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Dec 16, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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It's Final Exam time!

This thread presents the final exam that was used in Prof. Stephen Williams' course "Fantastic Archaeology " (ANTH 139) at Harvard in Spring 1983.

To my knowledge, this was the first college course in the U.S. on the theme of pseudoarchaeology. Image
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"A crank is not a revolutionary whose time has yet to come. Cranks and revolutionaries constitute two distinct classes of thinkers, and history can never succeed in making one out of the other. The cranks of the past are still looked upon as cranks today."
#AncientApocalypse
This quote comes from "Science and Unreason" (1982) by Daisie and Michael Radner.
amazon.com/Science-Unreas…
This was the Midterm Exam from ANTH 139 "Fantastic Archaeology" as taught by Prof. Stephen Williams at Harvard in Spring 1983. Could you answer it in an hour? Image
It is telling to look back on these materials from over forty years ago and realize that they are just as relevant today. Prof. Stephen Williams was a visionary in this respect. Today, there are dozens of similar courses being taught in the U.S. and around the world.

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Ancient Apocalypse: Graham Hancock slams nazi using his work | World | News | Express.co.uk express.co.uk/news/world/196…
“In precis, Hancock says it is ‘most unfortunate white supremacists use selective misreadings and out-of-context snippets from my work to promote their obnoxious narrative because I utterly detest and reject any kind of racial supremacism.’”
“He continued: ‘I regard white supremacism as a stupid cult embraced by stupid people who advertise their own stupidity, their own bigotry and the narrowness of their own minds by celebrating the colour of their skins.’”
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Graham Hancock’s ideas are not new.

The comet thing is 328 years old - William Whiston’s “A New Theory of the Earth” (1696)

The Atlantis thing is 142 years old - Ignatius Donnelly’s “Atlantis: The Antediluvian World” (1882)
The comet causing the Flood and destroying Atlantis thing is 141 years old - Ignatius Donnelly’s “Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel” (1881)

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The hyperdiffusion thing is at least 97 years old - W. J. Perry’s “Children of the Sun” (1927) and Harold S. Gladwin’s “Men Out of Asia” (1947).
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Dec 17, 2022
Göbekli Tepe – The first 20 Years of Research – Tepe Telegrams

This is essential historical context for the archaeology of Göbekli Tepe. It was not the first site at which early T-shaped monoliths were identified over 30 years ago.
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“In 1994 [Klaus Schmidt] visited all Neolithic sites mentioned in the literature. Drawing on the experience gained at Nevalı Çori, Schmidt was able to identify the ‘tombstones’ at Göbekli Tepe as Neolithic work-pieces and T-shaped pillars.”
Klaus Schmidt’s “Aha!” moment in the discovery of Göbekli Tepe in 1994:

“One of those heaps held a particularly large boulder. It was clearly worked and had a form that was easily recognizable: it was the T-shaped head of a pillar of the Nevalı Çori type…”.
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Dec 17, 2022
Graham Hancock complains that “Big Archaeology” is hiding information from the public. One of the chief myths he promotes is that Göbekli Tepe overturned everything archaeologists knew about that time period. However, he’s the one who says nothing about the Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
It’s a period that was defined in the 1950s, largely on the basis of archaeologist Dame Kathleen Kenyon’s pioneering research at Jericho (Tell es-Sultan). Why does he never mention this famous woman archaeologist?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_…
Accurate information about the Pre-Pottery Neolithic is widely available, including on Wikipedia. This article provides information about other published sources. It has not been hidden or concealed, least of all by the archaeologists who wrote these.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Potte…
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This was the syllabus for "Fantastic Archaeology" (S-137) as taught by Prof. Stephen Williams at Harvard in the summer of 1983. Image
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A typical #AncientApocalypse fan.

“I’ll start off by saying that I’ve never read any of Graham Hancock’s books. I’ve seen him a few times briefly on Joe Rogan clips, but have never paid attention to him enough to form an educated opinion of his theories” medium.com/@davidhasheart…
The word “civilization” is confusing.

“Their opinion is that civilization first emerged between 6000 and 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia and the Indus River Valley. In fact if you Google search “when did the first civilization develop” you are confronted with the following image:” Image
I wish more people would read Bruce Trigger’s excellent book.
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