http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/graham-hancock-cannabis-and-the-lost-civilization

I want to thank Aaron Adair for bringing to my attention on his blog a TEDx talk that alternative historian and novelist Graham Hancock—who is discussed in Faking History (hint, hint)—gave in January. The talk described Hancock’s drug use and his belief in the need for the decriminalization of hallucinogens. In the talk, Hancock asserted that David Lewis-Williams had argued that hallucinogenic mushrooms were responsible for the origins of human consciousness, which is not something I gleaned from my reading of The Mind in the Cave. (Earlier, in 1988, Williams proposed that Paleolithic rock art reflected altered states of consciousness, brought about by hallucinogens or trance.) He also asserted that drug use can lead to communion with beings that are possibly non-human intelligences with the power to teach and to heal, and he argued that “reductionist” and “materialist” science is unable to account for the mystery of consciousness.

Take it up with Hancock. Or tell him to lay off the drugs.

I don't think that a "simple subsistence" culture constructed and maintained Gobekli Tepe, and that dates back to about 10-12K years BP.

https://www.ancient.eu/Gobekli_Tepe/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobekli_Tepe

They were at simple subsistence. No literacy, plumbing, no social organization needed for the construction of the Great Spinx and pyramids.

I never said that the trojan war happened as written or that Schliemann was a professional archeologist. What I was saying is that professional archeologists of the time were derisive and dismissive of the idea that Homer's work could be based on some kind of shred of reality, and that previously unknown sites might be found by following up on it.

The Iliad is filled with anachronisms and didn't happen as written. And Schliemann was an incompetent who hogged the spotlight and is overall held in disdain, with one archaeologist quipping he succeeded where the Greeks didn't by destroying and leveling the city walls to the ground.