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Joe Rogan Experience #2368 - Michael Button

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Deep Time Mysteries: Debunking the Conventional Timeline of Human Civilization

Discover why recent archaeological evidence—from ancient wooden structures to unexpected human remains—challenges the accepted timeline of civilization and human intelligence.

Short Summary

  • Uncover evidence suggesting sophisticated human intelligence and permanent settlement existed hundreds of thousands of years before current academic consensus.
  • Analyze paradigm-shifting artifacts, such as the 476,000-year-old Kalambo structure, used to question established milestones like the Neolithic Revolution.
  • Examine why established academic systems resist new evidence, demonstrated by historical pushback against findings like those at Clovis First and Göbekli Tepe.

Michael Button shares how his study of ancient history led him to question the mainstream narrative regarding the origin and depth of human civilization. This discussion focuses heavily on the "preservation problem"—the likelihood that vast amounts of evidence from older, complex cultures have been naturally erased by geological time scales. Together, they explore geological evidence, potential cataclysms, and the cognitive biases that maintain rigid historical timelines.

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Michael Button is a YouTuber whose videos investigate mysteries in ancient history. https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelButton1 Unlock yourself at https://join.WHOOP.com/jre for one month free Get anything delivered on Uber Eats. https://ubereats.com

Top Comments (10)

@Morbid90 2025-08-20

If you listen closely, you can hear Flint Dibble yelling in the parking lot.

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@UnchartedX 2025-08-20

Thanks for the shout out! looking forward to coming on the show soon here and getting into the Labyrinth and other mysteries of Egypt and elsewhere :)

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@MichaelButton1 2025-08-20

Thank you so much Joe! What a fun conversation! 😎

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@daveyt86 2025-08-20

When i dont know the guest i click on the more button for a description of the guest. I get the biggest smile when its anything to do with ancient history

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@betterchapter 2025-08-20

I read once that the arrogance of the present is forgetting the intelligence of the past.

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@jaywhoisit4863 2025-08-23

If you look at the Roman ruins in the UK particularly, there are entire cities that no longer exist. Trenches , walls, pottery shards, armor and clothing, all decayed to the point where we can’t even locate some of the mapped outposts. That was only 2000 years ago.

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@sokker86 2025-08-29

There are two things I learned from this video. We're older than we've been told. Apparently, there's a person named Flint Dibble who's losing his shit somewhere for some reason.

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@Auctoritas_I 2025-08-23

I feel like I’ve had this entire conversation in a strangers kitchen at 4am 😂

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@ProbationOfficer 2025-08-20

Flint Dibble with his Temu Indiana Jones hat! 😅🤣😂

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@AngryOscillator 2025-10-07

End of this video MichaelButton1 - 86k subs A month later MichaelButton1 - 140k subs Much deserved

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