Hair Color and Mummification
At least some if not much of what drives the association of Peruvian skulls that are elongated (by head-binding in their first 3 years of life) […]
Pseudoarchaeology
Book Review: The Lost History of Ancient America
Editor-Joseph, Frank. (2016). The Lost History of Ancient America:How Our Continent Was Shaped by Conquerors, Influencers, and Other Visitors from Across the Ocean. Wayne, NJ: […]
Review: Finding the Truth-Worlds Biggest Pyramid
Producer: Said Sefo An apparent promoter of the Bosnian pyramid hoax who posted in a Facebook group I frequent lately offered to send me a […]
How Does an “Alternative” Archaeology Work?
This article is part of the “Buzzwords in Pseudoarchaeology” series Google “alternative archaeology” (with the quotes) and you’ll get about 17,000 hits. The first of […]
Open Minds and “High Civilizations”
Two more buzz-terms among those that propagate pseudoarchaeological ideas are “Open Minds” and “High Civilization.” Open vs. Closed Minds Having an open mind is a […]
What is Pseudoarchaeology? Part 2: Out of Place Assumptions
Pseudoarchaeological claims are also marked by frequent mention of “out-of-place-artifacts” often called “ooparts” for short. The notion by those that see fantastic explanations for these […]
What is pseudoarchaeology? Part 1: Probably Wrong to Fantastically Charged
There are many who make a pretense of doing science, using scientific-sounding jargon and misplaced or misapplied scientific principles. In so doing, these people often […]
Hutton Pulitzer’s so-called “Roman Sword Report”
There simply is no such thing as a “high zinc content bronze sword.” If there was, it would be called a brass sword.
Roman Swords and Questionable Motives
I was asked to write a piece about the Roman sword nonsense at Oak Island, which I hadn’t really had a chance to read up […]
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 […]