If authors thought as much about their own words as students of their works, I doubt they'd ever finish writing anything.

Maybe it's a case of someone being so steeped in local history and culture that those references come about without much deeper intention.
That's the beauty of not being limited to authorial intent, because authors more often than not don't even understand the full significant of their own words.

TPOT. What do you expect?

So... AI is about as good at recalling vaguely remembered research papers as I am?

Well... that's ... great.

Damn, that's... quite something. Now I have to re-read it.

Well... Jefferson and Johnson did ,)

Now that I think about it, quite a lot of parallels, considering how Denmark treats the Greenlanders :(

I immediately checked if you mentioned how inoculation was quite well-known throughout the African and Muslim world, and was relieved you did.

:)

I have long subscribed to James C. Scott's read of the data, and that means I have to get back to the secondary sources and do a lot more reading.

Maybe I can get Iain Provan to talk with me about it. :)

Tagging both in a blatant attempt to get them interested, and possibly talk to me about their research. Would love to have them speak directly to the topic for my video.

My next episode will directly deal with the myth of the "Human Revolution" or "Upper Paleolithic Transition."

I'm exceptionally grateful to @elliescerri.bsky.social and @manuelwill.bsky.social for their research on this topic and it will feature prominently in my discussion.

Here's a nice article about that.

From my understanding of the history of archaeology, it has always been - and still is - closely tied to national mythmaking.

Not necessarily by the archaeologists themselves, but by those who fund the research and those who market the findings to the general public.

You want Eternal Truth?

Get yourself a religion. Science ain't for you.

What the Scientific Consensus IS can change at any time, but that does not change that there is a Scientific Consensus.

The fact something used to be the Scientific Consensus, but now isn't simply proves that the Scientific Consensus Process works.

The more I read about this topic, the more I am convinced the idea of the Upper Paleolithic Transition needs to be entirely discarded.

Here's an excellent article on the topic, and I have yet to see an even reasonably persuasive rebuttal:

Congratulations!

Nah, he's a bullshit artist. Just the first video in his series is full of hilarious nonsense.

He's one to talk about bullshit....

He's a grand master of it.

here's a little corrective to John Vervaeke's nonsense.