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Author Feder, Kenneth L.

Title Encyclopedia of dubious archaeology : from Atlantis to the Walam Olum / Kenneth L. Feder
Published Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 292 pages) : illustrations
Series Gale virtual reference library
Contents African inspiration of the Olmec -- Afrocentrism -- Alexandria project -- America B.C. -- American Genesis -- America's Stonehenge -- Anchorites -- Ancient American -- Ancient astronaut hypothesis -- Archaeoastronomy -- Astronomical alignments -- Atlantis : The Antediluvian World -- Altantis, the lost continent -- Bat Creek stone -- Beardmore relics -- Benedictine Abbey of St. Mary at Glastonbury -- Bent pyramid -- Bhaktivedanta Institute -- Bond, Frederick Bligh -- Bosnian pyramids -- Brendan, Saint -- Burrows Cave -- Calaveras skull -- Cardiff giant -- Carter, Howard -- Cayce, Edgar -- Celt discovery of America -- Chariots of the Gods -- Chinese discovery of America -- Collapsed pyramid -- Critias -- Crop circles -- Crystal skulls -- Cult archaeology -- Davenport tablets -- Dawson, Charles -- Diffusionism -- Dighton Rock -- Discovery of America -- Donnelly, Ignatius -- Dorak treasure -- Dowsing -- Easter Island Moai -- Egyptian pyramids -- Electromagnetic photo-fields -- Eoanthropus Dawsoni -- Fantastic Archaeology : The Wild Side of North American Prehistory -- Fell, Barry -- Flint Jack -- Forbidden Archaeology : The Hidden History of the Human Race -- Frauds -- Fujimura, Shinichi -- Fusang -- Gordon, Cyrus -- Gosford glyphs -- Grand Canyon lost civilization -- Grave Creek stone -- Great Sphinx -- Gungywamp -- Hall of records -- Hancock, Graham -- Harmonic convergence -- Heavener Runestone -- Heyerdahl, Thor -- Holly Oak pendant -- Ica stones -- Imhotep -- Jesus Ossuary -- Kensington stone -- Khufu -- King Tut's Curse -- Kon-Tiki -- Lemuria -- Lenape stone
Los Lunas Decalogue stone -- Lost civilizations -- Lost Tribes and Sunken Continents -- Madoc, Prince -- Man tracks -- Mars face -- Maya -- McCrone, Walter -- Michigan relics -- Moundbuilder myth -- Mystery Hill -- Mystery Park -- Navigatio -- Nazca geoglyphs -- Nazi archaeology -- New age archaeology -- New England Antiquities Research Association (NEARA) -- Newark holy stones -- Newport Tower -- Noah's ark -- Norse in America -- Occam's razor -- Ogham -- Olmec colossal heads -- Ossowiecki, Stefan -- Palenque sarcophagus -- Palos Verdes stones -- Petroglyphs and pictographs -- Piltdown man -- Piri Reis map -- Plato -- Pre-Clovis sites -- Pseudoarchaeology -- Psychic archaeology -- Pyramid air shafts -- Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel -- Sagan, Carl -- Sandia Cave -- Santorini -- Scarith of Scomello -- Serpent mound -- Shroud of Turin -- Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP) -- Sitchin, Zecharia -- Spence, Lewis -- Starchild -- Stonehenge -- Thomas, Cyrus -- Trenton gravels -- Tucson artifacts -- 2012 -- Van Sertima, Ivan -- Vinland map -- Von Daniken, Erich -- Vortex -- Walam Olum -- Westford knight
Summary Contains detailed and descriptive definitions for, and explanations of, terms related to extraordinary claims about human antiquity and its study
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Archaeology -- Encyclopedias
Antiquities -- Encyclopedias
Civilization, Ancient -- Encyclopedias
Archaeology -- Philosophy -- Encyclopedias
History -- Errors, inventions, etc. -- Encyclopedias
Pseudoscience -- Encyclopedias
Curiosities and wonders -- Encyclopedias
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Antiquities
Archaeology
Archaeology -- Philosophy
Civilization, Ancient
Curiosities and wonders
History -- Errors, inventions, etc.
Pseudoscience
Genre/Form Encyclopedias
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010025313
ISBN 9780313379192
031337919X