Pseudo-Archaeology

Today we talk about Cryptology and petroglyphs. Are there ancient images of Bigfoot painted on stone? How can we be sure what we think we're seeing is what they image means? And why it's important to take indigenous culture into account when trying to make sense of things.Links:The Death of a Pterodactyl by Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, Paul Bahn, and Marvin Rowe'Winged Monster' Rock Art Finally Deciphered By Laura GeggelThe Westfort KnightDStretch plugin to ImageJ websiteExplore The River Bend: The Legend of the Piasa Bird by Dan BrannanNarmer PaletteMAYAK DATAT: THE HAIRY MAN PICTOGRAPHS by Kathy Moskowitz Strain 9 Best Alaskan Native Hairy Man Stories Posted by Guy EdwardsPseudo-Skeptic Sharon Hill Gets no Respect for Behaving Worse Than BadlySharon Hill's article about Bigfoot bloggers and why we do what we doSasquatch watchers following Bigfoot blogs for the latest news on their favorite subject (Removed) by idoubtit • December 18, 2011New Mexico Senator has put his big foot down on funding monsters hunts by idoubtit • February 15, 2017The Ketchum Project: What to Believe about Bigfoot DNA ‘Science’ by Sharon Hill Skeptical Briefs Volume 23.1, Spring 2013Doubtful blog, Tags for Bigfoot.Archaeologist digs for proof of Sasquach by Chris BatemanGiants, Cannibals & Monsters: Bigfoot in Native Culture 1st Edition by Kathy Moskowitz Strain The Evolution of the Werewolf and BigfootContactEmail us at [email protected]Follow us on Twitter at @Archyfantasies and find us on FaceBook.Theme Music by ArcheopSoup ProductionsProduced by Chris Webster and Tristan BoyleEdited by Christopher Sims

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Today we talk about the possibility of prehistoric trade and interaction between the Polynesian peoples and the early Americans along the East coast. Could it have happened? Did it happen? and What is the evidence to support it?

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Today we talk with Ingrid Rowland about her work uncovering the fascinating and humorous story behind the Italian, Renaissance-era hoax, of the Scarith of Scornello.

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Today we're talking about ancient horses before the Spanish re-introduction in the 1500's. What were these horses, how do we know they were here, and did they come back with Lost Tribes of Israel?

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Serra, Ken, and Jeb talk about the myths and misconceptions surrounding some of the most important archaeological sites around the world.

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To celebrate the new year, today we discuss why we do this! Why is it important to have accurate information about archaeology out there? Is it having an impact? and Jeb, Ken, and Sara have a political rant!

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Returning guest, Nicholas Bellantoni, talks to us today about the Pachuag State Forest Archaeological Hoax

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Today we talk with Vincent W. Wright about Sherlock Holmes, how Conan Doyle pulled many details for his stories from archaeology, and how the Sherlockian methods are used in archaeology even today.

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Today we talk with Lourdes Villalta about cannibalism. We look at the stereotypes of the activity, how these stereotypes were used in the past to marginalized people, and what is the historical truth and cultural reality of cannibalism.LinksLourdes Villaltahttp://sheffield.academia.edu/LVillaltaFrom Villa et al proposed set of criteria to verify whether cannibalism was found within a context (Villa et al, 1986:431):"Similar butchering techniques in human and animal remains. Thus frequency, location, and type of verified cut marks and chop marks on human and animal bones must be similar, but we should allow for anatomical differences between human and animals;Similar patterns of long bone breakage that might facilitate marrow extraction; Identical patterns of postprocessing discard of human and animal remains;Evidence of cooking if present, such evidence should indicate comparable treatment of human and animal remains.White also considered (1992) Turner’s suggestion: the under representation of vertebrae (Turner, 1992) without animal gnawing or bite marks. Biologically, vertebrae are spongy, soft, and full of marrow (Preston, 1998). According to Turner, many of the Anazasi often crushed animal vertebrae to form “bone cakes”; a way to extract grease from the spinal column through boiling. Turner (1993) also mentioned the V-shaped cross-sectioned cut marks found on many of the found vertebrae recorded by White (1992) and Turner and Turner (1992). If such taphonomic patterns mentioned above are evident on both human and faunal remains of the same context, cannibalism can be considered.Following Turner’s criteria, White (1992) was able to find all five criteria, but he was also able to find another useful observation found through a microscope he coined pot polish-a faint abrasion and bevelling on the broken tips of bones (Preston, 1999), indicating possible evidence of cooking. This became the sixth criteria in “identifying Anasazi cannibalism."ContactEmail us at [email protected]Follow us on Twitter at @Archyfantasies and find us on FaceBook.Theme Music by ArcheopSoup ProductionsProduced by Chris Webster and Tristan BoyleEdited by Christopher Sims

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Pop your popcorn, get your giant sodas, and get ready to talk movies! All three hosts bring up their favorite movies with archaeologists in them. Get ready forsome interesting talk about some recommended watching.

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