Flint DibbleHi all, my piece critiquing Graham Hancock's #AncientApocalypse has just been published in The Conversation
Give it a read and a toot!
@histodons
@antiquidons
@archaeodons
resipiscent@FlintDibble @histodons @antiquidons @archaeodons Well done even if it does bury the lede!
"Like many forms of pseudo archaeology,, these claims act to reinforce white supremacist ideas, stripping Indigenous people of their rich heritage and instead giving credit to aliens or white people.
Hancock even cites Donnelly directly in his 1995 book Fingerprints of the Gods"
@FlintDibble @histodons @antiquidons @archaeodons Wengrow & Graeber's "Dawn of Everything" ought to inspire a generation of archeologists and anthropologists. They offer an oustanding novice framework of material facts badly in need of further investigation *beyond Europe's caves or pilgrims, and they ask questions more relevant & compelling than Aquaman comics or whatever.