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Fantastic Archaeology: The Wild Side of North American Prehistory

A cheerful and delightful excursion into the realms of fraud, hucksterism, wretched excess, and wishful thinking... From Indiana Jones to Lost Atlantis, from mysticism to Mu, Williams reviews the colorful characters and misguided theories which have excited the public, and exasperated mainstream archaeologists.-Michael Crichton

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adult
Length
long · 407 pages

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