Dr. Ian Wilson

Catholic - Husband - Dad (x3) - Historian - Teacher - Thriller/Horror/SciFi Enthusiast

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

#AndrewJacksonDavis #Harmonialism #twitterstorians #Cemetery #spiritualism

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

@PortantIssues @damionchurchill @BrightInsight6 Thanks for that. Appreciate the lesson. That's also not what historiography means. Thanks, bud.

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

You don't have to believe in secret civilizations or that archeologists are keeping stuff from the people, but you do have to wonder why they're so against excavating GT completely and documenting the different images on the pillars. Is it simple incompetence? @BrightInsight6

[Lee Clare @drleeclare]

Many are under the impression that #Göbeklitepe is some sort of buried chamber of secrets. No, we are dealing with an Early Holocene settlement with monumental communal buildings, some containing imagery, perhaps depicting oral narratives of the time. Nothing more, nothing less

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

@Rick_Hallnotbot @FlintDibble @BrightInsight6 Right. I'm not digging into it much and was seriously unsure of it. That's where cultural popularizers come in. I saw the hancock/dibble debate and didn't learn as much as I did on this Twitter thread.

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

@Rick_Hallnotbot @FlintDibble @BrightInsight6 My original post was about the associated pic. I still stand by my question's tone, but understand it's not incompetence, but actual decision. It seems I just honestly disagree. Moreover, there's a serious communication/popularizing issue from the academy.

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

Just got the new nasties. @ramseycampbell1

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

@PortantIssues @damionchurchill @BrightInsight6 I never said only, but in history that's clearly superior--a goal even if it can't be done.

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

@SoilManDan @jens2go @megaminutiae @BAJRjobs @FlintDibble @BrightInsight6 @drleeclare @flint @DrHughT Ok.

We already have an old date for the GT pillars. An older one isn't needed for lost civ discussion. I don't think graham hancock suggests its older.

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

@jens2go @SoilManDan @megaminutiae @BAJRjobs @FlintDibble @BrightInsight6 @drleeclare @flint @DrHughT I get that part, but still don't see how it would support either the mainstream nor the lost civ argument in either way. That's fine, I'll keep watching. My notifications are exploding.

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

@SoilManDan @megaminutiae @BAJRjobs @jens2go @FlintDibble @BrightInsight6 @drleeclare @flint @DrHughT I'm lost by this conversation. Pillars built by same folks who built the walls. Why not? We build skyscrapers today and houses in New Mexico from adobe. I don't see what it helps either side say.

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

Watching SCARS OF DRACULA and am pleasantly surprised to see Patrick Troughton in another horror role. Hammer films are the best. Nobody beats Christopher Lee as Dracula.

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@BAJRjobs @FlintDibble @SoilManDan @BrightInsight6 @drleeclare And that's new info to me, which is surprising to me as a historian. I think communication or popularizers are desperately needed!

Still, I Respectfully disagree and think those smaller pits around pillars should be done.

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

@FlintDibble @SoilManDan @BrightInsight6 @BAJRjobs @drleeclare Ok, thank you. This has satisfied most of my questions. I'd still wonder, though, is there a way to do small area excavations around the pillars, only a few inches or feet so as to leave most of the enclosures undisturbed? Only to see what's on each unique pillar?

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

@Peacheserratica Part of how to get it out would surely to be kind, right? To explain it rather than accuse people of being in a cult because they don't understand why sites aren't excavated.

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

@SoilManDan @BrightInsight6 @BAJRjobs @drleeclare @FlintDibble What about exploration? Ie, in history this problem exists too. Go to an archive and they sometimes ask what exactly you want to see from a box. My answer is often: idk, I'd like to see the whole box. Smaller archives allow that--theyre the best.

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

@SoilManDan @BrightInsight6 @BAJRjobs @drleeclare new question @FlintDibble

If we wait to excavate until some future date, what's the standard for knowing when technology is good enough?

I get Flint's point about the scrolls. Makes sense to me. But I'm still not fully buying leaving so much buried and therefore unknown

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

@FlintDibble @BrightInsight6 I'll watch it. Thanks. That said, you did jump on me right away for having questions. This is sort of my argument about communicating with the public.

I can tag him. I didn't tag you.

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

@FlintDibble @BrightInsight6 I'm fine with slow. Be careful, etc... but to do the excavation. Dr Clare has said he isn't interested. If unwrapping scrolls destroy them, don't do it. But rubble, sediment, dirt, and more can be sampled, recorded for later etc... I don't understand what's being destroyed.

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

@FlintDibble @BrightInsight6 I get specific research questions, but doesn't uncovering entirely new and unknown facts--discovery--play any role? We don't know what we don't know, or something like that.

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

@FlintDibble @BrightInsight6 Ok, i get that, but is there a reason some of it was excavated while the rest not. Surely we shouldn't have excavated any of it then?

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

@FlintDibble @BrightInsight6 I guess leaving it unexcavated is a little alien to me. Seeing Dr. Clare talk about praying at the site and not excavating strikes me as odd. In history, we want all possible facts, evidence, etc...

[Dr. Ian Wilson @ISWHistory]

@FlintDibble @BrightInsight6 I'm not saying anything about mystery. My main issue has now become how this has all been communicated. For instance, my basic questioning gets you saying I'm in a cult. Are there other sites with large pillars like GT where we just leave it purposefully?