The scientist in the Joe Rogan interview is Flint Dibble, an archaeologist at Cardiff University specializing in ancient foodways, zooarchaeology, and Mediterranean prehistory. He appeared alongside Graham Hancock for a long debate on archaeology and ancient civilizations.

Dibble discusses early Neolithic and agricultural sites in Albania (e.g., Vashtëmi and the Southern Albania Neolithic Archaeological Project — SANAP), including evidence around ~6400 BC for some of Europe’s earliest farming communities.

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“This is from a project the very I was actually doing the flotation to collect the plants from this project, when I was a student and this is in Albania, directed by University of Cincinnati.

So these are the trenches that we excavated but this is one of the earliest agricultural sites in Europe from about 6,400 BC, and what’s really cool is we can see what this kind of introduction looks like. We see a full package introduced at the same time, we see multiple different domesticated plants, multiple different domesticated animals as well as new types of artefacts like stone tools and pottery of different types. Other than what the hunter gatherers were using there and so this is kind of a parallel.

This is where we see this transfer of technology is when agriculturalists spread out and they take a whole package with them we call it the Neolithic package right, and so that’s one of the key is we have Parallels for this and so when we go back to this sort of end of the Stone Age type period where we’re maybe looking for something like a seed bank.”

Sources

Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DL1_EMIw6w

Allen, Susan & Gjipali, Ilirjan & Karkanas, Panagiotis & Gardeisen, Armelle & Piquès, Gaël & Ruka, Rudenc & Tsartsidou, Georgia & Ruzi, Eugen. (2014). New Light on the Early Neolithic in Albania the Southern Albania: the southern Albania Neolithic archaeological project (SANAP), 2006-2013. Link.