🌲⚔️ Larsagorn Elarsar 🌼 :mugicrest: on Nostr: Yeah that sounds familiar. But as an enthusiast Schliemann could only do it because ...

Yeah that sounds familiar. But as an enthusiast Schliemann could only do it because he stood on the shoulders of giants. And with dynamite.

But it also shows that archaeologists (generally a pit of vipers in many places) are just as prone as making their own field of study into an idol and calcifying around their favored pet theories to please their egos.

Good example, look at the ongoing row around the JRE debate between Flint Dibble and Graham Hancock. Hancock is not particularly difficult to discredit or even explain why he's wrong with his ideas, even very rhetorically easy to make him shit his pants and look retarded if you want to do that. But Flint Dibble and his colleagues are such a bunch of sniveling cunts they're basically discrediting themselves as experts because they're so dishonest in how they're dealing with a goofball like Hancock.