If Past is Prologue: Jihad in the Jurassic

Jack Dempsey, Archaeology Chair at University of London, working with Brookings Institute and DOD, oversees the investigation of the demise of Neanderthal and the ascendency of Homo Sapien in the last millennium. He believes it bears remarkable similarity to the social and cultural practices of ISIS, Russian imperialism evident in their recapture of Crimea, the Holocaust, America's genocide of the Indigenous native Indian and the recurring facts of war characterizing the implacable assault of modern man on his own.
In the Nazcan desert of Peru, he sends a crack Archaeological team to study the giant Geoglyphs, 50 square miles of enormous rock and desert carvings made 15,000 years ago to understand how resource, religion and the rise of man's consciousness led to acts of barbarism and unnecessary killing no different than what we see today in Syria, Wall St, Boko Haram and the invasion of Iraq. Having discovered the unnecessary injustice of man's inhumanity to man, his team with dozens of other tourists is captured and held ransom by a band of local tribesmen who, ironically employ the same tools of power, asymmetric war and terror as we see most recently and with which we struggle daily in the apparent but now newly recognized brutality of ISIS, the Trade Towers, Asad's Syria, the impact of wealth and disenfranchisement in modern day America and practices of slavery as ubiquitous today as when early hominid first left the Rift valley in Africa and spread his descendants across the globe.