Archaeological/Skeptical Resources, Critiques of
cult archaeology, Roman Britain links
This site is evolving (what else?). Refresh
your browser if you haven't been here recently. Latest
version July 27 2001. Anything in red is
new in the last three months. NOTE this site is
now a member of 3 web rings (see bottom of
page).
For a long time I've been meaning to set up a web with
references to other sites and articles not found elsewhere which
expose 'cult' or 'fringe' archaeology. I’ve
finally gotten around to setting one up because Ross Clark asked
me what to do with some graphics sent to him by Robin Stobbs.
Foolishly I said no problem, I’d put them up! Fortunately
web utilities are friendlier than when I first wrote a web page,
so with the help of Arachnophilia, here it is.
Now that I’ve created it, I intend to use it for what in
my opinion is interesting information about archaeology. In
particular this will include a section on what is often called
cult or fringe archaeology. I'm including also various links
to more serious and to my main interest in archaeology,
Romano-British archaeology. It won’t be terribly flash as I
don’t have the time, and in any case prefer sites with a
minimum of bells and whistles.
Besides collecting links and new information for the
site, I need to figure out a way to classify the links,
particularly the cult archaeology ones. As with everything else,
suggestions are always welcome!
LINKS TO CURRENT HISTORICAL AND
ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS:
Current NewsBreaking news on
archaeology and history from the Timespinner website -- highly
recommended!
Bibliofind Want to
find an out-of-print book? This site will let you search over
3000 booksellers around the world! (I wanted an out-of-print book
and found 13 booksellers offering it to me, at a variety of
prices).
Abebooks Another good
source of out-of-print books, claims to be the largest world
network of independent booksellers with over 20 million
listings
Phil Plait's Bad
Astronomy - The Bad Astronomy web pages are devoted to airing
out myths and misconceptions in astronomy and related topics.
The Talk.Origins
Archive - Vital site for the creation/evolution controversy,
flood myths, catastrophism, geology, biology, C14 dating,
etc.
Bermuda
Triangle - not archaeology, but a useful page on what the
author calls "the biggest fraud of the 20th
century"
The Telson Spur - This page of The Telson Spur is
"a list of links to on-line resources for the study of
intellectual deceit, which is pseudoscience in
retrospect"
Current
Archaeology 'Britain's Leading Archaeology
Magazine' (An excellent source for people looking for
excavation experience).
A Mesoamerican
Archaeology WWW Page - "Here you can find collected
scholarly files, links, resources, software and reports relevant
or interesting to Mesoamerican and Pre-Columbian
Archaeology." Maintained by Thomas Burglin
The Truth About Orion - Frank Doernenburg looks Bauval and
Gilbert's claims in their book The Orion Mystery
Cult Archaeology at Rockwell - an article by
James Cunliffe, Ph.D., a Consulting Geologist, on claims for an
ancient buried city in Texas
The
Hall of Ma'at - Exploring the concepts
of mainstream and alternative archaeologists and Egyptologists
this site contains articles, a message board, and daily
archaeology news
Barry Fell
and his claims that Carrier is Celtic A
critique of Barry Fell's claim that pictographs from the
Fraser Valley are in Ogham and that Carrier (the Athabaskan
native language of an area of British Columbia) is
Celtic
Sitchin's Sumerian Astronomy
Refuted A refutation of Sitchin's astronomy by Chris
Siren, keeper of the Sumerian and Assyro-Babylonian Mythology
FAQs
AN
ASTRONOMER'S ANALYSIS OF THE [Sitchin's] AKKADIAN
SEALThis is a link to an article by Tom Van
Flandern. I wouldn't normally link to him or the Laura Lee
Show, but his analysis of Sitchin's Akkadian seal is
interesting. Note at the bottom of the web page that you can buy
a cassette by him in which he says that he is looking for a
Planet X, but says "Sitchin’s "12th Planet"
does not fit the astronomical evidence."
A Mesoamerican
Archaeology WWW Page - Has a section on unsubstantiated
claims of Pre-Columbian transoceanic contacts, with some
arguments against.
The Newport Tower - a summary of a
recent study by the Newport Historical Society
The New
England Antiquities Research Association - This is a
web site primarily for those who think that there is evidence for
considerable pre-Colonial European influence in North America. I
cannot endorse the site, but they have had the courtesy to post a
note of mine about the Newport Tower and I feel I should
reciprocate. I also think that many of the sites they discuss do
need careful study, whatever the results.
- the World Wide Web Virtual
Library for Archaeology.
This Archaeology Ring site is owned by Doug Weller.
