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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. Subfields of archaeology - Wikipedia

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    Classical archaeology is the study of the past using both material evidence (i.e. artifacts and their contexts) and documentary evidence (including maps, literature of the time, other primary sources, etc.). Classical archaeology specifically pertains to the Mediterranean area and the archaeology of Greece and its surrounding areas.

  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. Fingerprints of the Gods - Wikipedia

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    Members of the scholarly and scientific community have described the proposals put forward in the book as pseudoscience and pseudoarchaeology. [8] [9]Canadian author Heather Pringle has placed Fingerprints specifically within a pseudo-scientific tradition going back through the writings of H.S. Bellamy and Denis Saurat to the work of Heinrich Himmler's notorious racial research institute, the ...

  8. Kenneth Feder - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Archaeological theory - Wikipedia

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    Some archaeological theories, such as processual archaeology, holds that archaeologists are able to develop accurate, objective information about past societies by applying the scientific method to their investigations, whilst others, such as post-processual archaeology, dispute this, and claim all archaeological data is tainted by human ...