[haihaibye]

Historians wanted to push the narrative that primitive people were less violent, that seeing the pots dug up during different eras was due to cultural transmission not people being wiped out and replaced, "Pots, not people"

Genetics has revealed that no, it was people not pots:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03773-6

You'd have had a more accurate picture of prehistory watching Conan the Barbarian than sitting in anthropology lectures.

[dragonwriter]

Your description of history and anthropology is about at the level of accuracy that one would expect of someone who conflates the two.

[haihaibye]

I point out that far from preventing it, academia has caused "bizarre, erroneous historical narratives ... gaining traction"

Then you point out that I'm conflating history and anthropology... how academic!

When looking at what happened to people in the past, does reality cleave neatly down history/anthropology lines? Or is that an artifact of bureaucracy?

[currymj]

thanks for posting the article, which is fascinating and presents a complex and interesting picture of how archaeologists and anthropologists are reacting to advances in genetics -- much more interesting than your summary suggests.