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Frauds, myths, and supposed mysteries about humanity's past are moving targets for anyone committed to the scientific investigation of human antiquity. It is important for anyone interested in the human past to know, for example, that there is no evidence for a race of giant human beings in antiquity and no broken shards of laser guns under Egyptian pyramids. Debunking such nonsense is fun and useful in its own way, but more important is the process by which wedetermine that such claims are bunk.Now published by Oxford University Press, Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology, Ninth Edition, usesinteresting--and often humorous--archaeological hoaxes, myths, and mysteries to show how we can truly know things about the past through science. It is not just a book about how we know what isn't true about the human past--it's also about how we know what is true.
Contents
PrefacePseudoscience Cheat SheetChapter 1. Science and PseudoscienceBelief in the UnbelievableThe Morning of the MagiciansPseudoscience and ArchaeologyWhy I Wrote This BookFrequently Asked QuestionsBest of the WebCritical Thinking ExercisesChapter 2. Epistemology: How You Know What You KnowKnowing ThingsCollecting Information: Seeing Isn't Necessarily BelievingCollecting Information: Relying on OthersScience: Playing by the RulesThere Is a Real and Knowable UniverseThe Universe Operates According to Understandable LawsThe Laws Are ImmutableThe Laws Can Be UnderstoodThe Workings of ScienceThe Case of Childbed FeverScience and Nonscience: The Essential DifferencesA Rule in Assessing ExplanationsThe Art of ScienceWhere Do Hypotheses Come From?Testing HypothesesSkeptics, Not Cynics; Doubters, Not DeniersThe Human Enterprise of ScienceScience and ArchaeologyFrequently Asked QuestionsBest of the WebCritical Thinking ExercisesChapter 3. GIANTS! Anatomy of an Archaeological HoaxThe Cardiff Giant: The Goliath of New YorkThe DiscoveryThe Beginning of the EndHull's ConfessionThe End of the GiantWhy Did They Do It?Real Deal Archaeology: How We Recognize Frauds When We See ThemThe Rules for a Successful Archaeological HoaxFrequently Asked QuestionsBest of the WebCritical Thinking ExercisesChapter 4. Dawson's Dawn Man: The Hoax at PiltdownThe Skeleton-More Precisely, the Cranium-in the ClosetThe Evolutionary ContextThe Brain-Centered ParadigmA Remarkable Discovery in SussexUnmasking the HoaxWhodunnit?Suspect: Charles DawsonWere There Co-conspirators?The Lesson of PiltdownReal Deal Archaeology: What We Know About Human EvolutionA Rising Hominin Star A Neandertal in Your Family TreeFrequently Asked QuestionsBest of the WebCritical Thinking ExerciseChapter 5. Who Discovered America?America's First PeopleA New World-To EuropeansBiblical Exegesis and American IndiansAmerican Indians: From Israelites to AtlanteansTracing the Source of Native AmericansOut of AsiaThe Beringian HighwayReal Deal Archaeology: What We Know About the Earliest Human Settlement of AmericaTracing People by Their MorphologyTracing People by Their DNATracing People by Their ArchaeologyFrequently Asked QuestionBest of the WebCritical Thinking ExerciseChapter 6. Who's Next? After the Indians, Before ColumbusArtifact Trails: Evidence of Visitors to the New WorldThe New England ModelThe Archaeology of ColumbusThe Spanish Entrada into the American SoutheastA Chinese Discovery of the New World?Africans in Ancient America?Other Europeans in the New World Before Columbus?America B.C.?Mystery Hill: A Convergence of Evidence?The Archaeological VerdictInscriptionsReal Deal Archaeology: What We Know About The Norse Discovery of AmericaA Newfound LandNorse Discovery of America: The Physical EvidenceL'Anse aux MeadowsOther Evidence of the Viking Presence?Frequently Asked QuestionBest of the WebCritical Thinking ExerciseChapter 7. The Myth of the MoundbuildersThe Myth of a Vanished RaceWho Were the Moundbuilders? Identifying the Vanished RaceThe Archaeology of the MythThe Moundbuilder Mystery SolvedRationale for the Myth of a Vanished RaceReal Deal Archaeology: What We Know About the Mound Building People of AmericaFrequently Asked QuestionsBest of the WebCritical Thinking ExerciseChapter 8. Lost: One Content-RewardAtlantis: Where Are You?Atlantis: The Source of the LegendThe Timaeus DialogueThe Critias DialogueThe Source and Meaning of Timaeus and CritiasWho Invented Atlantis?Where Did Plato Get the Details of the Story? A Minoan SourceAfter PlatoIgnatius Donnelly: The Minnesota CongressmanThe Lost Continents of TheosophyAtlantis: And the Beat Goes OnReal Deal Archaeology: What We Know About AtlantisAncient GreeceArchaeological Evidence in the Atlantic: The Bimini WallThe Geology of the AtlanticFrequently Asked QuestionsBest of the WebCritical Thinking ExerciseChapter 9. Prehistoric E.T.: The Fantasy of Ancient AstronautsAncient Astronauts: The Source of the IdeaGods in Fiery ChariotsThe Inkblot HypothesisThe Horny Astronaut HypothesisThe "Our Ancestors, the Dummies" HypothesisExtraterrestrial Calendars?Extraterrestrial Aliens in the Pacific?H.P. Lovecraft, Ancient Aliens, and the Cthulhu ConnectionA Real MysteryReal Deal Archaeology: The Bias Inherent in the Ancient Astronauts HypothesisFrequently Asked QuestionsBest of the WebCritical Thinking ExerciseChapter 10. The Mystery of Ancient Civilizations: How Did People Get So Smart?Ancient EgyptThe Civilization of the MayaExplaining the MayaAbout the Maya CalendarA Lost Civilization? But It's Not Atlantis. Well, Maybe It's Atlantis.StonehengeExplaining StonehengeAn Ancient Astronomy?Circular Reasoning About StonehengeWhy Was Stonehenge Built?Primordial Civilization in Bosnia?Real Deal Archaeology: What We Know About Pyramid BuildingSchool of (Moving) RockFrequently Asked QuestionsBest of the WebCritical Thinking ExercisesChapter 11. Good Vibrations: Psychics and ArchaeologyPsychic ArchaeologyPsychic Site LocationPsychic Cultural ReconstructionPsychic Archaeology: A TestPsychic Archaeology: The VerdictDowsing for Diggers Real Deal Archaeology: How We Can Investigate Sites Without Digging in the DirtFrequently Asked QuestionBest of the WebCritical Thinking ExerciseChapter 12. Old-Time Religion, New Age Visions, and Paranormal PredictionsScientific Creationism and the Claim of Intelligent DesignCreationist Strategies in EducationIntelligent DesignNoah's ArkFootprints in TimeNew Age PrehistoryCrystal SkullsReal Deal Archaeology: What we Know About the Palatki Site in Sedona, ArizonaA RantFrequently Asked QuestionsBest of the WebCritical Thinking ExerciseEpilogue: A Past We DeserveReferencesIndex
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