Archaeological/Skeptical Resources, Critiques of cult archaeology, Roman Britain links

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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:
  
  
• Archaeological News - Another news site, updated daily -- a discussion page and other links as well
  
  
  

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  MISCELLANEOUS LINKS:
  
• Austronesian migration routes -- 3 jpegs from Robin Stobbs
  
• Abebooks Another good source of out-of-print books, claims to be the largest world network of independent booksellers with over 20 million listings
  
• The Skeptic's Dictionary
  Skeptical Information Links from Jim Leppard
  
• Donald Simanek's Page - Science, hoaxes, flat earth, skepticism and more
  
• 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 Amazing Worlds of Archaeology, Anthropology, & Ancient Civilizations Rod Polasky's web site with a huge number of general links plus a glossary of archaeology terms, links to museums of archaeology and anthropology, and teacher's resources & lesson plans
  
• Anthropology Resources on the Internet - a large variety of resources for archaeology, including virtually all the mailing lists
  
• The History Of People: A Guide To Amateur Archaeology
  
• The Aztlan Mailing List Hosted at FAMSI -- The Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc., it is one of the oldest and most respected listservs for Mesoamerican Prehistory.
  
• Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe - similar to ARCHNET but with a European focus. A 'must' reference site.
  
• Council for British Archaeology Internet Information Service - includes several on-line journal sites and back issues of British Archaeology and information about digging opportunities
  
• About.com guide to archaeology - Kris Hirst's excellent guide, including an email newsletter and a web chat board. A must.
  
• Archaeology: an introduction by Kevin Greene - A selection of Internet links to supplement Kevin Greene's book Archaeology: an introduction (1996) - covers The Idea Of The Past, Discovery, Fieldwork And Recording, Excavation, Dating The Past, Science And Archaeology, Making Sense Of The Past.
  
• Ancient Egypt and World PrehistoryMikey Brass's site, focussing on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt and human evolution
• UK Archaeology Opportunities digging opportunities and general information on UK archaeology
• Current Archaeology 'Britain's Leading Archaeology Magazine' (An excellent source for people looking for excavation experience) About to launch Current World Archaeology.
• Mike Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News and Links Presents links to Mesoamerican cultures from the Olmecs to the Aztecs and constantly updated New World News stories.
  
• Internet Archaeology - the first fully refereed electronic journal for archaeology
• The Naked Science Society - "A portal to online research, bibliographies, articles, graphics, and links concerning archaeology, forensics, physical anthropology, evolution, mystery & science fiction, and other subjects from the ridiculous to the sublime..."
  
• Radiocarbon WEB-info - The best web site for C14 dating information -- online at the radiocarbon labs of Waikato and Oxford Universities

Because of the file sizes, they are now all stored at Fastmail -- the link leads to my public directory there.
• the file 'Fischer_1903.pdf' is the first chapter of The discoveries of the Norsemen in America, with special relation to their early cartographical representation by Joseph Fischer ... translated from the German by Basil H. Soulsby, 1903
  
• 'Jelic.pdf' is l'Evangelisation de l'Amerique avant Christophe Columb by the Croation Friar Luka Jelic, 1891
  
• 'John_Shipley.pdf' is Récente découvertes sur les communications entre l'Europe et lÁmérique au XVe siècle : nécrologie Madame Marie A. Shipley, née Brown.b by John Shipley, 1902
  
• 'Mary_Shipley.pdf' is The Norse colonization in America by the light of the Vatican finds by Shipley, Marie A., née Brown, 1899
  

• Preliminary Bibliography on Cult Archaeology -- all suggestions welcome!
  
• Incredible Anthropology Tools to help you to decide whether certain "archaeological science" in the media is really credible (supported by evidence) or incredible (unsupported or contradicted by evidence).
  
• Lost Civilizations Uncovered Jason Colavito's website with articles, news and reviews concerning lost civilizations, focussing on critiques of the fringe
  
• Paul Heinrich's The Wild Side of Geoarchaeology Page - Covers Hancock, The Oronteus Finaeus Map of 1532, Atlantis, Bimini stones, Sphinx, Tiwanaku, etc.
  
  
  ANCIENT MAPS
  
  
  
• The Map Room: A weblog about maps - Hoaxes & Controversies
  
• ANCIENT MAPS an Index of maps Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance 6,000 B.C. - 1880 A.D.
  
• Classic Treasures Cartographic Treasures 250 to over 500 years old
  
• Oronteus Finaeus Map of 1532 - an article by Paul Heinrich (also mentions Buache)
  
• The Oronteus Finaeus Map of 1532 - another article by Paul Heinrich (also mentions Buache)
  
• The Oronteus Finaeus Map - "Piri Reis and the Columbian Theory", an article from Aramco World Magazine by P. Lunde-- scroll down for this article
  
• Re: Piri Reis Map
  
• A Corruption of European History - Buache's Map of 1739
• Columbus and the Piri Reis Map of 1513
  An article by Gregory C. McIntosh from Mercator's World, May/June 2000 - not available at the moment
• Minds in Ablation Part Five: Charting Imaginary Worlds - "Charting Imaginary Worlds: Pole Shifts, Ice Sheets, and Ancient Sea Kings", an article by Sean Mewhinney on ancient maps (Buache, Piri Re'is, Hadji Ahmed, Zeno, Martin Behaim)
  
• Buache's Map of 1739 - An article by Paul Heinrich
  
• The Oronteus Finaeus Map of 1532, Atlantis in Antarctica, also by Paul Heinrich
• Letter on Hapgood and Mallery A letter in Mercator's World discussing Mallery, Hapgood, and Ancient Maps - not available at the moment
  
  
  Gavin Menzies
• The '1421' myth exposed - an excellent website with articles, news, etc
  
• Lost Worlds: Current Issues Around the World Is Gavin Menzies' book now foundering on rocks thrown by the critics? (2002-2006)
  
• Zheng He in the Americas and Other Unlikely Tales of Exploration and Discovery by Mark Newbrook
  
• Popular History and Bunkum The book '1421, The Year China Discovered America' is a fairytale & a fiction
  - From the Maritime Asia website
PYRAMIDIOTS



• PYRAMIDOLOGY - Piazzi Smyth's crusade against the metric system, religion and pyramidology
  
• My Pyramid Mysteries - Frank Doernenburg looks at numerology, pi, Sitchin, and other pyramidiocies
  

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Miscellaneous



• The Paluxy Dinosaur/"Man Track" Controversy Glen Kuban's web site with a collection of articles reviewing the history of the Paluxy controversy and evidence involved, articles on other alleged out-of-order fossils and artifacts
  
• The London Hammer Glen Kuban examines Creationist claims about a hammer found near London, Texas
  
• Thomas's Report on the Discovery of the Bat Creek Stone - an excerpt from the report by Cyrus Thomas
  
• THE BAT CREEK STONE: JUDEANS IN TENNESSEE? - an article by Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. and Mary L. Kwas analysing claims for the Bat Creek Stone
  
• THE BAT CREEK FRAUD: A FINAL STATEMENT - an followup article by Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. and Mary L. Kwas
  
• The Bat Creek Stone - an article by Lowell Kirk looking at the people involved in the forgery
  
• 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 a treasure trove of useful articles and message boards
  
• The Exposure of Pseudoscience - List of links by Mikey Brass (scroll down on left for link)
  
• Notes on a Lecture by Graham Hancock - an article by Catherine Yronwode
  
• Atlantis, Mammoths, and Crustal Shift. - an article by Paul Heinrich
• The Mortar and Pestle (Tertiary of California). - an article by Paul Heinrich
• The Calaveras Skull Revisited (Tertiary of California). - an article by Paul Heinrich
• The South African Grooved Sphere Controversy, An analysis of alleged Precambrian, 2.8 billion year-old, artifacts from West Transvaal, South Africa. - an article by Paul Heinrich
• Baalbek - Baalbek is a Roman site which is often claimed to be 'impossible' or 'very ancient'. [updated 11/11/98]
  
• The 15 000 Year Mistake An article by Charles E. Orser, Jr on Hancock's mistakes conerning the dating of Tiwanaku
  
• The Lost Civilization in Historical Perspective by Ken Feder An article by the archaeologist Ken Feder
  
• Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age: A review of Graham Hancock's TV series by Nic Flemming, Director, Southampton Oceongraphy Centre
  
• The Stoned Age An article by Duncan Edlin reviewing the evidence for cocaine in mummies
  
• The Dogon Revisited An article by Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano
  
• The Dogon and Sirius: a summary Summary of the arguments by Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano
  
• Alleged Australian Egyptian Hieroglyphs An email discussion between an Australian Egyptologist, Gregory P. Gilbert, and an Austraulian musician inquiring about them An email discussion between an Australian Egyptologist, Gregory P. Gilbert, and an Austraulian musician inquiring about them
  
• Creationism: The Hindu View Colin Groves' review of Forbidden Archeology by Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson.
  
• Hidden History, Hidden Agenda A review by Bradley T. Lepper of The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson.
  
• Ancient Artefacts? The case of Sandia Cave A geologist analyses the claims made in Forbidden Archeology for Sandia Cave
• Forbidden Archeology: Antievolutionism Outside the Christian Arena Wade Tarzia's review of Forbidden Archeology by Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson.
• Unforbidden Geology - The not so hidden history of Man from the often overlooked geologic perspective, by Archae Solenhofen
• The Coso Artifact: Mystery from the Depths of Time - Supposed 500000 years old sparkplug shown to be 1920s Champion sparkplug
• 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
• Barry Fell and the Los Lunas inscription An article by Virgil Brown
• Dispelling the myths about the Old Copper CultureAn article by the Michigan Technological University archaeologist Susan Martin
• Falling Into Burrows Cave - an analysis of the Burrows Cave claims by Rick Flavin
• The "Ogham" Petroglyphs of West Virginia The Council of West Virginia Archaeology web site examining claims for Ogham in West Virginia besides the skeptical articles below it includes articles by Barry Fell and others supporting his ideas
  
• How Science Works - And How It Doesn't An article by Hunter Lesser from West Virginia Archaeologist
  
• Cult Archaeology Strikes Again: A Case for Pre-Columbian Irishmen in the Mountain State?Another article by Hunter Lesser
  
• A Linguistic Analysis of Some West Virginia Petroglyphs by Monroe Oppenheimer and Willard Wirtz (1989) "A thorough critique of Fell's interpretive methodology" with illustrations.
  
• Madoc and John Dee:Welsh Myth and Elizabethan Imperialism An article by Robert W. Barone from the Elizabethan Review
• A Critical Analysis of the Oak Island Legend - an article by Dick Joltes about the Oak Island 'Money Pit'
• Wyatt Archaeological Research Fraud Documentation This is a Christian site giving some good arguments against the Creationist Ron Wyatt and his claim to have found Noah's Ark in Turkey.
• Geological Comments on the Japanese 'underwater pyramids' at Yonaguni
• The New Age of alternative archaeology in Australia, an article by Peter Hiscock
• The Nazca LinesSkeptical Inquirer article -- The Nazca Lines Revisited: Creation of a Full-Sized Duplicate
• The Sitchin Index - Zecharia Sitchin's ancient astronaut theories - a skeptical archive
  
• 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 SEAL This 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 Refutation of the Theories of ZECHARIA SITCHIN Articles by Ian Lawton -- scroll down the web page to find them.
• 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 Westford Knight Destroyed? - A preview of a report on the so-called 'Westford Knight'
  
• Archaeological Forgeries and forgeries palentological, historical, et cetera
  
• ‘Fringe’ or ‘Cult’ Archaeology - A web site by Chester archaeologist Keith Matthews
• Olmec skeletons African? No, just poor scholarship This is a collection of back and forth arguments from sci.archaeology.mesoamerican, compiled by Peter van Rossum, which deconstructs the study of Wiercinski who claims to have found African skeletons.



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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ROMAN BRITAIN:
• Birmingham Roman Roads Project
  
• Romarch: Brittannia Not kept up to date, broken links
  
• Sub-Roman Britain:A Guide to Online Resources Maintained by Dr. Christopher A. Snyder as part of ORB, The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• Athena Review Guide to Archaeology on the Internet - a good section on Roman Britain, with lots of other good links
  
• Romano-British Index - more stuff from Athena Review
  
• Roman Military Sites in Britain
  
• Mike Bishop - Mike Bishop's home page, more Roman stuff
  
• Centuries of Roman survival in the West - article from British Archaeology by Ken Dark
  
• Literate culture of `Dark Age' Britain - article from British Archaeology by David Howlett
  
• Roman roads that reshaped the land - article from British Archaeology by Rob Witcher
  
• The Roman Small Town at Shepton Mallet, Somerset - A project by the Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit
  
• The WROXETER HINTERLAND Project - A project by the Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit
  
• ROMAN BRITAIN By Guy de la Bédoyère - The web site of the Romano-British specialist Guy de la Bédoyère
  
• The Roman Gask Project - the earliest Roman frontier in Britain and perhaps the earlier Roman frontier anywhere!