If you remember the last Indiana Jones movie, it featured some elongated skulls of ancient Peruvians and made some reference to the crystal skull allegedly found by Anna Mitchell-Hedges in t… Read More
Drawing of a figurine from Tiesler (2014, p. 81) that depicts a head splint used to shape an infant’s skull.Elongated skulls of ancient people like the Peruvians have long been a sourc… Read More
A woo-related post ended up on one of the Rock Art pages I subscribe to on FaceBook, with the author claiming a pebble exhibiting pareidolic features to be a figure carved from stone by &ldq… Read More
Pseudoarchaeological claims are also marked by frequent mention of “out-of-place-artifacts” often called “ooparts” for short. The notion by those that see fantastic e… Read More
There are many who make a pretense of doing science, using scientific-sounding jargon and misplaced or misapplied scientific principles. In so doing, these people often begin with conclusio… Read More
What is the harm in allowing pseudoarchaeological beliefs to proliferate and propagate? It isn’t as if it exposes children to life-threatening measles the way pseudo-medicinal beliefs… Read More
Google “alternative archaeology” (with the quotes) and you’ll get about 17,000 hits. The first of which might be the Pseudoarchaeology entry for Wikipedia, but the next few… Read More
Editor-Joseph, Frank. (2016). The Lost History of Ancient America:How Our Continent Was Shaped by Conquerors, Influencers, and Other Visitors from Across the Ocean. Wayne, NJ: New Page Books… Read More
Several years ago, probably around 2008, I remember reading a book which I highly recommend if you’re at all interested in the mysteries of science [...]
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In the last article, I presented John Casti’s “Hallmarks of Pseudoscience” (from his book Paradigm’s Lost), reworked to fit pseudoarchaeology. Today, I’ve rewor… Read More
Pseudoarchaeology proponent Andrew Collins posted on Jan. 25 to the aptly named “Megalithomania” Facebook group in response to the “Oldest known human fossil outside Africa… Read More
Yesterday, I posted a link on the Facebook Page to a an online article at Inverse where Rae Paoletta covered the recent news that Megan [...]
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Simply put, pseudoarchaeology is fake archaeology. The suffix, pseudo-, which comes from the Greek word pseudein (and means "to cheat" or "to lie") is added to the word archae… Read More
You may remember that I wrote back in April of the Travel Channel show expected to debut later this year with Megan Fox as a [...]
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Fake, fraudulent, and fantastic topics in archaeology covered at Archaeology Review in 2018
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A response to Richard, who objects to my disparaging remarks of Graham Hancock and his fantasies about 'Lost Civilizations.'
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In pseudoarchaeology, as with other pseudosciences (i.e. astrology, naturopathy, etc.) there are often those that will ask, "what's the harm?"
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When it comes to fighting pseudoarchaeology or junk-archaeology, it’s easy to find a target to assail. Turn on the television, open a Facebook group, visit [...]
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America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization Hancock, Graham St. Martin’s Press Released April 23, 2019 (U.S.) 592 pages $29.99 ISBN: 978-1-250-15373-9 I received [...]
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Scott Wolter's America Unearthed is moved to the Travel Channel. The first episode about Vikings in Arizona is reviewed
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A story of 800-year old squash seeds being revived is making its rounds on Facebook again, linked to none other than that pseudoarchaeological website Ancient [...]
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Remember Glenn Beck? Here's that time in 2010 he thought he could prove the Lost Tribe of Israel built the mounds of Newark
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Former U.S. Army officer and mathematician published a paper about a worldwide flood in the journal Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry. And it's nearly completely based on pseudoscie… Read More
The SAA Archaeological Record has a new online edition out for November/December 2019 and it's a special pseudoarchaeology edition that includes articles from six different writers.
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In the realm and imaginations of those who disseminate fake, fraudulent, and fantastic archaeological claims, there are some things that are just cliche in their [...]
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AKA my comfort food of the entertainment world... It ain't always good and it's rarely pretty, but I love it anyway.#5. BotchedPremise: American doctors fix up disastrous plastic surgery in… Read More
Noah’s ark gets discovered several times a year (maybe more than Atlantis). A recent set of press releases would have us believe it’s a fact [...]
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Folks behind yet another pseudoarchaeology show on The Discovery Channel seem not to like reasoned criticism from a real archaeologist. I’ve been wanting to write [...]
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I wrote this in response to a question on Twitter about a statement made by a pseudoarchaeologist on a YouTube video.
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It probably wouldn’t surprise you that YouTube, like most social media, has its share of misinformation disguised as “educational material.” In this article, I discuss [… Read More
For over a century, the vessel that the Old Testament describes as having survived the great flood has been sought. But most archeologists claim it is just a waste of time. Who is really rig… Read More