ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fringe Science, Trans-Cultural Diffusion, Apophenia
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How it has been used by the popular media. One legitimate scholar involved themselves in another projects. Book that started it all author is a congressman known as a fringe scientist; he left politics because of an accusation involving finance. Very clear about what the book is about stating it as factual. Puts it in the atlantic, that it is true history first place we became civilised, garden of. Colonial 1800s come to terms of human society variations top thinkers were trying to come to an understanding on why we were different we spread out from one source, Mayan and egyptian similar because from same source agriculture that civilizations came from atlantis. Pyramids specific angles but there are differences. Tomb vs temple, mayan pyramids not built in many generations staircase underneath the staircase, layered structures the end of the calendar, the renewal of the pyramids. Both had the arch learned about curved stone vs staggered stones- architecture very different.
