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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. Category:Pseudoarchaeology - Wikipedia

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    This category comprises areas of endeavor or fields of study within archaeology which are inconsistent with the scientific method. This categorization is often controversial. This categorization is often controversial.

  4. 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 .

  5. List of topics characterized as pseudoscience - Wikipedia

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    Reiki is a pseudoscience, [327] and is used as an illustrative example of pseudoscience in scholarly texts and academic journal articles. It is based on qi ("chi"), which practitioners say is a universal life force , although there is no empirical evidence that such a life force exists.

  6. Out-of-place artifact - Wikipedia

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    Fragment 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 ...

  7. Category:Pseudoarchaeological texts - Wikipedia

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    Jan Simek, a distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, agreed. “The paper provides an interesting new example of how ancient people observed and ...

  9. Pseudohistory - Wikipedia

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    Nazi archaeology is a prominent example of this technique. [37] Frequently, people who engage in pseudoarchaeology have a very strict interpretation of evidence and are unwilling to alter their stance, resulting in interpretations that often appear overly simplistic and fail to capture the complexity and nuance of the complete narrative.