The peer reviewed paper published last year in Archaeological Prospection that claimed Gunung Padang in Indonesia is a 25k year old pyramid has now been retracted by the journal. As I noted at the time, the paper does not support its main claim. It doesn’t provide evidence that Gunung Padang is anything but a volcanic…
The problems with the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
Over the past year or so, the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) has gained a great deal of public visibility, first through Graham Hancock’s Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse, and just last week, through a profile by Zach St. George in the New York Times Magazine. The idea is that the cold snap, or rapid cooling,…