We're back with archaeologist Steph Halmhofer to talk about how White supremacists are co-opting archaeology, history, and the achievements of ancient civilizations all to help them feel less insecure about not being special.

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Pseudoarchaeology has been an almost bottomless, go to topic on this show because it’s so often used to undergird the belief systems and individual philosophies of many of the weirdos we’ve covered.

This shouldn’t be news, but most people inclined to make fantastic claims, specifically about religion, are looking for some sort of bedrock to build from.

We talk about some prominent online White supremacists, why these guys like Graham Hancock so much, and how bias is addressed in academia.

Steph's recent chapter "Manufacturing History":

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382332446_Manufacturing_History_Atlantis_Aryans_and_the_use_of_Pseudoarchaeology_by_the_Far-Right

The books that Steph mentioned in this episode:

The Indo-Europeans: Archaeology, Language, Race, and the Search for the Origins of the West

https://archive.org/details/the-indo-europeans-archaeology-language-race-and-the-search-for-the-origins-of-t

The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust

https://archive.org/details/masterplanhimmle00prin

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Eaters - Electrify (CC BY 4.0)

Kevin Hartnell - Lucid Coma (CC BY 4.0)

Kevin Hartnell - Climbing Pulse (CC BY 4.0)

Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC BY 4.0)

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