1st February 2012, 07:13 PM
BAJR Wrote:I have asked three times now for an example of pseudo-archaeology pushing forward the boundaries of knowledge.Troy
The Egyptian and Mayan pyramids
The Nazca Lines
Stonehenge
Woodhenge
Newgrange
Tykal
None of these places would be on the archaeological radar today if it were not for media-hungry trail-blazers such as Schliemann and Wheeler to name but two. Do you think in your wildest dreams that the media and by extension universities would have any interest in these places if it wasn't for so-called "pseudo archaeologists" constantly flagging them in their popular and sometimes incomprehensible theories and thereby maintaining the sites popularity. So tomorrow if all the pseudo archaeologists just vanished "mysteriously" do you really think that television stations would be clambering over each other to get the dry, basic facts of the site bereft of colour or myth from professional archaeologists?. That would lift the ratings... for sure, plus good luck with a follow up.