For my new followers: Thanks for the follow. I specialize in lithics, landscapes, mounds, hunter-gatherers, & southeast NA. I try to answer all the questions asked to me that I can. Hoping to make more YouTube videos but been busy trying to finish my PhD.

Sorry I haven't been posting much, been really sick. It's been nice being away from the stupidity on X tho.

Dang. I am on a roll lately!

Really enjoyable video. I had never heard the term before, so it was nice getting to know the background of it.

Incredibly sad news coming from Florida.

My fans are so funny. They block me, then unblock me to respond, then block me again. I guess they are just addicted to me :).

I am no longer blocked!.

It's strange that the people complaining about NAGPRA aren't complaining about the laws that stop researchers from just going and digging up cemeteries. Super odd. I wonder why that is. ?.

early in the field's history. It also seems like some people are just upset with Archs regardless. I'm more than happy to have this discussion with Matt as well - but someone would have to let him know. 3/3.

things isn't a long time, it is for the field of Archaeology. The field has not been around for a very long time - possibly 100-150 years (at least modern archaeology. So, the changing of hunter-gatherers were categorization changing in the 70s means that it changed pretty 2/.

I would think that updating the meaning of the label hunter-gatherers based on data is exactly what people would want. Archaeologists are critiqued for not updating the narrative, but when they do it is also still wrong somehow. And while yes, decades in the grand scheme of 1/.

Anyone know what I did to upset Matt?

Today is #askanarchaeologistday. I will be stopping by the Inside Archaeology YT channel to answer some questions. Tagging @MoundLore because I know lots of their followers enjoy the history of mounds and that is my specialty. So feel free to come by! .

I don't think most fans of "pseudoarchaeology" are stupid, but one common trend I see is that many fans of it don't understand archaeology to begin with - then when they see messages from opponents of the field they don't want to learn from archaeologists.

This is an unfortunate situation. People keep speaking out about wanting more archaeological research to be done, but we are losing the funds to make that possible. SAPIENS Magazine was focused on public outreach and now that is disappearing as well.

Reason to try new things: Pineapple deer sausage. I never would have tried this but the guy that does our deer processing recommended it and now we mostly get it when we bring a deer in.

RT @archaeologyart: Ceramic figure depicting a ball player in action, from the Jaina culture, Late Classic period (600-800 AD). Collection:….

RT @farmer_tr: Seriation.

This was found during one of my stone sourcing field studies. It's a mix of Potato Hills Chert & quartzite/silicified sandstone. Examining artifacts as part of my diss, I have found one biface with a mix of chert & quartzite. The stem was quartzite while the blade was chert.

RT @AntiquityJ: #AskAnArchaeologist Day is this Friday!. Get your questions ready, as tons of archaeologists will be on hand to answer your….

RT @archaeologymag: In what’s now Belize at the site of Caracol, one of the Maya world’s largest and most important cities from during the….