Fantastic archaeology
Subtitle: the wild side of North American prehistory
By: Stephen Williams.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
Subjects: Archaeology -- North America -- History.; North America -- Antiquities.
Description: The landscape of the nineteenth century, Stephen Williams asserts, is dotted with fakes, frauds, and humbugs whose fantastic claims of purported findings would make even P.T. Barnum blush. In Fantastic Archaeology, Williams takes them all on with gusto--illuminating, debunking, and instructing on the modes, methods, manners, and manifestations of American archaeology through the past two centuries. -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-386) and indexes.