Should this article discuss problematic cases I ve been following recent changes to the article over at Hindu astronomy where there has been an effective rebuttal of the attempts to use archaeoastronomical methods to push the date of Indian astronomy back by over two millennia Lying behind these attempts is a nationalist agenda to grant Indian astronomy priority and make it the source of Greek and Babylonian astronomy I don t like to see archaeoastronomy tarred by this kind of foolishness yet the late David Pingree an expert on Indian astronomy who also did solid research on Greek Babylonian and even medieval European astronomy spent a page of an excellent article on early science condemning the scholars who perpetrate wild theories of prehistoric science and call themselves archaeoastronomers Pingree Hellenophilia versus the History of Science Isis 83 1982 554 563 esp p 556 reprinted in Michael H Shank ed The Scientific Enterprise in Antiquity and the Middle Ages Chicago Univ of Chicago Pr 2000 pp 30 39