Every Extant Death-and-Rebirth Text of Dionysus
A sourcebook of ancient texts for the Dionysus death and rebirth myth, from Zagreus sparagmos to the twice-born Semele tradition.
How Humans Evolved
Research Articles
Writing for AI
Or: How I became the world’s most influential bullroarer researcher
Basal Eurasian as a Mirage: A Steelman Case for “Ghost Ancestry” as Selection Artifact
A steelman argument that Basal Eurasian is not a real ghost population, but a selection-induced distortion in f-statistics and admixture-graph fitting.
Women First: Eve, Pandora, Inanna, Nüwa, the Djanggawul, Izanami, Persephone
A companion to Eve Theory of Consciousness: reading seven mythic women as convergent cultural memory of the first self-aware rupture—knowledge, shame, death, and world-making.
The Genealogy of the Squatter: A Steelman Case for the Diffusion of the Hocker and Heraldic Woman Motifs
A diffusionist analysis tracing the squatting ‘hocker’ motif and Heraldic Woman from Göbekli Tepe through Luristan bronzes, Maori lintels, and Aboriginal Australia.
It’s Hard to Be God
A Brief History of Man
Romans in Tucson? Steelmanning the Tucson Artifacts
A critical but sympathetic reconstruction of the strongest case for the Tucson lead crosses as evidence of a medieval Old World colony in Arizona.
Eve’s Serpents: New Clues for the Snake Cult of Consciousness
A tour through archaeology, genetics, and comparative myth to see how much of the Eve Theory and the Snake Cult of Consciousness survives contact with outside evidence.
Sam Harris on Consciousness, Illusion, and Materialism
A close reading of Sam Harris on consciousness, the self, free will, and whether his naturalism treats consciousness as ‘just an illusion’.
If the Stones Were True: How One Proven ‘Hoax’ Would Rewrite American Prehistory
A counterfactual: what would change if even one ‘hoax’ artifact like the Bat Creek Stone or Newark Decalogue were proven genuinely Old World and pre-Columbian?