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Alternative Chronologies
Conventional chronology is built on a set of interlocking assumptions — radiocarbon dating, stratigraphy, historical records, astronomical back-calculation — …
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Browse our major areas of inquiry into anomalous and contested prehistory.
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Ancient Mythology & Flood Traditions
Flood myths appear in virtually every culture on Earth. The Epic of Gilgamesh predates the Biblical flood narrative by over a thousand years and describes a …
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Ancient Structures & Megalithic Sites
The existence of Göbekli Tepe alone is enough to rewrite the standard narrative of prehistoric human capability. Built around 9600 BCE by hunter-gatherers — at …
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Archaeoastronomy
The Antikythera mechanism — a geared bronze computer recovered from a Roman-era shipwreck — could predict lunar and solar eclipses, model the irregular motion …
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Catastrophism & Mass Extinction Events
The dominant model of Earth’s deep past has long been gradualism — the idea that change happens slowly, over millions of years, through steady incremental …
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Forbidden Archaeology
The term “forbidden archaeology” — popularized by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson’s 1993 book of the same name — refers to archaeological …
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Human Origins & Migration
The Out of Africa model — the idea that anatomically modern humans emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago and migrated outward, replacing earlier hominid …
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Lost Civilizations
The standard model of human civilization places its origins around 5,000–6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Before that: hunter-gatherers, simple tools, …