Alternative Archaeology
Lost Star of Myth and Time
Walter Cruttenden's book Lost Star of Myth and Time is well written, a lively text and obviously heavily researched. The Lost Star is a grand synthesis of the last 14,000 years of world history, used both as a condemnation of millennia of human progress and a search for the spirituality of human life; and although it is not science, it is an interesting and entertaining read.
How (Not) to Engage with Alternative Archaeologies
The Hall of Ma'at news group discusses the 2005 article by Cornelius Holtorf in World Archaeology about how alternative archaeology theories ought to be treated--better than they are currently treated by professionals.
Pseudo-Archaeology
Pseudo-archaeology is one of the burdens the romance of archaeology has dealt the profession; or a source of information about what the non-professional public think and feel about archaeology as a whole, depending on how you look at it.
Doug Weller's Skeptic Page
A vast collection of sites on alternative archaeology, including both skeptic and cult archaeology sites, maintained by Doug Weller.
The Hall of Ma'at
The Hall of Ma'at is a community of people interested in archaeology, not just Egyptology, and contains a wide open discussion concerning alternative archaeologies.
Archaeological Fantasies (Garrett Fagan, editor)
This book, subtitled, How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public, is edited by Garrett Fagan and contains several articles concerning this most interesting and controversial subject. See the Hall of Ma'at site for a complete description and table of contents.
Atlantis
Atlantis is a fictional kingdom described by Plato in two of his dialogues, Timaeus and Critias.
sci.archaeology
An unmoderated newsgroup where just about anybody asks just about anything in or way out from archaeology.
The Post-Modernist Maury Povich
During the spring of 1999, an Egyptian tomb was opened with much fanfare and foofaraw, over a two hour period on live television. Invited to the fete, in addition to the Dr. Zahi Hawass, Undersecretary of the State for the Giza Monuments, was a spokesman for the long-dead psychic Edgar Cayce and a fellow who insists that the "monkey face" on Mars proves that Martians built the pyramids.
The Indiana Jones WWW Page
A nice collection of audio and visual files, gossip, and a few utilities. Be the first one in your field camp to download the Windows 95 cursor in the shape of a trowel!
Prank at Spencer Lake Mounds
One of the funniest stories associated with legends of Viking landings in the American middle west has to do with the Spencer Lake Mound in extreme northwest Wisconsin. There was, undeniably, a horse skull found in prehistoric Spencer Lake Mound. How it got there is a tale worth telling.
On the Edge Archaeology
Here on my website, I have a separate page which I label "Weird Archaeology." On this page are included links to websites that present alternative theories of archaeology, as well as websites which debunk such theories. The page is one of the longest-lived pages I have here, it gets a fair number of hits, and I get a fair amount of email concerning it and the pages listed on it.
Archaeology of Death: Encounter with a Dowser
It was a wickedly cold day, the day I stood next to the landowner, a short, blunt woman in her 60s, and her tall narrow son, a physicist at the university, and watched the dowser at work.