Karen Stollznow: Well… I guess I’m familiar with some of the notable books, like Chariots of the Gods, but no, I can’t say that it was something that was a particular concern to me at all. In all seriousness though, Ken’s book is a fabulous primer on understanding science, recognizing pseudoscience and engaging in archaeology empowered by critical thinking.īlake: Now, growing up did you have any interest in ancient astronauts?ĭr. Feder recommends that those also be his book. If you can only have one skeptical book in your collection, I recommend you get The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan, but, if you can get two books in your collection the second book should be Ken’s book and if you can afford three or four books in your collection, Dr. A link to this book will be in the show notes. Ken is the author of one of the best books that combine skepticism and archaeology and it’s called Frauds, Myths and Mysteries: Science & Pseudoscience in Archaeology.
Ken teaches Archaeology at Central Connecticut State University and was our guest previously on the very popular episode we had on Giants.
On this episode of MonsterTalk we’re pleased to welcome back Dr. I’m Blake Smith and together with Karen Stollznow and Ben Radford, we talk about monsters, science and skepticism. Not why the aliens didn’t give us the wheel, but another big question.īlake Smith: Did ancient aliens come to earth and teach our ancestors powerful technologies? Ancient alien astronauts … on this episode of MonsterTalk.īlake: Welcome to MonsterTalk, the science show about monsters. To Erich von Däniken, that posed a huge question. And that was a thousand years before the invention of the wheel. Built as a tomb for the Pharaoh Cheops, it’s made of two and a half million stone blocks, some of the biggest weigh up to eighty tons and were transported from quarries hundreds and hundreds of miles away.
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TV Clip A: …but are these examples of modern technology? Or is there evidence that these incredible achievements existed on earth thousands of years ago? Simultaneously in Background: Various demonstrative sound effects. TV Clip A: Mega-Machines, cutting through solid rock the transportation of multi-ton stone blocks modern aircraft, carrying millions of people each day around the world and space shuttles, sending humans to the stars …
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Read episode notes Leonard Nimoy : On a desolate plain near the Peruvian Andes is evidence that thousands of years ago, man may have known how to fly.
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