Fantastic Archaeology: Wild Side of North American History - Hardcover

Williams, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812282388 ISBN 13: 9780812282382

Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991

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"This is a book to cherish and enjoy. The book demonstrates once again how many ways there are for people to mislead other people, particularly in areas where emotions become involved in objective assessments of scientific evidence."--Anthro Notes "What a bundle of wishes, folly, and fraud is here unpacked."--Scientific American "Fantastic Archeology will appeal to nonprofessionals, students of archeology, and professional archeologists. This book should be read by any archeologist concerned with educating the public about the past, and perhaps will encourage more professional archeologists with a talent for writing to produce popular works."--American Anthropologist "Much of the strength of this book is derived from Williams's recognition that fantastic archaeology has been an integral part of American archaeology from its earliest days, that the border between the fantastic and the scientific is problematical, and that weird ideas often fill real social needs. . . . It is a major contribution to a growing literature dealing with the less disciplined side of North American archaeology . . . work that clearly has so much to offer archaeologists and the general public."--Bulletin of the History of Archaeology "This book provides entertaining reading for professional archaeologist and advanced students, insight for undergraduates, and eye-opening information for the general public. The only ones who may not want to read it are those who are committed to one of the myriad forms of pseudoarchaeology."--Choice "Williams--has produced a book that provides not only some very enjoyable reading but also a truly useful historical perspective on the role of fantasies--and some fantastic personalities--in the development of American archaeology."--Archaeology "Engagingly written, the book's clear discussion of a variety of archaeological controversies is readily accessible to the general reader and should be of interest to both lay people and professional scholars alike."--Nature

Reseña del editor:

The landscape of the 19th century, Stephen Williams asserts, is dotted with fakes, frauds and humbugs who made fantastic claims of purported findings. This study has been designed to illuminate, debunk and instruct on the modes, methods, manners and manifestations of American archaeology over the past two centuries. The author begins with an introduction to the continent's real past. He presents such theories of the past as the quest for the first Americans, the transoceanic search for links to distant civilizations and the meaning of ancient writings. He profiles the archaeologists behind monstrous stone giants and mysterious messages from the past, from the frauds and eccentrics to the serious pioneers who delved truthfully and successfully into America's archaeological past.

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• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0812282388
• ISBN 13: 9780812282382
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432