Elizabeth Weiss
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Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at SJSU. National Association of Scholars Board Member. For science over superstition. Research, not reburial.
Joined August 2021
I spoke of censorship in anthropology and archaeology -- no longer are photos of skeletal remains allowed in many journals; museum exhibits are being shuttered; and professors are being prevented from showing students teaching materials.
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@mojavex1 There's been a movement towards banning images because they say that images of skeletal remains harms indigenous peoples. When my talk is up or published, I will be sure to make it available.
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@Opportunitweet I've written about the problem of museums -- a lot of exhibits have been shuttered, but even those that are still open are very biased:.
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@Maeve0330 @Theo_TJ_Jordan Unfortunately, anthropology is becoming a field of self-study and that why we have what I call the "neotribes" of anthropology, such as the Queer Archaeology Interest Group and the Black Trowel Collective.
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@josephhmanson I'm quite pessimistic because once the collections are gone, then it'll be hard to build the science back up. Also, I think that the field is so captured that even if NAGPRA was overturned, the academics would be still reburying, repatriating, and censoring!.
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Thanks to all those who supported me by spreading the word about my account being locked. A special thanks to @campusreform and @1HereticalTruth for covering the story. Here's what I got from Twitter Support: "After reviewing your account, it looks like we made an error."
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Progressives have been shutting down research for years through censorship of images, redefining materials as sacred, and requiring anthropologists to get permission from indigenous creationists for research.
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I can exclusively reveal the title of my upcoming book: . "On the Warpath: My Battles With Indians, Pretendians, and Woke Warriors".
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@HSmith24993512 Unfortunately, you're not far off and it's even worse in New Zealand where they are incorporating Maori "knowledge" into science classes.
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Thank you @SwipeWright for highlighting this outrageous anti-science cancellation of women. My fellow panelists and I are continuing to stand strong against this cowardly, virtue-signalling wokeness. #BiologicalSexIsReal.
🚨BREAKING: The American Anthropological Association the Canadian Anthropology Society have cancelled the panel "Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Why biological sex remains a necessary analytic category in anthropology" scheduled to take place at their annual conference. The reasons
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Happy Anthropology Day! From reconstructing the past to bringing closure to families of homicide victims, anthropology is fascinating. But, it needs rescuing from a woke agenda that shutters museum exhibits, buries Paleoindians, and censors images from skulls to funerary objects.
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@BobWhitesi11904 This used to be the case, but no longer -- archaeologists and physical anthropologists have gone off the deep end too!.
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@BrightInsight6 No. Mainstream archaeology has gone off the rails. They're letting identity politics taint their ability to reconstruct the past. Native American myths are treated as scientific truths. And, they no longer accept that sex is binary.
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I'm honored to have a chapter in this volume!.
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@HillcrestCardCo I was actually not fired. I am actually retiring after a 20 year career with emeritus status!.
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An article about the unburying & reburying of remains from the WWII is featured in the @nytimes magazine with a striking photo of a skull. Are anthropologists who condemned me for taking photos of skulls going to rail against this photo too ?
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I'm looking forward to many more happy years!
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Sex is binary and biological. Denying this reality hurts our chances of achieving justice for crime victims, prevents us from improving healthcare, and makes it harder to stop discrimination against women globally. This is what @AmericanAnthro and @CASCATweet are censoring!.
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@clairlemon The general trends don't tell the whole story. Australia outperforms Canada and the UK (both have universal healthcare). Australian aborigines live 8 yrs shorter than white Australians. Asians in the US, who don't have universal healthcare, have the same longevity as Australians.
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@LGeath69802 It's actually a skull from Peru that has been elongated through wrapping; here's a better picture of it:
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Three years ago, I posted this tweet. To learn about how it brought worldwide attention to the problem of ever-increasing wokeness that's burying the scientific study of the past, please consider reading "On the Warpath: My Battles with Indians, Pretendians, and Woke Warriors."
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@DelusionPosting Unfortunately, archaeologists have fallen for "sex is not binary" falsehood. I was cancelled from @AmericanAnthro conference, a 4-field association that includes archaeology, for wanting to discuss this very issue. I cover this in my new book:.
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Biological anthropologists are now claiming that anthropologists created the binary nature of sex! @hoovlet @canceledanthro @SilviaCarrascoP @AABioAnthro #SexIsBinary.". we condemn the historical role of our discipline in producing binaries of sex. " .
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@HeidiBriones It was actually considered odd and even wrong at the time, which is why they lied about her age to the preacher. The marriage made the national news and, fortunately, led to changes in marriage laws. But, to portray this as the norm in 1930s America isn't really accurate.
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@AJA_Cortes I lived in Cairo from 1995 to 1996. Along the Nile and in the Garden District there was quite a lot of green. In old buildings, you could find blocks with ancient hieroglyphs. The Neo Baroque style architecture was attractive. Here's a photo of the neighborhood I first lived in:
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@LabelFreeBrands When sexing skeletons, the only jewelry I see is my wedding band. Biological sex impacts nearly every bone & I'm looking forward to discussing this evidence in November. I thank @AmericanAnthro for giving me a platform at their conference to discuss the importance of binary sex.
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As promised, here's the recording of my talk:
I spoke of censorship in anthropology and archaeology -- no longer are photos of skeletal remains allowed in many journals; museum exhibits are being shuttered; and professors are being prevented from showing students teaching materials.
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Here's my new headshot. I'm thinking of putting it on the back cover of my upcoming book, "On the Warpath: My Battles with Indians, Pretendians, and Woke Warriors".
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Thank you @PressAcademica for having the courage to publish controversial books like On the Warpath: My Battles with Indians, Pretendians, and Woke Warriors.
‘The trans lobby got me canceled for saying skeletons are either male or female’: professor
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My talk on censorship in anthropology: "Back to Stick Figures: How Woke Warriors Destroyed Anthropology" just hit 100K views. Have you seen it yet?.
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@gtimoshaz Photos are essential in physical anthropology, especially in the study of diseases. And, in teaching the next generation. But, don't think that it'll end with photos -- data are being destroyed too!.
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Anthropologists and archaeologists are exceedingly skilled at self-censorship; then, they use their virtue-signaling self-censorious behavior to censor their colleagues. And, in the process have ruined our ability to understand the past and understand each other.
The act of self-censoring is worse than being censored, as it’s the willful betrayal of your own mind.
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@genderisharmful I hope you'll consider purchasing my book: On the Warpath: My Battles with Indians, Pretendians, and Woke Warriors!.
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Isn't it time to stop the absurd abuse of NAGPRA? Animal feces aren't grave goods; replicas aren't sacred; and, kid's clothes aren't objects of cultural patrimony. I wrote about these and other absurdities for @RealLastStand -- @SwipeWright .
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@calicojack01 It's a mix of activist Native Americans & woke scholars! It's not just Native American remains that are verboten to be shown; the Smithsonian took down a website on Jamestown colonial remains even though descendant families weren't against it! But, the woke scholars knew better!.
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@pdgwrites I think that it'll be posted after the entire conference -- I will be writing an article on the topic very soon! And, I will, of course, post where to find both the video and article as soon as possible.
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Another ridiculous story from archaeology. I teach a class called Mummies @SJSU and I have absolutely no plans to rename the class Mummified Humans. What next? Should skeletons be called skeletonized humans?.
UK museums to stop using 'mummy' to describe ancient Egyptian remains: it's 'dehumanizing'
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There are a slew of anti-woke books coming out this year; there's only one that has skulls and tribal warfare. You may even find it humerus! 😁 Read about my battles in "On the Warpath: My Battles with Indians, Pretendians, and Woke Warriors." Out tomorrow!
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It was an honor to be on the panel with @LKrauss1 at the Censorship in the Sciences conference.
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@Dbl_R_Diner I do hope that you'll read it and enjoy it! Anthropology is an amazing field, but it is buried in the ruins of wokeness. I wrote an article about that not too long ago:.
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@MJM0187 The skull I'm holding was wrapped. It was likely done to distinguish the tribe from other tribes and related to status. Cranial modification was a nearly worldwide phenomenon. But, it wasn't present in Sub-Saharan Africa, there we find other modifications, like dental filing.
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@nytimes This article states: "Around 3,200 girls aged 13 to 19 received cosmetic breast implants in 2020, according to surveys of members of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons." When going to the source, you'll see that number includes only 18 to 19 year olds and not minors!.
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And, now the article is up @SwipeWright Reality's Last Stand: .
I spoke of censorship in anthropology and archaeology -- no longer are photos of skeletal remains allowed in many journals; museum exhibits are being shuttered; and professors are being prevented from showing students teaching materials.
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Calling all anthropologists: Come to the panel @AmericanAnthro didn't want you to hear. Make up your own mind: is there validity in binary sex as an important analytical variable? We welcome challenging questions! #anthrotwitter .
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If the skeletal remains of those who left these footprints are ever discovered, hopefully they won't be reburied based on oral myths, such as the creation tales used to rebury Paleoindians like the Buhl Burial and Spirit Cave Man. #NAGPRA #anthrotwitter.
Scientists date fossilized footprints at White Sands National Park finding they are the oldest human footprints in North America. #Archaeology #NewMexico #Footprints #WhiteSands
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If someone told me 5 years ago, when woke academics tried to ban my book "Repatriation and Erasing the Past", that I'd have a chapter in the same book as @sapinker @jordanbpeterson @RichardDawkins and @GadSaad -- I'd have called them crazy.
The War on Science can now be pre-ordered on Amazon and other book outlets. Pub date July 29th. Order it now! :) .
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My New Year's resolution is to go for a desert hike once a week.
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The video of my talk (Back to Stick Figures: How Woke Warriors Destroyed Anthropology) for the Censorship in the Sciences conference at USC has hit a quarter of a million views -- have you seen it yet?.
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In light of the @AmericanAnthro cancellation attack on our panel about sex, this article I wrote about last year's AAA conference is a reminder of how far they've strayed from scholarship, logic and science. #BiologicalSexIsReal #anthrotwitter @hoovlet .
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Will there be outrage from feminist academics? Will there be protests at US and European universities against these new regulations? And, will universities finally stop celebrating the hijab? Will Western women speak for Islamic women who've been silenced?.
The Supreme Leader of the Taliban has officially BANNED women from showing their bare face in public. Woman are also forbidden from being heard singing, reciting, or reading aloud in public. We warned of erasure. No one listened.
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The skeletal collection I curate @SJSU is in danger of being reburied -- as are all California Native American collections! Here's my @mercnews & @eastbaytimes op-ed on this issue, championing science over religion. #NAGPRA #anthrotwitter @SJSUNewsroom .
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@popped_blog Both indigenous and academic activists claim that images cause harm to indigenous people. Rather than explaining that research that use images can help solve problems, woke academics have decided that one must "respecting beliefs of harm" no matter how absurd these beliefs are.
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Thank you @spikedonline for giving me the opportunity to explain why this issue extends beyond academia and has real world implications.
Trans activists are rewriting history. Even ancient skeletal remains are now being classified as ‘gender neutral’ instead of male or female. Thousands of years of human history are being reshaped to conform to woke ideology, says @eweissunburied.
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I spent a wonderful day at the Statue of Liberty and on Ellis Island with @nickpopemod -- before I went, my mother, Gisela, told me to say hi to Ms. Liberty for her because she's always grateful for having been able to come to the USA.
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@MungoManic @aprebrue @mojavex1 This is an excellent question -- "their remains" really means anything that indigenous repatriation activists now try to claim! And, it goes further, these activists -- and the academics behind them -- don't want other remains to be seen as well.
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As #Thanksgiving nears, I want to thank my husband @nickpopemod for being supportive from the very beginning when the many attacks, deplatformings, and cancellations I faced threatened to derail our lives. #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech
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On the 34-year anniversary of #NAGPRA, please consider reading my memoir "On the Warpath: My Battles with Indians, Pretendians, and Woke Warriors" -- I detail the abuse I faced from repatriation activists who want to bury scientific inquiry into the past.
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Happy Valentine's Day to @nickpopemod -- who has brought me happiness, humor, support and -- most importantly -- chocolate. #ValentinesDay
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@Toastington @Opportunitweet Unfortunately, many museums are buckling in to the woke agenda. And, now, many exhibits have actually been shuttered. I love museums and even volunteered at the San Francisco Academy of Sciences when I was in high school, so I find this heartbreaking.
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Could it be that my upcoming book "On the Warpath: My Battles with Indians, Pretendians, and Woke Warriors" will be an intergalactic success?. Ancient astronaut theorists say "yes"!
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My copies of "On the Warpath: My Battles with Indians, Pretendians, and Woke Warriors" arrived yesterday! You can order yours directly from @PressAcademica or online booksellers, like Amazon!.
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Thank you @IWF for telling important stories about inspiring women and for featuring my fight against woke academia.
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After a wonderful year in #NYC, I am thrilled to be back in Tucson. Here's to the next chapter in my life.
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@charlesmurray There's lots of censorship when collaborating with Native Americans. An good example is the Havasupai case. Scientists were sued for researching the genetics of schizophrenia and the peopling of the Americas. Find out more in:.
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When you know you met the right one, there's no need to wait!.
Twelve years ago today, I was speaking at the International UFO Congress in Scottsdale, Arizona, when @eweissunburied and I slipped away to the courthouse in downtown Phoenix to get married. We'd met about 16 weeks beforehand.
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I've been examining skeletal remains for over 25 years and just last week saw my first-ever trephination (a hole scraped into the human skull, possibly for medical purposes). The skull also has a healed facial injury. Looking forward to learning more about these ancient peoples.
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There'll be no debating, there's no room for discussions, and we will all agree! For those of you who would like to see the panel submission and the letter for @AmericanAnthro and @CASCATweet, you can find the materials here.
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I'm looking forward to giving my talk! And, I hope that we get lots of questions from the audience. Remember, to ask questions, you need to register. #BiologicalSexIsReal @AmericanAnthro @CASCATweet @hoovlet @canceledanthro @SilviaCarrascoP.
We've uncanceled the event the AAA and CASCA removed from their conference program with a live webinar and webstream on November 8th. Register at
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My new book, On the Warpath, will be out in days! Two months ahead of schedule -- thank you @PressAcademica -- and it is the #1 new release in Physical Anthropology on Amazon. Order your copy today! .
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Thank you @ghlionn for capturing the madness that is rampant in current anthropology and archaeology!.
‘The trans lobby got me canceled for saying skeletons are either male or female’: professor
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If you haven't seen my talk "Back to Stick Figures: . How Woke Warriors Destroyed Anthropology" yet, here's a direct link to it:.
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Here's my article on censorship in anthropology: "Back to Stick Figures: How Woke Warriors Destroyed Anthropology" -- thank you to @SwipeWright for getting this posted so quickly!.
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Happy World Anthropology Day! Let's celebrate the knowledge anthropology has brought us and continue to try to shield it from politically correct agendas and collection-destroying animistic superstitions. #WorldAnthropologyDay
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Excellent article by @LKrauss1 in @Quillette on the dangers of trying to determine who is pure enough to be a scientist. These are dark days in academia. Campus Puritans Come for an Astronomer—And His Byline
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The death of Old World archaeology has begun as archaeologists argue against excavating sites, write that existing collections should be reburied, and equate curation with "hoarding.".
Is it Ethical to Continue Excavating the Dead in the Ancient Near East?.Much debate of focuses on #NativeAmerican #NAGPRA & #colonial history. Here: tension between bioarchaeological research & ethics in Middle Eastern current & legacy collections.
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The Slow Death of Archaeology in the Name of ‘Repatriation’ is no longer behind a paywall. Read the article @SwipeWright and @brad_polumbo discussed in their latest [Citation Needed] podcast.
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Last night -- my first night back in Tucson since August -- there was one of my royal bunnies waiting for me: King-Can't-Get-Enough took a shredded wheat biscuit out of my hand. Just one of the many things that I'm thankful for this year. #Thanksgiving2022
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Excellent article in @AporiaMagazine -- How belief in witchcraft holds Africa back, by @MatthewsLipton .
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The American Anthropological Association Is Shamefully Anti-Scientific. From National Review. #BiologicalSexIsReal .
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I thought this myth was dead. A great book on this topic and the PC culture behind it is Mary Lefkowitz's "Not Out Of Africa: How "Afrocentrism" Became An Excuse To Teach Myth As History".
Anthropologically speaking, the Afrocentric delusion plaguing the West can be understood through the lens of the Cargo cult. The Cargo Cult Phenomena .
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At noon today, I'll be talking at #hereticon with @clairlemon about the invention of Native America -- come join us if you can!
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It's a good beginning of the year when you see two little tiny javelinas come by your place. The momma was so tired that she rested her head on one of our outside chairs! 🥰
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@clairlemon It's difficult to assess age at death, but there's good evidence that for most of prehistory human's longevity was similar to apes -- mid-30s to early 40s. The # 1 cause of death was dental disease, resulting in blood poisoning. Here's a photo: teeth worn to stubs and abscesses.
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Wokeness is about being anti-West, not about being anti-religion. I noticed this while trying to grasp why anthropologists were upset with me for challenging Native American creation myths. #OntheWarpath .
Good luck to the future historians studying why a bunch of purple-haired non-binary atheists are bowing to Allah at UCLA.
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Remarkably, although @elonmusk posted "Wow" in response to a post from @SwipeWright highlighting the absurdity of the @AAA and @CASCATweet cancellation by of a panel on sex, now @X put a warning label on my post of the @GadSaad video on the topic. #BiologicalSexIsReal.
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@DOGE @DOGE_USDA @DOGE_SSA NAGPRA, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, has gone off the rails. Intended for the repatriation of human remains, funerary/sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony to federally recognized tribes affiliated with the materials. Now, everything is.
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Excellent article on "unmarked graves"! @Quillette.
A new book, co-edited by @Ucalgary Prof. Emeritus Tom Flanagan, analyzes the “Unmarked Graves” social panic of 2021—in which millions of Canadians somehow became convinced that 215 dead children had been discovered in Kamloops BC. An excerpt at @Quillette:.
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Today's my last day working for San Jose State University.
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Ironically, this is the same organization that deplatformed my talk in which I had questioned archaeology's support of creation myths.
Archaeologists devote their lives & careers to researching & sharing knowledge about the past with the public. Netflix's "Ancient Apocalypse" undermines trust in their work & aligns with racist ideologies. Read SAA's letter to Netflix outlining concerns:
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At the last NAGPRA meeting, I asked about adherence to legal definitions for repatriations. The response I got demonstrates that repatriation overreach has become the norm; everything -- from spark plugs to feces -- is treated as sacred. More on this absurdity in my next article!
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From @pimalibrary I got an email titled "Readers! Read Harder this year!" which linked to reading lists that align with the reading challenge put out by @BookRiot. The challenge includes: . - Read a 2025 release by a BIPOC author. - Read a queer mystery. - Read literary fiction.
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