Normally I pay little attention to the “It must be Aliens” guy when he’s on some show. I tunes in just before I was going to turn in for the night, so I did not catch the name of the piece, and did not stay up to see the end - just part of one short segment.
In this segment, Giorgio visits a white haired guy excavating one of Malta’s Megalithic sites and asks questions. (There was more to both the questions and answers - I give what I remember here.)
The first is, “What do you make of all these stone balls lying around?” The guy says, “They fit into the holes in the blocks to allow them to move without falling when there is an earthquake.”
Giorgio asks, “What do you think happened to these people?”
Giorgio asks about the “Fat ladies” (Venus figurines). The inference made here is they are very similar to those found in various Upper Paleolithic sites from 35,000 years ago. The unanswered question is: how could such a cult persist over 10s of thousands of years, if these Maltese sites are as recent as orthodox archeology claims?
The man answers, “They were washed away in the Flood.” Here, Giorgio asks when it might have happened in his opinion. The man says that these structures are similar in construction to Gobekli Tepe which recent digs turned up associated skeletons which no longer have any carbon remaining to be dated - making them and the Maltese sites over 30,000 years old and the period in which the man seems to think that the Flood happened - or at least I think that was what was implied.
After some more questions and answers - no mention of Aliens, thankfully, Giorgio proceeds to ask if the man knows anything about the cone heads he has heard were found here.
The man tells him that, prior to WWII when the site was originally excavated, there were hundreds of them found in a burial chamber. They were removed and stored, but during the war they were destroyed in the bombing. However, a few were moved to the local museum and survive.
Following directions, Giorgio goes to the obscure, out of the way, very small museum. There does not seem to be must of interest in the modest displays. Giorgio finds the curator and asks to see the cone heads. She takes him into the storage area and displays them. There are only six or so remaining; they were either displayed for a short while in years past or never displayed - I don’t remember.
We see the misshapen skulls, one or two being more pumpkin shaped than cone skulls. Other than the shape, all but one seem normal. However, one skull has only one growth ridge instead of the normal two.
Giorgio asks what has been learned about them. The curator says they have never been studied.
I didn’t learn if the cone heads were associated with the building of the stone structures or were buried before or after they were constructed.
We are told about how common cone heads were in antiquity and a cultural ‘statement’ still practiced today in remote places.
We hear NOTHING from Giorgio abut Aliens. But it was the best interview I have ever seen the man do.
Thought you might find this tidbit interesting ...
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Thanks, he is one of my guilty pleasures. :’) Interesting additional info about the skulls.
Incidentally, the Goblekli Tepe site construction looks almost nothing like the Maltese sites; also, radiocarbon dating is good out to 50,000 years, not 30,000, and the GT site has been successfully RC dated. the old white haired guy was either full of crap, or unqualified, or both.
> The best dates available so far for Göbekli Tepe stem from charcoal samples of short-lived plants. Two dates for Enclosure A settle in the late 10th and early 9th millennium calBC (Kromer and Schmidt 1998), but they could also indicate the use of older fill material. The last intrusions in the big enclosures can be dated by a charcoal sample found under a fallen pillar fragment in Enclosure A to the middle of the 9th millennium (Dietrich, in press).
