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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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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#ArchaeoSkeptics In case you weren't aware, we lost Wikipedian and OG ArchaeoSkeptic Doug Weller on the evening of Sept 30. I first started reading his comments and posts on UseNet groups like sci.archaeology.moderated back in the late 90s and early 2000s. Also on Hall of Ma'at. RIP, my friend.
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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
I'll be damned. He's alive. And I just lost $20. :(
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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 · 21/05/2026
Very cool! And interesting.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I hope there are photos!
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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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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Happy birthday, Flint!
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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 · 01/04/2026
Ozone.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Reminds me of the "MadLibs" we used to fill out when I was a kid reading Mad Magazine.
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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 · 29/03/2026
New meaning to the phrase, "on my last nerve?"
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This administration illegally demolished its own historic residence for a ballroom expansion. A few UNESCO flags aren't going to be a consideration.
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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 · 10/12/2025
I've been looking for one for years. I see them mentioned on historic plat maps from the 1930s on farmsteads in my area, but never have found any remains.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Definitely a Rao's fan here.
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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
The Signing of the Declaration of Independence was painted in 1873 by Charles Édouard Armand-Dumaresq and has been hanging in the Cabinet Room since the 1980s. It's been replaced by The Peacemakers, an 1868 painting by George P.A. Healy. Undoubtedly chosen because of the frame not the content.
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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 · 10/11/2025
I think this is one of my favorites of your videos yet! I tried to have it on in the background while doings some house-chores, but found myself just sitting and watching! Great discussion and I think it's inspired me to do a re-visit of a blog post I did years back on the hallmarks of pseudoarch.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I keep meaning to go through all the "I found Noah's Ark" claims and plot their frequency. I think it's like every 3 years on average that someone "finds" it. The story of one of the last guys would make a funny movie if Steve Carell could play the lead.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Thankfully, the "cigar store Indian" is mostly a thing of the past, but they still exist. They promote tobacco use contrary to the way Native Americans generally used it, which was ceremonial. And the wooden figures themselves are often stereotypical and offensive caricatures of Native Peoples.
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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
The caption reads, "Dedicated to the gent who smokes 'em with the belts on." And the illustration was created by Samuel D. Ehrhart (1862-1937) in 1907 and was published as the centerfold for v. 61, no. 1566 of Puck magazine.
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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 · 06/11/2025
Well shit. I do now.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Even a bad fisherman can see when the tide changes.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Yeah. I agree. I think it's a wasted opportunity though. In that hearing, a Dem member asked the room if anyone wanted to abolish 106 completely. No one spoke up. The idea, I think, was to point out that they all agreed cultural resources are important and I think they honestly do.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
People say I'm lazy for not taking my cat to the vet for a rabies shot, but she's an indoor cat that self-identifies as a Christian scientist. Who am I to judge?
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I think a priority should be that we somehow educate lawmakers. The Hatch Act keeps me from doing it, but professional orgs like RPA, SAA, etc have the ability to do it. And probably do. I guess lawmakers need to be willing to listen. /4
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
To my experience, most "bottle necks" in the 106 process stem from poor communication, consultation, and surprises with APEs on the part of project implementers.
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
but there was no push back on the left or from a witness to point out that they have a different agenda than CRM pros. Nor did anyone actually push back to quantify or ask for measurable data on alleged bottle necks. /2
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Carl Feagans @cfeagans.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I actually watched that hearing live last week and found that none of the Senators really seemed to have a grasp of what it is CRM pros do. Particularly those on the right, but even those on the left--though to a lesser extent. There was some talk of "radical environmentalists" by a republican /1
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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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