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2012 Archaeology

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

2012 archaeology
Archeology, history channel TV shows, and indigenous peoples?

I’m watching National Geographic: Dawn of the Maya, and I was struck by the fact that they talk about Mayans as if they were ancient people that don’t exist any more. According to Wikipedia’s “Mayan Peoples” wiki (really reliable source, right? lol) there are about 7 million Mayan people living today. In fact, I have also met a Mayan elder who knew oral traditions.

This led me to a question: Why, in so many exploration and archeology shows, do they never seem to ask the indigenous people about their histories? Even with people’s beliefs in 2012 being the end of the world, mostly all you see are people who are not Mayan speaking about the Mayan calendar and beliefs. Why not talk to a Mayan elder? What’s going on here?

The producers won’t like the answer.

As example, how do you feel about 21 October? That’s when the world will end remember? Previously it was 21 May but the guy made a math error. Perhaps 90% of the “indigenous people” will think it’s so much bunk. That doesn’t make for a good TV show.

The majority of the shows that appear on topics such as 2012, Bermuda Triangle, Nostradamus and such have the same script. There’s a lot of “what if?” head shops of proponents and a conclusion that ends with “We will have to wait for…” If it’s a search for a creature such as Bigfoot, you have to wait to the end of the last commercial before learning that the test results didn’t work or the camera just recorded a known critter, etc.

Skeptics are shown but get short shift After all if the brutal gang of facts beats up the beautiful theory, where’s the show? It’s over in the first 5 minutes.

Barry Kemp speaks about Amarna