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Paul Barford: British Archaeologist, archaeoblogger concerned about portable antiquities issues and cleaning up no-questions-asked antiquities trade. Retweet not endorsement.
Collaborant: "Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation". What kind of scholars, these days, are collaborating with RAN? Scholars who don't give a f**k. The Americans and pottymouth Young, it is to be expected. Kletetschka, Napier, Greenwood, Malley, shame on you.
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A 12,800-year-old layer with cometary dust, microspherules, and platinum anomaly recorded in multiple cores from Baffin Bay
The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) posits that ~12,800 years ago Earth encountered the debris stream of a disintegrating comet, triggering hemisphere-wide airbursts, atmospheric dust loading, ...
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August 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Collaborant: "Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation". What kind of scholars, these days, are collaborating with RAN? Scholars who don't give a f**k. The Americans and pottymouth Young, it is to be expected. Kletetschka, Napier, Greenwood, Malley, shame on you.
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It's Insulting: How NOT to "Research the Past alternativepasts.blogspot.com/2025/05/its-... over 199,408 views. These seem to me to be the kind of accusations this guy urgently needs to be called on to substantiate. These lies need to be stopped.
It's Insulting: How NOT to "Research the Past"
I have always said archaeology is "mot rocket science", access to the raw data is easy, the underlying principles are pretty simple, the log...
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May 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
It's Insulting: How NOT to "Research the Past alternativepasts.blogspot.com/2025/05/its-... over 199,408 views. These seem to me to be the kind of accusations this guy urgently needs to be called on to substantiate. These lies need to be stopped.
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What exactly am I supposed to do about it? Our Dem reps are mostly brain dead, gormless, and spineless, and legacy media is dead. I have limited power. Please stop yelling at me. I am not a Billionaire.
May 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
What exactly am I supposed to do about it? Our Dem reps are mostly brain dead, gormless, and spineless, and legacy media is dead. I have limited power. Please stop yelling at me. I am not a Billionaire.
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🧪🏺 The amount of trash human evolution content on YouTube has always been depressing, but it's SO much worse since the advent of AI - big accounts with +1 hour-long fake voiced scripts, 'written' by inaccurate data-scraping algorithms, glossed by garbage AI images which are every kind of wrong 😫
May 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
🧪🏺 The amount of trash human evolution content on YouTube has always been depressing, but it's SO much worse since the advent of AI - big accounts with +1 hour-long fake voiced scripts, 'written' by inaccurate data-scraping algorithms, glossed by garbage AI images which are every kind of wrong 😫
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Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
March 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
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⚡️Americans split on Ukraine, CBS News poll finds.
U.S. respondents are split between supporting Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression, an opinion poll published by CBS News on March 2 found.
U.S. respondents are split between supporting Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression, an opinion poll published by CBS News on March 2 found.
Americans split on Ukraine, CBS News poll finds
52% of respondents said they backed Ukraine in its fight against Russia. 44% of respondents said they were neutral. Only 4% of respondents back Russia.
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March 3, 2025 at 5:44 AM
⚡️Americans split on Ukraine, CBS News poll finds.
U.S. respondents are split between supporting Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression, an opinion poll published by CBS News on March 2 found.
U.S. respondents are split between supporting Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression, an opinion poll published by CBS News on March 2 found.
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How to know you’re in a cult.
How to Know You Are In A Cult (1953)
YouTube video by Mr. Newberger's AI Funnies
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February 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
How to know you’re in a cult.
Nokta advert, "scores three times" - shows trashing of historical record for pleasure and profit paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/02/like...
Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel, Targeting Archaeology of Historical Ruin Site
Scoring three times: Once for irresponsibleand destructive detecting on historical ruin site on pasture, Once again for lack of recording...
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February 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Nokta advert, "scores three times" - shows trashing of historical record for pleasure and profit paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/02/like...
February 2025's Fluff Media Article on the Pleasures of Looting the Archaeology in UK... 1500 members, what are they digging up, where is it going? paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/02/febr...
February 2025's Fluff Media Article on the Pleasures of Looting the Archaeology in UK
North Cornwall Metal Detecting Group dig (Picture: Warren Wilkins) Despite the Portable Antiquities Scheme being there to do "outreach" on...
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February 23, 2025 at 5:13 AM
February 2025's Fluff Media Article on the Pleasures of Looting the Archaeology in UK... 1500 members, what are they digging up, where is it going? paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/02/febr...
History-Destroying "Haul" Flogged off to Buy Drinks Down the Pub x.com/MetalDetecti...
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February 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
History-Destroying "Haul" Flogged off to Buy Drinks Down the Pub x.com/MetalDetecti...
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Accurate
February 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Accurate
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What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?
February 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?
What's up? Somebody Somehow Switched Treasure Coin Image? Which is the objective record? paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/02/some... 🤥
February 22, 2025 at 5:02 AM
What's up? Somebody Somehow Switched Treasure Coin Image? Which is the objective record? paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/02/some... 🤥
Sean and Colin Welch focus on the V1 flying bomb and V2 rocket of Britain's WW2 period and also look at the associated countermeasures undertaken to deal with the attacks youtu.be/QEVOT_Nk6Mw?...
The Archaeology of the ‘V’ Weapons
YouTube video by Royal Air Force Museum
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February 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Sean and Colin Welch focus on the V1 flying bomb and V2 rocket of Britain's WW2 period and also look at the associated countermeasures undertaken to deal with the attacks youtu.be/QEVOT_Nk6Mw?...
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If Russia invaded Alaska, what would you call a US president who "made a deal" to prevent war by allowing Russia to annex the state and occupy the 730,000 Americans living there?
February 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
If Russia invaded Alaska, what would you call a US president who "made a deal" to prevent war by allowing Russia to annex the state and occupy the 730,000 Americans living there?
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And Belitung: The Afterlives of a Shipwreck, by Natali Pearson, which examines one of the most consequential Indian Ocean shipwrecks and its complex post-excavation life:
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Belitung: The Afterlives of a Shipwreck
In 1998, the Belitung, a ninth-century western Indian Ocean–style vessel, was discovered in Indonesian waters. Onboard was a full cargo load, likely intended for the Middle Eastern market, of over …
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January 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
And Belitung: The Afterlives of a Shipwreck, by Natali Pearson, which examines one of the most consequential Indian Ocean shipwrecks and its complex post-excavation life:
uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/belitu...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/belitu...
Too Hot to Handle: Artefact Collector Got Tired of His Trophy Object? paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/02/too-...
Too Hot to Handle: Artefact Collector Got Tired of His Trophy Object?
Credit: Greek Police A metre-high headless marble statue of a woman was found dumped as rubbish in Thessaloniki, Greece (CBS News ' 2,000-ye...
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February 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Too Hot to Handle: Artefact Collector Got Tired of His Trophy Object? paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/02/too-...
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The @telegraphnews.bsky.social says it has the document Zelensky was asked to sign
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Revealed: Trump’s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold
Panic in Kyiv as US president demands higher share of GDP than Germany’s First World War reparations
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February 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The @telegraphnews.bsky.social says it has the document Zelensky was asked to sign
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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NEW A critical reflection of Antiquity's mission and history, decolonising the journal, and diversifying our content going forward. Robin Skeates explores all these themes and more in his first #Editorial.
🆓 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.226
🆓 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.226
February 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
NEW A critical reflection of Antiquity's mission and history, decolonising the journal, and diversifying our content going forward. Robin Skeates explores all these themes and more in his first #Editorial.
🆓 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.226
🆓 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.226
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I think it's the first case in human history where a nation fighting for its survival against a major aggressor is being forced—by a non-combatant partner—into paying Versailles-style reparations over military aid that had earlier been provided purposefully at no cost.
February 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I think it's the first case in human history where a nation fighting for its survival against a major aggressor is being forced—by a non-combatant partner—into paying Versailles-style reparations over military aid that had earlier been provided purposefully at no cost.
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The funniest part? Donald Trump couldn’t care less about “American taxpayer money,” “the lives of Russians and Ukrainians,” or “peace on Earth.”
The only things that truly matter to him are his bottomless ego and his relentless obsession with proving how “tough” and “victorious” he is.
The only things that truly matter to him are his bottomless ego and his relentless obsession with proving how “tough” and “victorious” he is.
February 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The funniest part? Donald Trump couldn’t care less about “American taxpayer money,” “the lives of Russians and Ukrainians,” or “peace on Earth.”
The only things that truly matter to him are his bottomless ego and his relentless obsession with proving how “tough” and “victorious” he is.
The only things that truly matter to him are his bottomless ego and his relentless obsession with proving how “tough” and “victorious” he is.
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Here’s the peace deal🧵
February 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Here’s the peace deal🧵
Despite what we are told, it looks like nine-out-of-ten NCMD (Natnl.Council of Metl Dectrists) DO NOT "responsible report" ANY of their finds to the Portable Antiquities Scheme (@findsorg is that true? Any comments) paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/02/nati...
National Council for Metal Detecting Drops Its Guard, 38000 Membership: Implications
The National Council for Metal Detecting ("Dig with confidence") has always been coy about its membership figures, such a number can be c...
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February 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Despite what we are told, it looks like nine-out-of-ten NCMD (Natnl.Council of Metl Dectrists) DO NOT "responsible report" ANY of their finds to the Portable Antiquities Scheme (@findsorg is that true? Any comments) paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/02/nati...
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Mr Beast's recent video visiting the pyramids of Giza has around 100 million views‼️
As an archaeologist, I've got opinions. And they may surprise you
Check out this review of @MrBeast's masterclass in debunking pseudoarchaeology for a mass audience
youtu.be/O_CAHe7hZZI
As an archaeologist, I've got opinions. And they may surprise you
Check out this review of @MrBeast's masterclass in debunking pseudoarchaeology for a mass audience
youtu.be/O_CAHe7hZZI
Mr Beast SMACKS DOWN pseudoarchaeology conspiracies! Archaeologist reacts to viral Giza pyramids vid
YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble
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February 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Mr Beast's recent video visiting the pyramids of Giza has around 100 million views‼️
As an archaeologist, I've got opinions. And they may surprise you
Check out this review of @MrBeast's masterclass in debunking pseudoarchaeology for a mass audience
youtu.be/O_CAHe7hZZI
As an archaeologist, I've got opinions. And they may surprise you
Check out this review of @MrBeast's masterclass in debunking pseudoarchaeology for a mass audience
youtu.be/O_CAHe7hZZI