Joseph A.P. Wilson

A beige pottery with two handles and a narrow neck, decorated with intricate dark brown patterns depicting a stylized octopus. The vessel is displayed on a white pedestal in a museum setting.

We all need a timeline cleanse right now, so let's start the day with this lovely jug with an octopus motif, dating ca 1200-1100 BC.

On display at National Museum Copenhagen.

A lovely weekend to all of you!

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One of these "news outlets" yesterday also released the trailer for a new doc they've produced that features a prolific residential school denialist pushing around her own GPR unit and digging holes 😒.

These are not people who have anything but their own self-serving, malicious interests in mind.

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.

Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Real and true love to Minnesotans

EXPOSING The Craziest Hoax of All Time - Nazca Mummies YouTube video by INCREDIBLE HISTORY

Grateful to be a part of a new collaborative video debunking the Nazca Mummies scam #JusticeForNazca #BadTaxidermy #HeritageCrime

youtu.be/NI9DrFkH3vk

Whole lot of academics in the quotes read this title about how LLMs are academic misconduct machines and still line up to defend them. Kinda showing where your priorities are.

With alt

they've all bought 10,000 shares of baby coffin stock

"Great minds think alike" is my customary response.

when you see another poster get in the same kind of reply first you gotta delete, it's called tipping your cap

Yeah I will agree the punchline was anticlimactic. Still a good lecture overall.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Rare mosaic in Rutland reveals forgotten Trojan War tale A paper by experts at the University of Leicester has been described as a "fascinating development".

Rare mosaic in Rutland reveals forgotten Trojan War tale
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On "Paul Within Judaism" After Adam Kotsko

On "Paul Within Judaism"
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Man fuck hobby lobby and read this book

Dear Joe Rogan, the Great Pyramid is a Tomb (feat. Dr Zahi Hawass) YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble

#Archaeology Archaeology with Flint Dibble
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Dear Joe Rogan, the Great Pyramid is a Tomb (feat. Dr Zahi Hawass)
A deep dive into the Great Pyramid of Giza. In this video documentary, featuring Dr Zahi Hawass.
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81 Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81

We have been working so hard to rehabilitate the image of Homo Neanderthalensis, and defeat the nasty brutish short man neanderthal stereotype.

First this study, and THEN David Spades's tweet.

Tough week for evolutionary throwbacks.

#NotAllNeanderthals

Fragmented remains of a bronze sword laid out on a dark surface, its blade hacked into multiple pieces. The broken segments show long, parallel ridges characteristic of the original blade, along with sections of the hilt and guard.

An intentionally destroyed #BronzeAge #sword found in a burial at Blaubeuren-Asch. Bronze Age weapons deposited in burials were often bent or hacked into pieces before placed into the grave, in this way they 'died' with the owner. Dating 9th century BC.

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg

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Another SBL/AAR selfie, this time with Markus Vinzent after an awesome panel on the historical Paul.

@mgbilby.bsky.social, he gave me a copy of your book.

Ran into James Tabor at SBL/AAR today.

Anyone in Boston between today and Monday who wants to meet, DM me or reply below.

sample; forgery; sarcophagus | British Museum Fake terracotta sarcophagus with a married couple reclining on the lid. On the left-hand short side is represented the departure of two warriors; on the front is represented the combat of warriors a...

Interesting fake sarcophagus in the British museum.

How did they learn it was fake? Lots of reasons, not limited to):

1) Heroic nude is Greek -- NOT Etruscan style.
2) Inscription copied from object at Louvre.
3) Lady wearing 19th century undies! 👀
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I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story.

I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

Reassessing the Evidence for the Composite Bow in Ancient Eurasia - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Prevailing theories suggest that the composite bow originated in the fourth millennium BCE and developed independently in multiple regions. However, these claims often rest on insufficiently analyzed ...

Very glad to see this new research cites my work!

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The silver lining to the surrender by 8 Dems is that the House GOP must return to vote on it. Johnson must swear in Grijalva, and the discharge petition on the Epstein files must force a full floor vote. Stay tuned.

Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."

Supreme Court rejects challenge to legalisation of same-sex marriage The court rejected an appeal from a clerk who was ordered to pay compensation to a same-sex couple after refusing to grant a marriage licence.

Because "religious liberty" does not mean "I have the right to never hear about or see something I don't like."

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