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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.
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 .
Archaeological subfields are typically characterised by a focus on a specific method, type of material, geographical, chronological, or other thematic categories. Among academic disciplines, archaeology, in particular, often can be found in cross-disciplinary research due to the inherent multidisciplinary and geographical nature of the field in general.
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 ...
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 .
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 .
Bioarchaeology (osteoarchaeology, osteology or palaeo-osteology [1]) in Europe describes the study of biological remains from archaeological sites.In the United States it is the scientific study of human remains from archaeological sites.
Kenneth L. "Kenny" Feder (born August 1, 1952) is an emeritus professor of archaeology at Central Connecticut State University [1] and the author of several books on archaeology [2] and criticism of pseudoarchaeology such as Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology. [3]