Digging Up Ghosts - Magonia

Jeb Card's recent book Spooky Archaeology: Myth and the Science of the Past gets rave reviews from Magonia's John Rimmer. About the only drawback to the tome Rimmer notes is its price, stiff even from the paperback or Kindle angle. It does seem a worthwhile addition for those with a serious interest in how archaeology, particularly its popular component, came to its present state. One example Card and Rimmer mention is "the 'alternate' Egyptology of the past thirty or so years." Jason Colavito treats of this in The "Antediluvian" Osirion at Abydos: A Century of Deceptively Copied Claims. It's a rather detailed effort to expose a small piece of pop-archaeological mayhem. We've covered the Dolmen de Guadalperal story before, but Natasha Ishak's Drought Uncovers 'Spanish Stonehenge' Hidden Underwater for Decades has some very nice pictures and a good background discussion about how researchers now view the immersion of ancient sites by modern waterworks. (WM)

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