Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Alternatives and Pseudosciences: A History of Archaeological Engagement with Extraordinary Claims / Jeb J. Card and David S. Anderson
1. 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
2. The Lost White City of the Honduras: Discovered Again (and Again) / Christopher Begley
3. Witches, Shamans, and Looters: Alternative Uses and Contemporary Ritual Reuse of Archaeological Remains in the North-Central Coast of Peru / Stacy Dunn
4. Black Olmecs and White Egyptians: A Parable for Professional Archaeological Responses to Pseudoarchaeology / David S. Anderson
5. Creationist History-Making: Producing a Heterodox Past / James S. Bielo
6. Creating Pyramids: Participation, Performance, and Pseudoarchaeology in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Tera C. Pruitt
Part II: How Archaeologists Should or Should Not Engage with Pseudoarchaeology
7. The Central Australian Face: A Study of Archaeological Responses to a Pseudoarchaeological Claim / Denis Gojak
8. The Proliferation of Pseudoarchaeology through “Reality” Television Programming / Evan A. Parker
9. Lessons Learned from Lost Civilizations / Kenneth L. Feder, Terry Barnhart, Deborah A. Bolnick, and Bradley T. Lepper
10. Ghost Hunting as Archaeology: Archaeology as Ghost Hunting / April M. Beisaw
11. Answering Pseudoarchaeology / Kenneth L. Feder
Works Cited
Contributors
Index