ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Scientific Method, America Unearthed, Ancient Aliens
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Pick out a news story or analysis of hoaxes in class. How they follow rules of a hoax. If you take an aliens topic it must be linked to archaeology like ancient aliens taught people things in the past etc. Can be from youtube, tv, etc but must be backed up with scholarly article. Idea that some vikings got lost and found themselves in minnesota. Where did they leave in the rest of north america if they were supposed to have been there. Rune is the name of a script that the vikings used to mark places on the runestone there is a story. A tree fell over in the property and when they pulled up the root they saw a stone. Highlights her investigation of the kensington runestone. There should be viking artifacts, evidence, etc. She excavated the site and found absolutely nothing. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
