Sumerians in Bolivia? Probably not.
I subscribe to a lot of archaeology related feeds on social media and one of the memes going around last week included one with the […]
Pseudoarchaeology
Pseudoarchaeology and Elongated Skulls
Elongated skulls of ancient people like the Peruvians have long been a source of mystery and fascination, particularly for significance-junkies that find aliens wherever they […]
Pseudoarchaeology: 3 Million Year Old Modern Man
The key thing here isn’t that it was created by A. africanus, but that it was a manuport. It was an object that was picked up and very likely valued because of the naturally created patterns.
Pseudoarchaeology of the Serapeum, a 19th Dynasty Egyptian Site in Saqqara
The wonder and awe isn’t found in fantasies of ancient aliens and “high technology” of long lost civilizations -rather it comes with the understanding that we are more than the sum of our parts when we decide to do something together. A fact that our ancient ancestors understood all too well. For better or worse.
?Nazi War Diggers: Why it’s a Bad Idea for NatGeo
National Geographic has long captured the hearts and imaginations of those interested in far-away cultures, history, and the world in general. The vivid and often […]
Not Archaeologists: Vandals!
I’m talking about the two chuckleheads that vandalized the Great Pyramid in order to promote their conspiracy theory about the pyramids being some 10,000 years […]
Pseudoarchaeology Meets Archaeology… in court?
Simcha Jacobovici -an apparent purveyor of pseudoscientific “discovery” related to biblical mythology is suing Joe Zias for “libel.” This is a tactic skeptics have seen […]
Native American Marker Trees. Interesting, but is the Science Sound?
Today, I had the privilege to attend a presentation by Dennis Downes at the Trinity River Audubon Center in Dallas, Texas. There were perhaps 100 or so […]
Wannabe “diggers” Destroy Part of Gettysburg National Park
I previously blogged about the “American Digger” trash-TV show that features a former fake wrestler as the star of his own show digging up relics […]
‘Diggers’ are to archaeology as pro-wrestling is to sports: fake
They’re stealing the possibility of understanding a culture or civilization. They’re going for the loot, and leaving the data behind in the piles of dirt the discard in heaps, forever lost as contexts to the past.