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So, at least on the basis of this evidence, it's not likely the Hiawatha impact set off the Younger Dryas. That will disappoint some people. *cough*Sweatman*cough*
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Nothing new to see here - just an incredibly careless rehash of Martin Sweatman's same old nonsense. The "scientists from Edinburgh and Kent" are, of course, Sweatman (engineer) and Coombes (Religious Studies grad student with Theosophical leanings). One of the illustrations is borrowed from an entirely different and contradictory astronomical interpretation of cave art, that of Ch
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Interesting. But that rectilinear structure looks seriously PPNB to me, so I'll be watching to see what they're actually dating to a period earlier than Gobekli Tepe's Layer III.
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Thanks for this! I needed something to read while recovering from a horrific cold. Some of the other titles on the list look interesting, too.
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The same image was used a few years ago, labelled Gunung Padang. It's actually Mount Kirvi, on the Faroe Islands. And yes, totally natural.
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The first fabulous pictures have been taken inside HMS Terror: "Below deck, glass bottles sit upright in storage rooms, and stacks of intact ceramic plates are neatly arranged on shelves. Rusted firearms hang on the walls. Wash basins and chamber pots remain undisturbed in officers' rooms. The captain's desk, with its drawers tightly shut, collects layers of fine marine silt."
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The mods at GHMB kindly got back to me very quickly. Here is the message:
"GHMB is experiencing a formatting issue regarding page width on our Forum Message Board pages; the webmaster has been notified.
"There is a workaround available. Reduce the width of your browser page. If you are using Windows you can force a narrowing of the page width. Here is a quick video that will al
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I've sent a message to the mods, to let them know there may be a glitch. Anyway, I'm glad to know it's not just me!
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Is anyone else having a problem logging in to Hancock's site? I registered this morning just so I could participate in Sweatman's Author of the Month thread, and made one post. Now I can't log in again - the Submit button won't click. Neither will the Help button. I can't even get onto the thread. Same problem when I tried to use my husband's computer. Is the site pa
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Oh great, it's Dominique Goerlitz again - one of the two idiots who "took samples from" (i.e., vandalized) an inscription in the Vyse chamber in 2013. Perhaps that's why they're going to Crete and not Egypt; I think Goerlitz may still be persona non grata in Egypt.
I wrote about that incident at the time - - and note that I mention an excellent thread on HoM.
This
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Thanks for that, Paul.
While Michael Jaye's very silly theory is low-hanging fruit, it nicely highlights the growth industry in iffy/predatory journals. Your example is more disturbing, because it doesn't involve a penny-ante operation like MAA or the Athens Journals. Caveat lector, I guess.
But I would dearly love to see the peer reviews of Jaye's paper. I love a good laug
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It's hilariously bad. I did quite a thorough post on it recently:
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That's very odd. A year ago, Porcelli was being very definite that his survey had found NO spaces behind the walls of Tut's tomb.
And this paper just came out a couple of months ago:
Have to say, though, this is one case where my ingrained skepticism gets kicked right out the door by wishful thinking. It would be so cool if it were true! But I'm not terribly hopeful...
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Well, it took a while to get around to it (gardening took priority) but I've finally finished a blog post about this hilarious farrago.
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It's the same journal that published Martin Sweatman's stupid Gobekli Tepe paper. My day is made.
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Yep, I can see there might be difficulties in ground-truthing under current conditions, but that's not what's bothering me. In one paragraph she claims to have discovered a very large number of "potential" sites; in the next, she claims a 90% success rate for her methods "in producing significant discoveries." To me, that smacks of equivocation. The success-rate clai
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I'm curious about the claims on her website: "So far, Dr. Parcak’s techniques have helped locate 17 potential pyramids, in addition to 3,100 potential forgotten settlements and 1,000 potential lost tombs in Egypt — and she's also made significant discoveries in the Viking world and Roman Empire...So far, Sarah’s methods have proved over 90% successful in producing significant disco
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I didn't think the quality suffered. I think a factor in the rising discontent was that hardcore fans were becoming increasingly invested in fan theories, some of which were pretty wild. With so many mutually conflicting fan theories bouncing around the forums, lots of fans were bound to be disappointed, whatever direction the show took. And there was all that time between seasons 7 and 8 fo
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SOME fans hated the last season. I loved every minute of it. You're in for a wild time, Rick.
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The alternos brandished the Hiawatha crater with great glee when it was first announced in November. Martin Sweatman asked me snarkily if I was upset at having my world view turned upside down. Heh. I think he should wait until the crater is dated before getting snarky. BUT - even if Hiawatha were eventually shown to date to the end of the Pleistocene, it still wouldn't be evidence for the L
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Heh. You're spot on. There's a link in my blog post to a site that lets you calculate the effect of a meteor strike, inputting the size, composition, and angle of the bolide, and the distance from impact. I put in the hypothetical parameters of the hypothetical Hiawatha bolide, and found that Anatolia would feel...NOTHING. But Sweatman and Co are following Hancock's assertion that
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Absolutely. He has declared that archaeologists don't understand statistics, therefore we don't understand what he's doing. The trouble is, what he did wasn't rocket science, it was just a really stellar example of the junk statistics we've always been assailed with. And now he's started on Egypt....sigh.
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Nice links, thanks! Of course, Sweatman got all excited when the Hiawatha Crater was announced, and wanted to know if I felt my worldview was threatened. I'm happy to wait until the date range has been narrowed down from three million years.
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Sweatman continues to outdo himself. His blog (Prehistory Decoded) is mainly concerned at the moment with puffing his book of the same name, in which he apparently derives the Egyptian pantheon from the same constellations he "found" at Gobekli Tepe, etc. The latest post shows a Late-Period painting of the Apis bull wearing a menat necklace, with the counterpoise shown over the bull
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I've spent considerable time and energy recently blogging about the claims of a chemical engineer named Martin Sweatman, who has published two papers and now a book about his interpretation of the art of Gobekli Tepe, Catal Huyuk, and the entire Paleolithic as astronomical notation, and support for the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. His hubris is extraordinary, but his contempt for archaeo
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Just a thought - Petrie's original report on Ranefer's tomb at Meidum mentions separate viscera:
"In the recess in the south end, similar to that in Rahotep's chamber, there were parts of the internal organs embalmed, forming lumps of resined matter wrapped round in linen, and fragments of such were in Rahotep's recess. Some insect had lived on it for generations, and
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It is a bizarre phenomenon, but entertaining in a weird way. I spent several weeks voraciously perusing Flat Earth websites and forums and youtube videos, to prepare for a blog article:
They're holding an international (global - heh) conference in Edmonton this summer. I'll actually be close to Edmonton for family reasons, and half-considered attending the conference as a mole. But
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Hermione Wrote:
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> I can't believe this ... Apparently, even the
> famous exploding volcano mural is now suspect ...
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Happily, I don't think that's the case. The volcanoes and vultures and hunters etc were properly photographed and recorded in situ; their interpretations may be debatable (volcano or catskin
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Surely one can discuss the ideas in Reeves' paper without a slap in the face? It was an interesting paper.
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