Pseudoarchaeology Pseudoarchaeology The aluminium wedge of Aiud (also called the object of Aiud) is a mysterious artifact of uncertain origin in the shape of a wedge, which was found at an archaeological site near the Romanian town of Aiud, allegedly nearby a mammoth skeleton. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aluminium wedge of Aiud"
Ancient astronaut theory is a term used to describe the theories of ancient extraterrestrial contact being involved in some way with the origin or development of human culture. Most notably popularized by authors such as Erich von Däniken and Zecharia Sitchin, this theory is an expansion or elaboration of the more basic Paleocontact theory. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ancient astronaut theory"
The Ararat Anomaly is a name given by Noah's Ark researchers to some interpretations of aerial photographs in the area of Mount Ararat. The site was named Durupinar after Turkish captain llhan Durupinar who drew attention to it in 1959. Near the site there is a former settlement named Nasar. The site is located at approximately , 2 miles north of the Iranian border, 10 miles southeast of Dogubayazit, and 18 miles south of the Greater Mount Ararat summit, at an elevation of approximately 6,300 feet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ararat anomaly"
The Archaeogeodetic Association is a world organisation established in 1992 to further the development of methodology concerning the possible identification of significant long-distance alignments (usually >100 km) of ancient and other sites, and to produce, where appropriate, relevant researchable hypotheses. ...more on Wikipedia about "Archaeogeodetic Association"
Dodmen are the human-shaped geoglyphs of Britain, designed in the likeness of their creators. These creators were the surveyors and astronomers of the pre- druidic British Isles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dodmen"
The Dropa (also known as Dropas, Drok-pa or Dzopa) are, according to certain controversial writers, a race of dwarf-like extraterrestrials who landed near the Chinese- Tibetan border some twelve thousand years ago. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dropa"
Erich von Däniken (born April 14, 1935 in Zofingen, Switzerland) is a controversial Swiss author who is best known for authoring works about extraterrestrial influence on human culture since prehistoric times. He is one of the figures responsible for popularizing the paleocontact and ancient astronaut theories. ...more on Wikipedia about "Erich von Däniken"
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Götaland theory, or Västgötaskolan is an umbrella term for a number of ideas proposed by amateur historians and local patriots in the province of Western Götaland, Sweden. It is not accepted at universities, but it is aggressively preached to non-scholars by its adherents (as "new research"). ...more on Wikipedia about "Götaland theory"
Graham Hancock (born 1951) is a British writer and journalist. His books include Lords of Poverty, The Sign and the Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, Keeper of Genesis, The Mars Mystery, Heaven's Mirror (with wife Santha Faiia), Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization, and Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith (with co-author Robert Bauval). ...more on Wikipedia about "Graham Hancock"
Heribert Illig (born 1947 in Vohenstrauß, Germany) is a German Systems analyst and the leading proponent of the phantom time hypothesis, put forward in 1996, which asserts that the Early Middle Ages did not exist and that the approximately 300 years between 614 and 911 are an invention. If this hypothesis held true, we would not be living in the early 21st century, but the early 18th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Heribert Illig"
The Ica stones are a collection of andesite stones alleged to include ancient depictions of dinosaurs and advanced technology. The Ica stones were popularized by Dr. Javier Cabrera, a Peruvian medical doctor who received an engraved stone as a birthday gift. Cabrera identified the engraving as a stylized depiction of an "extinct fish" that had, to the best of anyone's knowledge, gone extinct millions of years before (Note that the fish is really not identifiable with a particular kind, extinct or not). The discovery caught the attention of Carlos and Pablo Soldi, two collectors of artifacts who had failed to interest the archaeological community with their findings, but found an interested party in Cabrera. They sold him 341 similar stones. Cabrera soon found another supplier, named Basilio Uschuya. From these and other sources over the next thirty-five years, he would collect over 15,000 engraved stones. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ica stones"
The Kingoodie hammer refers to an iron nail found in a block of stone in 1844 in the Kingoodie Quarry in Scotland. Sir David Brewster discovered the nail embedded in a Cretaceous block from the Mesozoic era. In 1985, Dr. A. W. Medd of the British Geological Survey stated that the sandstone bed from which the nail supposedly derives is Lower Old Red Sandstone (Devonian, between 360 and 408 million years old). ...more on Wikipedia about "Kingoodie hammer"
Lemuria is the name of a hypothetical " Lost Land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Its 19th century origins lie in attempts to account for discontinuities in biogeography. Lemuria has been rendered superfluous by modern understanding of plate tectonics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lemuria (continent)"
Matest M. Agrest (born in 1915 in Mogilev, Belarus) was a Russian ethnologist and mathematician who however would come to be known chiefly for being an early proponent of ancient astronaut theories, which boomed in the 1970s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Matest M. Agrest"
OOPArt, from the acronym for out-of-place artifact, is a term coined by American zoologist Ivan T. Sanderson for a historical, archaeological or paleontological object found in a very unusual, or even an impossible, location. ...more on Wikipedia about "OOPArt"
Phantom time hypothesis is a theory developed by Heribert Illig which suggests that the Early Middle Ages (614–911 CE) never occurred, meaning that all artifacts attributed to this time period were from other times, and all historical figures were outright fabrications. Other people who have written essays in support with the phantom time hypothesis include Hans-Ulrich Niemitz, Christoph Marx, Angelika Müller, Uwe Topper, and Manfred Zeller. The vast majority of historians believe this theory to be complete fiction, as all cited evidence can be considered circumstantial. As such, it is generally considered to be pseudohistory. ...more on Wikipedia about "Phantom time hypothesis"
Pseudoarchaeology is an aspect of pseudohistory. Both of them are forms of pseudoscience and refer to the ideologically-driven, usually sensational interpretation of the past. Pseudoarchaeology is based on an interpretation of material remains and sites (which may be quite genuine themselves), using criteria that lie outside of a critical, scientific framework. Pseudoarchaeology also includes forms of protoscience. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pseudoarchaeology"
Robert M. Schoch is an American geologist and academic with an especial interest in pyramid monuments around the world. He is a professor of general studies at Boston University. He is one of few geologists to espouse the theory that the Egyptian Sphinx is much older than conventionally thought and that some kind of catastrophe has wiped out other evidence of a significantly older civilization. Schoch redated the famous monument to 7000– 5000 BC in 1991, though mainstream Egyptology and three other geologists have rejected his analysis. Namely K. Lal Gauri, Alex Bordeaux and Mike Harrell. Schoch has written three books. He has recently teamed up with new age crop circle advocate Colette M. Dowell. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert M. Schoch"
The Starchild skull is an unusual skull, carbon-14 dated to 1100 AD +- 40 years, found in South America. It has certain anomalous features, including an extremely dense bone structure, more bone collagen content than normal, a lack of frontal sinus structures and brow ridges and an unusual cranial capacity of 1600cc. ...more on Wikipedia about "Starchild skull"
The theory of Uriel's Machine is postulated in a book of the same name by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas ...more on Wikipedia about "Uriel's machine"
Zecharia Sitchin (born 1920?) is a best-selling author promoting the ancient astronaut theory of mankind's origins. He attributes the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Nephilim from Nibiru. He also argues that the asteroid belt was once a planet which the Sumerians called Tiamat. ...more on Wikipedia about "Zecharia Sitchin"
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