17th January 2021
We are seemingly in a golden age of pseudoarchaeology with a 2018 survey of Americans revealing 48% express belief in ancient aliens (up from 27% in 2016) and 57% in Atlantis (up from 40%).
One reason for this has been speculated to be that, almost uniquely out of all the sciences, the popular view of archaeology appears to be dominated by nonsense. Apparently lacking in such great science communicators as Attenborough, Hawking and Sagan, the field’s best sellers and documentaries come instead from the likes of Hancock, von Däniken and Tsoukalos.
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