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Review of History Channels The Real Tomb Hunters1 comment

archaeologyknits wrote 9 months ago: The History Channel, really a publicity agency they higher, sent me this DVD in the mail to review.  … more →

Tags: archaeology, Science, Television

Top Ten Pseudo-Archaeological Subjects of 20089 comments

archaeologyknits wrote 11 months ago: A lot of sites have been putting together their top tens for 2008, so I thought I would offer up the … more →

Tags: archaeology, Looting, talpiot tomb, Ancient Super Cultures, Top 10, 2008

Archaeologists as Looters2 comments

archaeologyknits wrote 11 months ago: Kent Flannery once likened the archaeological process to ethnographic work where the informant is ki … more →

Tags: archaeology, Looting, Preservation, Religion, Biblical Archaeology Review, Hershel Shanks

Nova: The Bible's Buried Secrets4 comments

archaeologyknits wrote 1 year ago: Tonight, Nova has an episode on called “The Bible’s Buried Secrets”.   I had to wa … more →

Tags: archaeology, Pseudo-Science, Religion, Science, Television, Bias, Bible, bible's buried secrets, Judaism, NOVA

Muslim Sailors, a Skeptical Redux4 comments

archaeologyknits wrote 1 year ago: A couple months ago, I wrote a post in response to a Skeptic article about ancient super societies t … more →

Tags: Ancient Super Cultures, archaeology, Peer Review, Pseudo-Science, Skeptic, Corn, maize, Skeptic Magazine, Super Societies

Four Stone Hearth: Late Night Election Night6 comments

archaeologyknits wrote 1 year ago: Well, it’s 11:59 November 4th, 2008, Election Night in the US.   Barack Obama has just been de … more →

Tags: archaeology, Blog Carnivals, Peer Review, Anthropology, Four Stone Hearth, Linguistic Anthropology, Physical Anthropology

Know Your Archaeoporn: Impossible Knowledge Part III1 comment

archaeologyknits wrote 1 year ago: In the last post on Impossible Knowledge, I looked at Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval’s attem … more →

Tags: Religion, archaeology, Pseudo-Science, Ancient Super Cultures, Know Your Archaeoporn, James Tabor, Graham Hancock, Ark, Ethipoia

Know Your Archaeoporn: Impossible Knowledge Part II5 comments

archaeologyknits wrote 1 year ago: Earlier in this series, I started by looking at Afrocentrist claims of the origins of Western cultur … more →

Tags: ID/Creationism, archaeology, Pseudo-Science, Graham Hancock, Orion Corellation Theory, Oct., Robert Bauval, Ed Krupp, Pyramids

Know Your Archaeoporn: Impossible Knowledge Part I5 comments

archaeologyknits wrote 1 year ago: Archaeology is also afflicted with similar ideology, coming from a variety sources on the fringe of … more →

Tags: archaeology, Pseudo-Science, Politics, Know Your Archaeoporn, Creationism, Afrocentrism, Mary Lefkowitz, Pseudoarchaeology, intelligent design

I Get Comments

archaeologyknits wrote 1 year ago: Every now and then I get a comment that deserves more notice than it’s likely to get sitting o … more →

Tags: archaeology, Pseudo-Science, Religion, Comments, James Tabor, statistics

More Ark in Axum Fun

archaeologyknits wrote 1 year ago: Bloomberg News is reporting on a new study from the University of Hamburg, under Helmut Ziegert, cla … more →

Tags: archaeology, Pseudo-Science, Ark of The Covenant, Axum, Ethiopia, queen of sheba, University of Hamburg

Kilty and Elliot Redux

archaeologyknits wrote 1 year ago: As noted by Dr. James Tabor, Kevin Kilty and Mark Elliot have produced a response paper to some comm … more →

Tags: archaeology, talpiot tomb, James Tabor, Kevin Kilty, Mark Elliot, statistics

James Tabor on the Statistics

archaeologyknits wrote 1 year ago: Dr. James Tabor has a post up about Feurverger’s paper finally being published (it would have … more →

Tags: archaeology, talpiot tomb, James Tabor

Ancient Astronauts Finally Discovered 2 comments

archaeologyknits wrote 1 year ago: For years, individuals from Eric Von Daniken to Graham Hancock have been preaching the message of an … more →

Tags: Ancient Super Cultures, ancient astronauts, April Fools, Cthulhu, Flying Spaghetti Monster, star wars

Discovery Channel, Teaching the Debate9 comments

archaeologyknits wrote 1 year ago: As readers of this blog may be aware, I am not very happy with the way things have been going at the … more →

Tags: archaeology, Pseudo-Science, Religion, Discovery Channel, Shroud of Turin

A Review of Methodology in "Biblical Entheogens"13 comments

archaeologyknits wrote 1 year ago: Over the last week, Benny Shanon’s article “Biblical Entheogens: A speculative hypothesi … more →

Tags: archaeology, Pseudo-Science, Religion, Benny Shanon., Biblical Entheogens, drugs, Moses, Sinai

Biblical Bull15 comments

archaeologyknits wrote 1 year ago: Recently, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at Hebrew University presented the hypot … more →

Tags: Religion, archaeology, Pseudo-Science, Moses, drugs, Benny Shanon.

Why Take the Long Road?1 comment

archaeologyknits wrote 1 year ago: I am a huge fan of Skeptic Magazine, and am always sure to pick up every issue. Needless to say I wa … more →

Tags: archaeology, Ancient Super Cultures, maize, coins, Skeptic, Tim Callahan, Charles Hapgood, Piri Reis Map, Cyrus Gordon

Some Roman Archaeologists are into Archaeoporn too

archaeologyknits wrote 1 year ago: In the past, I have written a lot about the Talpiot Tomb and the general rash of pseudoarchaeology a … more →

Tags: archaeology, talpiot tomb, Rome, romulus and remus, Palatine Hill, lupercale, Andrea Carandini


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