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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.
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[3] [4] The journal's current editor-in-chief is Jane B. Carter. [5] The journal's first woman editor-in-chief was Mary Hamilton Swindler. [6] From 1940 to 1950 the journal published articles by Michael Ventris, Alice Kober and Emmett Bennett, which contributed to the decipherment of the ancient Linear B script. [7]
Journal of Ancient History — 1937: 4 — — Journal of Anthropological Archaeology: Elsevier: 1982: 4 — 0278-4165: Journal of Anthropological Research [13] University of Chicago Press: 1937: 4 — Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory: Springer: 1978: 4: Hybrid: 1072-5369 (print) 1573-7764 (web) Journal of Archaeological Research [13 ...
Pseudohistory is related to pseudoscience and pseudoarchaeology, and usage of the terms may occasionally overlap. Although pseudohistory comes in many forms, scholars have identified many features that tend to be common in pseudohistorical works; one example is that the use of pseudohistory is almost always motivated by a contemporary political ...
Garrett George Fagan (13 January 1963 - 11 March 2017) was an Irish American historian, singer and writer known for his research in the various areas of Roman history, as well as his critique of pseudoarchaeology.
Hunter connected the relics to the "Michigan Mound Builders," which he deemed to be the Nephites from the Book of Mormon. Hunter's rhetoric and work with the Michigan Relics perpetuated pseudoarchaeology in religion, with efforts to prove pre-Columbian contact and the myth of the mound builders. Notre Dame gave Hunter the collection in the ...
Frequently this involves the uncritical identification of one's own ethnic group with some ancient or even prehistoric (known only archaeologically) group, [1] whether mainstream scholarship accepts as plausible or rejects as pseudoarchaeology the historical derivation of the contemporary group from the ancient one. The decisive point, often ...