Intellectual History is wild: the originator of the Neolithic Revolution concept was a British Marxist by the name of Vere Gordon Childe who saw it as evidence for Historical Materialism.

Archaeology has always been deeply political.

"If early primate history had for some reason promoted precision of control of the sphincter, and of the accumulation and discharge of intestinal gas, speech sounds today might be anal spirants"

I dare @hankgreen.bsky.social to make a video on this idea.

Convenient Myths is a really challenging book for me. I'm completely down with the first part, but the second part goes against some of my long-standing beliefs regarding the role of violence in human deep history.

Much of what the general public believes it knows about archaeology is not based on scientific research but national mythmaking propagated by political actors.

The Scientific Consensus is whatever most experts agree that most experts agree on, even if they themselves don't agree with it.

A great piece on the so-called Cognitive Revolution with @elliescerri.bsky.social and @manuelwill.bsky.social

I'm using Scerri and Will's research for my upcoming video on John Vervaeke's discussion of the "Upper Paleolithic Transition."

I am very happy to announce my first video in my Debunking John Vervaeke series on Youtube.

John Vervaeke is basically a mid-level bullshirt artist, and I'm having a lot of fun pointing out all his nonsense.