A Culture's Drug Use Explains the Culture

They Change Over time, marking greater cultural shifts

Thread🧵on the Culture of Drug Use, starting with Hallucinogens Distinct Evidence of Hallucinogenic Drug Use Dates Back 3000 Years.

However, Humans have likely used Hallucinogens even longer.

We just don't have hard proof of it

This strange artifact was found in a field in Alabama in the 19th Century

Initially, it was thought to just be some random art

But new research shows it contains the Key to PROVING a connection between the Mayan Culture and the Mississippian culture

Why in this thread 🧵🧭
This new research is from Anthropologist
@CamHMcConnell

The motifs, details, symbols, and angles on this calendar disk were painstakingly discovered by this brilliant man

I used to think the Crusades were Evil

Bloodthirsty Christians killing for religion

But learning beyond what I was taught in school made me rethink this entirely

Thread on why the Crusades were justified🧵 The most basic information changes the entire situation

Before the Islamic Expansion starting in the 7th c. the Holy Land was full of Christians and other religions

The Crusades were not a conquest but a RE-conquest

Sh*tting in the Street in India: An Ethnographic Analysis 💩

Here to provide you the truth that Anthropologists dismiss with "cultural relativism"

Despite Being 17.5% of the World's Population, India accounts for over 50% of street sh*tters

A thread🧵 Yes, 1 Billion people in the world poop in the street!

Over HALF are in India!

(Image from the first post taken from a real NGO tackling this sh*tty issue, there's more in the thread, they're hilarious)

The Crusades are demonized even in modern Western Culture

Helpless Muslims just defending their land from evil Christian invaders?

Not even close. Defensive Wars in direct response to Islamic expansion

Context for why the Crusades were justified thread 🧵✝️☦️ Prior to Islam

Christianity reached North Africa and Asia Minor (Middle East)

Zoroastrianism in and around Persia

ARABIA was multi-religious,✡️ Jews, ✝️☦️Christians, other Abrahamic Religions, & Pagans all lived there

486 Arikara American Indians in a mass grave, Missouri River

Men, women, kids, bodies mutilated on the site of their destroyed village. Even their dogs slaughtered.

But the year is ~1325. The perpetrators unknown, but pre-European

Crow Creek Massacre thread 🧵 Even today, some people assert that Europeans brought the concept of total war
This is not true

The site of the massacre was found in the 1950s, reported on in 1978 by the SD Archaeological Society

The Famous Wounded Knee, by comparison, was *only 150-300 people

Nov 2022, Flint Dibble wrote a thread that would end up resulting in him going on Joe Rogan

The thread was about Graham Hancock's Ancient Apocalypse Season 1

It is filled with innacurate statements, misdirections, and lies

Thread 🧵 Issues start almost immediately

The first lines of Ancient Apocalypse are NOT declaring an all out assault on archaeology, but about the OPPOSITE.

They are about ACADEMIA'S attacks on HIM

Shown here in video

A Culture's Drug Use explains the Culture

Different Cultures Choose Different Drugs, similar cultures use similar drugs

They Change Over time, marking greater cultural shifts

Thread🧵 on the Culture of Drug Use, starting with Hallucinogens Distinct Evidence of Hallucinogenic Drug Use Dates Back 3000 Years.

However, Humans have likely used Hallucinogens even longer.

We just don't have hard proof of it

Men Hunting, Women Gathering has long been a staple of Anthropology for Hunter-Gatherers

But recent research by two Anthropologists claims WOMEN evolved to Hunt

Is it true? I look into their claims and evidence in this thread 🧵 They begin by attacking the long-standing theory

Firstly, I reject the idea that males are "superior" to females

Both Hunting and Gathering are integral for subsistence in these cultures

Regardless of who does them

I thought the Title of this article was strange. Excessive and unprofessional editorializing

Like a Teenager's Tweet

In these situations, I look at the author, and learn about them

So here's a thread 🧵 on Ellie Quinlan Haughtaling and her work I know how some people feel about dyed hair. Especially a color like pink. Up to you how you feel

I actually really like her glasses

Regardless, this is her

The arguments from "Archaeologist" Flint Dibble and Graham Hancock Continue

In this thread 🧵 I compile innacuries I have discovered in Flint Dibble's statements on Archaeology

On the Joe Rogan Experience, and before and since on X and print When asked what the oldest shipwreck we've found is, Flint replies that 6-7 thousands years old

But this does not exist.

He is likely referring to these canoes found in a lake in Italy.

In the context of an argument on SEAFARING, canoes from a lake are irrelevant.

Freshwater in a lake is also far better for preservation than saltwater and watercraft in lake are easier to find and excavate than in the ocean

A century Before Columbus, a fleet of 300 ships sailed from China

Over 30 years & 7 voyages, they visited Africa, Asia, India, & the Middle East

By the time Columbus sailed the Chinese fleet was burned or left to rot. The records destroyed. Why?

Thread 🧵🧭 Unlike Columbus, the Eunuch Admiral Zheng did not seek discovery, Gold, or Conquest

He was tasked with projecting Chinese Maritime Power and engaging in diplomacy/trade with tributaries & Distant Rulers

30,000 sailors, diplomats, officials, & soldiers sailed with him

I have seen some uncreative & innacurate racism recently

Calling a Native American from the Eastern Woodlands a "prairie n*****"

Come on, guys. No effort.

So I read the entire Racial Slur Database to Share the Best Ones with YOU.

Thread 🧵 51st Stater

Manifest Destiny Was Supposed to Include Canada

Remind a Canadian today that they are essentially Americans but less cool and they have an English monarch on their money

The United States WAS Founded as a CHRISTIAN Nation

Propaganda has attacked this truth for decades

But it as true as the Holy Trinity

A thread of Quotes from the Founding Fathers that prove this🧵🏛🇺🇸

Bookmark this Thread to reference "The highest, the transcendent glory of the American Revolution was this–

it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the precepts of Christianity"

-John Quincy Adams

Incas, Aztecs, and Mayans are well known in New World History

But the USA had its own Civilizations

The Mississippi Mound Builders spread thousands of miles across the river valley

The largest city, Cahokia, supports tens of thousands of people

Anthropology Thread🧵 Cahokia flourished for hundreds of years beginning in 900 AD

But the metropolis was abandoned around 1350 AD, and we can only speculate on why

A Century Before Columbus, the Grandest Fleet in the World Sailed under the Chinese Flag 🇨🇳

Over 30 years, the 300 Ships took 7 voyages: Africa, Asia, India, & the Middle East

Then, the Ming left the ships to rot and burned the evidence the voyages ever occurred

Thread 🧵🧭



Unlike Columbus, the Eunuch Admiral Zheng He did not seek discovery, Gold, or Conquest.

He was tasked with projecting Chinese Maritime Power and engaging in diplomacy/trade with tributaries & Distant Rulers.

30,000 sailors, diplomats, officials, and soldiers sailed with him to aid the mission

Did the Polynesians Reach South America? 🍥🧵🧭

They reached farther and found Smaller Landmasses, more than possible

But the Hard Evidence does not prove it

However, New Research THIS YEAR increases the weight of evidence in favor

Details in this Anthropology Thread 🧵

This is Easter Island. Rapa Nui. Land of the Moai Statues

One of the Farthest Places the Polynesians Reached (as late as 1000 AD)

It is a location of spiritual significance and much debate and intrigue

The Archaeological Site is Anakena, red arrow below

Tlingit People🪶 of the PNW US/Canada

Armor of Wood

Practiced Slavery (rare in NA)

1802 - 1804 they fought a war with Russia🇷🇺

Thread on the Tlingit War🧵🧭🪶 The Tlingit and Haida people of the northern coast of the PNW

They built totem poles, long houses of milled wood, and are amongst the most societally complex of NA indigenous peoples

Thread of my Favorite Anthropology Books 📖🧭🧵

Mostly for a general audience, more academic Books Later

My most requested Thread, There will be something for EVERYONE here

Let me know what Others you recommend and which you've read!

First below is Indo-European History! 🐎 The Horse the Wheel and Language

How Bronze Age Riders From the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

This book argues that Bronze Age Nomadic Horsemen from the Eurasian steppe, wielding the power of chariots and horseback riding, spread the Indo-European language family that now makes up half the world's languages, including English.

This book is about how the Horse, combined with the wheel spread the Indo-European Language far and wide across the world through increased mobility and military superiority. This facilitated the spread of Indo-European Culture.

It highlights the spread of the language as a marker of the spread of the technology, and uses archaeological evidence to support.

It is an exceptional and relatively balanced modern perspective of the spread of Yamnaya Culture across the World.

Link to the book and author in comment below

Sh*tting in the Street In India: An Ethnographic Analysis💩🇮🇳

Yes. 1 BILLION People in the World Poop in the STREET

Despite Being Only 17.5% of the World's Population, India accounts for over 50% of those Sh*tting in Streets!

A Thread 🧵 After seeing @OwenBenjamin Go to War with All of India, I decided to Investigate OPEN DEFECATION

What I have found has Shocked, Disgusted, and Amused me

Only God knows why Indians do this, but I can at least explain the last ~12 years

Join me on this Journey 💩

NEW ANCIENT CIVILIZATION JUST DROPPED 🧭

It has long been theorized there was a large civilization in the Amazon. Francisco De Orellana's Expedition wrote of it in 1542.

Breaking Down the Discovery and Significance in this Archaeology Thread 🧵

This Recent Discovery of a large Civilization in the Amazon is possible because of the use of ground-penetrating radar, LIDAR

This newer technology allows for discovery of Archaeological sites formerly covered by jungle brush.

This is now the oldest site found in the Amazon, being built around 500 BC, a few hundred years after the founding of Rome in Europe.

It was abandoned around the same time as the fall of the Western Roman Empire, ~500 AD

The image below shows the radar of the area. Archaeological features outline where buildings once were