A Public Letter to Joe Rogan from Flint Dibble YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble

Joe Rogan has called me a liar. This video is my response

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A photo taken with a microscope of a chunk of soil inside another soil. The chunk has smaller chunks of other soil material inside of it.

#Micromorphology is such a great tool. Soils can contain chunks of older soils, which can contain chunks of older soils. And you can tell the relative age based on what is inside what. This can help use reconstruct changes to the local environment. It aggregates all the way down. Soil-ception

"Triple fact checked"

Complete BS. There are straightup falsehoods and misrepresentations in both seasons.

Bearded man looking off the back of a boat at a farm perched above a waterfall on the edge of a fjord in Norway.

View looking up at a white farmhouse and red barn on a steep grassy slope with fieldstone retaining walls. Forest and mountains in the background.

Geirangerfjord, Norway

"Anger" means "fjord" and "geir" means "spear," so this is "Spear Fjord Fjord."

The fjord farms can be 200 m up. They are usually later medieval or later, but some may date to the Viking Period. Some hosted hundreds of seasonal workers.

Thank you, Slartibartfast

They were hand-reared and had 0 fear of me. One of them took a hat off my head while I was hunched over working.

WTF is a skoot?

Why can't they be "bleets?" 🐑

I wish Time Team had been a part of my life earlier! I didn't have anything like that growing up in the states, although my family owns a small landscaping business. I first learned about dirt there. My Dad jokes that my job is the opposite of his. He puts things in the ground and I take them out.

a close up of a woman 's face with the words movieclips.com visible in the corner Alt: Scene from "The Birds," a close up of a woman 's face looking in horror at a large number of birds.

*I should add that I am irrationally terrified of goats, even cute baby goats. That photo, in my head, looks more like something out of a Hitchcock movie.

A grassy hillside on a fjord in Norway with a town in the background, a metal soil probe is in the foreground, with 7 juvenile goats staring at the viewer in the close background.

Goats seem to be a near constant in my life. These little ones kept trying to steal my gloves and equipment while I was excavating a 18th-19th century farm in Geiranger, Norway.

You don't have to tell me twice!

At Mycenae we used a cherry picker

2016, off the coast of Crete

My least favorite part, choosing the sample. It's not always apparent in the field (probably why they asked me to sample) and once you choose, you're sitting there for 1-3 hours delicately cutting the block wondering if it should have been 5 cm to the left.

Spent the day staring at relative luminescence counts from the soils at a Bronze Age cemetery in Greece. Everything looks like an excel plot to me now, but it looks like I can actually proceed with the method to help understand how the place was managed 3600 years ago! #geoarch

Some of the images I have planned, the alt text is going to look like a figure caption for a journal...

Will do in the future, apologies about that, posted this too quick.

The sondage was stepped back behind me, alot less dangerous than it appears in the photo. Also, the hole was not quite as deep as I am tall, again the photo looks worse than it was.

Thanks! It's a sondage through a Roman Basilica on a big gravel bank along an artificial harbor channel in Greece.

It was a nice trench, nobody could see me so I was very free to stare at the sediments. Micromorph sampling required copious amounts of hairspray.

Followed! Thanks for such a good summary of the situation. Not that the dude really wanted to listen...

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-Your friendly Neighborhood Soil Man

Hello 🦋, I'm an archaeologist & YouTuber

My agenda is clear: fill the internet with #RealArchaeology and oppose pseudoscience

I'm currently writing a book about Atlantis, analyzing sheep teeth from Knossos, teaching archaeological theory, and filming the ultimate video takedown of Graham Hancock