Spooky Archaeology
Myth and the Science of the Past
Will be published approx. on 30. March 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
424 pages
978-0-8263-5914-8 (ISBN)
Description
Outside of scientific journals, archaeologists are depicted as searching for lost cities and mystical artifacts in news reports, television, video games, and movies like Indiana Jones or The Mummy. This fantastical image has little to do with day-to-day science, yet it is deeply connected to why people are fascinated by the ancient past. By exploring the development of archaeology, this book helps us understand what archaeology is and why it matters.
In Spooky Archaeology author Jeb J. Card follows a trail of clues left by adventurers and professional archaeologists that guides the reader through haunted museums, mysterious hieroglyphic inscriptions, fragments of a lost continent that never existed, and deep into an investigation of magic and murder. Card unveils how and why archaeology continues to mystify and why there is an ongoing fascination with exotic artifacts and eerie practices.
In Spooky Archaeology author Jeb J. Card follows a trail of clues left by adventurers and professional archaeologists that guides the reader through haunted museums, mysterious hieroglyphic inscriptions, fragments of a lost continent that never existed, and deep into an investigation of magic and murder. Card unveils how and why archaeology continues to mystify and why there is an ongoing fascination with exotic artifacts and eerie practices.
Reviews / Votes
This is a book to read and reread."" - Fortean Times""Spooky Archaeology is more than just a cabinet of curiosities. It also explains how those curiosities work culturally, and where they came from. In some ways it's a social history of archaeology."" - Black Gate
""Card's fine book sees the relationships between the 'spooky' and the scientific in archaeology as not altogether antagonistic, which furthers our understanding of how people process their pasts and use them."" - Larry J. Zimmerman, author of The Sacred Wisdom of the Native Americans
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Albuquerque, NM
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
7 drawings, 21 halftones, 1 map, 4 graphs
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
685 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8263-5914-8 (9780826359148)
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Person
Jeb J. Card is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Anthropology at Miami University. He is the coeditor of Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices.