Lost City, Found Pyramid

Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices

1st ed

1 online resource (272 pages); Alternatives and pseudosciences: a history of archaeological engagement with extraordinary claims / Jeb J. Card and David S. Anderson -- Steampunk inquiry: a comparative vivisection of discovery pseudosciences / Jeb J. Card -- Part I. Case studies in alternative constructions of the past: methods, ideologies, and practitioners -- The Lost White City of the Honduras: discovered again (and again) / Christopher Begley -- Witches, shamans, and looters: alternative uses and contemporary ritual reuse of archaeological remains in the north-central coast of Peru / Stacy Dunn -- Black Olmecs and White Egyptians: a parable for professional archaeological responses to pseudoarchaeology / David S. Anderson -- Creationist history-making: producing a heterodox past / James S. Bielo -- Creating pyramids: participation, performance, and pseudoarchaeology in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Tera C. Pruitt -- Part II. How archaeologists should or should not engage with pseudoarchaeology -- The central Australian face: a study of archaeological responses to a pseudoarchaeological claim / Denis Gojak -- The proliferation of pseudoarchaeology through "reality" television programming / Evan A. Parker -- Lessons learned from lost civilizations / Kenneth L. Feder, Terry Barnhart, Deborah A. Bolnick, and Bradley T. Lepper -- Ghost hunting as archaeology: archaeology as ghost hunting / April M. Beisaw -- Answering pseudoarchaeology / Kenneth L. Feder; Dewey classification: 930.1; illustrations, maps; Includes bibliographical references and index; Includes index; Publication place: Tuscaloosa, [Alabama]