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  2. Pseudoarchaeology - Wikipedia

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    Pseudoarchaeology (sometimes called fringe or alternative archaeology) consists of attempts to study, interpret, or teach about the subject-matter of archaeology while rejecting, ignoring, or misunderstanding the accepted data-gathering and analytical methods of the discipline.

  3. List of topics characterized as pseudoscience - Wikipedia

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    Pseudoarchaeology – investigation of the ancient past using alleged paranormal or other means which have not been validated by mainstream science. [271] Psychic surgery – a type of medical fraud, popular in Brazil and the Philippines. Practitioners use sleight of hand to make it appear as though they are reaching into a patient's body and ...

  4. Archaeology - Wikipedia

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    Pseudoarchaeology is an umbrella term for all activities that falsely claim to be archaeological but in fact violate commonly accepted and scientific archaeological practices. It includes much fictional archaeological work (discussed above), as well as some actual activity.

  5. Category:Pseudoarchaeology - Wikipedia

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    About Category:Pseudoarchaeology and related categories: This category's scope contains articles about Pseudoarchaeology, which may be a contentious label. This category comprises areas of endeavor or fields of study within archaeology which are inconsistent with the scientific method .

  6. Category:Pseudoarchaeologists - Wikipedia

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    About Category:Pseudoarchaeologists and related categories: This category's scope contains articles about Pseudoarchaeology, which may be a contentious label. People in the field of pseudoarchaeology .

  7. Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries - Wikipedia

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    Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology is a book by Kenneth L. Feder on the topic of pseudoarchaeology.Feder is an emeritus professor of archaeology at Central Connecticut State University.

  8. Out-of-place artifact - Wikipedia

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    Gear of the Antikythera mechanism, a mechanical computer from the 2nd century BCE showing a previously unknown level of complexity. An out-of-place artifact (OOPArt or oopart) is an artifact of historical, archaeological, or paleontological interest to someone that is claimed to have been found in an unusual context, which someone claims to challenge conventional historical chronology by its ...

  9. Xenoarchaeology - Wikipedia

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    Xenoarchaeology, a branch of xenology dealing with extraterrestrial cultures, is a hypothetical form of archaeology that exists mainly in works of science fiction. The field is concerned with the study of the material remains to reconstruct and interpret past life-ways of alien civilizations.