Maritime Archaeology, Metacomet’s War, & a DAN shock in South America | #67 Sam Urban

Did ancient humans cross oceans 50,000 years ago? Sam Urban, known online as Illegitimate Scholar, joins the show to dive deep into the overlooked world of maritime archaeology and what it reveals about early human seafaring. From ancient dugout canoes and obsidian trade networks to the cultural clashes between English settlers and Algonquian tribes, this episode challenges mainstream narratives and explores how much history may be missing beneath the waves. We also discuss what modern archaeology gets wrong, how Graham Hancock’s ideas hold up, and why we don’t have physical evidence of the world’s oldest boats—yet.
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Episode Links:
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/74/1/12/7479881
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X25000525?via%3Dihub
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00438243.2023.2172072#abstract
https://www.elakhaalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Erlandsonetal.KelpHighwayinJICA.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336408031_Fladmark_40_What_Have_We_Learned_about_a_Potential_Pacific_Coast_Peopling_of_the_Americas
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230777811_Anatomically_modern_humans_maritime_voyaging_and_the_Pleistocene_colonization_of_the_Americas\

Timeline:
00:00:00 - Introductions
00:06:53 - Iron Pigs
00:13:06 - King Philip & the Algonquians
00:41:39 - Ongka's Big Moka
00:47:18 - 50,000-Year-old Boats
01:18:59 – Who gets the evidence wrong?
01:24:48 - Cultural Anthropology
01:45:47 - Haplogroup DNA
02:02:01 - Closing