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Carl Feagans

@cfeagans.bsky.social
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Archaeoskeptic. Professional archaeologist. I write about pseudoarchaeology. I blog at ahotcupofjoe.net (he/him) orcid.org/0009-0006-9803-9000

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey all, this is a very important video and it's not being seen. The border wall is violating sovereignty for the Tohono O'odham nation and destroying sacred cultural heritage Please share widely and support those advocating on the ground
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There's been an uptick of so-called "elongated skulls" stuff on social media recently, so I posted an updated article on the topic. ahotcupofjoe.net/2026/09/arti...
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Artificial Cranial Modification in Antiquity and the last 10 Years - Archaeology Review
Artificial Cranial Modification is a commonly misrepresented human activity in antiquity that gets a lot of pseudoscientific attention.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New blog post. (of course it isn't) ahotcupofjoe.net/2026/09/is-t...
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Is the Richat Structure Atlantis? - Archaeology Review
Is the Richat Structure Atlantis? This article explores what the Richat Structure is and why it is not Atlantis.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I recently had a convoy with an It specialist about Ms One Drive and why I don't use it to store my data. I still use a composition book as a data collector in the field. But the Canvas hack is another good reason to not use the cloud as a primary storage device.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Happy May the Forest Be With You!
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This little shed survived yet another controlled burn. We cleared a line around it to remove fuels, but to be honest it just stays so green here I think we don't need to.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
My office last week. Coyote scat on the log I took a break on. Sixty gauge cigar for scale.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Here's hoping I get to the rippened mulberries before some of the birds this year.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
While Netflix wastes time with Graham Hancock's pseudoscience, genuine documentary opportunities are getting past them.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"Nazis did not dismantle the legal structure of the Weimar Republic all at once or entirely, but replaced it with a bifurcated system in which state functions were divided between a “normative” sphere [...] and a “prerogative” sphere... "
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ICE and the Dual-State Regime - Truthdig
The Nazi political theory behind ICE lawlessness creates two systems: one that follows rules and one that ignores traditional restraints.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Just purchased Jason Colavito's (@jasoncolavito.bsky.social) new book, "Hoaxing History: An Anthology of Lost Continents, Fake Cities, Phantom Manuscripts, and Other Historical Fictions." It might come in handy at the end of January... Federal shutdown is looking likely again. Look for it on Amazon!
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Professor Dave Takes out the Trash in this new video. Probably one of my favorites of his so far.
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Jimmy Corsetti is Human Garbage
YouTube video by Professor Dave Explains
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
My friend Jeffrey Rose along with others have a new paper out in which they, "highlight the prominence of Nubian Levallois technology in Dhofar within at least two different lithic industries."
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Lithic Miniaturization and Technological Innovation on the Southern Dispersal Route Out of Africa - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
Over the past fifteen years, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has mapped 272 Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic sites in southern Oman, each exhibiting some extent of Nubian Levallois technology. T...
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Will someone wake me when the impeachment trials start? Or when the obituary is published. Whichever comes first.
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Trump 'cancelling' Biden executive orders signed by autopen
Many presidents, including President Donald Trump, have used the autopen to sign various documents.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I've been using QGIS off and on for a couple of years. To be honest, it seems to do everything that ESRI products do. Just differently. It's a bit like learning to drive a different class of car city bus to compact or compact to 18-wheeler. Rules of the road are the same, but the controls are diff.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
With Nancy Pelosi in the news lately, I'm reminded of one of my favorite images of her confronting a douche-bag. There's a lot going on here. This, of course, was the clown's first admin, before he blinged out the WH. Hanging on the wall is The Signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A great discussion (albeit long) with Flint and Chris Kavanagh on how they "decode" modern secular gurus on their Decoding the Gurus podcast. It's like the Lays Potato Chips of videos... you can't just watch a minute or two. It'll have you paying attention!
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Largely considered culturally inappropriate today, the wooden Cigar Store Indian was not uncommon even through the mid-20th century. They originated in 17th century England as a means to advertise Virginia tobacco to a generally illiterate customer base. Both images are from 1936.
Wooden Cigar Indian photo taken in 1936 Manchester, New Hampshire.1936 Wooden Cigar Indian photo taken in Denison, Iowa.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I just had to share this digital version of a lithograph of an illustration by John Gast from 1870. It's called, "The First Cigar." That white-faced kid that's ready to puke made me grin! The peer-pressure here is strong.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
From about 1846 until 1959, the U.S. Government required tax stamps on boxes of cigars to prove payment of excise taxes. It started as tax based on cigar value, but then became a flat tax per thousand cigars, and was eventually based on retail price (1917). Some states still require tax stamps.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I like a good cigar. But apparently, vitolphilia--collecting cigar bands--was a thing that peaked before WWI. Even children collected them. The hobby encouraged makers of cigars to create elaborate and artistic bands, which I'm sure didn't hurt sales. Details of the photo in the next comment.
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
They know. And they know they deserve to be there.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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a boy sitting at a table with a candle and says you 're killing me smalls
ALT: a boy sitting at a table with a candle and says you 're killing me smalls
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Albert Robida’s 1890 novel "Le Vingtième siècle: la vie électrique" was truly a sci-fi story of the Victorian age. He included the telephonoscope like some Zoom/Netflix hybrid but also predicted biological warfare, flying cars, a hyperloop train, and a version of the Ring doorbell.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
What a Zoom call might have been like in 1878. The telephone and the phonograph were recent inventions at this time, so George du Maurier imagined this is what Edison might have invented next. A sort of "Victorian Zoom." The Telephonoscope!
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
To Aceco demolitions in D.C.: The East Wing was first constructed in 1912, making it over 100 years old. It's destruction amounts to a Felony ARPA (Archaeological Resources Protection Act) case. Unless you have an ARPA permit in your possession.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
“It became clear that [Mann] couldn’t easily balance a politically-neutral Vice Provost position with his public climate work. Sadly, in these times, those two positions are mutually exclusive.”
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Penn community reflects on Michael Mann’s resignation, implications for institutional neutrality
Mann attributed the departure from his vice provost role to tension between his science policy advocacy work and Penn’s institutional neutrality policy. He remains a professor at Penn, and is the dire...
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I just encountered the term "undiluvial" in a text from the book "Archaeological Fakes" (1967), by Adolf Rieth. It seems a strange term given the context. "The style of the figure is undiluvial" (p. 72). The book is translated from German. The best I can assume is "not flood style?"
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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Also: this video illustrates the incompetence, lack of training, and dangerous approach that these mercenaries employ.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
The silly Egyptian vase thing that Matt Beal and Uncharted-something-or-other keep promoting in the world of pseudoarchaeology has been a moderate curiosity of mine. I've yet to really dive into it, but I think I'm going to start with this online paper.
arcsci.org
Arc Scientific
Arc Scientific
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
If you need more evidence of both systemic and overt racism in this administration, read this.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This is depressing. "Only 16% of participants read for pleasure. Of those participants, the average person spent 1 hour and 37 minutes reading." N=236k I think it shows. In my dealings with proponents of pseudoarchaeology on X, they just seem to refuse to read.
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Reading for leisure rates decline in US
A recent study from the United States shows the daily reading for pleasure rate in the country has declined by more than 40% over the last 20 years.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
New blog article from David Connelly on the craziness in the pseudoarchaeology world these days.
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Raiders of my Lost Mind: A deep dive into the whacky world of Pseudoarchaeology - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
We encourage a curious approach to the past, using archaeology as the best way to do so, while warning against the worst excesses of pseudoarchaeology and also accepting the value of open-minded inqui...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
"Two people fighting the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula were arrested by federal law enforcement, in a confrontation described by firefighters and depicted in photos and video."
seattletimes.com
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I dont know who needs to hear this, but the Smithsonian is NOT hiding the remains of giants in the basement… 🤦‍♂️ meidasnews.com/news/gop-ove...
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GOP Oversight Member Suggests Smithsonian Hiding Bones of Giants
Rep. Eric Burlison: “I do believe [giants] were real”
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
My chat with Cooper and Mike at Elevated Thoughts is up on their YT channel. It was a fun discussion about pseudoarchaeology but about some real archaeology as well! Be sure to check out their other videos, the other folks they interview are way more interesting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjTf...
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Why ‘Pseudo-Archaeology’ xIs a Gateway to Conspiracies with Carl Feagans | Ep. 60
YouTube video by Elevated Thoughts
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Gutfield: "What does it tell you though?" Me: it say's you're a little too comfortable being referred to as a Nazi.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
A couple of weeks ago, Graham Hancock praised an article on Hub Pages for calling out archaeologists. Turns out it was written by generative AI and not very well. ahotcupofjoe.net/2025/07/an-a...
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An Artificially Intelligent Pseudoarchaeologist? - Archaeology Review
Archaeology Review is the place to get news about archaeology, particularly that which exposes fake, fraudulent, and fantastic archaeological claims.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Mike Lee wants to sell our public lands. There are those that call themselves "conservative" that have been trying to do this for decades. It's why Teddy Roosevelt established so much in the first place. (Meme stolen from @blue_prop over on shitter in the same context).
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I just watched the "New Monuments Men" on heritagetac.org and have to say it's perhaps one of the most moving documentaries on cultural heritage and archaeology I've watched in a long time. heritagetac.org/programs/new... 1/7
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Heritage Broadcasting Service
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Hypoautonomic, BS @hypoautonomic.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers. This thread will dive into its activity. 🧵 1/x.
The Alt National Park Service account.  887 thousand followers.
"The officla 'Resistance' team of the U.S. National Park Service.  Our Website:  www.ourparks.org
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The Shroud of Turin is probably a 14th century forgery. But it's also a legitimate artifact of cultural heritage.
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When an Italian Cultural Resource is also a 14th Century Fraud - Archaeology Review
The Shroud of Turin is probably a 14th century forgery. But it's also a legitimate artifact of cultural heritage.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
For the #ArchaeoSkeptics out there, just a reminder that the Comic Summit 2025 is about 10 days away. If you create skeptical content about archaeology, you might consider a topic from the list in the comments. Might be nice for people to have fact-based sources of info to balance the pseudo.
A Marshaltown trowel sticking out of the dirt at a 45 degree angle in the shade on an otherwise sunny day. wood handle brown dirt
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
What's most disappointing is that it would've been easy for Luke Caverns to say something as simple as, "Joe, you're being unfair to Flint." Or even, "Flint's a really good guy, you got him all wrong."
youtube.com
Flint Dibble Responds to Joe Rogan's Insults
YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble
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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
A fascinating video by the YouTube channel Framing Logic. It's a useful for the ArchaeoSkeptic... Learn how to spot the "deception sandwich" and how grifters use logical fallacies and cognitive biases to deceive followers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6g_...
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The Insane Influencer Logic That Tricked Millions of People
YouTube video by Framing Logic
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Pseudoscience in Nature Scientific Reports gets retracted. The next day the authors submit to their own journal where it gets accepted after a "rigorous peer review" by themselves.
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Comet Research Group's Questionable Claims Get Called - Archaeology Review
Archaeology Review is the place to get news about archaeology, particularly that which exposes fake, fraudulent, and fantastic archaeological claims.
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