What podcasts say about Michael Button
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What Michael Button has said on podcasts
45 statements · 18 positive · 9 negative · 3 mixed · 15 neutral
- on Archaeology’s unresolved questionsNegativeAug 26, 2026· The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
Archaeology cannot currently answer three fundamental questions about human history.
“there are three huge questions that archeology cannot answer”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 3:45
New discoveries have undermined archaeology’s explanation for civilization’s near-simultaneous emergence.
“we no longer can answer that question in light of new discoveries”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 5:52
Archaeology no longer knows how old human intelligence is.
“we don't have the answer anymore”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 6:47
Archaeology no longer knows when humans first reached isolated landmasses.
“we don't have the answer for that anymore”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 7:06
Civilization existed at least 12,000 years ago, earlier than the traditional 6,000-year timeline.
“we can now clearly say that it did exist 12,000 years ago rather than 6,000 years ago”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 12:10
Human intelligence may extend back more than one million years.
“stretches over a million years”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 12:51
Ancient cultures worldwide used psychoactive substances.
“it's clearly the case that ancient cultures, not just in South America but across the world, were using psychedelic substances”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 19:11
Taş Tepeler is the earliest known evidence of a civilization-like culture.
“Tashta Pela, which is in modern day Turkey, is the earliest evidence, in my view, of something akin to civilization”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 23:00
Recent excavations at Göbekli Tepe have found residential buildings.
“they're finding residential buildings at Gobekli Tepe now”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 24:02
Göbekli Tepe should receive special archaeological treatment because of its historical importance.
“Gobekli Tepe is a site that has such important ramifications for our understanding of civilization and the origins of civilization that it should receive special treatment”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 25:52
Evidence has doubled the accepted timeline for civilization from 6,000 to 12,000 years.
“the timeline of civilization, whatever you want to call it, has doubled from 6,000 years to 12,000 years”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 28:47
The oldest anatomically modern human fossils date to roughly 315,000–360,000 years ago.
“The oldest fossils we have of anatomically modern humans are 315 to 360,000 years old”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 33:18
Stone tools found on Sulawesi indicate humans reached the island over one million years ago.
“they were found on Sulawesi”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 36:50
Stone tools on Flores date to approximately 1.02 million years ago.
“they found stone tools there that are 1.02 million years old”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 37:51
Early humans most simply explain Southeast Asian island settlement by building boats.
“I think the simplest explanation is that these humans were intelligent enough to build boats”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 40:22
Deliberate million-year-old seafaring would demonstrate modern intelligence and social organization.
“if it was deliberate, which I think the evidence points towards, is a clear sign of what we call modern intelligence and organization”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 44:48
- on Ancient North American copper industryPositiveAug 26, 2026· The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
North America had a copper industry approximately 9,000 years ago.
“They had a whole copper industry in North America 9,000 years ago”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 45:43
- on Ancient North American copper industryNeutralAug 26, 2026· The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
Ancient North Americans abandoned copper production after practicing it for several thousand years.
“the evidence appears to show is that they did this for a few thousand years, but then they dropped it and they stopped doing it”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 46:51
Technological knowledge can be invented, abandoned, forgotten, and later rediscovered.
“people can invent something or discover something and then stop doing it and forget about it”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 49:16
A major prehistoric population decline removed approximately 95% of male bloodlines.
“around 6,000 years ago, basically all the men died”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 56:44
The transition to agriculture caused a major increase in human violence.
“violence did increase massively as we entered the kind of agricultural age”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 1:00:11
Most modern materials, except stone, degrade beyond recovery within several millennia.
“almost all our modern materials other than stone are gone in a few millennia”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 1:07:18
The Kalambo structure proves humans demonstrated modern intelligence roughly 476,000 years ago.
“we have completely undisputable evidence that human beings were this intelligent 500,000 years ago”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 1:07:56
A Chinese fossil suggests a human with a modern-sized brain lived one million years ago.
“a human with a modern sized brain, but that was found a million years ago”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 1:24:55
If the skull is Homo longi, the human lineage had diverged by one million years ago.
“that means that whatever became us had already diverged at that point”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 1:27:15
- on Neanderthals and early modern humansNeutralAug 26, 2026· The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
Homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthals and probably Denisovans.
“We definitely bred with Neanderthals and probably Denisovans and Neanderthals and Denisovans bred together as well”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 1:28:35
Modern human DNA indicates currently unidentified human populations existed.
“there's ghost populations in our DNA. We know we're missing humans”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 1:39:47
Humans occupied the Americas at least 22,000 years ago, based on White Sands footprints.
“now we know that humans have been in the Americas for at least 22,000 years with white sands footprints”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 1:41:44
Pedro Furada evidence has been dated to approximately 50,000–60,000 years ago.
“they dated that to like 50 or 60,000 years ago”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 1:43:44
Cerutti Mastodon evidence potentially dates human presence in America beyond 100,000 years ago.
“it's another little data point that pushes back human presence in the America potentially to over 100,000 years ago.”
Open the episode · #2546 - Michael ButtonListen at 2:06:15
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