ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Alice Beck Kehoe, Runestone, Pseudoscience
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An assessment, not essay news story last 6 months or misrepresentation of hoax or fantasy covered/not covered in class masking via pseudoscience, do they use the scientific method. There will the journalist and then the person who actually made the discovery. Olaf found it highly likely to create the hoax itself, he was a rune stone scholar. Vikings don"t write much but they wrote a lot on the stone. Virtuous vikings be killed by brutal indigenous people and wrote the tale on the stone. Should be viking artifacts, weapons used in battles, tools used to carve the actually stone. Found nothing, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Olaf scandinavian descent, and was part of a minority. There was a scandinavian community there built up scandinavian pride. Juxtaposing his view with academics showing that he is not an academic while proving his academic credentials.
