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Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology

Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Kenneth FederPublish date:2025-03-28Pages:344
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197757796ISBN-10:197757790UPC:9780197757796Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Archaeology, Research, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.14 x 6.23 x 0.57 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCY7GM5V2V
A common goal in virtually all social science courses is to teach students to think critically. Most students who sign up for this "fun" archaeology course have not been asked to think deeply about how we know what we know. Clearly, it is important for anyone interested in the human past to know, for example, that there is no evidence for a race of giant human beings, and no broken shards of alien's laser guns under Egyptian pyramids. Debunking such nonsense is fun and useful in its own way, but of much greater importance is the process we employ to determine that such claims are nonsense. Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries uses archaeological hoaxes, myths, and mysteries to show how we can truly know things about the human past through science. Frauds is not just a book about how we know what isn't true about the human past; it's also about how we know what is true.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197757796ISBN-10:197757790UPC:9780197757796Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Archaeology, Research, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.14 x 6.23 x 0.57 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCY7GM5V2V
Kenneth L. Feder is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Central Connecticut State University. He is the author of several books, including The Past in Perspective: An Introduction to Human Prehistory, Ninth Edition (OUP, 2024), and Linking to the Past: A Brief Introduction to Archaeology, Second Edition (OUP, 2007).
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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11th Edition

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Kenneth Feder

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