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Explore the diversity of archaeological misconceptions, mistakes and distortions.

We are dedicated to exposing Bad Archaeology wherever we find it, naming and shaming, pulling no punches in exploring all its shameless horror.

Extraterrestrial archaeology?



Introduction

This section covers claims that ancient human beings were too stupid to have achieved anything by themselves, so they needed guidance from outside. In our technological age, we need no longer believe in fairies at the bottom of the garden or in heavenly gods. So when the ancients wrote about gods in the sky, they must have really meant all those kind extraterrestrials who came down and gave us the benefits of culture, or perhaps they mean those nasty aliens who planted us here as slaves to provide them with minerals, women and entertainment; or perhaps they mean those big-eyed aliens who occasionally abduct people even today and give them embarrassing and painful anal probes…


This page was last updated on 23 July 2007
Written by Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews and James Doeser