My fellow MU alum over at @knowledgefight.bsky.social had better be 2-AM-at-Eastside-Tavern level drunk celebrating the news today.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

Conquistadors, Bison Hunters, and Horses in the Southern Plains (C. Britt Bousman) YouTube video by SMU Anthropology

Yesterday we were grateful to host Dr. Britt Bousman (Texas State University) for the Caroline B. Brettell Seminars in Anthropology series hosted by the SMU Department of Anthropology.

youtu.be/ym6E1O4kfcQ?...

Official statement re: Dan Bongino

Gebel Ramlah excavations (2001) YouTube video by SMU Anthropology

Curious what archaeology looks like in the Sahara Desert?

Here's a 2001 video from the Combined Prehistoric Expedition showing the first season digging at Gebel Ramlah, a Neolithic cemetery.

NOTE: Video contains human remains.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-sC...

So....Twitter is basically a hellscape of misinformation, name-calling, bullshit, and advertisements now?

A drawing labeled a quick guide to non human ape sexy times. There are four boxes. Box 1: orangutan with two circles connected by a single straight line labeled antisocial monogamy. Box 2 is labeled gorilla and has a row of three dots each with its own line connecting to a single dot labeled polygamy. Box 3 is chimpanzees. Three dots on each side. Dots adjacent to each other are not connected, but they are connected to all of the dots on the opposite side, labeled competitive promiscuity. And box 4 is bonobos (so you know this will be fun). Every dot is connected to every other dot for a big ol dot orgy and is labeled nonstop orgy.

I just found the script for next season's Bridgerton. The intrigue. The prestige. The sex. The bonobos.

Canadian man once again flees town to evade ICE.

Scan of the 1974 Playboy Magazine interview with Erich von Daniken

(8/8)

Q: "...you suggest that the banana was brought to Earth from space. Were you serious?"

A: "No, and not many people realize that."

Scan of the 1974 Playboy Magazine interview with Erich von Daniken

(7/8)

Q: "Do you have any qualms about telling your millions of readers that this is an absolutely accurate map, when, in fact, some parts of it are accurate and other parts are wrong?"

A: "I really don't know...."

Scan of the 1974 Playboy Magazine interview with Erich von Daniken

(6/8)

Q: "Which archaeologists say the pyramid builders used wooden rollers?"

A: "More or less all of them."

Scan of the 1974 Playboy Magazine interview with Erich von Daniken

(5/8)

Q: "Did you, in fact, see the things you describe?"

A: "Definitely. No doubt. Though I must say I am not at all sure anymore."

Scan of the 1974 Playboy Magazine interview with Erich von Daniken

(4/8)

Q: "This being is quoted as saying 'I am the Lord' over and over agin."

A: "But what IS the Lord? The commander."

Q: "So you're saying the text is letter-perfect when it describes the so-called spaceship but completely inaccurate when it records what the pilot had to say."

Scan of the 1974 Playboy Magazine interview with Erich von Daniken

(3/8)

Q: "So you're saying that these visitors walked all over the Earth, altered the course of human history and departed without leaving a trace?"

A: "This is more complicated than you think...it may still be hidden somewhere. But it would be hidden very well."

Scan of the 1974 Playboy Magazine interview with Erich von Daniken

(2/8)

Q: "A psychiatrist might say that your theories, with all this talk about mankind as children of superior beings, were generated by your unhappiness as a child who didn't get along with his father."

A: "Well, yes and no..."

Scan of the 1974 Playboy Magazine interview with Erich von Daniken

Seems as good a time as any to share the 1974 interview of him by Timothy Ferris. Always amazed at the dodging, deflecting, and backpedaling he tried when confronted by someone who actually knew what they were talking about (1/8)

Swiss author Erich von Däniken dead at 90 The Swiss author and publicist Erich von Däniken, best known for the 1968 bestseller Chariots of the Gods, has died at the age of 90.

www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/...

Having a beer.

Right meow.

Merry Christmas from Oak Cliff, Texas!

We use HIS TEXTBOOK In the class!! 😂

@kfed-archaeology.bsky.social

I feel like I might have failed this student somehow over the past semester.

October 1974…guessing he was wrong?

👀

Archaeology: A Quest for Knowledge YouTube video by SMU Anthropology

youtu.be/KX-iC6NQGe8?...

Texas Archaeology - 1977 YouTube video by SMU Jones Film

youtu.be/r5wbGWLVma0?...

It's easy to use social media to spout off about archaeology.

It's harder to spend 12 mos. digging in archives to find documentary films made about actual archaeology, get them digitized, cut together, and shared on the Internet to show folks what real archaeology looks like

Whelp, someone just earned himself a cameo in my class this semester.

GOP Oversight Member Suggests Smithsonian Hiding Bones of Giants Rep. Eric Burlison: “I do believe [giants] were real”

I dont know who needs to hear this, but the Smithsonian is NOT hiding the remains of giants in the basement… 🤦‍♂️

meidasnews.com/news/gop-ove...