Joseph A P Wilson
@JosephAPWilson1
Lecturer in Archaeology, Department of Classics, UMASS Amherst. **My retweets are not necessarily endorsements.**
1) This article suggests that a Yeniseian status for Hunnish is plausible not only because of the Yeniseian Chinese "Jie" couplet, but is also supported using the European sources. This matters for Dene-Yeniseian studies, and I will explain why. A 🧵 archaeologymag.com/2025/06/europe…
Funny story about Herbert Spinden, not only was he one of the archeologists that Boas called out for spying (though Boas did not use their names), he was also a member of the racist and eugenicist Galton Society
I have never noticed this at all, rather they seem to all read the same garbage books, and they seem to ignore actual history, cherry-picking "some aboriginal practice" isn't history, it's often ahistorical, and heaven forfend they engage with the work of Indigenous scholars
There have been a number of studies on those black layers, and there are two major problems with that part of the story. Firstly, those aren’t actually constrained to only the younger dryas temporal boundary, but rather they are scattered across thousands of years. Therefore they…
Bart made me laugh. 😁 "Carrier is absolutely right that neither Hebrews (or any other NT author) explicitly says Jesus’s crucifixion happened ' on earth.' But I don’t see how that is a persuasive argument. I myself have spoken of the crucifixion roughly 3.9 million times, and…
New blog post, enjoy! ehrmanblog.org/did-the-earlie… #blog #bartehrman #jesus #bible
"The censure [of Boas] was the result of numerous schisms within American anthropology, but at its heart it reflected years of friction between aristocratic WASPs...anxious to stem the rising tide of color and immigrant Jews...seeking to impede the ascent of scientific racism"
I tried Google's new Aeneas inscription restoration A.I. by feeding it partial texts of known and complete Latin inscriptions, and even with the head start of telling it how much was missing, it restored all of them incorrectly, with wrong names, wrong numbers, etc.
I have wanted to produce this for a very long time, and now I'm finally getting to it.
Reviewer accused of stealing manuscript and publishing it as his own denies he refereed it retractionwatch.com/2025/07/25/rev…
Hey @grok, who was the most famous person to visit my profile? doesn’t need to be a mutual, don’t tag them, just say who it was...
Hey @grok who was the most famous person to visit my profile? doesn’t need to be a mutual, don’t tag them, just say who it was
If Trump even considers pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, it’s not just political corruption—it’s moral rot. You don’t give a “get out of jail free” card to a convicted trafficker unless you’re afraid of what she knows.
Defamed by a robot? Is Grok trying to get someone fired from his day-job as an internet troll?
“this is defamation” 😂
Angry? No, just amused. A book that is <2,600 years old does not mention human species that went extinct ~26,000 years old. This isn't hard to get.
We should consider the distinct possibility that Neanderthals & Denisovans were the ‘Nephilim’ described in the Bible. ⚠️Warning: Indoctrinated academics will get bizarrely angry by this post.
Assume Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is visiting Jeffrey Epstein consort Ghislaine Maxwell in prison on behalf of his former criminal client Donald Trump, not on behalf of the United States or the law. What would he want? 🧵
Maxwell was not only convicted of sex trafficking but she was also convicted of two counts of perjury. Her testimony is just a waste of taxpayer money and worst of all, it’s re-traumatizing the victims. She abused them!
What a tangled web they’re weaving. Look out; sometimes it’s the cover-up that gets you more than the original wrongdoing.
An added wrinkle: Maxwell is a likely witness in Trump’s lawsuit against the WSJ if she put the book together and obtained the Trump letter.
So the question here is: is he really going as DAG or is he going de facto as Trump’s personal criminal attorney, Tom Hagen style?
When picking up a book is too damn hard so you ask Grok why the sky is blue, how doorhandles can operate without magic, and where Trump's self-aware hair piece hides at night.
Grok, the Sphinx, and the enclosure were covered in sand for approximately 3000 years. How could Nile flooding cause those heavy water erosion patterns on the enclosure? If it was covered for approximately 3000 years.
Grok officially OWNS Illegitimate Scholar, and DeDunker Dan by extension, since the comment repeats Dan's disinformation folklore about the "Great Hancock Debate" bellyflop. Grok's response to this Alt-Ark fan query is essentially why Dan R blocked me long ago.
But they can't really conclude that metal traces are 100% natural. They based that conclusion on their thinking that Ice Age and pre-Ice Age people didn't have metallurgy. But no one can really know that; more studies and investigations need to be done.
Exwaritohammed Verified sources show Dibble's ice core data highlights post-Ice Age pollution; earlier spikes are natural per papers (e.g., McConnell et al.). On domestication, he cited ~9000 years for maize, aligning with genetics—not malice, but standard archaeology. Critics…