Trevor Noah "Accuses" Archaeology and Paleontology of Simply Making It All Up

1/26/2019

This weekend I am taking some time away from blog writing to work on my new books. It turns out that there are only so many hours in the day and not enough of them to do everything at the same time. So, this weekend, enjoy a break from fringe history and instead watch The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah deliver some embarrassing remarks about archaeology in which he berates Scottish archaeologists for not recognizing that a “ancient” stone circle was actually built in the 1990s, accuses archaeologists of simply making up the story of humanity’s past, and confuses archaeology with paleontology, which he also alleges is a conspiracy built on fraud. I know they’re meant as a joke, but the remarks made on Thursday’s episode too nearly reflect the kind of mistrust and ignorance we see out in the “wild.”

30 Comments

Bibliophile

1/26/2019 09:34:27 am

Pseudo-archaeologists continue to perpetuate the idea that Atlantis was a racialized place. David Hatcher Childress, one of the most flagrant violators of basic archaeological reasoning, has provided perhaps the most outrageous racialized vision of Atlantis. In discussing Tiahuanaco in Bolivia — as a palace built long before any Native South Americans were present — Childress proposes that the majestic site could only have been constructed by the "Atlantean League." The league was composed of mythic seafarers who "sailed the world spreading a megalithic culture, and wore red turbans over their blond hair. Nowhere did Plato, the only actual source on Atlantis, mention the blond hair of the Atlanteans. Plato did mention that the men and women of Atlantis, being semi-divine, were inherently good... The correlation between goodness and whiteness is thus obvious in Childress's formulation and in much else that has been written about Atlantis.

From Charles E. Orser, Race and Practice in Archaeological Interpretation (2004)

Doc Rock

1/26/2019 01:42:37 pm

Bibliophile,

Thanks for providing the citation. Dr. Orser has an outstanding reputation in historical archaeology. I did some work under him a long long time ago.

An Anonymous Nerd

1/27/2019 06:26:08 pm

I think you may be giving Childress, and those of his ilk, too much credit in granting that his fantasies have a "source," as we understand the term. I think "Lord of the Rings" bears a closer relationship to any identifiable source than does anything written by the likes of Childress, Von Daniken, Wolter, etc.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Antiseptic Cool "Disco" Dan

1/27/2019 06:59:16 pm

You don't know where those authors got their ideas? Here''s one corner of the handkerchief: Wolter got his Goddess nonsense, his Mary Magdelene nonsense, his Templar nonsense, and his Freemason nonsense from Holy Blood Holy Grail.

If you don't know where Childress and Von Daniken got their ideas then, Jed, I just don't want to know you.

Joe Scales

1/26/2019 10:00:16 am

"So, this weekend, enjoy a break from fringe history and instead watch The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah "

No thanks. Political advocacy disguised as news is bad enough. But when it pretends to be comedy... well. perhaps "propaganda" might be more fitting a description. Don't ya think Jason?

David Bradbury

1/26/2019 02:38:03 pm

Left wing: political advocacy with laughs
Right wing: political advocacy with conspiracy theories

Which is more dangerous?

Joe Scales

1/27/2019 02:27:51 pm

Politicians are moral entrepreneurs; and easily corrupted at that. Faith in them is never repaid.

Alphabetical Cool "Disco" Dan

1/28/2019 02:10:33 pm

The Kirshbaum-Kirschenbaum manor in Bavaria is the heartland of the German Rosicrucians, founders of the occult branch of Freemasonry (as discussed in Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum", a text that probed the relationship of the Propaganda Due (P2) lodge in Milan with Nazi occult insiders at the Vatican. The Bavarian state capital at Munich, once the throne of Mad King Ludwig, is the alembic where Karl Haushofer of the esoteric Thule Society who indoctrinated the prisoner Adolf Hitler, who was a radical "socialist" much like AOC today. Bavaria is also where the Jesuit-trained Adam Weishaupt launched the Illuminati Society, before escaping an arrest warrant to Frankfurt where he recruited Mayer Rothschild and then to Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to induct its royal family, which would become the House of Windsor of the British monarchy. As a historical note, Weishaupt launched his Illuminati cult at a time when the Jesuit Order was disbanded by the Vatican, which explains why he's described as a "former" Jesuit.

The Temple of the Rosy Cross had as its symbol the drops of blood around Jesus's crown of thorns at the Crucifixion, which are cherry red, much like the red robes of Catholic Cardinals' taken after the blood of Christ, the "scapegoat", the horned beast identified with Baphomet. What the duality of Good and Evil in blood sacrifice used to seal the union of Church and State under an omnipotent Antichrist, to be achieved through the cooperation of the Jesuits and their political allies known as the Illuminati? The rationalist faction of Protestant Freemasonry opposed any such Supreme Monarchism, and therefore mandated the separation of religion and government in their drafting of the US Constitution. Thereafter vigilance against power-hungry religious movements and quasi-spiritual cults is a precondition to serving in Congress and the White House, which is why this examination of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the necessary first step toward investigating her hidden links to that ancient cabal.

bezalel

1/29/2019 05:45:15 am

"ALPHABETICAL COOL "DISCO" DAN
1/28/2019 02:10:33 pm
The Kirshbaum-Kirschenbaum manor in Bavaria is the heartland of the German Rosicrucians...." The idiot kindergartner said.

William Guy Carr much? This atrocious right-wing moralistically inclined conspiracy garbage is ages old and betrays a profound ignorance of what's really going on. Stop plagiarising RENSE.com, anything from which is unreliable and under-informed. Politically hot but imbecilic 25 year olds know better. You haven't dug anywhere nearly deeply enough to get why you are still just a vatican tool.

And stop pretending to be ACDD

Aboriginal Cool "Disco" Dan

1/26/2019 11:16:32 pm

"Political advocacy disguised as news is bad enough. But when it pretends to be comedy..."

That's why I gave up on SNL. The Baldwin skits were funny but they just hammered away for ever, week after week to the point where it got old. Have never watched Colbert, as much as I like some of his guests. Nor Noah. I gave Jimmy Fallon a chance and he just sucks rabid possum anus.

"Almost bumped a Jewish kid crossing the road. He didn't look b4 crossing but I still would hav felt so bad in my german car!"

"Messi gets the ball and the real players try foul him, but Messi doesn't go down easy, just like jewish chicks."

- - - Trevor Noah

He's not black, America. South Africa under Apartheid didn't consider him black.

Joe Scales

1/27/2019 08:50:47 am

"That's why I gave up on SNL. The Baldwin skits were funny but they just hammered away for ever, week after week to the point where it got old."

That's actually pretty formulaic for SNL, even back in the early years. They hit on something funny and then drive it straight through into the ground. But yeah, Baldwin started out great as Trump, then started taking himself too seriously. Melissa McCarthy was hysterical at first too, doing Sean Spicer. But when SNL's straight lines, especially during the preachy news segments, were sourced from Democratic talking points... well, funny was out the window and it became unwatchable.

As for Noah, a lot of the Left's heroes are anti-Semitic and some are finally being called out for it. Too often though, it's the buried lead.

Architectural Cool "Disco" Dan

1/27/2019 05:28:20 pm

"Left Wingers are against Anti-Semitism, they have no interest in the Bible." You know that makes no sense right?

So how do you explain Trevor Noah's hatred of Jews?

How do you explain counterpunch.org's constant and well-founded advocacy for Palestinians opposed by the Jew Nazi state of Israel?

GREAT ARCHITECT

1/27/2019 05:47:00 pm

"Trevor Noah's jokes are harmless. That is the attitude of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies following this week's storm over accusations that the renowned comedian had made anti-Semitic jokes" (Times Live, 6 April 2015)

Yaphet Kotto

1/27/2019 07:24:08 pm

Trevor has it made. If a couple of cracker cops pull him over and start to hassle him all he gotta do is tell them he ain't black cause they say so in south Africa. Then them crackers gonna back right off him and send him on his way.

GINA T

1/26/2019 07:52:43 pm

The corn on the cob joke was funny!

Lonnie

1/27/2019 10:18:42 am

The dating of this Scottish stone circle is probably as accurate as the dating of Giza pyramids. Of course all scientists know Khufu built the big one:)

Giovanni Belzoni

1/27/2019 01:19:12 pm

Testa di Merda! Khufu didn't build that pyramid. It was ancient aliens with gigantic super lifto rays. Did it in one day in 12,000 BC. As soon as they finished, the Templar sanitation crew moved in and removed every single bit of physical evidence that could prove the pyramid is 14,000 years old.

Jim

1/27/2019 01:47:03 pm

Meh,,,, if Templars from the future could travel back in time to build the moon, I don't why time travelers couldn't have built those little wee pyramids. Mystery solved.

Giovanni Belzoni

1/27/2019 08:23:50 pm

Foolish Americano! How are you so sure that the Templars travelled back in time to sanitize the not-Khufu site. I have it on good authority that the Templars travelled forward in time from a Denisovan cave on the shores of the Black Sea in the year 400,000 after they had completed construction of the first shrine ever erected to honor the Goddess. They had a very difficult time even with the laser beams provided by the aliens to carve that 20 tonnes boulder into the shape of una bella micio.

GinaT

1/27/2019 08:32:26 pm

@GIOVANNI

That sounded like a shit load of BS

Giovanni Belzoni

1/27/2019 08:46:54 pm

Listen specie di ciuccio. You cannot prove that I am wrong. I have further data to support me that was derived from a translation of the recently discovered Creamonmona Document. The 400,000 BP date is firm!!!!!

GinaT

1/27/2019 08:52:23 pm

Seriously? Your going to bring the cremona document into this.. go ahead lay out your "Proof". I'll be waiting.

Giovanni Belzoni

1/27/2019 09:08:21 pm

The proof is there for all to see accept for you, maiale cieco!!! Many works have been written about the Denisovans and the Templars. Fool!!

www.DenisTempla/seamen/.va.gene/wolt.halpern/neph.org

GinaT

1/27/2019 09:44:15 pm

@Giovanni

Fottiti tu e la barca sulla quale sei venuto...

GinaT

1/27/2019 09:50:13 pm

@Giovanni. Conosco l'italiano con fluidità. sei una povera scusa per un uomo che chiama una donna un maiale per documenti falsi di cremona. mi imbarazzi come un italiano. piccola cagna

Giovanni Belzoni

1/28/2019 01:00:13 pm

The way that you butcher the Italian language makes me pursue a guess that you are American or a gypsy or an ignorant Sardinian peasant. Go tend to your goats and barley and stop the bedevilment of the scientists who are try to discuss.

Gina T

1/28/2019 02:09:37 pm

Lets not steer away from the request. the request was do you have proof the Cremona document is factual?

Second of all, I am not swayed by your name calling. Call me what you will, you will not break me.

Giovanni wants to claim he is a scientist, but wont reveal his real name? Unless you are the real Freemason who was born in 1778? I cant deal with "fringe" scientists, wannabe's ..

Either you got proof of the Cremona document, or you don't. Admit when you are wrong or move on.

And I see Disco Dan is back on the scene trying to get in where he fits in, I will be ignoring all your comments. Have a nice day gentlemen.

Giovanni Belzoni

1/28/2019 02:19:21 pm

Supreme buffoon!!!!! Are your eyes filled with the mud of your Sardinian pig corral and you cannot read. I made no reference of the Cremona Document. You argue with yourself and it will be a tie because the match is between two equal fools.