Methodological Problems

Damian Thompson, pp x + 196, Atlantic Books (London), 2008 This review article first appeared

This article first appeared in The Skeptic, Vol.20, No.2, pp 24-29. Reproduced with permission My

Archaeological Fantasies: How pseudoarchaeology misrepresents the past and misleads the publicEdited by Garrett G. Fagan

Graham Hancock maintains that the world’s ancient civilizations inherited their culture and knowledge from a now forgotten “hypothetical third party”, rather than developed independently. As he puts it, “our species could have been afflicted with some terrible amnesia and … the dark period so blithely and dismissively referred to as ‘prehistory might turn out to conceal unimagined truths about our own past”

Skeptical Inquirer , Volume 26, No.4, July/August 2002, p 45-9 Reproduced with permission By the

Nic Flemming has contacted me concerning Graham Hancock’s comments about his review of Flooded Kingdoms

In the introduction to the new edition of Fingerprints of the Gods (2001) Graham Hancock

A common accusation levelled at academics is that “The Establishment” (false terminology) band together with

Leaving aside the fallacies already well-exposed by the other articles on this site, I would

Graham Hancock frequently uses the argument that the academics and scholars that oppose his theories

Independent scholar Derek Barnett examines the importance of the primacy of evidence.

Archaeology requires evidence to function.

“…Hancock will accept C-14 dates when they suit his case and challenge them (without substantiation, argument, evidence, or analysis) when they do not. “