Monthly Archives: October 2006

Pseudoarchaeology: ABC’s Nightline Demonstrates Journalistic Gullibility

Posted on October 30, 2006 by cfeagans

On Friday night’s broadcast of Nightline (October 27, 2006), ABC once again demonstrated it’s lack of journalistic intelligence in its reporting of the Bosnian “pyramid” nonsense. In spite of many genuine archaeologists publicly denouncing Semir Osmanagic as a fraud who … Continue reading →

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Stolen and Looted: The Getty and the Museum of Fine Arts Return Artifacts

Posted on October 30, 2006 by cfeagans

Recently, some museums like the J. Paul Getty Museum and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts have tightened their policies on acquisition of artifacts and have even returned artifacts to their country of origin. The Getty repatriated a 4th century BC … Continue reading →

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Anthropology Blog Carnival!

Posted on October 26, 2006 by admin

The first ever issue of The Four Stone Hearth hosted by Kambiz at Anthropology.net. The Four Stone Hearth is a new Anthropology Blog Carnival that is named for the four disciplines of anthropology: archaeology, ethnography, physical/biological anthropology, and linguistics. This … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Dancing Skeletons, an ethnography

Posted on October 23, 2006 by admin

Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa Author: Katherine A. Dettwyler Publisher: Waveland Press, Long Grove, IL Year: 1994 On average, about 17 children out of 1000 under the age of 7 dies in the world each year (El-Ghannam … Continue reading →

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Who You Gonna Call? Skeptic’s Circle!

Posted on October 12, 2006 by cfeagans

The 45th Skeptic’s Circle is up at The Inoculated Mind and Karl has the first ever Podcast version [.mp3] of Skeptic’s Circle. I recommend opening the .mp3 and clicking the individual links as the podcast plays, bookmarking the sites you … Continue reading →

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Forbidden Archaeology? The Exaggeration of the Antiquity of Man -part 2-

Posted on October 12, 2006 by cfeagans

In an earlier blog post, I mentioned the Nabta Playa monuments that date back to the Neolithic and the attempts of certain significance-junkies to use this as a stepping stone for positing a greatly exaggerated antiquity of man. In that … Continue reading →

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ArtiFACTS: Recent News in Archaeology 10/5/06

Posted on October 5, 2006 by cfeagans

Aztec RuinsIn Mexico, archaeologists have uncovered a 15th century monolithic altar with a frieze of the raingod Tlaloc and an agricultural deity. This altar is an exciting find to Mesoamerican archaeologists and it wasn’t found in some remote jungle but … Continue reading →

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[Book Review] The Science of Noah’s Flood (part 2 of 2)

Posted on October 4, 2006 by cfeagans

The first part of this 2 part review can be found here. In this part, I conclude my review of Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed History (Ryan and Pittman, 1998), and offer a list … Continue reading →

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Carnival of the Godless #50…

Posted on October 1, 2006 by admin

… is up at Salto Sobrius. So go get your good godless gifts of great godless groupies today. And when you’re done there, visit The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. Billing itself as a “clear thinking oasis,” the … Continue reading →

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