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Nov 12 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
I'm preparing an epic Twitter thread critiquing the new Netflix pseudoarchaeology "docuseries" hosted by G. Hancock as if it might be my last thread on Twitter ever. If bird site crashes, I'll end on a high note

Stay tuned. Will post later today or tomorrow
and just to be clear, I plan on going down with the ship. As long as Twitter is usable and a tool to share #archaeology I'll be here

If it ain't, find me on Mastodon or YouTube or Patreon (links in bio)
Oh and if you're interested, some good background reading would be my first 57 tweet thread on #Atlantis from a year and a half ago



(yes, I'm a teacher, I even assign homework to Twitter followers. That said, no pop quiz. Up to you how far to go)

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Nov 13
In his new Netflix “documentary” #AncientApocalypse, @Graham__Hancock has declared war on archaeologists

His rhetoric sows distrust in experts, and #Atlantis conspiracy theories promote white supremacy

Buckle up, it’s time for an #ARCHAEOLOGY THREAD 🧵
/1 Screenshot from Ancient Apo...
This thread will examine

1)Hancock's lack of evidence
2)How Hancock’s narrative recycles 19th century ideas on #Atlantis
3)The rhetorical tools Hancock and similar conspiracy theories use

/2
Why trust me?

No idea. I’m just a dude who won’t pay for a checkmark

But I am a real archaeologist. I’ve excavated at sites spanning tens of thousands of years of human history & prehistory

Trust my credentials or don’t. But I’ll present real evidence why this show is crap
/3 photograph of me working on...
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Nov 11
Ackshually, as an archaeologist who studies ancient Greece, this entire situation is eerily similar to the Trojan War

If we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it. A #history thread:
Musk was given a choice by 3 goddesses

1. Stay the richest man in the world till his dying day
2. Take humans to Mars
3. Be the most talked about person on the planet

Like Paris, he had to make his decision in a split second, and he chose vanity over everlasting glory Ancient Greek vase-painting depicting "The Judgement of
And lo, Paris (Musk) brought Helen (Twitter) to Troy

She had been snatched from her earlier husband, Menelaus (old blue checks on Twitter), to be with Paris

She was mocked incessantly for joining with Paris. Called terrible things by her old family & friends as well as her new Athenian vase-painting depicting Helen of Troy. Clay-red fig
Read 6 tweets
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Nov 11
I've been trying to download my archive... No dice

Thankfully, I've drafted most of my threads in word and many of my photos are nicely organized

If anyone needs me, fortunately my name is pretty unique (the advantage of being named after a rock) and I'm on the internet
Places i will surely post if Twitter collapses

patreon.com/flintdibble (I'll include free essays there too)

youtube.com/c/flintdibble (maybe I'll even join TikTok)

archaeo.social/flintdibble

Come find me for your archaeology fix, mixed with stupid jokes
Oh I can also be followed on Facebook. Name is Flint Dibble there too! 🫢

I generally post links to things on other websites there for irl friends/family and will make sure they are public for followers
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Nov 10
I think this overestimates academic Twitter. Every time Hancock or Rogen tweet about this show it gets thousands of engagements. My tweets, as an archaeologist with a Twitter following, get hundreds

Better to debunk & share real archaeology than let pseudos dominate the space
Like go check out Hancock's profile. His advertisements for the show have each racked up thousands of likes and hundreds of retweets and congratulatory replies

We've got nothing on their following and barely tip the scale
But if we don't debunk, then we just let the show speak for itself without a place for others to check its veracity, without a platform exposing it's problems
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Nov 6
Most people have zero sense of what 21st century archaeology actually is, and we need to share what it is wherever people are

To really think that a multiphase site "isn't complicated" is absurd
/1
Look closely at the posted photo

Let's zoom in on a few architectural details that show its complexity

And importantly, we aren't seeing artifacts or soil. That's a huge problem with amateur digs. Understanding excavation is more than just the most impressive thing found
/2
Ok, the OP has said it is "A defense tower built into a wall with a balcony"

And this 100% wrong explanation ignores the fact that what you find in an archaeological excavation can be from different times
/3
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Oct 8
This brief thread answers the question of who is the Stranger (the Meteor Man) in the Rings of Power

The key clue is the word "Peril" and how it's used in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
1/9 screenshot of the Stranger ...
Words and language meant a great deal to Tolkien who studied language, invented languages, and chose his words with extreme care

A textual analysis of words in Tolkien's texts reveals his world and characters
2/9 Quote from J.R.R. Tolkien: ...
It's clear the show-writers are keen to parallel Tolkien's choice of language from their use of the Black Speech and Quenya to specific phrases that reference Tolkien
3/9 Screenshot from Rings of Po...
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