archaeologist is something that challenges established opinion because it gives me a reason to publish. I've had some of the most fun in my career when we were doing survey in the Maya world looking at looking to find sites that hadn't been documented before and very randomly one of the things we found was we found a lot of ball courts the Mayas played a game where you bounce a rubber ball off your hip, he says. If there was real evidence that Atlantis could have lived on another planet like Xenobiologists are finding they're not just talking about aliens but actual life as well. He also talks about his new book "The Lost City of Atlantis" which will be published by Simon
On this Live Show Beg-a-Thon, recorded on May 17, we discuss the pop culture phenomenon and appeal of pseudoarchaeology in its many forms, from fraudulent alternative history books like Erich von Däniken's 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past, to television series like "Ancient Aliens" and "Ancient Apocalypse."
Alongside guest Dr. David S. Anderson, we discuss how phony "what if?" theories often go beyond the goofy, guilty pleasure premises of extraterrestrial visitors and lost civilizations to promote Eurocentric, racist pap and a mindless distrust of "the scientific establishment" in the stupidest and least productive way possible.