Forbidden Archaeology? The Nampa Image Hoax
In the July/August 2007 issue of Atlantis Rising, a ragazine that appeals to the significance-junkie, the mystery-monger, and skeptics like me who are fascinated with the […]
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The Gilgamesh Epic and its Relationship to Other Mesopotamian Myths – part 2 –
In my last post, I discussed both the Old Babylonian and the Akkadian versions of the Gilgamesh Epic and some of their similarities and differences. […]
What is pseudoscience?
Image by mot the hoople via Flickr At its most basic, pseudoscience is fake science. The prefix pseudo- meaning “fake”- followed by the word science. […]
Artificial Cranial Modification: Head Shaping
In addition to cranial surgery, another artificial modification of the human skull present in the archaeological record, which is perhaps better known, is skull shaping. […]
Artificial Cranial Modification: Trephination
Image by Luciana Christante via Flickr The practice of artificially modifying the human skull has been a part of human culture as far back as […]
How to make casts of bone and stone
In the United States, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 ([slider title=”NAGPRA“]Many groups, especially indigenous peoples, have profound concerns about the […]
The First Americans Were Immigrants of Two Populations
The most recent online issue of Current Biology has an article describing the research which reveals evidence that the first Americans immigrated via two distinct […]
Neanderthals were not stupid
It has long been thought that one of the reason Homo sapiens eventually dominated the hominid line, colonizing Africa and Europe beginning at around 40,000 […]
Lake Erie Fish Die-Off
Recently, I was in Ohio on vacation and I snapped this photo while on a ferry ride between South Bass Island and the mainland. Every […]
Nitrogen Tire Scam part 3
Okay, I thought of adding this response as a comment, but since it ended up being so lengthy, I decided to make a separate post. […]