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 […]
Pseudoarchaeology
‘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.
Grave Dowsing?
What’s a water dowser do when his method is demonstrated time and again to be nonsense on stilts? Turn to dowsing for graves, I suppose. […]
Atlantis Rising’s Micheal Cremo and the Calaveras Skull
Michael Cremo is the author of the pseudo-archaeological tome Forbidden Archaeologist and has a regular column in that woo-woo rag Atlantis Rising. In the March/April column, […]
“Mainstream” Archaeologists…?
Here’s a line I noticed on a mystery-monger site, posted by some well-meaning, if somewhat ignorant, significance-junkie. “… the often ridiculously closed society of “mainstream” […]
2010: The Year in Pseudoarchaeology
Compared to previous years, 2010 wasn’t really a productive one for the pseudoarchaeologists. Very little has been said about the Bosnian Pyramid, and rightfully so […]
The Newark Decalogue and Keystone Revisted
Jim Goodman comments on my post, The Pseudoarchaeology of Glenn Beck, to point out the waste of his tax dollars on my education. Perhaps. But […]
The Pseudoarchaeology of Glenn Beck
It should be no surprise that Glenn Beck has a poor understanding archaeology. In the first few seconds of that video, Beck gets a few […]
The Pseudoarchaeology of Saint John the Baptist
Yet another example of religiously (and probably nationalistically) motivated pseudoarchaeology has emerged in the news. A Bulgarian archaeologist and at least one overly nationalistic politician […]
Why “biblical archaeology” so very often equals “pseudo-archaeology”
Image via Wikipedia There are doubtless many who consider themselves “biblical archaeologists” who are a genuine passion for archaeology and science and approach their work […]