Carl Feagans

I briefly describe here many of the claims about Noah's Ark over the years and some of the flaws with the current claims. ahotcupofjoe.net/2026/10/noah...

#ArchaeoSkeptics In case you weren't aware, we lost Wikipedian and OG ArchaeoSkeptic Doug Weller on the evening of Sept 30. I first started reading his comments and posts on UseNet groups like sci.archaeology.moderated back in the late 90s and early 2000s. Also on Hall of Ma'at. RIP, my friend.

Hey all, this is a very important video and it's not being seen. The border wall is violating sovereignty for the Tohono O'odham nation and destroying sacred cultural heritage Please share widely and support those advocating on the ground

There's been an uptick of so-called "elongated skulls" stuff on social media recently, so I posted an updated article on the topic. ahotcupofjoe.net/2026/09/arti...

New blog post. (of course it isn't) ahotcupofjoe.net/2026/09/is-t...

I recently had a convoy with an It specialist about Ms One Drive and why I don't use it to store my data. I still use a composition book as a data collector in the field. But the Canvas hack is another good reason to not use the cloud as a primary storage device.

Happy May the Forest Be With You!

This little shed survived yet another controlled burn. We cleared a line around it to remove fuels, but to be honest it just stays so green here I think we don't need to.

My office last week. Coyote scat on the log I took a break on. Sixty gauge cigar for scale.

Here's hoping I get to the rippened mulberries before some of the birds this year.

While Netflix wastes time with Graham Hancock's pseudoscience, genuine documentary opportunities are getting past them.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"Nazis did not dismantle the legal structure of the Weimar Republic all at once or entirely, but replaced it with a bifurcated system in which state functions were divided between a “normative” sphere [...] and a “prerogative” sphere... "

Just purchased Jason Colavito's (@jasoncolavito.bsky.social) new book, "Hoaxing History: An Anthology of Lost Continents, Fake Cities, Phantom Manuscripts, and Other Historical Fictions." It might come in handy at the end of January... Federal shutdown is looking likely again. Look for it on Amazon!

Professor Dave Takes out the Trash in this new video. Probably one of my favorites of his so far.

My friend Jeffrey Rose along with others have a new paper out in which they, "highlight the prominence of Nubian Levallois technology in Dhofar within at least two different lithic industries."

Will someone wake me when the impeachment trials start? Or when the obituary is published. Whichever comes first.

I've been using QGIS off and on for a couple of years. To be honest, it seems to do everything that ESRI products do. Just differently. It's a bit like learning to drive a different class of car city bus to compact or compact to 18-wheeler. Rules of the road are the same, but the controls are diff.

A great discussion (albeit long) with Flint and Chris Kavanagh on how they "decode" modern secular gurus on their Decoding the Gurus podcast. It's like the Lays Potato Chips of videos... you can't just watch a minute or two. It'll have you paying attention!

I just had to share this digital version of a lithograph of an illustration by John Gast from 1870. It's called, "The First Cigar." That white-faced kid that's ready to puke made me grin! The peer-pressure here is strong.

From about 1846 until 1959, the U.S. Government required tax stamps on boxes of cigars to prove payment of excise taxes. It started as tax based on cigar value, but then became a flat tax per thousand cigars, and was eventually based on retail price (1917). Some states still require tax stamps.

They know. And they know they deserve to be there.

Albert Robida’s 1890 novel "Le Vingtième siècle: la vie électrique" was truly a sci-fi story of the Victorian age. He included the telephonoscope like some Zoom/Netflix hybrid but also predicted biological warfare, flying cars, a hyperloop train, and a version of the Ring doorbell.

To Aceco demolitions in D.C.: The East Wing was first constructed in 1912, making it over 100 years old. It's destruction amounts to a Felony ARPA (Archaeological Resources Protection Act) case. Unless you have an ARPA permit in your possession.

“It became clear that [Mann] couldn’t easily balance a politically-neutral Vice Provost position with his public climate work. Sadly, in these times, those two positions are mutually exclusive.”

Also: this video illustrates the incompetence, lack of training, and dangerous approach that these mercenaries employ.

The silly Egyptian vase thing that Matt Beal and Uncharted-something-or-other keep promoting in the world of pseudoarchaeology has been a moderate curiosity of mine. I've yet to really dive into it, but I think I'm going to start with this online paper.

If you need more evidence of both systemic and overt racism in this administration, read this.

This is depressing. "Only 16% of participants read for pleasure. Of those participants, the average person spent 1 hour and 37 minutes reading." N=236k I think it shows. In my dealings with proponents of pseudoarchaeology on X, they just seem to refuse to read.

New blog article from David Connelly on the craziness in the pseudoarchaeology world these days.

"Two people fighting the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula were arrested by federal law enforcement, in a confrontation described by firefighters and depicted in photos and video."

My chat with Cooper and Mike at Elevated Thoughts is up on their YT channel. It was a fun discussion about pseudoarchaeology but about some real archaeology as well! Be sure to check out their other videos, the other folks they interview are way more interesting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjTf...

Gutfield: "What does it tell you though?" Me: it say's you're a little too comfortable being referred to as a Nazi.