Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Archaeologists "Squirming"


@alg678 1 day ago When I was at uni as an anthro major we learned Clovis Doctrine, and learned that modern humans were 100k years old. Now Clovis Doctrine has been totally overturned, and we know modern humans are AT LEAST 300k years old. Watching the conventional academics squirm as more and more evidence piles up for lost ancient technology and extended timelines is exhilarating.
@PortAntissues 19 hours ago
Can you actually show us this "squirming", or is that just hyperbole?
@alg678 17 hours ago
@PortAntissues Sure. Redefining the entire concept of "hunter-gatherer" in order to avoid the evidence at Gobekli Tepe is peak squirming.
Oh. First of all @alg678, there are no Egyptian stone vases from Gobekli Tepe (which is a single site in Turkey)… aside from that, please show me (with a quote from an archaeology book) "how hunter-gathering was defined” by archaeologists before the evidence from Gobekli Tepe and (with a quote from an archaeology book) how it “was defined” by “squirming” archaeologists after the evidence from Gobekli Tepe. Also, since there have been many studies of hunter-gathering economies since 1996 when the term came into more general use, how can you be sure that it was Gobekli Tepe that was the catalyst for any change you can demonstrate?

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