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Matthew T. Boulanger Profile picture
Matthew T. Boulanger
@MTB_Archaeology
Archaeologist, Scientist, Teacher @SMU. I study material culture & its evolution, break rocks, irradiate stuff, write code, ride motorcycles.
Nov 19, 2022 • 37 tweets • 8 min read
Clovis First: What it is, what it isn't, why nobody cares anymore, and why what you have heard/read about it is most likely wrong. A thread in a lot of parts. @SoilManDan asked for a thread on Clovis First & how it relates to what Hancock says about it in his series and book "America Before." @fiftysitesbook nudged me about writing something & I've been thinking about this topic for a while anyway.
Nov 19, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
83,200 radiocarbon dates from N. America in 500yr bins. Red lines are the Younger Dryas. If an ice-age civilization existed here, why weren't they using fuel, making tools, wearing clothing, hunting animals, or building houses? Could it be that no such civilization existed? Lots of people asking good questions about these data. This is how a scientific discipline works - you can interrogate data and ask questions. I encourage you to interrogated GH's Ice Age Atlantis evidence with the same vigor.
Nov 16, 2022 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
Folks may not realize that the claims made by GH in his show are not new. They're a Greatest Hits album of claims he's made since the 1990s. Though he insists archaeologists 'don't accept new evidence,' he refuses to address any of the critiques of his claims made since the 90s🧵 2. Paul Heinrich (1995-1998) Reviewed many of the claims made in GH's "Fingerprints of the Gods." Though his site is down, you can find an archived version here: web.archive.org/web/2011080423…
Nov 15, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
A few things to clarify:
1. Archaeologists are not celebrating this, any more than epidemiologists were celebrating “Plandemic”, or geologists and historians celebrated “Is Genesis History?”. 2. Most archaeology (75%?) done throughout the world is done to comply with existing historic preservation laws; it is required by law, and compliance with the law is unaffected by public interest or streaming audiences.
Sep 22, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
<sarcasm>I'm not normally one to wade into a controversial topic</sarcasm> but having just read the recent #TallElHammam / biblical Sodom paper in Nature: Sci. Rep., I see one serious flaw in how they use their 14C dates. A thread (1/10): 2/10 The authors state "The age of the destruction layer at TeH was modeled using the OxCal radiocarbon calibration program...with the ‘Combine’ computer routine". If you don't understand, cool. Apparently the reviewers didn't either. Let explain it: