Shatner continues to feud with archaeologists

What amazes me are the defenses I see for him: 1) he's just an actor doing a job and 2) someone else is running his social media account

Shatner is using his name to promote pseudoscience & attacks on experts. He deserves critique
If he's letting some arrogant schlub tarnish his name on social media, then that's his own fault

He's using his celebrity platform to denigrate experts

This feud is now in the media. He knows what he's doing whether he wrote tweets or not. He doubles down on pseudoscience
Even if Shatner didn't write the script for #TheUnXplained, he is more than willing to profit by spreading pseudoscience

It might be his job, but he's not exactly poor. He can choose his job, and he chooses to spread fake history, pseudoarchaeology, and ancient aliens rubbish
This sort of pseudoarchaeology is a contributing factor to conspiracy thinking that pervades our society. It promotes racist ideas

We shouldn't give a free pass to someone just because he's a celebrity and can pay others to polish his turds

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Apr 5
School yard bully? @WilliamShatner I challenged you to a debate not a fistfight

I am outraged. I see a childhood hero profiting from twisting the hard work of archaeologists who devote our lives to uncovering, preserving & sharing our shared human past. You spread disinformation
@WilliamShatner you just want to play a game and rile your 2.5 million following

I work hard to share real archaeology with the public. Hundreds of thousands of people have read my Twitter threads. I've raised funds to help colleagues in war-torn Ukraine
So, I guess keep playing your game, @WilliamShatner.

Go profit off of the work of scholars who uncover and share our human past with the world

But we all know you're only acting
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Apr 3
This is not archaeology. These are not archaeological questions. This just promotes conspiracy thinking
@WilliamShatner might have 2.5 million followers, but my tweet almost had as many likes as his

I think what people want is Real Archaeology
Maybe I should start framing my research as solving mysteries

The MYSTERY of ancient Greek animal sacrifice. Do the burned bones represent a public feast or were they burned by aliens trying to confuse future archaeologists? Tune into @HISTORY after dark

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Mar 29
ARCHAEOLOGY OF UKRAINE THREAD

The invasion of Ukraine threatens lives and livelihoods, but there are ways we can all pitch in to help preserve Ukrainian culture and help Ukrainian people

PLEASE HELP the Ukrainian scholarly journal, Arheologia
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gofundme.com/f/support-the-…
The articles in Arheologia cover over 30,000 years of archaeology in Ukraine from the Stone Age to today. It’s an open-access journal, free for all to read: arheologia.com.ua/index.php/arhe…

This thread highlights the importance of Ukrainian archaeology & how YOU CAN HELP the journal
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The archaeology of Ukraine is an essential part of our shared human heritage

Prehistoric mega-sites from over 6,000 years ago, are helping rewrite the history of urbanism. These cities, with 10,000+ inhabitants, date earlier than Mesopotamian cities found in textbooks
/3 Geophysical plan of Nebelivka (4000 BCE) showing residentialReconstruction of the site of Talianka, ca. 4000 BC. Again,
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Jan 20
Ancient Athenian Horses

A thread about horse bones from thousands of years ago
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Today the @ASCSAthens exhibition Hippos: The Athenian Horse kicks off

A centerpiece of the show is this horse skeleton I analyzed from the cemetery at ancient Phaleron, outside of Athens
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As a zooarchaeologist, I analyze ancient Greek animal bones. You might think I study horses all the time?

Nope. Most of what I Iook at is different! Normally it’s broken up bits of food trash. Beef, pork, lamb, etc

So, this study of horse skeletons has been fun & challenging
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Jan 11
This article on the topic of pseudoarchaeology explains why I do my own homegrown science communication for the public

Good archaeologists are quoted here, but too much airtime is given to pseudoarchaeologists

A thread about who built the pyramids
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There is no scholarly debate over who built the pyramids, nor is there a reason for scholars to debate YouTubers over who built them

The pyramids are splendid monuments. I know because I've seen them and climbed in them

But, there's no real mystery in their technology
/2
The innovation we think of as pyramids was a slow progression over generations

Nearly 5000 years ago in early Egypt, the 1st and 2nd dynasty erected funeral monuments at Abydos that were massive square enclosures made of mudbricks.

Over centuries, these get bigger & bigger
/3
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Contrary to what all the epidemiologists are telling you, we actually know a lot about #Omicron

A short thread filled with Classical facts
Omicron is the 15th letter in the Greek alphabet

It literally means ὂ μικρόν or "small o" to distinguish it from the last letter in the Greek alphabet: Ω omega (the big O)

Remember that when making your O face
The ancient Greeks had a confusing number system. Letters were numbers. So alpha was one, beta was two, gamma was three, delta was four

Omicron was 70. What!
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