Archaeology and racism

ruined city in the south-eastern hills of Zimbabwe near Lake Mutirikwe and the town of Masvingo, was once the capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe during the country's Late Iron Age

pseudoscientific claims of past alien contact

British Egyptologist (1853–1942)

German ethnologist and archaeologist (1873–1938)

French priest and academic (1877–1961)

pre-Columbian cultures of North America that constructed various styles of earthen mounds

Pseudoarchaeology (sometimes called fringe archaeology and previously also called alternative archaeology) consists of attempts to study, interpret, or teach about the subject-matter of archaeology while rejecting, ignoring, or misunderstanding the accepted data-gathering and analytical methods of the discipline. These pseudoscientific interpretations involve the use of artifacts, sites or materials to construct scientifically insubstantial theories to strengthen the pseudoarchaeologists' claims. Methods include exaggeration of evidence, dramatic or romanticized conclusions, use of fallacious

cave with prehistoric art

inscribed stone tablet

historical movement aimed at studying German history to strengthen nationalism

theory of the origins of Dynastic Egypt