Carl Feagans and the Filipino Winemaker's Anti-Archaeology Article

 

A vision of Sigrid Salucop, from her webpage

Carl Feagans writes on his  'Archaeology Review' blog  of 'An Artificially Intelligent Pseudoarchaeologist?' ( July 16, 2025) addressing her arsine text "How Archaeology's Gatekeepers Hinder Discovery" (HubPages® [Arena Media Brands LLC]) Jul 1, 2025) that Graham Hancock was promoting (because it mentioned him). I have already discussed this here. I concur with Feagans' diagnosis: "Artificial Intelligence Wrote the Article"

Feagans in any case questions whether archaeology in general can be accused of this "gatekeeping": when there are so many public-facing initiatives in so many places. he then goes on to discuss Ms Salocop's idea of what this means  and expands on the topic. He concludes:

"I get that those who believe in fringe and fantastic archaeology feel left out or marginalized by real archaeology. And, for the most part, I’m all about including these people if they truly want to learn. If they’re truly willing to hear what I have to say. I’ll even listen to what they have to say. But I see no reason to include Hancock. He’s been given many chances to sit at the table yet he shits on archaeology as a profession and archaeologists as professionals. I personally know more than one archaeologist who has tried to be cordial with him only to find out this isn’t what Hancock wants. His grift depends on conflict and making his customers think he’s being oppressed.