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There are ancient vitrified forts in Scotland
Hillforts whose stone walls have been fused into glass by temperatures exceeding 1000°C.
We don't know why they did this.
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Dibble’s prominence comes from attacking Hancock.
His platform depends on it.
Graham Hancock@Graham__Hancock
Attn @FlintDibble : (1) you have been boasting and preening for nearly two years that you "won" your debate on the JRE with me and that your self-proclaimed brilliant performance "tanked" my audience. Usually, it is the loser of a debate, not the winner, who asks for a second round. I must therefore assume that your petulant demands to go "face to face" with me again mean you’ve known all along that you failed yourself and embarrassed your profession very badly when you sat down with me for JRE 2136 and that everything you've said on the matter since then is simply the smelly gas of a deeply insecure man. (2) In your pinned post of March 10th 2026 you accuse me of cowardice and lack of integrity and claim that I "rejected two different offers to go face to face” with you "on major, international media outlets". From whence came the “two different offers” for me to go face to face with you in a second debate? When and where were these “offers” made? And in what way, where, did I reject these offers? (3) For the avoidance of future doubt let me be clear. I am content for JRE 2136, the debate that you claim you won, to stand as the permanent record of what passed between us and to continue to allow those who are still interested to make up their own minds on the matter. I see no point in sitting down with you again to accommodate your neediness.
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Oral traditions maintained accurate knowledge of natural events 1000s of years after they occurred.
If preliterate peoples could transmit precise environmental data across hundreds of generations, what else did they transmit that we've dismissed as myth?
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Why did the Nazca create enormous figures in the desert that only make sense from the air?
Nearly 2,000 years later, we still don’t know why.
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As all who were with me know, I fell seriously ill in Egypt in February with a horrible lung infection that still lingers. I'm glad I was able to fulfill all my commitments, despite the health challenges, but this trip really brought me face-to-face with my own mortality! Thank you for being there with me, and for your love and understanding. I'll never forget.
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The Sayhuite Monolith in Peru is a massive carved stone
It's covered in miniature rivers, pools, terraces, and animals - possibly a hydraulic scale model of an entire landscape.
Nobody fully understands its function.
It's 4 metres across and 2.5 metres high.
It's extraordinary and most people have never heard of it.
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@MichaelButtonX Bro this club is going to be the death 💀 of me I swear lol 😂
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We still don't fully understand why Homo sapiens survived and other human species didn't.
What's your theory?
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PhD Archaeologists/Professors routinely refer to ‘alternative archaeology’ as a “grift”
Meanwhile, they require students to pay $300+ for assigned Textbooks which information that can be obtained online for FREE
There is no bigger “grift” than Big Education
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One discovery pushed structural engineering back over 400,000 years.
If we were that wrong about this, we may be off by similar margins on other developmental claims
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In Neolithic times, a catastrophe wiped out 95% of men
The fact it only impacted men, suggests the cause was human rather than natural
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A great book that repeatedly attacks the 'hunter-gatherer' stereotype as the oversimplified category it is.
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Michael Button retweetet
The problem is that in academic literature “hunter-gatherer” absolutely is used as a social category, not just a food-procurement description.
Entire fields classify societies as hunter-gatherer bands, complex hunter-gatherers, or forager societies. The term carries assumptions about mobility, settlement size, storage, hierarchy, and population density.
Anthropologists debate it precisely because it does shape how people imagine the society, not just the diet.
You’re right the phrase technically describes subsistence.
But pretending academia only uses it that way ignores 100+ years of anthropological shorthand.
Flint Dibble 🍖🏺@FlintDibble
This guy is so stupid he can't realize "hunter-gatherer" doesn't describe a society, but rather how a society produces foodstuffs That's all. It only means people hunt and gather wild foodstuffs It means nothing about their art, dwellings, language, music, warfare, culture, etc
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80,000 year-old arrowhead marks could rewrite history on Homo sapiens’ first settlement in Europe
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Today has been eye-opening.
For merely suggesting that some prehistoric humans may have experimented with planting, I’ve been called:
pseudo, alt-idiot, clueless, grifter, conspiracy nut.
Interesting reaction to a pretty mild hypothesis.
I have huge respect for archaeology - maybe this is just an X thing.
Anyway, normal service resumes tomorrow. (They definitely planted something 😉)
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It’s entirely plausible that prehistoric humans cultivated plants for food
Claims they ‘didn’t need to’ or ‘weren’t smart enough’ are simplistic.
The obvious problem is preservation bias: the deeper into prehistory we look, the less survives
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Hi Will, that’s not the claim I made.
Of course different environments favour different subsistence strategies. Farming doesn’t make sense in the Arctic or parts of the Kalahari. No one disputes that.
But humans have lived across a huge range of environments for hundreds of thousands, even millions of years.
The point is this: archaeologists say that plant cultivation itself only appears very very very late in human history, despite anatomically modern humans existing for far longer.
Given that humans were already managing landscapes, using fire, storing food, and transporting plants long before 10,000 years ago, it’s entirely plausible that cultivation occurred earlier but simply don’t preserve well archaeologically.
Assuming otherwise is being reductionist.
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@MichaelButtonX You’re clueless. Do you think all modern hunter-gatherer societies weren’t ‘smart enough’ to farm? Or are you capable of understanding that different socioecological conditions encourage different subsistence strategies? Do you think farming made sense in the arctic or kalahari?
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Archaeologists insist they don’t underestimate prehistoric humans.
Then in the same breath claim they weren't smart enough to plant seeds
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