ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Barry Fell, Zheng He, Pseudoscience
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January 28, 2015 give the people what they want: he did give the people what they want, desire to believe kills skepticism. Barry fell"s 3 books (pseudoscience and north american archaeology) Many claims of pre-colombian contacts with new world. Here we move into the realm of misrepresentations and how to assess them; also. Barry fell, a harvard zoologist, quit to write 3 books on the subject (iberians, celts, greeks, Hebrews, egyptians: canadian connection; petroglyphs near peterborough. Thought that the stuff isn"t out there. He can say anything he wants because the other stuff cant be found (but it can be) He had many theories, but the one thing he didn"t cover was the chinese. 99% of the artifacts found are things you expect to find (pottery, etc) but there were two things found that could prove traces 1) iron harpoon and 2) iron axe (french) Europeans left their stuff , and we can find it.
