#  @FlintDibble Flint Dibble 🍖🏺 Flint Dibble 🍖🏺 posts on X about youtube, civilization, history, greece the most. They currently have [---------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::2435509679/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] -78% - [--] Month [-------] -41% - [--] Months [---------] +246% - [--] Year [---------] -26% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::2435509679/posts_active)  - [--] Months [---] +44% - [--] Year [---] -46% ### Followers: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::2435509679/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.05% - [--] Month [------] +0.44% - [--] Months [------] +2.50% - [--] Year [------] +5.80% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::2435509679/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [stocks](/list/stocks) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [finance](/list/finance) [us election](/list/us-election) [musicians](/list/musicians) [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) **Social topic influence** [youtube](/topic/youtube), [civilization](/topic/civilization), [history](/topic/history) #2252, [greece](/topic/greece), [twitter](/topic/twitter), [egypt](/topic/egypt), [athens](/topic/athens), [$spot](/topic/$spot), [joe rogan](/topic/joe-rogan), [in the](/topic/in-the) **Top assets mentioned** [Spotify Technology (SPOT)](/topic/$spot) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/google) [Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER)](/topic/$uber) [Dave Inc. (DAVE)](/topic/$dave) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "@DrHanneke Not sure where they are getting data from. I only know evidence for population in detail for ancient Greece and they clearly get that one way wrong in terms of chronological trends (assuming our evidence from regional survey etc. relates well to population)" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1108769846731436033) 2019-03-21T16:38Z 42.5K followers, [--] engagements "@DrHanneke Nice (I was just trying to be clever)" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1108800703382913024) 2019-03-21T18:41Z 42.5K followers, [--] engagements "That's the Hydra. Hymenacles is the hymen who beheaded the Hydra x9" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1192379587373731840) 2019-11-07T09:53Z 42.2K followers, [--] engagements "I present to you all the democratic presidential candidates as goats Tulsi Gabbard is like that one horny goat penned with the sheep (pic by @pompei79)" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1206983792713441286) 2019-12-17T17:05Z 41.9K followers, [--] engagements "@Arnold_Platon @weare_notamused Yeah maybe similar to kokoretsi" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1251878142379245573) 2020-04-19T14:19Z 41.9K followers, [--] engagements "Describe your favorite archaeological site as boring as possible" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1280111245417418752) 2020-07-06T12:07Z 42.6K followers, [----] engagements "The oracular priestess (the Pythia) down in Delphi only gave prophecies 9x per year (on the 7th day after each new moon in spring summer & fall) If you couldnt get an audience with her Pans goatherd in the Korykian Cave could tell your future in a roll of the sacred bones /8" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1292441162779963392) 2020-08-09T12:42Z 41.5K followers, [---] engagements "But it was the Pythia who was the most famous prophetess of the ancient world. Shes the one the Athenians consulted when Persia invaded a second time Her oracle of wooden walls led Themistocles to protect the Athenians with their wooden navy while the city itself burned /9" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1292441166441582594) 2020-08-09T12:42Z 41.5K followers, [---] engagements "And the ancient Greek city-states knew this too The Athenians Spartans Macedonians & Romans knew that who controlled the oracle could control historys onward march. Wealthy monuments & votives were dedicated in Apollos honor There was no greater prize than the future /14" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1292441184074371077) 2020-08-09T12:42Z 41.5K followers, [---] engagements "But despite all these politics none doubted the Pythias ability to speak the future. The only questions for mortals was how to interpret her often cryptic replies For over a thousand years powerful and poor alike sought out an audience with the Pythia /15" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1292441187606044674) 2020-08-09T12:42Z 41.5K followers, [---] engagements "Take a load off and read about how the priestess at Pythia would get high on geological vapors and decide the political fate of the ancient Greek world ARCHAEOLOGY THREAD Apollos sanctuary at Delphi is the stuff of legends For over a thousand years the famous oracle foretold the futures and fortunes of the city-states and heroes of ancient Greece This thread explores whether she was stoned on geological vapors /1 https://t.co/l7nsd3eDX6 ARCHAEOLOGY THREAD Apollos sanctuary at Delphi is the stuff of legends For over a thousand years the famous oracle foretold the futures and fortunes of the" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1312463057524715524) 2020-10-03T18:42Z 41.5K followers, [---] engagements "@brennawalks Well humans have about [--] trillion cells so a dollar would buy about a hundred and fifty cells" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1348662133001756672) 2021-01-11T16:04Z 42.6K followers, [--] engagements "(J/k of course. Zooarchaeology is far more than just IDing a bone to species and anatomy. Plus I am sure I could break this tool with the little broken up bones I regularly ID)" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1435932350349811717) 2021-09-09T11:45Z 42.5K followers, [--] engagements "@JacquelynGill Hmmm. Tough A) Vegetation (multi proxy). 🪵💩 plus pollen cores B) CO. 🧊 C) Summer temps. Both 🪵🦪 D) Sea level. 🪸 perhaps some 🦪 can help based on species distribution E) Fire (). 🪵 F) Salinity maybe 🪰 & 🪸" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1557010487094771712) 2022-08-09T14:26Z 42.3K followers, [--] engagements "The ngram graphs for ancient astronaut and Ancient Aliens (all capitalizations allowed) track the popularity of Erich von Dnikens book/film Chariots of the Gods in the 70s & 80s as well as the recent uber popularity of @Historys Ancient Aliens /6" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1566871880497332224) 2022-09-05T19:32Z 42.2K followers, [--] engagements "But Ancient Aliens is just the tip of the iceberg From ley lines to the toxic alpha male to Flat Earth and crystal healing the last few decades an explosion in the popular use of pseudoscience terms in written English /7" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1566871883429167116) 2022-09-05T19:32Z 42.2K followers, [--] engagements "OK a detailed critique of the Homo Naledi burial paper will drop this weekend in honor of my dad" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1667250435026046981) 2023-06-09T19:20Z 42.5K followers, [----] engagements "Just gonna leave this here. Grab a scotch and share it with the authors" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1679268123415855105) 2023-07-12T23:43Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "Annoy an archaeologist in one tweet (Bonus if with image)" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1679839788147384323) 2023-07-14T13:06Z 42.5K followers, 100.5K engagements "I was told that my methods paper using GIS (geographical information systems) software to map cut marks on bones wasn't GIS because there wasn't any "geography" in it" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1681572980105543681) 2023-07-20T01:18Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "Just found out that this essay was the most read essay by a @cardiffuni scholar in the @conversationuk last year People are interested in real archaeology and will search for facts from experts if we provide them in an accessible and engaging manner" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1689628320772620289) 2023-08-10T13:22Z 30.2K followers, 11K engagements "Croesus was rich but he was totally not ruling class. It's about accurately interpreting oracles told by a stoned priestess" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1695406569297412544) 2023-08-26T12:03Z 41.4K followers, [----] engagements "Americans *genuinely* believe they have everything the best. They believe it because most don't travel internationally and everyone just says 'we're the best' Having lived in several countries I can confidently say that ranking cuisines is stupid. Fantastic food is everywhere" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1695704829216309248) 2023-08-27T07:48Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "Unlike Max I've read both the Iliad and Odyssey in ancient Greek and have developed a database comparing animals in ancient Greek texts to animals in archaeology. I've published on animal sacrificial ritual comparing Homeric scenes to archaeology All thanks to @EmilyRCWilson" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1695803828711338091) 2023-08-27T14:21Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "@EmilyRCWilson I've taught myth classes using Emily's translations Her translation 100% does justice to orig. Greek Her tireless advocacy on issues of feminism the relevance of Classics and more are to be praised These attacks are disgusting misogyny spread by politicized culture warriors" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1695804883297853861) 2023-08-27T14:26Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "Exactly. Big tech marketplaces including @ebay and @facebook allow the rampant sale of illegal antiquities and human remains. It is disgusting in how they enable and profit from the plunder of cultural heritage while turning a blind eye" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1696088361444757963) 2023-08-28T09:12Z 29.9K followers, [----] engagements "Ryan from @AskeBay seems to be outmatched. He is ignorant of the fact that academics have reported looted and stolen goods on @ebay for over two decades. And nothing has been done to regulate" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1696089127945478257) 2023-08-28T09:15Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "Hell I learned in high school about the concept of 'hubris' and Greek heroes. Odysseus Achilles Oedipus Agamemnon Icarus etc One of the key themes in many Greek myths is that the heroes are assholes who fly too close to the sun (aka act too cocky) and get punished for it" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1696474988092510586) 2023-08-29T10:48Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "So much knowledge is lost. How many of you know how to: - knap flint into blades to hunt mastodon - shape granite with copper & sand - prepare silphium as an aphrodisiac - perform the sacrifices demanded by the old gods Nobody in our generation does that stuff Y'all are wild" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1698593228075716841) 2023-09-04T07:05Z 30.2K followers, 29.7K engagements "@Goldrushcomic Earth was not naturally waning out of the ice Age. Without climate change the Holocene would be an interglacial. We'd be returning to an ice Age in the next few thousand years if we hadn't changed the climate" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1699168100329959582) 2023-09-05T21:10Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "Dude Ice Age hunters gave away most of a mammoth kill to their group. Otherwise it would've rotted" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1699195549436498331) 2023-09-05T22:59Z 29.9K followers, 17K engagements "New video The Geoarchaeology of the Sphinx with Bob Schneiker & @SoilManDan Watch & Share A great chat that revolves around but doesn't focus on the Sphinx erosion. Some cool visuals too I'm fond of the older images of the Sphinx we included Link:" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1699472316537712820) 2023-09-06T17:19Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "Hi all with @Graham__Hancock we have postponed our conversation on JRE to mid-April [----]. I am grateful to Graham for agreeing to delay as I'm on therapy medications for metastatic melanoma I am working 50% and will continue to share real archaeology as time & energy permits" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1699741902113796349) 2023-09-07T11:10Z 29.9K followers, 54.8K engagements "@Graham__Hancock Thanks" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1699748511242191304) 2023-09-07T11:36Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "Another bit of advice even if several qualified dermatologists say it doesn't look like cancer but offer to remove it. Remove it Three dermatologists said my melanoma didn't look like cancer. The third offered to remove it (it was bleeding slightly). Thankfully I agreed" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1700121262956098018) 2023-09-08T12:17Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "Dude's all about publicity rather than actual archaeology" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1700402613173342394) 2023-09-09T06:55Z 30.2K followers, 29.8K engagements "On that note if you like my posts or videos and want to support me and my research always feel free to buy me a coffee at Or subscribe to my patreon at A little goes a long way" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1700467022419697720) 2023-09-09T11:11Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "@antonyaolarsson Also curious if they were privately owned artifacts or not. Did some googling can't find a reference" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1700474137263628340) 2023-09-09T11:40Z 41.8K followers, [---] engagements "Did you know the Sphinx was originally carved with a long beard similar to that of Khafre and other pharoahs The beard fragments are now in the British Museum (of course) For more on the Sphinx check out my video on the geoarchaeology of the Sphinx:" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1700523591194825003) 2023-09-09T14:56Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "Yknow what @elonmusk and @stillgray are idiots if they really think this stupid meme represents teachers. That's idiotic and offensive. Most teachers are just teaching what they're hired to teach. And they care about their students. This ignorant misrepresentation is disgusting" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1700600317161742377) 2023-09-09T20:01Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "As usual @theonion is our modern Oracle of Delphi" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1700871947117084691) 2023-09-10T14:00Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "Or the time I needed a police escort to drive a few crates of animal bones nobody cared about other than me. The officer was pissed I was not transporting sculpture or painted pottery for a museum exhibit. He proceeded to drive 100+ mph on the Greek highway & I had to follow" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1700880723987583343) 2023-09-10T14:35Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "All applications for this position require a cover letter cv research statement teaching philosophy DEI statement four sample syllabi two writing samples and [--] reference letters. Please launch them into space where we won't read them. #NeverStopExploring #AcademicJobs" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1701368720143061339) 2023-09-11T22:54Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "The irony of a Netflix special where the team promotes just how 'human' Naledi behavior and thus fossils are but a few months later in an official permit for space travel are happy to see these specimens as paleontological and decidedly not human for legal reasons" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1701573221529637027) 2023-09-12T12:27Z 30.2K followers, 15.6K engagements "You say 'but if they're aliens shouldn't we expect something different' The people making these claims apparently C14 dated them got & say these are 'fossilized' So carbon based life forms that have DNA and fossilize. Nope they should look like what we expect. Nothingburger" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1701886116196933897) 2023-09-13T09:10Z 29.9K followers, [----] engagements "As an environmental archaeologist and historian this take is over the top doomerism and not driven by historical data Even if true there is no effective preparation on an individual/family level for social collapse there is only planning to enact more social resilience" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1702270405854089276) 2023-09-14T10:37Z 30.2K followers, 14.9K engagements "The popular concept of a 'collapse of civilization' is bullshit. The fall of the (western) Roman empire was a long term process that took centuries and is mostly visible at an administrative level If anything history shows it's the rich & powerful who should fear social changes" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1702270948454355073) 2023-09-14T10:39Z 29.9K followers, [----] engagements "If so many people are pondering the Roman empire each day then why the hell aren't they following more archaeologists and historians on this app Why aren't they telling politicians to fund out research & teaching so we can show y'all cool new things about the Roman empire" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1702688915092570135) 2023-09-15T14:20Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements "You might think about the Roman empire a lot but there's a lot you don't know Our first #RomanFact is courtesy of D. Berger Did you know that the null sign next to a gladiator meant s/he died in combat Kalendio died in the match commemorated on this mosaic from Spain /1" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1702703764296146968) 2023-09-15T15:19Z 30.2K followers, 58K engagements "If you're seriously replying to this saying masks don't work based on 'common sense' and 'personal experience' you're a dingbat Put on mask. Breathe. Feel the air being filtered Maybe it's not all the air. Ok. But no droplets plus filtered breath reduces the spread of covid" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1702985519116775431) 2023-09-16T09:59Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "This is so stupid & ahistorical. The Roman Empire wasn't a European feudal monarchy. From Augustus to Tiberius Trajan to Hadrian to frigging Constantine most Roman Emperors did not follow primogeniture. Most were adopted successors or appointed after military victory" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1703339831911145695) 2023-09-17T09:27Z 30.2K followers, 20.5K engagements "Confused why so many colleagues follow this guy who claims ancient Rome is a fiction invented by the Catholic Church. Yes to reveiw all the unexamined blindly and repeatedly quoted tales of European past especially mythical story of the origin of Rome that actually evidently appeared after Normans began ruling Arab Sicily in the 11th century. https://t.co/vc9D1EANzb https://t.co/n6qRcMQDDA Yes to reveiw all the unexamined blindly and repeatedly quoted tales of European past especially mythical story of the origin of Rome that actually evidently appeared after Normans began ruling Arab Sicily" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1703794409739854043) 2023-09-18T15:33Z 42.2K followers, 11.4K engagements "Interesting how conspiracy theorists demand clear evidence for documented accusations against one of their celebrities. but are fine with minimal evidence for sooooo many of their claims. Just asking questions" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1704029542799511870) 2023-09-19T07:07Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "Since everyone's bored of ancient Rome we can back into real ancient mysteries such as Is this pot tempered with grog What is the state of collagen preservation How does stratum 9a relate to 15c Why is the dang mint mark always illegible What really is a pseudo microburin" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1704110879359250579) 2023-09-19T12:31Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "This article about Brand reveals the motives for creating conspiracist content. There's money and fame to be had No surprise so many YouTube pseudoarchaeologists also start winking at or outright embracing more dangerous conspiracies" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1704835968673497184) 2023-09-21T12:32Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "Wow pseudoarchaeology YouTuber Jimmy Corsetti is fully embracing the dark side and openly spouting Nazi shit. disgusting" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1704839093274767462) 2023-09-21T12:44Z 39.8K followers, 71.9K engagements "But I guess you've got a blue check mark or a large YouTube channel or something Tell me more about how I'm an idiot" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1705231665532932300) 2023-09-22T14:44Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "Oh let's see @thekevlar is the Executive Director of Green Score Canada and interested in sustainability and urbanism Shit I've published on those very topics. So how about you treat scientists with respect. Otherwise not sure how you expect to study these topics" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1705232408222605381) 2023-09-22T14:47Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "It's an interesting story. My melanoma was first diagnosed a few days after my first Covid vaccine shot on [----] But the biopsy was taken a few days before the shot So. sorry the covid vaccine could not have given me cancer. It was the sun" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1705241842856419369) 2023-09-22T15:25Z 30.2K followers, 15K engagements "I sometimes wonder how some of the most powerful people in our world are so gullible as to believe [----] year old propaganda" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1707172016418079046) 2023-09-27T23:15Z 30.2K followers, 172K engagements "I sometimes wonder if Alexander the Great was actually descended from Heracles Like the son of Zeus clearly had children. Some of them had children. Enough generations go by and it's not impossible that Alexander was a great great great great great great great son of a jackass" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1707175443265184131) 2023-09-27T23:28Z 42.2K followers, 12.8K engagements "@DeDunkingPast But almost everything on Giza is aligned NS-EW. To assume that is ONLY to mark equinox is something needing justification. The alignment is dependent on watching celestial bodies but there can be plentiful methods & symbolic reasons to do so You need to explain serpent better" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1708400647966425343) 2023-10-01T08:37Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast You've got too much in here to unpack easily on Twitter Not sure I even understand your points in the second half of this post Sigh the Orion thing. Any [--] points nearly in a line match with Orion's belt. It's one of those things that takes squinting and a huge leap of faith" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1708431630061195557) 2023-10-01T10:40Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@JasonColavito I think the point of the article would work fine if we replaced UFO with demon or ghost Whether these phenomena are real or not (theyre not) their cultural and social impacts are still worthy of study In fact it seems to be a good avenue for understanding why so many believe" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1708919933847871940) 2023-10-02T19:00Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "Twitter at start of Ukraine war: informed threads about the rasputitsa the mud season that bogged down the Russian invasion X right now: videos from different conflicts pretending to be now loud voices advocating genocide fake rumors shared by millions This site sucks now" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1712003692688183609) 2023-10-11T07:14Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "You do realize that similar polygonal masonry styles existed in ancient Greece where there was no knowledge of maize (corn) It's just an effective and durable way to build a dry stone wall Why do so many people follow these accounts spouting fake stuff" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1712377559386562582) 2023-10-12T07:59Z 30.2K followers, 126.2K engagements "I worry for a future where war crimes and human rights violations against civilians are cheered on by people just because of the 'side' they are on. Or even merely sympathize with" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1712761277687173137) 2023-10-13T09:24Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "After the naledi controversy and now this is 10x worse. Shame on eLife for this threat which has effectively silenced their editor for exercising fair and non-violent political speech. I will never publish in eLife" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1713454272480776483) 2023-10-15T07:18Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "Those countertops are also found in smaller establishments that were probably fast food joints Stew or other food was stored in large ceramic jars under the countertops which could be quickly scooped out for a customer the counters were oriented to advertise to passerbys /4" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1713501297603670422) 2023-10-15T10:25Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "This map shows how there were even more of these fast-food joints across the city than bakeries Most people in Pompeii who weren't rich lived in tiny one-room apartments. So fast food - I'd guess mostly a quick slurp of stew or soup - was probably their staple diet /5" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1713501300292247871) 2023-10-15T10:25Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "Accounts like Archaeohistories share crap info they've gotten from some crap source found in a quick google For real archaeology follow real archaeologists We at least know how to flush the BS" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1713501303635161162) 2023-10-15T10:25Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "@Nakhthor There is a road from Tirana to Korce and crossing the border near kastoria. But tbh this route is probably faster" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1715088477782438278) 2023-10-19T19:32Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "@Parodyite @ArchaeologyGame @dendromecon27 @DrMDempster @EileenFindlay3 @geology_johnson @irussell21 @J_Green_505 @KUHoopes @lockwooddewitt @lui_log @maniagnosis @mchykerda @pchrysafis @thelegitHiccup not too surprised. i found my engagement dropped in april (people were claiming earlier but that's when i first noticed it) i can still gin it up if i try. but i'm kinda opposed to the ethics of this place don't really plan to delete account yet since i do reach people here" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1716517161298960517) 2023-10-23T18:09Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@Parodyite @ArchaeologyGame @dendromecon27 @DrMDempster @EileenFindlay3 @geology_johnson @irussell21 @J_Green_505 @KUHoopes @lockwooddewitt @lui_log @maniagnosis @mchykerda @pchrysafis @thelegitHiccup but a lot of my drop off in posting is also due to illness working on shifting to YouTube. slowly but it'll pick up. Got some Halloween shorts in the fix. And have a super hilarious & educational video essay: The Top [--] Penis Bones in Archaeology for early November" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1716517702028710272) 2023-10-23T18:11Z 41.4K followers, [---] engagements "Be careful this Halloween Antiquities dealers smuggling artifacts disguised as candy. Check your goodies before someone breaks a tooth Delicious Stone Age amber bear discovered in peat near Supsk Poland #DailyArchaeology Pic: G. Solecki/A. Pitak" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1718639001450549755) 2023-10-29T14:40Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements "@NonDestructiv Same with any terrorist or hostage situation. I will always condemn the killing of innocent people It is not the right response from any group The IDF is well equipped and trained. Their brutal killing of so many children is not justified and deserves condemnation" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1722576738389983542) 2023-11-09T11:27Z 29.8K followers, [--] engagements "@Emily_Flanders @MatthewPope Totally agree given it's a one off And doubly so now that I've seen a pic of the cortex on the other surface showing just how thin the nodule was Lol on your article title" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1722915418245935222) 2023-11-10T09:53Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements "@ArchaeologyGame he called you arrogant and pretentious so i'd say it was a good zinger his jacket is so obvs an attempt to glob off of Indiana Jones. kinda pathetic" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1723018233970643218) 2023-11-10T16:42Z 29.9K followers, [---] engagements "The dashboard for the new Tesla Cybertruck looks like it was modeled off an ancient Greek sacrificial altar (Louvre G112) After an accident it will similarly be covered in blood and gore. An altar to 21st century consumerism" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1723742010236932224) 2023-11-12T16:38Z 29.9K followers, [----] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @MTB_Archaeology You can't address issues by being overarching. Issues are addressed through specificity This isn't some sort of name calling game. We are scholars who research archaeological phenomena in the past AND how they are perceived today. It's our job. And we do it by being specific" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1728365754842771622) 2023-11-25T10:51Z 29.8K followers, [--] engagements "19th c historians: the new movie got bayonets fixed wrong and forgot the Italy campaign which makes it a bad portrayal of military history Prehistorians: Ancient Aliens robs Indigenous people of credit for their monuments and leads some people to conspiracy theories" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1728427554535547261) 2023-11-25T14:56Z 29.9K followers, 12.3K engagements "This is the stupidest video and also the stupidest community note. This is definitely NOT one of the theories about how the pyramids were built. We know the pyramids were built out of carved stones. Archaeologists have excavated the quarries and chemically tested the stones" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1729048515954057669) 2023-11-27T08:04Z 29.9K followers, 21K engagements "@DeDunkingPast Looks like another example of a grand civilization regressing" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1729791184464138722) 2023-11-29T09:15Z 29.9K followers, [---] engagements "Elon Musk is a terrible person for many reasons but him telling large corporations to fuck off isn't one of them. I couldn't give two shits. Not sure how people care so much" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1730500658485162033) 2023-12-01T08:14Z 29.9K followers, [----] engagements "@ScottSmialkowsk Because we don't like elon musk There's millions of people who don't like him. Did you see the clip of him booed at a Dave Chappelle show" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1730544411602276480) 2023-12-01T11:08Z 29.9K followers, [--] engagements "@ScottSmialkowsk You claim to be for free speech but professors aren't allowed to express their political opinions because it scares you Be an adult. We are both allowed to express ourselves politically on social media. It won't impact how I grade you nor how you treat me in your job" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1730546175168716811) 2023-12-01T11:15Z 29.9K followers, [--] engagements "Thinking about converting some of my Twitter threads into YouTube videos. Wondering if any followers have suggestions on which ones people would like to see" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1733463181027049861) 2023-12-09T12:26Z 29.9K followers, [----] engagements "Monumental f*kin tombs. We have found sarcophagi and human remains in the pyramids. Ancient Egyptian texts say they were tombs It's so simple & obvious that you'd need to be obtuse to ignore the multiple pieces of evidence that clearly demonstrate the pyramids were looted tombs" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1735835670390669563) 2023-12-16T01:34Z 29.9K followers, 64.3K engagements "here's a more recent find of mummified remains from a pyramid currently under study by archaeologists" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1736055298400403947) 2023-12-16T16:06Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "If you went to Palace of Westminster & dropped a core [--] metres into ground and pulled up a soil sample dated to [-----] years old. Does that mean the Palace of Westminster was built [-----] years ago by ancient humans No it means theres carbon down there thats [-----] years old Some new coverage from the Guardian with quotes from myself @FlintDibble and others. Really really weak: experts attack claim that Indonesia site is worlds oldest building Archaeology The Guardian https://t.co/HBz8remmcq Some new coverage from the Guardian with quotes from myself @FlintDibble and others. Really really weak:" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1736067956981875183) 2023-12-16T16:57Z 30.3K followers, [----] engagements "2023 was a terrible lonely and dark year for me. I'm looking forward to a whole lot of light and good vibes as I've got hope for big things to come as these days lengthen into [----] Happy solstice" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1738200695277330736) 2023-12-22T14:11Z 29.9K followers, [----] engagements "@ArchaeologyGame yeah i see no reason to dislike clickbait titles. It's funny how many academics dislike them in theory but ofc they all use them in their conference papers most conference papers are (insert cliche or silly pun): The restructuring of academic jargon into clickbait" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1738574714983862604) 2023-12-23T14:58Z 29.9K followers, [---] engagements "Ridiculous. Academics especially teachers do not stifle curiosity. I was encouraged not discouraged to write my undergrad honors thesis at Penn on the topic of 'narcotic drugs in ancient Greek magic spells' If anyone had proof for a lost civilization it'd be celebrated When I started pursuing Anthropology seriously it was a goal of mine to make friends with people on both sides of the isle - Ancient Civ theorists & Academics. What Ive seen on the academic side is that many times they are so quick to diffuse any outside curiosity because When I started pursuing Anthropology seriously it was a" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1738839572484624870) 2023-12-24T08:30Z [--] followers, 15.1K engagements "Wow a new (to me) historical conspiracy theory I guess it works on people who never travel or make any attempt to understand other cultures https://t.co/cfuae8GX9U https://t.co/cfuae8GX9U" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1738934594777296899) 2023-12-24T14:48Z [--] followers, 46.2K engagements "I really think that anyone interested in archaeology who thinks we don't do certain things should read a textbook on the history of archaeological thought All of this is covered. It's basic knowledge about the field. More fundamental than the pyramids or the stone age" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1739929043733008399) 2023-12-27T08:39Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "But why listen to me I'm just a weird academic" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1739955880765038920) 2023-12-27T10:26Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "Oh i forgot a few disciplines that collaborate with archaeology Philosophy mathematics materials sciences philosophy religious studies political science ecology psychology geography information science statistics organic chemistry meteorology oceanography and more" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1739965666730574098) 2023-12-27T11:05Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "If you see this tweet you have to mention one of your favorite paintings. Terror Antiquus by Lon Bakst (1908). It portrays a fictional destruction of Atlantis by a cosmic impact. These ideas popularly spread by Graham Hancock et al. aren't new. Fun fiction but evidence-free If you see this tweet you have to mention one of your favorite paintings. Water Mill by Frits Thaulow at the PMA. Actually several of his paintings there are unbelievable the way the 'light' plays on surfaces is just. dunno you gotta see it https://t.co/P6bC91wRZQ https://t.co/IhnOYJE0gp If you see this tweet you have to" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1740028885473878109) 2023-12-27T15:16Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "Note the actual antiquities included in this painting. The ruins of the Athenian Acropolis Mycenae and Tiryns are faithfully reproduced and lightly embellished. The Archaic kore still shows her original paint (we've known marble statues were painted for a long time)" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1740028890356089214) 2023-12-27T15:16Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "y'know what's weird about this tweet by @NateSilver538 is it betrays a neo social Darwinism I thought social Darwinism was discredited a loooong time ago. Guess it's making a resurgence in late stage capitalism with direct reference to human evolution boo this man" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1740032177856012486) 2023-12-27T15:29Z 42K followers, [----] engagements "ChatGPT is basically a caricature of the worst student. It bullshits confidently providing wrong answers. It invents citations. And yup it's a serial plagiarizer worse than any case mocked in the press Fun to joke around with but an unethical distraction ok I've now read the full NYT complaint filed this morning vs OpenAI and Microsoft. I'm impressed - it's future-focused around fair value for work vital to democracy. It also contains 220k pages of exhibits although the pages of Ex J stood out to me. more on that in a minute. /1 https://t.co/e394EZYCed ok I've now read the full NYT complaint" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1740285022249029861) 2023-12-28T08:14Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "@lukecaverns invented plastic are you off your rocker my dude do you have any idea the process involved to refine petroleum into ethane/propane and then extruded into plastic like I love the Romans and their technology but they had nothing like that this is just clickbait" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1740317557939425376) 2023-12-28T10:23Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "@FossilLocator i've seen community notes that have started to fulfill that function. imperfect but i guess it's something that said these days most ads seems scammy. either pornbots or dropshipping or cryptocurrencies or insert actual scam or semi-scam here" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1740385470121705757) 2023-12-28T14:53Z 29.9K followers, [---] engagements "It's not a political position to argue that the term 'Dark Ages' is a misnomer The term misrepresents the evidence for vibrant art literature architecture science and culture after the end of the Roman state in Western Europe and the Western Mediterranean /1 I do not understand what the progressive opinion on the Middle Ages is supposed to be as the two main points I can gather are: 1.) It is an act of ignorance to call them the Dark Ages. 2.) Western Christians were violent primitives strictly inferior to Islamic civilization. I do not understand what the progressive opinion on the Middle" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1740435164788830503) 2023-12-28T18:10Z 30.2K followers, 31.7K engagements "I dunno. I've taught my cat to come when I call and play fetch. Still trying to get him leash trained Cats aren't dogs. They do LOVE you just in their own cat way. #cats https://t.co/BYPmXM6k7D Cats aren't dogs. They do LOVE you just in their own cat way. #cats https://t.co/BYPmXM6k7D" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740450464070774912) 2023-12-28T19:11Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "@Dan_Jeffries1 Writers who learn from Hemingway's style buy the books to read him and emulate him (or borrow them from libraries that bought them) Future quarterbacks watch Tom Brady on Fox alongside the commercials that cover the free broadcast or pay to subscribe to ESPN or NFL Network" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1740531492022038605) 2023-12-29T00:33Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "what actual discipline doesn't require knowing the minutiae of the subject itself that's why we have experts - historians - that train for years. same for every discipline that experience is no longer valued. people want the internet or ChatGPT to provide instant satisfaction This is why I frankly detest history as a discipline. It has no tests no counterfactuals it relies on telling a story which cannot be checked by anyone who doesnt know the minutiae of the subject themselves. We cannot ever tell what has been omitted. The thread is bs btw. This is why I frankly detest history as a" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741116117895053675) 2023-12-30T15:16Z [--] followers, 70.8K engagements "@ArchaeologyGame nah i mean i think that's part of today's attitude but i also think that history has always suffered from everyone thinking they can do it it's so personal. it's your family ethnicity culture country etc. it's ingrained in your identity" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741117256103284770) 2023-12-30T15:21Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "oh. you mean actual history is less interesting than fantasy that pretends to be history again. sorry not sorry (and you're clearly too lazy to look at all the absolutely fascinating and interesting real history out there)" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741120364632047734) 2023-12-30T15:33Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "want some fun history why not learn about archaeological dick bones (seriously it even includes the first penis bone I ever studied)" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1741124675520888932) 2023-12-30T15:50Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "@DeDunkingPast With regards to Hancock's reliance on colonial sources That is a major flaw in argumentation All of archaeology has been challenging itself to rely less on biased sources for several decades So it's a mistake we can all recognize" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1741161797816635681) 2023-12-30T18:18Z 29.9K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast It's the way communities are framed. Archaeology is heterogenous I engage w/ Greek colleagues & their scholarship in Greek ditto German French etc I engage w/ landowners government employees administrators and other stakeholders How often do you see those various sides" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1741162840851992991) 2023-12-30T18:22Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast No. What I'm trying to say is on social media you just see the tip of the iceberg The 1% of us who are on here and the 1% of them who care enough about pseudoarchaeology and have a desire to engage with it @FlintDibble You're doing exactly what I laid out in my post. This is double standards. You go to numbers of archeologists around the globe but when talking Clovis First you compartmentalize. When you need them numbers you dump the compartments. It's party loyalty not logic I see. @FlintDibble You're doing exactly what I laid out in my post. This is double standards. You go" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1741163211313819831) 2023-12-30T18:23Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "Yet so many Classics students go to modern Greece and make the misstep of trying to speak ancient Greek (yes I've heard many stories about this over beers) The most unrealistic thing about Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was the idea of an archaeologist who knows a dead language well enough to converse fluently with an ancient Greek impromptu The most unrealistic thing about Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was the idea of an archaeologist who knows a dead language well enough to converse fluently with an ancient Greek impromptu" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1741397692234793471) 2023-12-31T09:55Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "none of this is true. people did drink water for all of human history. it's an inaccurate urban legend that they didn't and beer brewers and wine vintners didn't think about 'market share' hundreds of years ago. they were mom and pop operations compared to today's mega corps Beer and wine groups formed powerful opposition groups to coffee seeing it as a competing product that encroached on their market share. For the vast majority of history people didn't drink water because it was tremendously unsafe but they did drink beer and wine that was Beer and wine groups formed powerful opposition" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741780821818655051) 2024-01-01T11:18Z [--] followers, 12.6K engagements "@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @SoilManDan @irussell21 Telling Indigenous people that the Atlantis story from Plato actually explains their world creation myths is definitely not respecting their beliefs In fact it's reiterating and adapting a narrative created by many actual colonizers during the process of colonization" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1742844238268616913) 2024-01-04T09:43Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @SoilManDan @irussell21 Really Read this thread written by me where I basically say that about a colleague. Sorry just started youtubing I haven't addressed any topic in detail yet other than animal bones and Greece (my research) Not many archaeologists on YouTube either New thread As an archaeological scientist I want to voice my condemnation of Weiss's approach to archaeological science 1/ this is a straw man argument. Nobody has called to bury the White Sands footprints. From what I've seen many indigenous scholars approve of this research" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1742943743571906929) 2024-01-04T16:19Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @SoilManDan @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @irussell21 this is what hte SAA letter says: 'His claim for an advanced global civilization that existed during the Ice Age and was destroyed by comets is not new. This theory has been presented debated and refuted for at least [---] years.'" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1743214091013865589) 2024-01-05T10:13Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @SoilManDan @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @irussell21 i am showing you how scholarship proceeds and how scholars do research and make arguments. that's why i'm taking the time to reply here i'd prefer you to see the larger field if you're going to report on it rather than just the small subset" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1743217910485537081) 2024-01-05T10:28Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @SoilManDan @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @irussell21 without having a formal education in archaeology your impressions of it are based on what has come across your social media/youtube feeds which is great. you're interested. but it's only one small slice of archaeology and scholarship. the small slice addresses pseudoarchaeology" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1743218165520195993) 2024-01-05T10:29Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @SoilManDan @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @irussell21 nope" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1743220066093576249) 2024-01-05T10:37Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @SoilManDan @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @irussell21 you talk about Atlantis hunting. Letter doesn't. You talk about hyperdiffusionism. Letter doesn't. You talk about Donnelly not being first. Letter also mentions this" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1743222555521995079) 2024-01-05T10:46Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @SoilManDan @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @irussell21 and again it is problematic for white supremacist reasons. Actual Nazis adapted Donnelly's narrative (transmitted via theosophy) Actual neo-Nazis write in their journals and blogs about Hancock's 'white civilization' addressing this is important and your quibbles aren't" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1743222863249768558) 2024-01-05T10:48Z 29.9K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @SoilManDan @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @irussell21 whether donnelly started this or not doesn't matter. it's still racist" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1743224256354205814) 2024-01-05T10:53Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @SoilManDan @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @irussell21 white people see large monuments built by non-white people and imagine it's white people or mythical giants or advanced aliens from outer space who built it and claim it's all a fun counterfactual" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1743224424445129202) 2024-01-05T10:54Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "This dude actually licks a stolen artifact and encourages others to do so. Get your archaeology from real archaeologists who understand the evidence and ethical and legal issues that matter today" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743249091688104028) 2024-01-05T12:32Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "@TetroUKofficial I wish but I've seen many pseudoarchaeologists breaking cultural heritage law Illegally trespassing on sites analyzing illegally looted artifacts publishing photos/drone videos of monuments without permits They don't bother to learn laws they just care about their own shit" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1743262597170761811) 2024-01-05T13:26Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "@KayleighHistory can confirm this is crap. i specifically measure oxygen with a mass spec talked about it in this lecture:" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1743285762244641148) 2024-01-05T14:58Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "Our critique is needed and available when people search the internet for critical info It helps prevent people from being duped by people who make shit up (like this dude who just makes up sciency sounding stuff)" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1743289085240750399) 2024-01-05T15:11Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "This is appropriate as FB reminded me that today is the one year anniversary of some conspiracy theorist accusing me of being a made up person It's over guys. He caught me. I'm @FlintDibble https://t.co/68B0VQCKsw It's over guys. He caught me. I'm @FlintDibble https://t.co/68B0VQCKsw" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1743294272172965985) 2024-01-05T15:31Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "go to any (modern or ancient) cemetery with monumental tombs a tomb is never just a tomb and no archaeologist teaching intro archaeology would let off students so easy tombs like all monuments are used to communicate messages of belief identity power/wealth and more 3/4" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1743597960213008443) 2024-01-06T11:38Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "read any intro textbook on ancient Egypt and the author(s) never stops at calling the pyramids tombs nope they are situated within religious dynastic historical political and economic contexts archaeologists aren't simplistic. we interpret monuments in many ways /end" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743597962788229209) 2024-01-06T11:38Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "First naledi now this. What is the obsession with sending human remains to space I don't know details but this feels so crass like a dog marking territory. The family of some billionaire getting bragging rights about daddy's finger on the moon NASA responds to Navajo Nation's request to delay private mission placing human remains on the moon https://t.co/AxgzhIbvqL https://t.co/6ZzNOuJT1C NASA responds to Navajo Nation's request to delay private mission placing human remains on the moon https://t.co/AxgzhIbvqL https://t.co/6ZzNOuJT1C" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1743632818742218879) 2024-01-06T13:57Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "I cannot emphasize enough. I have excavated on dozens of sites and studied materials from dozens more Archaeology is fragile. There are good reasons cultural heritage laws are in place This buffoon and others like him encourage people to think it's all fun and games" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1743964966510629258) 2024-01-07T11:57Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "So many people get their understanding of archaeology from movies and from jackass 'influencers' on social media or YouTube I'm here to tell you that they are frigging wrong. Archaeologists work hard to uncover and preserve cultural heritage. It's a job not fun and games" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743964969069162829) 2024-01-07T11:57Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Ancient aliens is colonialist twaddle Who were the alien influencers who guided ancient civilizations and imparted their extraterrestrial knowledge #AncientAliens https://t.co/mFSm55t9br Who were the alien influencers who guided ancient civilizations and imparted their extraterrestrial knowledge #AncientAliens https://t.co/mFSm55t9br" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744279042562412828) 2024-01-08T08:45Z 30.2K followers, 24.4K engagements "@AncientAliens Nah this meme is pretty dang accurate" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744279110514246032) 2024-01-08T08:45Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "@DeDunkingPast Nah a show that travels around and predominantly claims monuments built by non white people were designed by aliens is racist it takes away credit from these non white people And the most popular proponent of the idea von daniken has written some extremely racist shit" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744289593766121710) 2024-01-08T09:27Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "@DeDunkingPast Then why do these theories focus on non white ancient civilizations It's never the colosseum built by aliens or designed by atlantean sages it's mesoamerica Africa and the Pacific. Areas that were colonized by europeans" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744293454245437669) 2024-01-08T09:42Z 29.9K followers, [---] engagements "@DeDunkingPast And from a cultural heritage perspective it damages the sites. Yes we know that lots of people tramping around sites that aren't undergoing constant maintenance destroys them Didn't know that [---] years ago. Now we do" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744295849666998366) 2024-01-08T09:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast Why should everyone else have to follow the local laws except pseudoarchaeology youtubers Archaeologists locals tourists people making real documentaries. All have to follow the law But [--] yr old youtubers. nah they don't have to" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744296077514129621) 2024-01-08T09:52Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast Dude I just yesterday posted a link to my thread with like [--] examples with specific passages from his books Posted it to you in earlier conversations too I'm not gonna repost it ten times" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744298161277956297) 2024-01-08T10:01Z 29.9K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast I've called out the British Museum plenty recently on here My university's archaeology collection here at Cardiff is AFAIK only UK artifacts or currently studied artifacts with clear legal permissions for temporary study That said I've only been here [--] years" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744302123477536885) 2024-01-08T10:16Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@AncientPuzzles @DeDunkingPast i don't know what hancock's intentions are it's why i've never called him racist. but he does uncritically repeat racist ideas about skin color as i quote here. and that leads to explicit racists using his books to justify superior white civilization @DeDunkingPast ok i've pulled out my citations. geez. making me do actual academic work here when i've already written this shit again citing Donnelly isn't hte problem it's uncritically agreeing with his points about skin color no precolumbian source cites white skinned people https://t.co/LsWVMqxTXR @DeDunkingPast" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744318779427828129) 2024-01-08T11:22Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@BadScienceNews @lukecaverns I hope my conversation with Luke wasn't seen as bullying That said he has over a million followers runs a for profit business that includes a production and filming team From what I see he is not one I think is constantly breaking heritage laws or encouraging others to do so" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744325846179966989) 2024-01-08T11:51Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "@BadScienceNews @lukecaverns As I told him I hope he reads up more on laws and ethics involved in cultural heritage and works to promote an ethical archaeology I plan to look more into social media archaeology and the legal and ethical issues involved in the future but have accused nobody of anything yet" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744326236493492488) 2024-01-08T11:52Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @AncientPuzzles huh no scholar has thought white people have lived in precolumbian america for a very very long time. certainly not in the 1980/90s maybe in the 1880s Nor was I taught that in middle school Hancock wasn't citing contemporary account but much later Spanish or American sources" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744387458635092317) 2024-01-08T15:55Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@Parodyite @BadScienceNews @thelegitHiccup @lukecaverns Add to this other platforms where he has a larger reach and surely is what funds his research trips equipment etc. He is a big social media star for archaeology topics on FB TikTok and Insta" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744645359375167797) 2024-01-09T09:00Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@jtlewis_arch @DeDunkingPast @AncientPuzzles In the end it doesn't matter what we were taught in middle school By mid 20th c at least no scholar believed that white people lived in the Americas. There was overwhelming evidence against it Pre-Columbian Aztec and Maya sources never portrayed Quetzalcoatl with white skin" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744649744423559442) 2024-01-09T09:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@jtlewis_arch @DeDunkingPast @AncientPuzzles No scholar in the 1980s or 1990s or 1950s thought that Quetzalcoatl was a white skinned foreigner No but Hancock did. Why Well he cites Ignatius Donnelly on that" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744651869283078378) 2024-01-09T09:26Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "@jtlewis_arch @DeDunkingPast @AncientPuzzles Hancock's source both in Fingerprints and Magician for Quetzalcoatl being white skinned and bearded is Ignatius Donnelly And he quotes him on this and repeats his arguments about skin color with regards to Quetzalcoatl. This is specifically what I call him out for. QED" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744652455525089558) 2024-01-09T09:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "A damn shame. It's also impossible to read Lord of the Rings or watch the Avengers w/o copyrighted material. It's impossible to do a lot of things w/o copyrighted material. Not sure why AI companies get to ignore the laws the rest of us have to follow" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744665200253456845) 2024-01-09T10:19Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "@Pompeiana79 Yeah I think there's room for discussions on value & role of copyright In that discussion (as in discussions of fair use exceptions) I also think context matters eg a for profit AI company vs a non-profit university vs a for profit academic publjsher vs a social media post" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744715913591410968) 2024-01-09T13:41Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles Look man I've provided you screenshots from books and examples from pre-Columbian manuscripts Find me actual examples of peer reviewed scholarship saying white people lived in the Americas or you've got nothing" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744716293729636717) 2024-01-09T13:42Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles And if there's 100s of examples you could at least provide [--] for me Peer reviewed archaeology scholarship I've provided [--] precolumbian images of quetzalcoatl. I've provided [--] quotes from [--] Hancock books discussing skin color I've done my job. Tell me I'm wrong. Prove it" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744717251390091339) 2024-01-09T13:46Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles If you can find [--] examples of peer reviewed archaeology from the 1960s claiming white people lived in the Americas I will concede Otherwise you're just goading here. Asking for evidence to support our claims and nada for yours" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744717606269882438) 2024-01-09T13:47Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles This isn't a reference that says that. I'm very familiar with this book. And nothing on that page states that 1960s scholars believed white people lived in pre-Columbian americas That page is referring to Spanish colonists creating the myth of cortes as quetzalcoatl" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744718190142275683) 2024-01-09T13:50Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles I agree with you that many historians wrongly wrote the idea that Indigenous people believed cortes as quetzalcoatl But what I said was no 1960s historians believed white people lived in pre-Columbian America. I think you're trying to argue against something I didn't say" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744718742012248281) 2024-01-09T13:52Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles I'm not changing positions I specifically said 'By mid 20th c at least no scholar believed that white people lived in the Americas. There was overwhelming evidence against it' You told me I was wrong. But then you try to prove something else that I didn't say" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744720738949779875) 2024-01-09T14:00Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles Here's screenshot There's a paragraph break indicating a change in topic to the 3rd paragraph: 'Pre-Columbian Aztec and Maya sources never portrayed Quetzalcoatl with white skin' I then provided images to verify this point (which is a different point from previous paragraph)" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744721328169689442) 2024-01-09T14:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles So if you're saying the content in this tweet is wrong you either need to prove hundreds of 1960s scholars believed white people lived in pre-Columbian America's at some point OR You need to find pre-Columbian sources depicting quetzalcoatl with white skin" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744721774863110250) 2024-01-09T14:04Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "My new paper presents examples of ancient Greek painted pottery generated by free AI Can you pick out the non-AI image Our new paper uses Bayesian astrochronology to date the origin of trilobites with extreme precision. Read it here: https://t.co/GERJoSDXo7 https://t.co/1h32IGxmyU Our new paper uses Bayesian astrochronology to date the origin of trilobites with extreme precision. Read it here: https://t.co/GERJoSDXo7 https://t.co/1h32IGxmyU" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744741529841799309) 2024-01-09T15:22Z [--] followers, 37.4K engagements "It's not a meme unless it's from the mimolette region of France otherwise it's just a quote tweet It's not plagiarism unless it's from the Plagiarsme region of France otherwise it's just Sparkling Theft. It's not plagiarism unless it's from the Plagiarsme region of France otherwise it's just Sparkling Theft" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1744866022333510096) 2024-01-09T23:37Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @deetzzz_ @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles I was in middle school in [--] and was not taught anything about white people in the Americas. In fact was taught the opposite" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1745531010052202903) 2024-01-11T19:39Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@AncientPuzzles @jtlewis_arch @ArchaeologyGame @WanderinBritchz @DSAArchaeology @DeDunkingPast The reason we say that Graham's ideas promote white supremacy is because of his statements about white skinned wise sages teaching Indigenous people 'civilization' If he had not brought up false info about race it wouldn't be abused by racists @DeDunkingPast ok i've pulled out my citations. geez. making me do actual academic work here when i've already written this shit again citing Donnelly isn't hte problem it's uncritically agreeing with his points about skin color no precolumbian source cites" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1745715146717024345) 2024-01-12T07:51Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "@AncientPuzzles @jtlewis_arch @ArchaeologyGame @WanderinBritchz @DSAArchaeology @DeDunkingPast Neo nazis and overt racists highlight graham's ideas as being about a white civilization because of these statements he's written This is the problem. Graham has made many wrong statements about ancient skin color that regardless of intention are both wrong and used by racists" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1745715870381269098) 2024-01-12T07:54Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @ArchaeologyGame @WanderinBritchz @DSAArchaeology how has the SAA letter harmed you seriously what did it say about Dan Dedunker Did it lead to people sending you hate mail on every platform To people sending letters to your employer To people leaving fake reviews I get this shit all the time. BBQ my cat" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1745757009972994423) 2024-01-12T10:38Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @ArchaeologyGame @WanderinBritchz @DSAArchaeology I have been called out in right wing blogs & online newspapers with crude insults I have been insulted for my name appearance cancer treatment profession and more in private messages and publicc posts on every social media platform and ofc via my publicly accessible email" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745757448059637959) 2024-01-12T10:39Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "@irussell21 @DeDunkingPast @ArchaeologyGame @ktibus @WanderinBritchz @AncientPuzzles @jtlewis_arch @DSAArchaeology I want to be very clear. The sentence in letter that Dan claims is wrong doesn't say what he thinks it says. He made a large YouTube video (mostly debunking one of Miano's) about how Atlantis hunting didn't originate with Ignatius Donnelly. Which Dan is very right it didn't" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1746116136553365720) 2024-01-13T10:25Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@irussell21 @DeDunkingPast @ArchaeologyGame @ktibus @WanderinBritchz @AncientPuzzles @jtlewis_arch @DSAArchaeology In hte letter the sentence Dan has an issue with the only one that even brings up Donnelly doesn't state that though. It says he was hte originator of the larger narrative of Atlantis as an Ice Age civilization that survived a comet @DeDunkingPast Dude it says a theory about an advanced Ice Age civilization that was destroyed by a comet dates back to Donnelly It does https://t.co/PGNG42lGSv @DeDunkingPast Dude it says a theory about an advanced Ice Age civilization that was" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1746116358113251490) 2024-01-13T10:25Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@ArchaeologyGame @maniagnosis @DeDunkingPast @AncientPuzzles @jtlewis_arch @WanderinBritchz @DSAArchaeology I had no idea Atlantis was associated with a racist group until I made an innocent post saying it wasn't real. I was a small Twitter account at the time. Under 10k. Somehow a few pseudoarcheaology influencers got a hold of it Bombarded by racist comments" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1746260591075832071) 2024-01-13T19:59Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "@ArchaeologyGame @maniagnosis @DeDunkingPast @AncientPuzzles @jtlewis_arch @WanderinBritchz @DSAArchaeology I make a thread about how the Oracle of Delphi was stoned. Super popular. Some stoner jokes. General nerding out. People saying 'Awesome' I make a thread about how a TV called Hunting Atlantis is bunk. Bombarded by hatred. All kinds of racist sexist comments in replies" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1746260948719993212) 2024-01-13T20:00Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "@albedojourney @Graham__Hancock I just don't see how Graham gets the credit in your mind for the hard work of these other archaeologists We have other evidence for Paleolithic structures. Huts in wattle and daub or stone soles or larger buildings made of mammoth tusks We expected to find more" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1746491733012083142) 2024-01-14T11:17Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@albedojourney @Graham__Hancock Ditto with Amazon. A lot has been published frkm that region in last [--] or so years from many periods of human activity Archaeology is a huge field with new stuff found presented and published every day But strangely none of it is evidence for an advanced Ice Age civilization" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1746492325331632405) 2024-01-14T11:19Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@albedojourney @Graham__Hancock Do I agree with my colleagues who flock to Hancock's social media every tweet Probably not. I'm not sure it's effective. But I understand their frustration at his fans giving him credit for stuff that has nothing to do with him instead of credit to scholars who did the woek" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1746492809316598251) 2024-01-14T11:21Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "@albedojourney @Graham__Hancock With every new discovery & analysis we are rewriting human history. And that's cool. But it's a bit too easy to overemphasize that & start ranking these things when in fact it won't be another [--] years till we see which ones really did impact the larger archaeological consensus" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1746494088231194821) 2024-01-14T11:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@albedojourney @Graham__Hancock sorry just cause your replies are interspersed. i think we're on the same page i'd say Hancock calling attn to America Before seems to imply he was 'right' or something but these projects in Ecuador started (and were reported on) before he published America Before" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1746512642355732903) 2024-01-14T12:40Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "Actually this is a politician distributing bread. Modern politicians should give away free food instead of spending money on ads A painting from Pompeii showing the sale of bread https://t.co/nD9k7JRnoi A painting from Pompeii showing the sale of bread https://t.co/nD9k7JRnoi" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1746549672552874256) 2024-01-14T15:07Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "This is why people need to follow more real historians and archaeologists https://t.co/rQnK7EqYCV https://t.co/rQnK7EqYCV" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1746578330030075977) 2024-01-14T17:01Z 29.9K followers, 32K engagements "Not a good analogy. In Greece after [----] BCE people were still growing crops & herding animals. They still lived in villages and towns. No slash and burn. If you're interested I have an article on how people adapted to climate change in Iron Age Greece: the collapse of city-based civilizations in the amazon [----] years ago and regression back to foraging and slash and burn cultivation shows how deep and steep collapse can be. but the same seems to have happened in neolithic europe [----] years ago or in greece after [----] BC the collapse of city-based civilizations in the amazon [----] years ago" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1746583784764412400) 2024-01-14T17:23Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "@razibkhan Greece is not a good analogy here People still lived in towns and villages. Many of the same ones. Still grew the same crops and raised the same animals. And did (eventually) adapt to the changing climate https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618221002445 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618221002445" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1746584162968977467) 2024-01-14T17:24Z 41.5K followers, [---] engagements "@razibkhan @SamoBurja Dude I'm an archaeologist and this is bunk. We have thousands of sites from the Ice Age. Millions of artifacts and millions of animal bones and seeds to show diet. Ditto isotopes and now dna from oral microbiome Surprised to see you say this absolute wrong thing" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1746595584780144869) 2024-01-14T18:10Z 30.2K followers, 24.2K engagements "@SamoBurja @razibkhan Read it. You jump around from famous site to famous site in a superficial manner that disconnects each from its own context Your fantasy civilization is so fantastical that it not only requires finding hundreds of sites it requires finding new domesticated species" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1746647267770085471) 2024-01-14T21:35Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements "@SamoBurja @razibkhan You don't seem to recognize the spatial coverage archaeology actually has In most countries any new serious construction project requires archaeology. Each state in the US each country in the world has thousands of investigated sites" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1746647678266519587) 2024-01-14T21:37Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "@SamoBurja @razibkhan Proposing some enormous settled Ice Age civilization dependent upon agriculture and domesticated animals is not just lacking evidence our existing evidence contradicts it" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1746647945301070085) 2024-01-14T21:38Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "@SamoBurja @razibkhan And lastly the narrative of an emergence of civilization is dated. Like way dated We recognize now the variability in the processes of domestication urbanism monumentality and the development of political administration" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1746648276156199289) 2024-01-14T21:39Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "@Genophilee @razibkhan 3) underwater archaeology off of Israel is a major subfield. Many shipwrecks and settlements have been found via systematic surveying and in some cases excavation. If such a site existed wed have evidence at this point" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1747167652798251123) 2024-01-16T08:03Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "@Genophilee @razibkhan 4) One new site adds to picture doesn't change it completely. Imagine if Paris was French site we didn't have. We'd still have Bordeaux Toulouse etc. Discovering Paris would be big but it wouldn't upend everything else. We'd still have good idea of French culture without it" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1747168409408659844) 2024-01-16T08:06Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "Sigh. Why is this crap going viral 1) no 2) it's not myth it's a story in a fictional Roman novel 3) no 4) the Romans never used or experimented with petroleum so nowhere near inventing plastic 5) no 6) who repairs plastic with a hammer 7) no 6) follow real archaeologists Have you guys heard the story about the Roman guy who invented plastic and the emperor got freaked out and had him executed https://t.co/fmlRAeHejy Have you guys heard the story about the Roman guy who invented plastic and the emperor got freaked out and had him executed https://t.co/fmlRAeHejy" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1747937955660911006) 2024-01-18T11:04Z 30.2K followers, 25.2K engagements "Nah Toilets was the dude who wrote the coprolite theorem: time turns all shit to stone The function rooms in this #Athens hotel are all named after famous #Greeks. Can't place the last one. Was he killed in the #Iliad https://t.co/UyZz8UupwV The function rooms in this #Athens hotel are all named after famous #Greeks. Can't place the last one. Was he killed in the #Iliad https://t.co/UyZz8UupwV" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1748546944090161465) 2024-01-20T03:24Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "This is called looting. It destroys archaeological context and is disrespectful to cultural heritage Do not pick up and collect artifacts. Take photos of a scatter and contact a local museum North America is just LITTERED with Stone arrowheads. Indians shot arrows at deer in the woods for tens of thousands of years and lost some huge fraction of them. This is like being upset in year [----] AD that someone collected [---] Ancient American beer cans. North America is just LITTERED with Stone arrowheads. Indians shot arrows at deer in the woods for tens of thousands of years and lost some huge" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1748710455592325510) 2024-01-20T14:13Z 30.2K followers, 43K engagements "@irussell21 Hey Zeke. I see what you're saying but also think that you're an example of new ways to inspire youth. Many more people can follow you as you hike a similar path film some arrowheads and explain why they're interesting and why you'd never collect them" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1749052104038089044) 2024-01-21T12:51Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "@irussell21 Tbh it's still possible to do it in person. Show but not collect I'd hope the finite & fragile nature of the archaeological record is an important lesson in conservation & respect for cultural heritage. Also an introduction to different groups of people today w/ different values" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1749052743765897369) 2024-01-21T12:54Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements "@irussell21 I guess my main point is that really it's us teachers that inspire not the object itself I hate to admit that pieces of flint are actually quite dull without the stories and lessons and points that they reveal about past people" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1749053456554348579) 2024-01-21T12:56Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements "@nsamimi9 Yep. That's the hard lesson to learn. None is the key. Not one" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1749287497597587758) 2024-01-22T04:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "@nsamimi9 But I will say once you get to that point where those habitual mental triggers lessen it is much easier (Tho an occasional situation will pop up where it's tough and you gotta fight. And even more occasionally you'll have an idle thought a cigarette right now would be awesome)" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1749288290618946015) 2024-01-22T04:30Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "This video is terrible and disgusting. Not nearly as terrible and disgusting as killing tens of thousands of civilians. But as an archaeologist I am appalled at the cavalier attitude of this video Eli Escusido the director of the Israeli Antiquities Authority shares a video documenting the theft of archaeological artifacts from Gaza. https://t.co/BcQQQDVXt9 Eli Escusido the director of the Israeli Antiquities Authority shares a video documenting the theft of archaeological artifacts from Gaza. https://t.co/BcQQQDVXt9" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1749294115173355907) 2024-01-22T04:53Z 30.2K followers, 18.3K engagements "@shaboom @ISASaxonists Plus I don't think this video really is relevant to the British Museum who largely plundered antiquities on the ground (sawing and taking marbles from Acropolis) or religious icons or dug not just coming upon an archaeological storeroom like this and rejoicing at the ease" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1749399632944198038) 2024-01-22T11:52Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements "I had a super busy weekend so wanted to reshare this article by @AylinWoodward in the @wsj that examines the misleading and dishonest presentation of archaeology on Netflix's Ancient Apocalypse and Cave of Bones A few thoughts in this minithread 1/7 These Netflix Documentaries Are Hits. Scientists Hate Them. @AylinWoodward reports for #WSJScience https://t.co/NZrsKXpUuE via @WSJ These Netflix Documentaries Are Hits. Scientists Hate Them. @AylinWoodward reports for #WSJScience https://t.co/NZrsKXpUuE via @WSJ" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1749906445754077557) 2024-01-23T21:26Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements "I think so much of the discourse around these shows has focused on the characters. Graham Hancock and Lee Berger are very different people but they are similar in that they are celebrities So much conversation on social media revolves around their character 2/7" [X Link](https://x.com/FlintDibble/status/1749906448123838908) 2024-01-23T21:26Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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Social Influence
Social category influence countries technology brands social networks travel destinations stocks celebrities finance us election musicians fashion brands
Social topic influence youtube, civilization, history #2252, greece, twitter, egypt, athens, $spot, joe rogan, in the
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Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"@DrHanneke Not sure where they are getting data from. I only know evidence for population in detail for ancient Greece and they clearly get that one way wrong in terms of chronological trends (assuming our evidence from regional survey etc. relates well to population)"
X Link 2019-03-21T16:38Z 42.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@DrHanneke Nice (I was just trying to be clever)"
X Link 2019-03-21T18:41Z 42.5K followers, [--] engagements
"That's the Hydra. Hymenacles is the hymen who beheaded the Hydra x9"
X Link 2019-11-07T09:53Z 42.2K followers, [--] engagements
"I present to you all the democratic presidential candidates as goats Tulsi Gabbard is like that one horny goat penned with the sheep (pic by @pompei79)"
X Link 2019-12-17T17:05Z 41.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@Arnold_Platon @weare_notamused Yeah maybe similar to kokoretsi"
X Link 2020-04-19T14:19Z 41.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Describe your favorite archaeological site as boring as possible"
X Link 2020-07-06T12:07Z 42.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The oracular priestess (the Pythia) down in Delphi only gave prophecies 9x per year (on the 7th day after each new moon in spring summer & fall) If you couldnt get an audience with her Pans goatherd in the Korykian Cave could tell your future in a roll of the sacred bones /8"
X Link 2020-08-09T12:42Z 41.5K followers, [---] engagements
"But it was the Pythia who was the most famous prophetess of the ancient world. Shes the one the Athenians consulted when Persia invaded a second time Her oracle of wooden walls led Themistocles to protect the Athenians with their wooden navy while the city itself burned /9"
X Link 2020-08-09T12:42Z 41.5K followers, [---] engagements
"And the ancient Greek city-states knew this too The Athenians Spartans Macedonians & Romans knew that who controlled the oracle could control historys onward march. Wealthy monuments & votives were dedicated in Apollos honor There was no greater prize than the future /14"
X Link 2020-08-09T12:42Z 41.5K followers, [---] engagements
"But despite all these politics none doubted the Pythias ability to speak the future. The only questions for mortals was how to interpret her often cryptic replies For over a thousand years powerful and poor alike sought out an audience with the Pythia /15"
X Link 2020-08-09T12:42Z 41.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Take a load off and read about how the priestess at Pythia would get high on geological vapors and decide the political fate of the ancient Greek world ARCHAEOLOGY THREAD Apollos sanctuary at Delphi is the stuff of legends For over a thousand years the famous oracle foretold the futures and fortunes of the city-states and heroes of ancient Greece This thread explores whether she was stoned on geological vapors /1 https://t.co/l7nsd3eDX6 ARCHAEOLOGY THREAD Apollos sanctuary at Delphi is the stuff of legends For over a thousand years the famous oracle foretold the futures and fortunes of the"
X Link 2020-10-03T18:42Z 41.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@brennawalks Well humans have about [--] trillion cells so a dollar would buy about a hundred and fifty cells"
X Link 2021-01-11T16:04Z 42.6K followers, [--] engagements
"(J/k of course. Zooarchaeology is far more than just IDing a bone to species and anatomy. Plus I am sure I could break this tool with the little broken up bones I regularly ID)"
X Link 2021-09-09T11:45Z 42.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@JacquelynGill Hmmm. Tough A) Vegetation (multi proxy). 🪵💩 plus pollen cores B) CO. 🧊 C) Summer temps. Both 🪵🦪 D) Sea level. 🪸 perhaps some 🦪 can help based on species distribution E) Fire (). 🪵 F) Salinity maybe 🪰 & 🪸"
X Link 2022-08-09T14:26Z 42.3K followers, [--] engagements
"The ngram graphs for ancient astronaut and Ancient Aliens (all capitalizations allowed) track the popularity of Erich von Dnikens book/film Chariots of the Gods in the 70s & 80s as well as the recent uber popularity of @Historys Ancient Aliens /6"
X Link 2022-09-05T19:32Z 42.2K followers, [--] engagements
"But Ancient Aliens is just the tip of the iceberg From ley lines to the toxic alpha male to Flat Earth and crystal healing the last few decades an explosion in the popular use of pseudoscience terms in written English /7"
X Link 2022-09-05T19:32Z 42.2K followers, [--] engagements
"OK a detailed critique of the Homo Naledi burial paper will drop this weekend in honor of my dad"
X Link 2023-06-09T19:20Z 42.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Just gonna leave this here. Grab a scotch and share it with the authors"
X Link 2023-07-12T23:43Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Annoy an archaeologist in one tweet (Bonus if with image)"
X Link 2023-07-14T13:06Z 42.5K followers, 100.5K engagements
"I was told that my methods paper using GIS (geographical information systems) software to map cut marks on bones wasn't GIS because there wasn't any "geography" in it"
X Link 2023-07-20T01:18Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Just found out that this essay was the most read essay by a @cardiffuni scholar in the @conversationuk last year People are interested in real archaeology and will search for facts from experts if we provide them in an accessible and engaging manner"
X Link 2023-08-10T13:22Z 30.2K followers, 11K engagements
"Croesus was rich but he was totally not ruling class. It's about accurately interpreting oracles told by a stoned priestess"
X Link 2023-08-26T12:03Z 41.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Americans genuinely believe they have everything the best. They believe it because most don't travel internationally and everyone just says 'we're the best' Having lived in several countries I can confidently say that ranking cuisines is stupid. Fantastic food is everywhere"
X Link 2023-08-27T07:48Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Unlike Max I've read both the Iliad and Odyssey in ancient Greek and have developed a database comparing animals in ancient Greek texts to animals in archaeology. I've published on animal sacrificial ritual comparing Homeric scenes to archaeology All thanks to @EmilyRCWilson"
X Link 2023-08-27T14:21Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@EmilyRCWilson I've taught myth classes using Emily's translations Her translation 100% does justice to orig. Greek Her tireless advocacy on issues of feminism the relevance of Classics and more are to be praised These attacks are disgusting misogyny spread by politicized culture warriors"
X Link 2023-08-27T14:26Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Exactly. Big tech marketplaces including @ebay and @facebook allow the rampant sale of illegal antiquities and human remains. It is disgusting in how they enable and profit from the plunder of cultural heritage while turning a blind eye"
X Link 2023-08-28T09:12Z 29.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Ryan from @AskeBay seems to be outmatched. He is ignorant of the fact that academics have reported looted and stolen goods on @ebay for over two decades. And nothing has been done to regulate"
X Link 2023-08-28T09:15Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Hell I learned in high school about the concept of 'hubris' and Greek heroes. Odysseus Achilles Oedipus Agamemnon Icarus etc One of the key themes in many Greek myths is that the heroes are assholes who fly too close to the sun (aka act too cocky) and get punished for it"
X Link 2023-08-29T10:48Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"So much knowledge is lost. How many of you know how to: - knap flint into blades to hunt mastodon - shape granite with copper & sand - prepare silphium as an aphrodisiac - perform the sacrifices demanded by the old gods Nobody in our generation does that stuff Y'all are wild"
X Link 2023-09-04T07:05Z 30.2K followers, 29.7K engagements
"@Goldrushcomic Earth was not naturally waning out of the ice Age. Without climate change the Holocene would be an interglacial. We'd be returning to an ice Age in the next few thousand years if we hadn't changed the climate"
X Link 2023-09-05T21:10Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Dude Ice Age hunters gave away most of a mammoth kill to their group. Otherwise it would've rotted"
X Link 2023-09-05T22:59Z 29.9K followers, 17K engagements
"New video The Geoarchaeology of the Sphinx with Bob Schneiker & @SoilManDan Watch & Share A great chat that revolves around but doesn't focus on the Sphinx erosion. Some cool visuals too I'm fond of the older images of the Sphinx we included Link:"
X Link 2023-09-06T17:19Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Hi all with @Graham__Hancock we have postponed our conversation on JRE to mid-April [----]. I am grateful to Graham for agreeing to delay as I'm on therapy medications for metastatic melanoma I am working 50% and will continue to share real archaeology as time & energy permits"
X Link 2023-09-07T11:10Z 29.9K followers, 54.8K engagements
"@Graham__Hancock Thanks"
X Link 2023-09-07T11:36Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Another bit of advice even if several qualified dermatologists say it doesn't look like cancer but offer to remove it. Remove it Three dermatologists said my melanoma didn't look like cancer. The third offered to remove it (it was bleeding slightly). Thankfully I agreed"
X Link 2023-09-08T12:17Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Dude's all about publicity rather than actual archaeology"
X Link 2023-09-09T06:55Z 30.2K followers, 29.8K engagements
"On that note if you like my posts or videos and want to support me and my research always feel free to buy me a coffee at Or subscribe to my patreon at A little goes a long way"
X Link 2023-09-09T11:11Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@antonyaolarsson Also curious if they were privately owned artifacts or not. Did some googling can't find a reference"
X Link 2023-09-09T11:40Z 41.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Did you know the Sphinx was originally carved with a long beard similar to that of Khafre and other pharoahs The beard fragments are now in the British Museum (of course) For more on the Sphinx check out my video on the geoarchaeology of the Sphinx:"
X Link 2023-09-09T14:56Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Yknow what @elonmusk and @stillgray are idiots if they really think this stupid meme represents teachers. That's idiotic and offensive. Most teachers are just teaching what they're hired to teach. And they care about their students. This ignorant misrepresentation is disgusting"
X Link 2023-09-09T20:01Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"As usual @theonion is our modern Oracle of Delphi"
X Link 2023-09-10T14:00Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Or the time I needed a police escort to drive a few crates of animal bones nobody cared about other than me. The officer was pissed I was not transporting sculpture or painted pottery for a museum exhibit. He proceeded to drive 100+ mph on the Greek highway & I had to follow"
X Link 2023-09-10T14:35Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"All applications for this position require a cover letter cv research statement teaching philosophy DEI statement four sample syllabi two writing samples and [--] reference letters. Please launch them into space where we won't read them. #NeverStopExploring #AcademicJobs"
X Link 2023-09-11T22:54Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The irony of a Netflix special where the team promotes just how 'human' Naledi behavior and thus fossils are but a few months later in an official permit for space travel are happy to see these specimens as paleontological and decidedly not human for legal reasons"
X Link 2023-09-12T12:27Z 30.2K followers, 15.6K engagements
"You say 'but if they're aliens shouldn't we expect something different' The people making these claims apparently C14 dated them got & say these are 'fossilized' So carbon based life forms that have DNA and fossilize. Nope they should look like what we expect. Nothingburger"
X Link 2023-09-13T09:10Z 29.9K followers, [----] engagements
"As an environmental archaeologist and historian this take is over the top doomerism and not driven by historical data Even if true there is no effective preparation on an individual/family level for social collapse there is only planning to enact more social resilience"
X Link 2023-09-14T10:37Z 30.2K followers, 14.9K engagements
"The popular concept of a 'collapse of civilization' is bullshit. The fall of the (western) Roman empire was a long term process that took centuries and is mostly visible at an administrative level If anything history shows it's the rich & powerful who should fear social changes"
X Link 2023-09-14T10:39Z 29.9K followers, [----] engagements
"If so many people are pondering the Roman empire each day then why the hell aren't they following more archaeologists and historians on this app Why aren't they telling politicians to fund out research & teaching so we can show y'all cool new things about the Roman empire"
X Link 2023-09-15T14:20Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements
"You might think about the Roman empire a lot but there's a lot you don't know Our first #RomanFact is courtesy of D. Berger Did you know that the null sign next to a gladiator meant s/he died in combat Kalendio died in the match commemorated on this mosaic from Spain /1"
X Link 2023-09-15T15:19Z 30.2K followers, 58K engagements
"If you're seriously replying to this saying masks don't work based on 'common sense' and 'personal experience' you're a dingbat Put on mask. Breathe. Feel the air being filtered Maybe it's not all the air. Ok. But no droplets plus filtered breath reduces the spread of covid"
X Link 2023-09-16T09:59Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"This is so stupid & ahistorical. The Roman Empire wasn't a European feudal monarchy. From Augustus to Tiberius Trajan to Hadrian to frigging Constantine most Roman Emperors did not follow primogeniture. Most were adopted successors or appointed after military victory"
X Link 2023-09-17T09:27Z 30.2K followers, 20.5K engagements
"Confused why so many colleagues follow this guy who claims ancient Rome is a fiction invented by the Catholic Church. Yes to reveiw all the unexamined blindly and repeatedly quoted tales of European past especially mythical story of the origin of Rome that actually evidently appeared after Normans began ruling Arab Sicily in the 11th century. https://t.co/vc9D1EANzb https://t.co/n6qRcMQDDA Yes to reveiw all the unexamined blindly and repeatedly quoted tales of European past especially mythical story of the origin of Rome that actually evidently appeared after Normans began ruling Arab Sicily"
X Link 2023-09-18T15:33Z 42.2K followers, 11.4K engagements
"Interesting how conspiracy theorists demand clear evidence for documented accusations against one of their celebrities. but are fine with minimal evidence for sooooo many of their claims. Just asking questions"
X Link 2023-09-19T07:07Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Since everyone's bored of ancient Rome we can back into real ancient mysteries such as Is this pot tempered with grog What is the state of collagen preservation How does stratum 9a relate to 15c Why is the dang mint mark always illegible What really is a pseudo microburin"
X Link 2023-09-19T12:31Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"This article about Brand reveals the motives for creating conspiracist content. There's money and fame to be had No surprise so many YouTube pseudoarchaeologists also start winking at or outright embracing more dangerous conspiracies"
X Link 2023-09-21T12:32Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Wow pseudoarchaeology YouTuber Jimmy Corsetti is fully embracing the dark side and openly spouting Nazi shit. disgusting"
X Link 2023-09-21T12:44Z 39.8K followers, 71.9K engagements
"But I guess you've got a blue check mark or a large YouTube channel or something Tell me more about how I'm an idiot"
X Link 2023-09-22T14:44Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Oh let's see @thekevlar is the Executive Director of Green Score Canada and interested in sustainability and urbanism Shit I've published on those very topics. So how about you treat scientists with respect. Otherwise not sure how you expect to study these topics"
X Link 2023-09-22T14:47Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"It's an interesting story. My melanoma was first diagnosed a few days after my first Covid vaccine shot on [----] But the biopsy was taken a few days before the shot So. sorry the covid vaccine could not have given me cancer. It was the sun"
X Link 2023-09-22T15:25Z 30.2K followers, 15K engagements
"I sometimes wonder how some of the most powerful people in our world are so gullible as to believe [----] year old propaganda"
X Link 2023-09-27T23:15Z 30.2K followers, 172K engagements
"I sometimes wonder if Alexander the Great was actually descended from Heracles Like the son of Zeus clearly had children. Some of them had children. Enough generations go by and it's not impossible that Alexander was a great great great great great great great son of a jackass"
X Link 2023-09-27T23:28Z 42.2K followers, 12.8K engagements
"@DeDunkingPast But almost everything on Giza is aligned NS-EW. To assume that is ONLY to mark equinox is something needing justification. The alignment is dependent on watching celestial bodies but there can be plentiful methods & symbolic reasons to do so You need to explain serpent better"
X Link 2023-10-01T08:37Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast You've got too much in here to unpack easily on Twitter Not sure I even understand your points in the second half of this post Sigh the Orion thing. Any [--] points nearly in a line match with Orion's belt. It's one of those things that takes squinting and a huge leap of faith"
X Link 2023-10-01T10:40Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@JasonColavito I think the point of the article would work fine if we replaced UFO with demon or ghost Whether these phenomena are real or not (theyre not) their cultural and social impacts are still worthy of study In fact it seems to be a good avenue for understanding why so many believe"
X Link 2023-10-02T19:00Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Twitter at start of Ukraine war: informed threads about the rasputitsa the mud season that bogged down the Russian invasion X right now: videos from different conflicts pretending to be now loud voices advocating genocide fake rumors shared by millions This site sucks now"
X Link 2023-10-11T07:14Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"You do realize that similar polygonal masonry styles existed in ancient Greece where there was no knowledge of maize (corn) It's just an effective and durable way to build a dry stone wall Why do so many people follow these accounts spouting fake stuff"
X Link 2023-10-12T07:59Z 30.2K followers, 126.2K engagements
"I worry for a future where war crimes and human rights violations against civilians are cheered on by people just because of the 'side' they are on. Or even merely sympathize with"
X Link 2023-10-13T09:24Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"After the naledi controversy and now this is 10x worse. Shame on eLife for this threat which has effectively silenced their editor for exercising fair and non-violent political speech. I will never publish in eLife"
X Link 2023-10-15T07:18Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Those countertops are also found in smaller establishments that were probably fast food joints Stew or other food was stored in large ceramic jars under the countertops which could be quickly scooped out for a customer the counters were oriented to advertise to passerbys /4"
X Link 2023-10-15T10:25Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"This map shows how there were even more of these fast-food joints across the city than bakeries Most people in Pompeii who weren't rich lived in tiny one-room apartments. So fast food - I'd guess mostly a quick slurp of stew or soup - was probably their staple diet /5"
X Link 2023-10-15T10:25Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Accounts like Archaeohistories share crap info they've gotten from some crap source found in a quick google For real archaeology follow real archaeologists We at least know how to flush the BS"
X Link 2023-10-15T10:25Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@Nakhthor There is a road from Tirana to Korce and crossing the border near kastoria. But tbh this route is probably faster"
X Link 2023-10-19T19:32Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@Parodyite @ArchaeologyGame @dendromecon27 @DrMDempster @EileenFindlay3 @geology_johnson @irussell21 @J_Green_505 @KUHoopes @lockwooddewitt @lui_log @maniagnosis @mchykerda @pchrysafis @thelegitHiccup not too surprised. i found my engagement dropped in april (people were claiming earlier but that's when i first noticed it) i can still gin it up if i try. but i'm kinda opposed to the ethics of this place don't really plan to delete account yet since i do reach people here"
X Link 2023-10-23T18:09Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@Parodyite @ArchaeologyGame @dendromecon27 @DrMDempster @EileenFindlay3 @geology_johnson @irussell21 @J_Green_505 @KUHoopes @lockwooddewitt @lui_log @maniagnosis @mchykerda @pchrysafis @thelegitHiccup but a lot of my drop off in posting is also due to illness working on shifting to YouTube. slowly but it'll pick up. Got some Halloween shorts in the fix. And have a super hilarious & educational video essay: The Top [--] Penis Bones in Archaeology for early November"
X Link 2023-10-23T18:11Z 41.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Be careful this Halloween Antiquities dealers smuggling artifacts disguised as candy. Check your goodies before someone breaks a tooth Delicious Stone Age amber bear discovered in peat near Supsk Poland #DailyArchaeology Pic: G. Solecki/A. Pitak"
X Link 2023-10-29T14:40Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@NonDestructiv Same with any terrorist or hostage situation. I will always condemn the killing of innocent people It is not the right response from any group The IDF is well equipped and trained. Their brutal killing of so many children is not justified and deserves condemnation"
X Link 2023-11-09T11:27Z 29.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@Emily_Flanders @MatthewPope Totally agree given it's a one off And doubly so now that I've seen a pic of the cortex on the other surface showing just how thin the nodule was Lol on your article title"
X Link 2023-11-10T09:53Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@ArchaeologyGame he called you arrogant and pretentious so i'd say it was a good zinger his jacket is so obvs an attempt to glob off of Indiana Jones. kinda pathetic"
X Link 2023-11-10T16:42Z 29.9K followers, [---] engagements
"The dashboard for the new Tesla Cybertruck looks like it was modeled off an ancient Greek sacrificial altar (Louvre G112) After an accident it will similarly be covered in blood and gore. An altar to 21st century consumerism"
X Link 2023-11-12T16:38Z 29.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @MTB_Archaeology You can't address issues by being overarching. Issues are addressed through specificity This isn't some sort of name calling game. We are scholars who research archaeological phenomena in the past AND how they are perceived today. It's our job. And we do it by being specific"
X Link 2023-11-25T10:51Z 29.8K followers, [--] engagements
"19th c historians: the new movie got bayonets fixed wrong and forgot the Italy campaign which makes it a bad portrayal of military history Prehistorians: Ancient Aliens robs Indigenous people of credit for their monuments and leads some people to conspiracy theories"
X Link 2023-11-25T14:56Z 29.9K followers, 12.3K engagements
"This is the stupidest video and also the stupidest community note. This is definitely NOT one of the theories about how the pyramids were built. We know the pyramids were built out of carved stones. Archaeologists have excavated the quarries and chemically tested the stones"
X Link 2023-11-27T08:04Z 29.9K followers, 21K engagements
"@DeDunkingPast Looks like another example of a grand civilization regressing"
X Link 2023-11-29T09:15Z 29.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Elon Musk is a terrible person for many reasons but him telling large corporations to fuck off isn't one of them. I couldn't give two shits. Not sure how people care so much"
X Link 2023-12-01T08:14Z 29.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@ScottSmialkowsk Because we don't like elon musk There's millions of people who don't like him. Did you see the clip of him booed at a Dave Chappelle show"
X Link 2023-12-01T11:08Z 29.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@ScottSmialkowsk You claim to be for free speech but professors aren't allowed to express their political opinions because it scares you Be an adult. We are both allowed to express ourselves politically on social media. It won't impact how I grade you nor how you treat me in your job"
X Link 2023-12-01T11:15Z 29.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Thinking about converting some of my Twitter threads into YouTube videos. Wondering if any followers have suggestions on which ones people would like to see"
X Link 2023-12-09T12:26Z 29.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Monumental f*kin tombs. We have found sarcophagi and human remains in the pyramids. Ancient Egyptian texts say they were tombs It's so simple & obvious that you'd need to be obtuse to ignore the multiple pieces of evidence that clearly demonstrate the pyramids were looted tombs"
X Link 2023-12-16T01:34Z 29.9K followers, 64.3K engagements
"here's a more recent find of mummified remains from a pyramid currently under study by archaeologists"
X Link 2023-12-16T16:06Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"If you went to Palace of Westminster & dropped a core [--] metres into ground and pulled up a soil sample dated to [-----] years old. Does that mean the Palace of Westminster was built [-----] years ago by ancient humans No it means theres carbon down there thats [-----] years old Some new coverage from the Guardian with quotes from myself @FlintDibble and others. Really really weak: experts attack claim that Indonesia site is worlds oldest building Archaeology The Guardian https://t.co/HBz8remmcq Some new coverage from the Guardian with quotes from myself @FlintDibble and others. Really really weak:"
X Link 2023-12-16T16:57Z 30.3K followers, [----] engagements
"2023 was a terrible lonely and dark year for me. I'm looking forward to a whole lot of light and good vibes as I've got hope for big things to come as these days lengthen into [----] Happy solstice"
X Link 2023-12-22T14:11Z 29.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@ArchaeologyGame yeah i see no reason to dislike clickbait titles. It's funny how many academics dislike them in theory but ofc they all use them in their conference papers most conference papers are (insert cliche or silly pun): The restructuring of academic jargon into clickbait"
X Link 2023-12-23T14:58Z 29.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Ridiculous. Academics especially teachers do not stifle curiosity. I was encouraged not discouraged to write my undergrad honors thesis at Penn on the topic of 'narcotic drugs in ancient Greek magic spells' If anyone had proof for a lost civilization it'd be celebrated When I started pursuing Anthropology seriously it was a goal of mine to make friends with people on both sides of the isle - Ancient Civ theorists & Academics. What Ive seen on the academic side is that many times they are so quick to diffuse any outside curiosity because When I started pursuing Anthropology seriously it was a"
X Link 2023-12-24T08:30Z [--] followers, 15.1K engagements
"Wow a new (to me) historical conspiracy theory I guess it works on people who never travel or make any attempt to understand other cultures https://t.co/cfuae8GX9U https://t.co/cfuae8GX9U"
X Link 2023-12-24T14:48Z [--] followers, 46.2K engagements
"I really think that anyone interested in archaeology who thinks we don't do certain things should read a textbook on the history of archaeological thought All of this is covered. It's basic knowledge about the field. More fundamental than the pyramids or the stone age"
X Link 2023-12-27T08:39Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"But why listen to me I'm just a weird academic"
X Link 2023-12-27T10:26Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"Oh i forgot a few disciplines that collaborate with archaeology Philosophy mathematics materials sciences philosophy religious studies political science ecology psychology geography information science statistics organic chemistry meteorology oceanography and more"
X Link 2023-12-27T11:05Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"If you see this tweet you have to mention one of your favorite paintings. Terror Antiquus by Lon Bakst (1908). It portrays a fictional destruction of Atlantis by a cosmic impact. These ideas popularly spread by Graham Hancock et al. aren't new. Fun fiction but evidence-free If you see this tweet you have to mention one of your favorite paintings. Water Mill by Frits Thaulow at the PMA. Actually several of his paintings there are unbelievable the way the 'light' plays on surfaces is just. dunno you gotta see it https://t.co/P6bC91wRZQ https://t.co/IhnOYJE0gp If you see this tweet you have to"
X Link 2023-12-27T15:16Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Note the actual antiquities included in this painting. The ruins of the Athenian Acropolis Mycenae and Tiryns are faithfully reproduced and lightly embellished. The Archaic kore still shows her original paint (we've known marble statues were painted for a long time)"
X Link 2023-12-27T15:16Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"y'know what's weird about this tweet by @NateSilver538 is it betrays a neo social Darwinism I thought social Darwinism was discredited a loooong time ago. Guess it's making a resurgence in late stage capitalism with direct reference to human evolution boo this man"
X Link 2023-12-27T15:29Z 42K followers, [----] engagements
"ChatGPT is basically a caricature of the worst student. It bullshits confidently providing wrong answers. It invents citations. And yup it's a serial plagiarizer worse than any case mocked in the press Fun to joke around with but an unethical distraction ok I've now read the full NYT complaint filed this morning vs OpenAI and Microsoft. I'm impressed - it's future-focused around fair value for work vital to democracy. It also contains 220k pages of exhibits although the pages of Ex J stood out to me. more on that in a minute. /1 https://t.co/e394EZYCed ok I've now read the full NYT complaint"
X Link 2023-12-28T08:14Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@lukecaverns invented plastic are you off your rocker my dude do you have any idea the process involved to refine petroleum into ethane/propane and then extruded into plastic like I love the Romans and their technology but they had nothing like that this is just clickbait"
X Link 2023-12-28T10:23Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@FossilLocator i've seen community notes that have started to fulfill that function. imperfect but i guess it's something that said these days most ads seems scammy. either pornbots or dropshipping or cryptocurrencies or insert actual scam or semi-scam here"
X Link 2023-12-28T14:53Z 29.9K followers, [---] engagements
"It's not a political position to argue that the term 'Dark Ages' is a misnomer The term misrepresents the evidence for vibrant art literature architecture science and culture after the end of the Roman state in Western Europe and the Western Mediterranean /1 I do not understand what the progressive opinion on the Middle Ages is supposed to be as the two main points I can gather are: 1.) It is an act of ignorance to call them the Dark Ages. 2.) Western Christians were violent primitives strictly inferior to Islamic civilization. I do not understand what the progressive opinion on the Middle"
X Link 2023-12-28T18:10Z 30.2K followers, 31.7K engagements
"I dunno. I've taught my cat to come when I call and play fetch. Still trying to get him leash trained Cats aren't dogs. They do LOVE you just in their own cat way. #cats https://t.co/BYPmXM6k7D Cats aren't dogs. They do LOVE you just in their own cat way. #cats https://t.co/BYPmXM6k7D"
X Link 2023-12-28T19:11Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"@Dan_Jeffries1 Writers who learn from Hemingway's style buy the books to read him and emulate him (or borrow them from libraries that bought them) Future quarterbacks watch Tom Brady on Fox alongside the commercials that cover the free broadcast or pay to subscribe to ESPN or NFL Network"
X Link 2023-12-29T00:33Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"what actual discipline doesn't require knowing the minutiae of the subject itself that's why we have experts - historians - that train for years. same for every discipline that experience is no longer valued. people want the internet or ChatGPT to provide instant satisfaction This is why I frankly detest history as a discipline. It has no tests no counterfactuals it relies on telling a story which cannot be checked by anyone who doesnt know the minutiae of the subject themselves. We cannot ever tell what has been omitted. The thread is bs btw. This is why I frankly detest history as a"
X Link 2023-12-30T15:16Z [--] followers, 70.8K engagements
"@ArchaeologyGame nah i mean i think that's part of today's attitude but i also think that history has always suffered from everyone thinking they can do it it's so personal. it's your family ethnicity culture country etc. it's ingrained in your identity"
X Link 2023-12-30T15:21Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"oh. you mean actual history is less interesting than fantasy that pretends to be history again. sorry not sorry (and you're clearly too lazy to look at all the absolutely fascinating and interesting real history out there)"
X Link 2023-12-30T15:33Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"want some fun history why not learn about archaeological dick bones (seriously it even includes the first penis bone I ever studied)"
X Link 2023-12-30T15:50Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast With regards to Hancock's reliance on colonial sources That is a major flaw in argumentation All of archaeology has been challenging itself to rely less on biased sources for several decades So it's a mistake we can all recognize"
X Link 2023-12-30T18:18Z 29.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast It's the way communities are framed. Archaeology is heterogenous I engage w/ Greek colleagues & their scholarship in Greek ditto German French etc I engage w/ landowners government employees administrators and other stakeholders How often do you see those various sides"
X Link 2023-12-30T18:22Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast No. What I'm trying to say is on social media you just see the tip of the iceberg The 1% of us who are on here and the 1% of them who care enough about pseudoarchaeology and have a desire to engage with it @FlintDibble You're doing exactly what I laid out in my post. This is double standards. You go to numbers of archeologists around the globe but when talking Clovis First you compartmentalize. When you need them numbers you dump the compartments. It's party loyalty not logic I see. @FlintDibble You're doing exactly what I laid out in my post. This is double standards. You go"
X Link 2023-12-30T18:23Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Yet so many Classics students go to modern Greece and make the misstep of trying to speak ancient Greek (yes I've heard many stories about this over beers) The most unrealistic thing about Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was the idea of an archaeologist who knows a dead language well enough to converse fluently with an ancient Greek impromptu The most unrealistic thing about Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was the idea of an archaeologist who knows a dead language well enough to converse fluently with an ancient Greek impromptu"
X Link 2023-12-31T09:55Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"none of this is true. people did drink water for all of human history. it's an inaccurate urban legend that they didn't and beer brewers and wine vintners didn't think about 'market share' hundreds of years ago. they were mom and pop operations compared to today's mega corps Beer and wine groups formed powerful opposition groups to coffee seeing it as a competing product that encroached on their market share. For the vast majority of history people didn't drink water because it was tremendously unsafe but they did drink beer and wine that was Beer and wine groups formed powerful opposition"
X Link 2024-01-01T11:18Z [--] followers, 12.6K engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @SoilManDan @irussell21 Telling Indigenous people that the Atlantis story from Plato actually explains their world creation myths is definitely not respecting their beliefs In fact it's reiterating and adapting a narrative created by many actual colonizers during the process of colonization"
X Link 2024-01-04T09:43Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @SoilManDan @irussell21 Really Read this thread written by me where I basically say that about a colleague. Sorry just started youtubing I haven't addressed any topic in detail yet other than animal bones and Greece (my research) Not many archaeologists on YouTube either New thread As an archaeological scientist I want to voice my condemnation of Weiss's approach to archaeological science 1/ this is a straw man argument. Nobody has called to bury the White Sands footprints. From what I've seen many indigenous scholars approve of this research"
X Link 2024-01-04T16:19Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @SoilManDan @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @irussell21 this is what hte SAA letter says: 'His claim for an advanced global civilization that existed during the Ice Age and was destroyed by comets is not new. This theory has been presented debated and refuted for at least [---] years.'"
X Link 2024-01-05T10:13Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @SoilManDan @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @irussell21 i am showing you how scholarship proceeds and how scholars do research and make arguments. that's why i'm taking the time to reply here i'd prefer you to see the larger field if you're going to report on it rather than just the small subset"
X Link 2024-01-05T10:28Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @SoilManDan @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @irussell21 without having a formal education in archaeology your impressions of it are based on what has come across your social media/youtube feeds which is great. you're interested. but it's only one small slice of archaeology and scholarship. the small slice addresses pseudoarchaeology"
X Link 2024-01-05T10:29Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @SoilManDan @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @irussell21 nope"
X Link 2024-01-05T10:37Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @SoilManDan @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @irussell21 you talk about Atlantis hunting. Letter doesn't. You talk about hyperdiffusionism. Letter doesn't. You talk about Donnelly not being first. Letter also mentions this"
X Link 2024-01-05T10:46Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @SoilManDan @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @irussell21 and again it is problematic for white supremacist reasons. Actual Nazis adapted Donnelly's narrative (transmitted via theosophy) Actual neo-Nazis write in their journals and blogs about Hancock's 'white civilization' addressing this is important and your quibbles aren't"
X Link 2024-01-05T10:48Z 29.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @SoilManDan @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @irussell21 whether donnelly started this or not doesn't matter. it's still racist"
X Link 2024-01-05T10:53Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @SoilManDan @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @irussell21 white people see large monuments built by non-white people and imagine it's white people or mythical giants or advanced aliens from outer space who built it and claim it's all a fun counterfactual"
X Link 2024-01-05T10:54Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"This dude actually licks a stolen artifact and encourages others to do so. Get your archaeology from real archaeologists who understand the evidence and ethical and legal issues that matter today"
X Link 2024-01-05T12:32Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"@TetroUKofficial I wish but I've seen many pseudoarchaeologists breaking cultural heritage law Illegally trespassing on sites analyzing illegally looted artifacts publishing photos/drone videos of monuments without permits They don't bother to learn laws they just care about their own shit"
X Link 2024-01-05T13:26Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@KayleighHistory can confirm this is crap. i specifically measure oxygen with a mass spec talked about it in this lecture:"
X Link 2024-01-05T14:58Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Our critique is needed and available when people search the internet for critical info It helps prevent people from being duped by people who make shit up (like this dude who just makes up sciency sounding stuff)"
X Link 2024-01-05T15:11Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"This is appropriate as FB reminded me that today is the one year anniversary of some conspiracy theorist accusing me of being a made up person It's over guys. He caught me. I'm @FlintDibble https://t.co/68B0VQCKsw It's over guys. He caught me. I'm @FlintDibble https://t.co/68B0VQCKsw"
X Link 2024-01-05T15:31Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"go to any (modern or ancient) cemetery with monumental tombs a tomb is never just a tomb and no archaeologist teaching intro archaeology would let off students so easy tombs like all monuments are used to communicate messages of belief identity power/wealth and more 3/4"
X Link 2024-01-06T11:38Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"read any intro textbook on ancient Egypt and the author(s) never stops at calling the pyramids tombs nope they are situated within religious dynastic historical political and economic contexts archaeologists aren't simplistic. we interpret monuments in many ways /end"
X Link 2024-01-06T11:38Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"First naledi now this. What is the obsession with sending human remains to space I don't know details but this feels so crass like a dog marking territory. The family of some billionaire getting bragging rights about daddy's finger on the moon NASA responds to Navajo Nation's request to delay private mission placing human remains on the moon https://t.co/AxgzhIbvqL https://t.co/6ZzNOuJT1C NASA responds to Navajo Nation's request to delay private mission placing human remains on the moon https://t.co/AxgzhIbvqL https://t.co/6ZzNOuJT1C"
X Link 2024-01-06T13:57Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"I cannot emphasize enough. I have excavated on dozens of sites and studied materials from dozens more Archaeology is fragile. There are good reasons cultural heritage laws are in place This buffoon and others like him encourage people to think it's all fun and games"
X Link 2024-01-07T11:57Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"So many people get their understanding of archaeology from movies and from jackass 'influencers' on social media or YouTube I'm here to tell you that they are frigging wrong. Archaeologists work hard to uncover and preserve cultural heritage. It's a job not fun and games"
X Link 2024-01-07T11:57Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Ancient aliens is colonialist twaddle Who were the alien influencers who guided ancient civilizations and imparted their extraterrestrial knowledge #AncientAliens https://t.co/mFSm55t9br Who were the alien influencers who guided ancient civilizations and imparted their extraterrestrial knowledge #AncientAliens https://t.co/mFSm55t9br"
X Link 2024-01-08T08:45Z 30.2K followers, 24.4K engagements
"@AncientAliens Nah this meme is pretty dang accurate"
X Link 2024-01-08T08:45Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast Nah a show that travels around and predominantly claims monuments built by non white people were designed by aliens is racist it takes away credit from these non white people And the most popular proponent of the idea von daniken has written some extremely racist shit"
X Link 2024-01-08T09:27Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast Then why do these theories focus on non white ancient civilizations It's never the colosseum built by aliens or designed by atlantean sages it's mesoamerica Africa and the Pacific. Areas that were colonized by europeans"
X Link 2024-01-08T09:42Z 29.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast And from a cultural heritage perspective it damages the sites. Yes we know that lots of people tramping around sites that aren't undergoing constant maintenance destroys them Didn't know that [---] years ago. Now we do"
X Link 2024-01-08T09:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast Why should everyone else have to follow the local laws except pseudoarchaeology youtubers Archaeologists locals tourists people making real documentaries. All have to follow the law But [--] yr old youtubers. nah they don't have to"
X Link 2024-01-08T09:52Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast Dude I just yesterday posted a link to my thread with like [--] examples with specific passages from his books Posted it to you in earlier conversations too I'm not gonna repost it ten times"
X Link 2024-01-08T10:01Z 29.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast I've called out the British Museum plenty recently on here My university's archaeology collection here at Cardiff is AFAIK only UK artifacts or currently studied artifacts with clear legal permissions for temporary study That said I've only been here [--] years"
X Link 2024-01-08T10:16Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@AncientPuzzles @DeDunkingPast i don't know what hancock's intentions are it's why i've never called him racist. but he does uncritically repeat racist ideas about skin color as i quote here. and that leads to explicit racists using his books to justify superior white civilization @DeDunkingPast ok i've pulled out my citations. geez. making me do actual academic work here when i've already written this shit again citing Donnelly isn't hte problem it's uncritically agreeing with his points about skin color no precolumbian source cites white skinned people https://t.co/LsWVMqxTXR @DeDunkingPast"
X Link 2024-01-08T11:22Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@BadScienceNews @lukecaverns I hope my conversation with Luke wasn't seen as bullying That said he has over a million followers runs a for profit business that includes a production and filming team From what I see he is not one I think is constantly breaking heritage laws or encouraging others to do so"
X Link 2024-01-08T11:51Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@BadScienceNews @lukecaverns As I told him I hope he reads up more on laws and ethics involved in cultural heritage and works to promote an ethical archaeology I plan to look more into social media archaeology and the legal and ethical issues involved in the future but have accused nobody of anything yet"
X Link 2024-01-08T11:52Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @AncientPuzzles huh no scholar has thought white people have lived in precolumbian america for a very very long time. certainly not in the 1980/90s maybe in the 1880s Nor was I taught that in middle school Hancock wasn't citing contemporary account but much later Spanish or American sources"
X Link 2024-01-08T15:55Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@Parodyite @BadScienceNews @thelegitHiccup @lukecaverns Add to this other platforms where he has a larger reach and surely is what funds his research trips equipment etc. He is a big social media star for archaeology topics on FB TikTok and Insta"
X Link 2024-01-09T09:00Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@jtlewis_arch @DeDunkingPast @AncientPuzzles In the end it doesn't matter what we were taught in middle school By mid 20th c at least no scholar believed that white people lived in the Americas. There was overwhelming evidence against it Pre-Columbian Aztec and Maya sources never portrayed Quetzalcoatl with white skin"
X Link 2024-01-09T09:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@jtlewis_arch @DeDunkingPast @AncientPuzzles No scholar in the 1980s or 1990s or 1950s thought that Quetzalcoatl was a white skinned foreigner No but Hancock did. Why Well he cites Ignatius Donnelly on that"
X Link 2024-01-09T09:26Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@jtlewis_arch @DeDunkingPast @AncientPuzzles Hancock's source both in Fingerprints and Magician for Quetzalcoatl being white skinned and bearded is Ignatius Donnelly And he quotes him on this and repeats his arguments about skin color with regards to Quetzalcoatl. This is specifically what I call him out for. QED"
X Link 2024-01-09T09:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"A damn shame. It's also impossible to read Lord of the Rings or watch the Avengers w/o copyrighted material. It's impossible to do a lot of things w/o copyrighted material. Not sure why AI companies get to ignore the laws the rest of us have to follow"
X Link 2024-01-09T10:19Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@Pompeiana79 Yeah I think there's room for discussions on value & role of copyright In that discussion (as in discussions of fair use exceptions) I also think context matters eg a for profit AI company vs a non-profit university vs a for profit academic publjsher vs a social media post"
X Link 2024-01-09T13:41Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles Look man I've provided you screenshots from books and examples from pre-Columbian manuscripts Find me actual examples of peer reviewed scholarship saying white people lived in the Americas or you've got nothing"
X Link 2024-01-09T13:42Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles And if there's 100s of examples you could at least provide [--] for me Peer reviewed archaeology scholarship I've provided [--] precolumbian images of quetzalcoatl. I've provided [--] quotes from [--] Hancock books discussing skin color I've done my job. Tell me I'm wrong. Prove it"
X Link 2024-01-09T13:46Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles If you can find [--] examples of peer reviewed archaeology from the 1960s claiming white people lived in the Americas I will concede Otherwise you're just goading here. Asking for evidence to support our claims and nada for yours"
X Link 2024-01-09T13:47Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles This isn't a reference that says that. I'm very familiar with this book. And nothing on that page states that 1960s scholars believed white people lived in pre-Columbian americas That page is referring to Spanish colonists creating the myth of cortes as quetzalcoatl"
X Link 2024-01-09T13:50Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles I agree with you that many historians wrongly wrote the idea that Indigenous people believed cortes as quetzalcoatl But what I said was no 1960s historians believed white people lived in pre-Columbian America. I think you're trying to argue against something I didn't say"
X Link 2024-01-09T13:52Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles I'm not changing positions I specifically said 'By mid 20th c at least no scholar believed that white people lived in the Americas. There was overwhelming evidence against it' You told me I was wrong. But then you try to prove something else that I didn't say"
X Link 2024-01-09T14:00Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles Here's screenshot There's a paragraph break indicating a change in topic to the 3rd paragraph: 'Pre-Columbian Aztec and Maya sources never portrayed Quetzalcoatl with white skin' I then provided images to verify this point (which is a different point from previous paragraph)"
X Link 2024-01-09T14:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles So if you're saying the content in this tweet is wrong you either need to prove hundreds of 1960s scholars believed white people lived in pre-Columbian America's at some point OR You need to find pre-Columbian sources depicting quetzalcoatl with white skin"
X Link 2024-01-09T14:04Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"My new paper presents examples of ancient Greek painted pottery generated by free AI Can you pick out the non-AI image Our new paper uses Bayesian astrochronology to date the origin of trilobites with extreme precision. Read it here: https://t.co/GERJoSDXo7 https://t.co/1h32IGxmyU Our new paper uses Bayesian astrochronology to date the origin of trilobites with extreme precision. Read it here: https://t.co/GERJoSDXo7 https://t.co/1h32IGxmyU"
X Link 2024-01-09T15:22Z [--] followers, 37.4K engagements
"It's not a meme unless it's from the mimolette region of France otherwise it's just a quote tweet It's not plagiarism unless it's from the Plagiarsme region of France otherwise it's just Sparkling Theft. It's not plagiarism unless it's from the Plagiarsme region of France otherwise it's just Sparkling Theft"
X Link 2024-01-09T23:37Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @deetzzz_ @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles I was in middle school in [--] and was not taught anything about white people in the Americas. In fact was taught the opposite"
X Link 2024-01-11T19:39Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@AncientPuzzles @jtlewis_arch @ArchaeologyGame @WanderinBritchz @DSAArchaeology @DeDunkingPast The reason we say that Graham's ideas promote white supremacy is because of his statements about white skinned wise sages teaching Indigenous people 'civilization' If he had not brought up false info about race it wouldn't be abused by racists @DeDunkingPast ok i've pulled out my citations. geez. making me do actual academic work here when i've already written this shit again citing Donnelly isn't hte problem it's uncritically agreeing with his points about skin color no precolumbian source cites"
X Link 2024-01-12T07:51Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@AncientPuzzles @jtlewis_arch @ArchaeologyGame @WanderinBritchz @DSAArchaeology @DeDunkingPast Neo nazis and overt racists highlight graham's ideas as being about a white civilization because of these statements he's written This is the problem. Graham has made many wrong statements about ancient skin color that regardless of intention are both wrong and used by racists"
X Link 2024-01-12T07:54Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @ArchaeologyGame @WanderinBritchz @DSAArchaeology how has the SAA letter harmed you seriously what did it say about Dan Dedunker Did it lead to people sending you hate mail on every platform To people sending letters to your employer To people leaving fake reviews I get this shit all the time. BBQ my cat"
X Link 2024-01-12T10:38Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@DeDunkingPast @jtlewis_arch @AncientPuzzles @ArchaeologyGame @WanderinBritchz @DSAArchaeology I have been called out in right wing blogs & online newspapers with crude insults I have been insulted for my name appearance cancer treatment profession and more in private messages and publicc posts on every social media platform and ofc via my publicly accessible email"
X Link 2024-01-12T10:39Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"@irussell21 @DeDunkingPast @ArchaeologyGame @ktibus @WanderinBritchz @AncientPuzzles @jtlewis_arch @DSAArchaeology I want to be very clear. The sentence in letter that Dan claims is wrong doesn't say what he thinks it says. He made a large YouTube video (mostly debunking one of Miano's) about how Atlantis hunting didn't originate with Ignatius Donnelly. Which Dan is very right it didn't"
X Link 2024-01-13T10:25Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@irussell21 @DeDunkingPast @ArchaeologyGame @ktibus @WanderinBritchz @AncientPuzzles @jtlewis_arch @DSAArchaeology In hte letter the sentence Dan has an issue with the only one that even brings up Donnelly doesn't state that though. It says he was hte originator of the larger narrative of Atlantis as an Ice Age civilization that survived a comet @DeDunkingPast Dude it says a theory about an advanced Ice Age civilization that was destroyed by a comet dates back to Donnelly It does https://t.co/PGNG42lGSv @DeDunkingPast Dude it says a theory about an advanced Ice Age civilization that was"
X Link 2024-01-13T10:25Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@ArchaeologyGame @maniagnosis @DeDunkingPast @AncientPuzzles @jtlewis_arch @WanderinBritchz @DSAArchaeology I had no idea Atlantis was associated with a racist group until I made an innocent post saying it wasn't real. I was a small Twitter account at the time. Under 10k. Somehow a few pseudoarcheaology influencers got a hold of it Bombarded by racist comments"
X Link 2024-01-13T19:59Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@ArchaeologyGame @maniagnosis @DeDunkingPast @AncientPuzzles @jtlewis_arch @WanderinBritchz @DSAArchaeology I make a thread about how the Oracle of Delphi was stoned. Super popular. Some stoner jokes. General nerding out. People saying 'Awesome' I make a thread about how a TV called Hunting Atlantis is bunk. Bombarded by hatred. All kinds of racist sexist comments in replies"
X Link 2024-01-13T20:00Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@albedojourney @Graham__Hancock I just don't see how Graham gets the credit in your mind for the hard work of these other archaeologists We have other evidence for Paleolithic structures. Huts in wattle and daub or stone soles or larger buildings made of mammoth tusks We expected to find more"
X Link 2024-01-14T11:17Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@albedojourney @Graham__Hancock Ditto with Amazon. A lot has been published frkm that region in last [--] or so years from many periods of human activity Archaeology is a huge field with new stuff found presented and published every day But strangely none of it is evidence for an advanced Ice Age civilization"
X Link 2024-01-14T11:19Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@albedojourney @Graham__Hancock Do I agree with my colleagues who flock to Hancock's social media every tweet Probably not. I'm not sure it's effective. But I understand their frustration at his fans giving him credit for stuff that has nothing to do with him instead of credit to scholars who did the woek"
X Link 2024-01-14T11:21Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@albedojourney @Graham__Hancock With every new discovery & analysis we are rewriting human history. And that's cool. But it's a bit too easy to overemphasize that & start ranking these things when in fact it won't be another [--] years till we see which ones really did impact the larger archaeological consensus"
X Link 2024-01-14T11:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@albedojourney @Graham__Hancock sorry just cause your replies are interspersed. i think we're on the same page i'd say Hancock calling attn to America Before seems to imply he was 'right' or something but these projects in Ecuador started (and were reported on) before he published America Before"
X Link 2024-01-14T12:40Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Actually this is a politician distributing bread. Modern politicians should give away free food instead of spending money on ads A painting from Pompeii showing the sale of bread https://t.co/nD9k7JRnoi A painting from Pompeii showing the sale of bread https://t.co/nD9k7JRnoi"
X Link 2024-01-14T15:07Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"This is why people need to follow more real historians and archaeologists https://t.co/rQnK7EqYCV https://t.co/rQnK7EqYCV"
X Link 2024-01-14T17:01Z 29.9K followers, 32K engagements
"Not a good analogy. In Greece after [----] BCE people were still growing crops & herding animals. They still lived in villages and towns. No slash and burn. If you're interested I have an article on how people adapted to climate change in Iron Age Greece: the collapse of city-based civilizations in the amazon [----] years ago and regression back to foraging and slash and burn cultivation shows how deep and steep collapse can be. but the same seems to have happened in neolithic europe [----] years ago or in greece after [----] BC the collapse of city-based civilizations in the amazon [----] years ago"
X Link 2024-01-14T17:23Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@razibkhan Greece is not a good analogy here People still lived in towns and villages. Many of the same ones. Still grew the same crops and raised the same animals. And did (eventually) adapt to the changing climate https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618221002445 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618221002445"
X Link 2024-01-14T17:24Z 41.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@razibkhan @SamoBurja Dude I'm an archaeologist and this is bunk. We have thousands of sites from the Ice Age. Millions of artifacts and millions of animal bones and seeds to show diet. Ditto isotopes and now dna from oral microbiome Surprised to see you say this absolute wrong thing"
X Link 2024-01-14T18:10Z 30.2K followers, 24.2K engagements
"@SamoBurja @razibkhan Read it. You jump around from famous site to famous site in a superficial manner that disconnects each from its own context Your fantasy civilization is so fantastical that it not only requires finding hundreds of sites it requires finding new domesticated species"
X Link 2024-01-14T21:35Z 29.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@SamoBurja @razibkhan You don't seem to recognize the spatial coverage archaeology actually has In most countries any new serious construction project requires archaeology. Each state in the US each country in the world has thousands of investigated sites"
X Link 2024-01-14T21:37Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@SamoBurja @razibkhan Proposing some enormous settled Ice Age civilization dependent upon agriculture and domesticated animals is not just lacking evidence our existing evidence contradicts it"
X Link 2024-01-14T21:38Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@SamoBurja @razibkhan And lastly the narrative of an emergence of civilization is dated. Like way dated We recognize now the variability in the processes of domestication urbanism monumentality and the development of political administration"
X Link 2024-01-14T21:39Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@Genophilee @razibkhan 3) underwater archaeology off of Israel is a major subfield. Many shipwrecks and settlements have been found via systematic surveying and in some cases excavation. If such a site existed wed have evidence at this point"
X Link 2024-01-16T08:03Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@Genophilee @razibkhan 4) One new site adds to picture doesn't change it completely. Imagine if Paris was French site we didn't have. We'd still have Bordeaux Toulouse etc. Discovering Paris would be big but it wouldn't upend everything else. We'd still have good idea of French culture without it"
X Link 2024-01-16T08:06Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Sigh. Why is this crap going viral 1) no 2) it's not myth it's a story in a fictional Roman novel 3) no 4) the Romans never used or experimented with petroleum so nowhere near inventing plastic 5) no 6) who repairs plastic with a hammer 7) no 6) follow real archaeologists Have you guys heard the story about the Roman guy who invented plastic and the emperor got freaked out and had him executed https://t.co/fmlRAeHejy Have you guys heard the story about the Roman guy who invented plastic and the emperor got freaked out and had him executed https://t.co/fmlRAeHejy"
X Link 2024-01-18T11:04Z 30.2K followers, 25.2K engagements
"Nah Toilets was the dude who wrote the coprolite theorem: time turns all shit to stone The function rooms in this #Athens hotel are all named after famous #Greeks. Can't place the last one. Was he killed in the #Iliad https://t.co/UyZz8UupwV The function rooms in this #Athens hotel are all named after famous #Greeks. Can't place the last one. Was he killed in the #Iliad https://t.co/UyZz8UupwV"
X Link 2024-01-20T03:24Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"This is called looting. It destroys archaeological context and is disrespectful to cultural heritage Do not pick up and collect artifacts. Take photos of a scatter and contact a local museum North America is just LITTERED with Stone arrowheads. Indians shot arrows at deer in the woods for tens of thousands of years and lost some huge fraction of them. This is like being upset in year [----] AD that someone collected [---] Ancient American beer cans. North America is just LITTERED with Stone arrowheads. Indians shot arrows at deer in the woods for tens of thousands of years and lost some huge"
X Link 2024-01-20T14:13Z 30.2K followers, 43K engagements
"@irussell21 Hey Zeke. I see what you're saying but also think that you're an example of new ways to inspire youth. Many more people can follow you as you hike a similar path film some arrowheads and explain why they're interesting and why you'd never collect them"
X Link 2024-01-21T12:51Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@irussell21 Tbh it's still possible to do it in person. Show but not collect I'd hope the finite & fragile nature of the archaeological record is an important lesson in conservation & respect for cultural heritage. Also an introduction to different groups of people today w/ different values"
X Link 2024-01-21T12:54Z 30.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@irussell21 I guess my main point is that really it's us teachers that inspire not the object itself I hate to admit that pieces of flint are actually quite dull without the stories and lessons and points that they reveal about past people"
X Link 2024-01-21T12:56Z 29.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@nsamimi9 Yep. That's the hard lesson to learn. None is the key. Not one"
X Link 2024-01-22T04:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"@nsamimi9 But I will say once you get to that point where those habitual mental triggers lessen it is much easier (Tho an occasional situation will pop up where it's tough and you gotta fight. And even more occasionally you'll have an idle thought a cigarette right now would be awesome)"
X Link 2024-01-22T04:30Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"This video is terrible and disgusting. Not nearly as terrible and disgusting as killing tens of thousands of civilians. But as an archaeologist I am appalled at the cavalier attitude of this video Eli Escusido the director of the Israeli Antiquities Authority shares a video documenting the theft of archaeological artifacts from Gaza. https://t.co/BcQQQDVXt9 Eli Escusido the director of the Israeli Antiquities Authority shares a video documenting the theft of archaeological artifacts from Gaza. https://t.co/BcQQQDVXt9"
X Link 2024-01-22T04:53Z 30.2K followers, 18.3K engagements
"@shaboom @ISASaxonists Plus I don't think this video really is relevant to the British Museum who largely plundered antiquities on the ground (sawing and taking marbles from Acropolis) or religious icons or dug not just coming upon an archaeological storeroom like this and rejoicing at the ease"
X Link 2024-01-22T11:52Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
"I had a super busy weekend so wanted to reshare this article by @AylinWoodward in the @wsj that examines the misleading and dishonest presentation of archaeology on Netflix's Ancient Apocalypse and Cave of Bones A few thoughts in this minithread 1/7 These Netflix Documentaries Are Hits. Scientists Hate Them. @AylinWoodward reports for #WSJScience https://t.co/NZrsKXpUuE via @WSJ These Netflix Documentaries Are Hits. Scientists Hate Them. @AylinWoodward reports for #WSJScience https://t.co/NZrsKXpUuE via @WSJ"
X Link 2024-01-23T21:26Z 30.2K followers, [----] engagements
"I think so much of the discourse around these shows has focused on the characters. Graham Hancock and Lee Berger are very different people but they are similar in that they are celebrities So much conversation on social media revolves around their character 2/7"
X Link 2024-01-23T21:26Z 30.2K followers, [--] engagements
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