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Bad Archaeology
What is it?
Diversity in archaeology
Misrepresentation
Why pay it any attention?
Selectivity
Concentrating on the anomalous
A Sceptical Archaeology
Indiana Jones
The History of Archaeology
Slow development
The early modern world
Rejecting the Bible
The Three Age System
Evolution
Culture History
Scientific approaches
The New Archaeology
Post-processual archaeologies
Archaeology today
Bad Data
Out-of-Place Artefacts
Human remains
‘Oldoway man’
A shot ‘Neanderthal’
A skull from Buenos Aires
A skull from Castenedolo
Human jaw from Foxhall
A child’s jaw in coal
The Beartooth Highway molar
Anomalous fossils
Footprints in the Paluxy River, Texas (USA)
Footprints in Jackson County, Kentucky
Footprints in Rockcastle County, Kentucky (USA)
A fossil ‘footprint’ from the Gobi Desert
A footprint from Fisher Canyon, Nevada (USA)
A footprint from Antelope Springs, Utah (USA)
Portable artefacts
Anomalously old technology
The ‘batteries’ of Babylon
The Antikythera ‘computer’
Ancient Egyptian ‘aeroplane’ models
The ‘Coso Artifact’
Model aeroplanes from South America
Very ancient artefacts
A figurine from Nampa, Idaho (USA)
A ‘carved’ shell from Red Crag (UK)
Letter-like shapes in marble
A chalk ball from Laon (France)
Mortar and pestle from California (USA)
A slingstone from Bramford (UK)
A metallic tube from Saint-Jean de Livet (France)
A crystal lens from Nineveh
Gold thread from Rutherford Mill (UK)
Gold chain from Morrisonville, Illinois (USA)
Carved stone from Lehigh, Iowa (USA)
Iron cup from Wilburton, Oklahoma (USA)
Hieroglyphics in a coal mine at Hammondville, Ohio (USA)
Nail in sandstone from Kingoodie (UK)
Metallic vase from Dorchester, Massachusetts (USA)
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 (France)
Eoliths
The ‘London (Texas, USA) hammer’
Mysterious objects
The Turin Shroud
The Ica Stones
The Acambaro figurines
The Wonderstone spheres
The Dropa Stones (or Dzopa Stones)
The crystal skulls of Central America
A steel cube from Austria
Petroglyphs, inscriptions and reliefs
A tyrannosaur pictogram from Hava Supai Canyon, Arizona (USA)
Stegosaurus pictograms from Big Sandy River, Oregon (USA)
The Metcalf stone
The Paraíba (or Parahyba) Stone
‘Technical drawings’ at Dendera
The ‘Candelabra of the Andes’
Structures
The ‘Aṣoka Pillar’
Block wall in a mine at Heavener, Oklahoma (USA)
A tiled floor at Plateau City, Colorado (USA)
Religious books
Old maps
The map of Piri Re’is (1513)
The map of Orontius Finaeus (1531)
The map of Philippe Buache (1739)
Bad Method
Conspiracy Theories
Forgotten Civilisations
The Chinese discovery of the world in 1421
The Lost Tribes of Israel
The Ten Lost Tribes
The Moundbuilder controversy
Mormonism
The Bat Creek Stone
The Kinderhook Plates
The Newark Decalogue
The Los Lunas Inscription
Barry Fell
British Israelites
Lost Continents
The ‘Lost Civilisation’
Extraterrestrial Archaeology
Erich von Däniken
Robert Temple’s The Sirius Mystery
Zecharia Sitchin
The archaeology of Mars?
Archaeology on the moon?
Archaeology elsewhere in our solar system?
UFOs in history
Confused Archaeology
Creationism
A brief history of Creationism
Modern Creationism
“Scientific” Creationism
“Creation Science” battles Real Science
Noah’s long-lost Ark
Immanuel Velikovsky
Ahmed Osman
The ‘New Chronology’
The ‘Wall of Severus’ or Offa’s Dyke?
Controversial Archaeology
Political Archaeology
Other dimensions and spiritual realms
Biblical Archaeology
Fraudulent Archaeology
Explaining Bad Archaeology
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Creationism
Ley lines
The ‘New Age’
Lost tribes
Lost continents
Extraterrestrial archaeology
Out-of-place artefacts
Individual Bad Archaelogists
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