These pages give links to other sites that will help you to navigate your way through the morass of Bad Archaeology and provide a variety of other resources to help encourage critical thinking about unusual claims.
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- Bad Archaeology: what is it?
- The history of archaeology
- Bad data
- Out-of-place artefacts
- Anomalous human remains
- Footprints and the like
- Anomalously old technology
- Mysterious objects
- Very ancient artefacts
- The Nampa figurine
- A ‘carved’ fossil shell?
- Letters inside marble?
- A chalk ball from Laon
- A mortar & pestle from Tuolomne
- Sling stone from the Red Crag
- Metallic tubes from St-Jean-de-Livet
- A ‘crystal lens’ from…
- Gold thread from Rutherford Mill (UK)
- Gold chain from Morrisonville, Illinois
- Carved stone from Lehigh, Iowa
- Iron cup from Wilburton, Oklahoma
- Hieroglyphs in a coal mine at…
- Nail in sandstone from Kingoodie (UK)
- Metallic vase from Dorchester,…
- A medallion from Lawn Ridge, Illinois
- An iron nail in Californian quartz
- An iron object in Scottish coal
- Tools in rock at Aix-en-Provence
- Eoliths: tools or naturally fractured…
- The London Artifact (Texas)
- Petroglyphs, inscriptions and reliefs
- Unusual structures
- Conspiracy theories
- Old maps
- Lost civilisations
- Extraterrestrials
- Other chronologies
- Controversies
- Other dimensions?
- Religious delusions
- Frauds and hoaxes
- In the service of politics
- Dubious methodologies
- Explanations
- Reference material
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Recent Bad Archaeology blog posts:
Amazing Discovery Number 3 That Won’t Make You Question Anything
And so we come to the next Amazing Discovery that will only make the most gullible and credulous question everything. This one – the “Hidden Character Stone” – is so bizarre that I frankly don’t understand how anyone could believe the claims made for it. So, here we go with a continuation of Spirit Science’s […]
10 Amazing Discoveries That <del>Will</del> Won’t Make You Question Everything
Sometimes, just the name of a website is enough to make my heart sink. So, when my partner began reading out the name of a page that a mutual friend had ‘Liked’ on Facebook, I had an awful feeling of déjà vu: Spirit Science. As if to confirm my worst fears, the Welcome page includes […]
