ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Barry Fell, Scientific Method, Gavin Menzies
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Theory that the cricket bat was a clear joke and was a confession that hinton did it. Woodward only saw what he wanted to believe. After hinton died they found a box with hintons initials on it with bones that had the same staining chemicals as piltdown. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me once shame on me. Piltdown reminded the scientific world about the importance of skepticism and proper scientific method. One group feels the perpetrator should have met with consequences. Could have stopped him, could evaluate give the people what they want. We are going into an area of pseudoscience, people who act like they are doing science but they are actually doing it wrong. Some people call it folk archaeology, cult archeology, pseudo archaeology, or even fringe archaeology. Many claims of pre-columbian contacts with new world:
