🫡
Fascinating as Eqypt is, it is being covered. Central and South America need more coverage and you're not afraid to do it.
My family is from one of the regions of where the olmec heads/sites are found and we resemble the Olmec heads YET we aren’t black lol. All you have to do is travel to that region and you’ll see their actual ancestors alive today.
@Nin10dofan8 saludos desde tejas 👍
Genetic studies say you're wrong and none of your intrusive and dishonest meddling in other people's history can change that. Black people only came to this continent in other people's ships, below decks...in chains.
@@janthony2390there’s literally been genetic testing they were not African and you’re trying to steal another peoples culture
@@janthony2390they weren’t African there’s been genetic testing stop trying to steal culture
@@janthony2390
Get help
I would watch this even if it was 8 hours long, great work 👍
They look Samoan. Polynesians were probably the greatest navigators in ancient times, they didn't hug coastlines, but shot straight out to sea. There are food similarities between the South Sea people and the early Americans.
I agree. The statuettes at 4:48 do look Polynesian
They look like Brothers!!!
The olmecs were not Polynesian but indigenous to Mexico. Stop taking away culture.
@@StompingRabbitstoo much craftsmanship & entirely too much work to produce them. They’re South Pacific.
@@KEK-dd4iu There's absolutely nothing wrong with hypothesizing the origins of world populations, it's part of the difficult process of establishing the history and identity of various people and tracing migration routes, trade routes and the ethnic make-up of our ancestors. Nobody's taking anything from you.
Love the long form content, keep up the great work! Can’t wait to learn more
Great video Luke, keep them coming. I started to learn of the Olmecs about three years ago when it seemed everyone was talking about the Mayans. I'm heading to Veracruz in November to learn about the Olmecs and the Totonacas. It seems to me there is a connection...
Fascinating video! Thanks Luke, keep up the good work.
the lost knowledge is a sad commentary on christianity and authoritarian rule.
The longer form vids like this are great, keep it up!
Loved your appearance on Forbidden Frontier and subbed in the middle of that episode. I love your videos, I can't wait for more!
Please keep up these longer and most informative presentations! I’m loving it!
I'm really liking all be Olmec content, just would be nice to see longer videos, or a podcast too would be ideal 😊. Keep up the good work.
This is amazing and as an avid historian esp to ancient civilizations and this is the first time seeing the jade pieces and elongated people sculptors. So amazing!
Im Indian-American and i've always been so infatuated by Mexico and Mesoamerica. I love learning about their shared history, from the Tikal-Calakmul wars, to the rise of the Nahua kingdoms in Nicaragua and El Salvador, its such a fascinating and rich history. And about the Olmecs, I theorize that their head gear was made of leather because not only was it used extensively throughout Mesoamerica but its also very strong and durable. It also explains why Olmec head gear has never been excavated or found in any burial sites because leather's biodegradable so therefore decomposes. Either way fascinating stuff, great video, and much love to the Mesoamerican nations 🇮🇳❤🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇸🇻
i was thinking i bet those hats were made of rubber. can't believe they were just using it to make balls, must have used it for all sorts of things
feathers ....
Those are your ancient ancestors.
@@sceptic33They were made of rubber and feathers
@princesspriya_98 Mexico,Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala were one. They were Ānāhuac.
Luke, another great video. Yes, 30 minute long form is good, BTW, we met briefly at the Cosmic Summit and you had a great presentation. Can't wait to see your videos stemming from your next big trip and future trips with the Snake Bros into the Belize jungle.
Can you recommend any books or papers about the Olmecs? I find them fascinating but hard to find current literature on them. Thanks for doing this video.
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Read the Book of Ether in the Book of Mormon. Before 2000 BC people led by inspiration from Tower of Babel to the Americas. As for physical evidence that remains to be seen, but I believe it will be soon.
The reason why the Olmec and Göbekli Tepe buried their structures was because they knew a cataclysm was coming and they were trying to pass their civilization on to us to give us a head start.
No my friend. The great mudfloid is why they are buried
Horseshit.
The idea that ancient people A. knew a cataclysm was coming, B. thought about future civilizations, C. Wanted to preserve their culture for us and D. were concerned with giving us a head-start is absolutely batshit crazy. The people of Gobekli Tepe were highly intelligent and industrious people who were still struggling out of the stone-age when the site was originally built, they were not characters out of a bad science-fiction novel and to spread falsehoods about them only obscures their actual accomplishments. This tendency to reframe every archaeological and anthropological discovery in the language and imagery of pseudoscientists and conmen is not "cool" or progressive or creative or revealing, it's lazy and misleading and, quite frankly, STUPID. The worst part is that you freely share this in an authoritative manner that gives the impression you are privy to inside information or that this is seriously considered valued information by anyone with half a brain. Anyway, if you're as well-informed as you pretend, explain to me why you haven't heard the recent research that determined that the site was buried because it's on the side of a hill and over the years rain and erosion has washed tons of dirt down the hillside and deposited it on the ruins...
Love the video! Were-Jaguars sound rad 😎, and I find it super interesting that so many cultures share a similar myth (werewolves, skin walkers, etc).
Also, I would love for you to add some context in future videos on how archaeologists date these megalithic structures. While I’m not well versed in archaeology, I’m a little skeptical that archaeologists can give an accurate date to these buried Olmec heads. I understand that things like fossils can be accurately dated based on the geological layers that they’re wedged in between, but I just don’t understand how someone could accurately date a big rock buried under some topsoil.
Unbelievable I have no words… I just can’t believe how that was even made.. unreal.. wow
Who needs super hero movies when we have Luke caverns!
Keep going man, you’re doing awesome!
Those columns remind me of that island that was created with bocks
Gunung Padang 👍
Great video Luke - lots of new information on the Olmec. Thank You.
This is the most comprehensive, well researched and documented, intelligent, and interesting presentation on the Olmecs I have listened to. Thank you for your research and expertise, and for your fact-based information. Keep on making these!
Found my way here from Nerdrotic and the Forbidden Frontier podcast. This was a great video, Ancient America fascinates me because its history was destroyed so relatively recently. I'm looking forward to all the new information you uncover.
Could the depiction of were jaguars have been inspired by cleft lips? For example, like how certain birthmarks might designate you as an astronomer, a cleft lip might designate you as being a were jaguar?
Thanks!! Loved it! Even seen new things I didn't knew!👍😘
Well done young Indy 🙌
Stoked I found you on Nerdrotic's Forbidden Frontiers. Keep up with the quality content!
great work on the video, turned on notifications!!! definitely looking forward to more content!
This guy is going to change history, and its about time
Long form is perfect! I JUST DONT UNDERSTAND WHY i was not notified about your newest videos..thx,Luke!
Thank you for the info i never knew about the megalithic stone columns
Any collaborative trips with the snakes or Ben from uncharted? That’s be epic!
I just got here but why is bro wearing a leather jacket indoors? Must be an internet Indiana jones
There is a site in Massachusetts called burnt Hill that resemble the basalt pillar site
Y’all keep thinking they used welf to build this stuff but it could be them worshiping and not being paid
Wealth is needed to feed the people and organize.
Love the work you're doing. It's high quality and touching intresting topics. Love from Canada!
This was great. I prefer long form. Probably the best Olmec video I've seen. Very high quality work
#wewuzkangz
#WeWuzVikings!! Now we'z inbred Trumpsters.
You're doing great! Just relax a little, have fun, you have the knowledge and passion. Just shoe us the fun you have, let us in a little
thank you for this. I want to be respected as a professional & an educator, but I really am a very casual person. It's a super tough line to balance. I'll work on cutting loose a bit more
They made omlets in the 1500s. Thanks for this info
I enjoy the long videos. The more interesting new information the better!
Great Jacket was my instant thought upon the opening of the video.
So, great jacket. I would wear that in a second.
Great video, thanks for the very interesting information! I appreciate the long format, keep up the super work!!! 🎉🎉🎉
The Moai in Easter island were huge heads… at first… then they kept digging… and unearthed the entire statue.. in any case, my theory is they used cymatic sound vibration to use the stones and the isotopic properties of a he stone may give clues to what purpose they served… whether it be energetic conductors for power along the lay line grid, or even super computer.. Polynesian people also don’t grow body hair
The burials of monuments of the olmecs would make more sense if it were to hide the identity by the new settlers.
Very comprehensive investigation of the Olmecs
Keep in mind its all Pre-flood. Even Egypt was found under sand/water that were still digging up.
Your episode on Danny Jones was awesome! Just subbed. Def going to watch your stuff
Keep it up , you are going to be huge one day
It's worth considering that they knew that their was a catastrophe coming so they barried their sacred tuff to protect them
I’m glad you brought up the Phoenicians. They said they traveled the Atlantic and found a crescent harbor with a mighty river just like the Nile, running through a vast plain surrounded by mountain ranges on each side.
If they were referring to America then there are a couple clues I’ve come across.
First are the Phoenician type ships carved on rocks at the copper mines in Lake Michigan.
Interestingly, the incredible amount of copper that was mined from the island and smelted where we find the boat carvings, all seemed to happen as Eurasia entered the Bronze Age.
Another interesting find is the large river they spoke of and called it a new or 2nd nile
Back then the Nile was referred to as the “river isis”
A new or 2nd “river isis could be the “IsisIsis” river or “Mississippi river”
This is a theory of mine and also the different flags around the Caribbean that use the crescent moon just as the Mediterranean areas.
😮oh wow! This makes so much sense. 👏
@@blessingsflow8648 thanks. Glad someone else can understand what I've noticed.
I've been looking into our ancient civilizations for over a decade now and you would be shocked at how much academia keeps hidden from us but openly discusses amongst each other.
Or they will quietly publish papers without spreading awareness.
Here's a topic that's consider pseudoscience amongst mainstream academics.
Any mention of pre Columbian contact with the western hemisphere (minus the Erickson expeditions as that has become more mainstream)
Here's an example of evidence of contact that would get criticized but is well known amongst some linguist, archeologist, anthropologist, academics ect.
The Tunica Indians of the Louisiana, Mississippi areas, have over 500 words that are pronounced the same and have the same meanings as those that occupied Egypt 4,000 years ago.
Majority of those words are associated with trade.
Why hide that knowledge?
@@MJIZZEL Seems they hide ancient and modern truth whenever it leads to proof of Jesus the Christ.
This is a much more coherent theory than most you'll see here and the connection you made between Isis and Mississippi is fucking amazing! 30:04
@@waynemyers2469 thanks for the acknowledgement.
The academic stranglehold on the truth, about the populating of the America's; will get out soon.
Just how today, clovis first is beinged challenged.
I've only spoken of a few of my findings here but there is much more.
Like the lie of the naming of America. Vespucci started calling himself Amerigo, AFTER America was first named.
The name comes from the God of the Amaru tribe, Amaruca, and it means, "Land of the feathered serpent".
Many tribes of northeast Canada are sadly extinct today, but even though they introduced the repatriation act to suppress any anomalous findings, we did get a good look at the genetic makeup of those tribes and they were more linked genetically to the people of Europe and East Asia than they were to the indigenous American Natives.
Their dna had concentrations of the Rhesus negative gene that's found in higher concentrations in north Africa and the Mediterranean areas and was introduced by Cro magnon man over 30k years ago.
The bog mummies, the caves in Central America, the 30k year old remains in the Carolinas, all showed genetic affinity with Europeans.
The conquistadors in the 1500's came across a tribe of Caucasian looking people in the mountains in south America. They wrote that they had blonde and red hair prevalent and lived primitavely and were all very tall with very beautiful women, and yet chose to fight along side the Spaniards.
There's even evidence of the Chinese treasure ships reaching America.
You’ve inspired me to look at Guatemala for my next trip. What are three must see complexes?
Tikal, El Mirador & then hop over into Belize to see Xunantunich!🌴
@@lukecaverns Is two days at Tikal for a decent once over?
Wow, I had no idea about the turban dude carving!!
Amazing! Would love if you did a video on the mysterious Beni culture in Bolivia.
In my opinion the “plumed” serpent quetzalcoatl to the olmecs was actually a volcano. With columnar basalt looking like the scales of a snake from above. I think they had some kind of method to cast the basalt.
Bravo, very best doc I have ever seen on the Olmecs. Smart ebough to say we dont know. A bit too much "religious structures" which is the default for anything archeologists dont understand.
You did miss how Olmec heads are suspected to depict the same chatacter in different stages of life.
Interesting wrinkle. The coverage of the physics behind transporting the stones by raft was refreshing as an arxhirect and engineer, it drives me mad when they gloss over how logistically impossible their transportation theories actually are. 👍
Those columns look like the same material as the site where ancients built an artificial island
Nope! The people that live in these areas now didn’t build any of these structures.
What do the people that lived there then build now 😂
Thoth said he brought the Omlec people and rubber trees from Africa
Bullshit.
Thoth always was a liar and a scoundrel.
Goofy
Great stuff man keep up the good work 😁
Absolutely! New video next week over Megalithic South America 🏛
Fab work Luke 🤓
You don't need written context to kno what is taking place. What is taking place is not rellevant but instead who are the characters. Are they uniformly dressed? do they look the same? What order are they arranged? What are they wearing? What geographic location can be associated with the appearance of each character? Thsese are the important questions to help shed light to the big picture
Oh, and i have coconuts that I dug out of SANDSTONE: its strange because I grew up in Oklahoma! The paleobotanist at the University of Oklahoma believes that I am lying about their context and origin...
I think there may be some evidence of Phoenicians in America. It is my understanding that a Phoenician shipwreck found in the Mediterranean Sea was found to be carrying high quality copper that is unique to a copper mine located in what is now Michigan . They were excellent ship builders with excellent materials and aren’t recognized enough for their sailing skills. We know they were in Britain and South Africa. Easy to see how one could ship of the 1000”s of expeditions could have been blown off course and landed on a piece of land that stretches from the bottom of the world to the top continuously.
People been trading worldwide befor they needed boats to do it. They were trading before the continents divided. Then after the divide they started shipping items the world has changed so much in a much shorter time them most realize.
@@mattmatt6572 this is completely false, continental drift took tens of millions of years to separate the continents and early in the process, when it may have been possible to travel between the land-masses by foot or smal boats there were NO humans.
The problem is that we know the Phoenicians got their copper from Cyprus where there are extensive copper mines even now, also, try-as-I-might I could find nothing about a Phoenician shipwreck with Michigan copper onboard.
Funny the continental divide was recorded by humans in history about 2500 years ago.
@@mattmatt6572 You're right, that is funny. I'll bite though, give a citation, ANY citation and I'll research it.
Saw you on the Danny Jones podcasts today and loved it, I would love to see you on the lex fridman podcast.
Great information, brother. You're a great researcher.
The volcanic structure is interesting . I can only think of Nan Madol and one more that use this building technique. :O)
It seems people forget that even today, the greatest and weirdest things we make, are for art. Humans have always been like this.
18:00 i also want to point out that the calc for floating weight is grossly wrong.
You dont need to displace much water to carry weight.... actually surprisingly little as water is really heavy.
We definitely like long videos! 👏🏻
I think it's possible that the Olmecs were also wiped out by viruses introduced by visitors from another continent before it happened again when the spaniards came later on.
Could it be possible that it's being suppressed knowledge
@@chiefkeef8936 There's no ''suppressed knowledge'', the ones saying that loudly, people like Graham Hancock, allows them to make up absurdities and get rich selling books, get paid for interviews, conferences, or tv specials. We simply don't know because not enough information made it through the ages and faded away. The suppression happens on it's own through time.
They're Children are still here in Mexico,.....Not wiped out at all,....
Why did you leave out the fact that most of the heads had BRAIDED hair?!?!
Even the vikings had braid
@Nin10dofan8try to steal people’s culture
Because they didn't have braided hair...but I know what you're trying to do: culturally appropriate meso-American history...
Braiding hair? lol Polynesians far surpassed braiding hair.
Your channel will explode with videos like this. FYI
How do we not know the buried items were not because of an internal low destruction revolution.
Like your Indiana Jones outfit
Just found your channel.
Great content and story telling or "history telling".
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I thought they were Polynesian decedent, not African
There was no african connection. All evidence points to Asian and possibly Polynesian and Eurasian contribution.
They were clearly west Africans. Stay in denial of the African greatness all you want to. Polynesians doesn't even claim to have those features.
@@Kevin.e.Turnerthey literally do lmao
@@Kevin.e.Turnerwe wud kangz n shiet but now we claim other cultures as our own cuz we ain’t shiet
@@Kevin.e.TurnerAfrican greatness? If Africa is so great why do Africans spend so much time trying to steal other people's history, accomplishments and culture? I mean, come-on, choose one, are you African, meso-American, Egyptian, Carthaginian, Hebrew, Ainu, Chinese, Viking, Irish, Atlantean, Alien or what??! Grow-up, read a book.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the tenon heads of The Primal Diety all over Teo. Tenon heads only found there, Chavin de Huantar & Tiwanaku.
Wow! Absolutely fascinating!
Many of these ancient cultures used building material from other spots than where they were going to build. There must be different materials in the stone from place to place. There have been studies done but has anyone done a complete investigation and compared all properties from each site? Usual stuff like electrical, mass etc. :O)
25:37 Looks a lot like the egyptian god Osiris. and the story goes that he traveld across the sea to give people the knowledge of the civilization before. Edit: look at he flag he has 25:47.very common in egyptian hieroglyphs.
Loved this, but do we know for sure they had no written language? You mentioned boo burning, seems like destroying written history might be a learned behavior, coulda happened to them too right?
I think 5000 yrs is a blip of human existence. We’ve been here so much longer. Is it so hard to believe,with the amount of civilizations antiquity? The date keeps getting pushed back and will continue to until it is our turn to be discovered and are just another civilization included with the Maya,Aztec and Olmec. Only we will be the most recent civilization without comparable rock work to the most ancient. Human history is not linear. It’s full of partial and complete resets. If a cataclysm happened tomorrow,what would be left of us that could come close the ancient stone workings? I can think of Mt. Rushmore and that is nothing compared to Giza or South American construction.
Cool video Luke…get us some core samples on those “carved” heads🤔 more likely to happen in S. America than Egypt.
Food for thought: I know a lot of chubby Philipinos, Samoans, Koreans…some of those heads look pretty close. Also that tomb you showed with elongated stones reminds me of the Basalt complex (I think in Indonesia) made of elongated stones you can only get to by boat…can’t remember the name. ✌🏼 keep it up!
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@@rustydogrustydog9191 oh, I didn’t know there were still Olmecs around…thank you for sharing your ancient wisdom.
Have a great day!😳
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You’re welcome
That's amazing! Cool video, thank you!
Amazing Video! I really enjoyed the systematic structure of the video. I really feel like having a firm understanding about what we do know aswell as whats still not known about the olmecs. :)
Btw i always wondered (maybe u could do a Video in that regard?): How does archeology even work? When someone says:"its believed to be from around ... bc." what are the most comon methods through wich experts try to understand and interpret their findings? When do experts themselves start speculating?
You ask a very excellent question to which the answer is constantly taken for granted by both academics & laymans alike. The answer is a pretty hefty one with regards to the methods archeologists use to understand & interpret their findings, since those methods actually span across dozens of fields, which unfortunately, no archeologist is actually an expert in themselves. Archeologist are pretty much only experts at locating & recovering said findings, and only the very best whom are able to set their ego aside actually rely heavily on experts in other fields to understand what they excavate. Fields such as geology, anthropology, linguistics, evolutionary biology, and so many more. Any archeologist who doesn't rely on such overlapping fields to explain their findings really shouldn't be trusted with conclusions. So, a good rule of thumb is that out of the 5 W's (and 1 H) of investigations - (Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How?) - the speculation in archeology almost always starts with the "Why", and sometimes includes the "Who" and the "How". The "What, When & Where" is usually pretty reliable and rarely speculative. Generally speaking, the older an excavation is, the more likely it is that the "Who, Why, & How" of an excavation is entirely speculation and void of objective evidence to back it up. Ancient Egyptian pyramids are a great example of this. No one argues about "What" the pyramids are (ancient structures built by someone), nor does anyone argue about where the pyramids are (in Egypt). But to this day, the "Who, When, Why and How" of the pyramids is hotly contested.
@@Cynical_Finch very enlighting. Thanks for elaborating! :)
Hurrah! A new, long video!
Gracia primo. Well done. Still much work ahead
Those highly detailed jade figurines look similar what has been found in western - central China.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Olmecs are related to Polynesian people. DNA would help to map the history.
You guys have the date all mixed up!
In both cases, the sites were buried to protect them from cataclysmic destruction
Horseshit.
Great video & info!!!
I don't know if you read these comments , my uncle Jorge ,has so much knowledge about Olmecs , but he only speaks Spanish, if you are interested in somehow talk to him about it , I could help you , he's 84 years old
Billy carson can tell you how they moved those stones around 😂