Pseudoarchaeology: ABC’s Nightline Demonstrates Journalistic Gullibility
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” […]
Month: October 2006
Stolen and Looted: The Getty and the Museum of Fine Arts Return Artifacts
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 […]
Anthropology Blog Carnival!
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 […]
Book Review: Dancing Skeletons, an ethnography
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 […]
Who You Gonna Call? Skeptic’s Circle!
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 […]
Forbidden Archaeology? The Exaggeration of the Antiquity of Man -part 2-
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 […]
ArtiFACTS: Recent News in Archaeology 10/5/06
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 […]
[Book Review] The Science of Noah’s Flood (part 2 of 2)
Image via Wikipedia The first part of this 2 part review can be found here. In this part, I conclude my review of Noah’s Flood: […]