Jens NotroffMost absurd take in this pseudoarchaeology set-up may be the accusation that "mainstream archaeology" is simply ignoring important sites and finds - while those narratives at the same time unashamedly exploit the year-long work and research of archaeologists at these very sites.
Totally Assyrious@jens2go Can I just say that I *hate* how many of us have accepted their label of "mainstream archaeologist" without a fight? Hancock and his ilk AREN'T archaeologists at all -- we should not be ceding ANY legitimacy to them by giving them even an inch on that front.
These people are basically all either grifters and/or tinfoil-hat-wearing wackos, and we should absolutely refuse to benefit their cause by labeling them as anything more "serious" than that.
(I'm an extremist on this one, but I don't even think we should gift them the term #pseudoarchaeology -- it's yet another term we use that confuses non-specialists who don't know we mean "bullshit pretending to be archaeology" because we clothe the term in needlessly ostentatious Latin. Just call them the "absurd bullshit" they are and leave it at that, don't give them anything more.)
John Shirley