Archeology In the Hands of the Crazies Parts 1 & 2

It never occurred to me that Archeology could be a lot like radio. That is, a lot of people think that all they need is a microphone in front of them & they'd be brilliant.

More often than not....not.

Over the decades it seems that a lot of people have thought that to be an archeologist all they needed was a shovel. In these episodes from '19 we talk with Prof. Mark Schwartz about people who thought the were making big discoveries (often in fields related to religion) that in reality were pretty fraudulent. Trust me, this is entertainment of a high order.

Mark received his PhD in Anthropology from Northwestern University. His research focused on trade between the early city-states of Mesopotamia and the emerging complex societies of Anatolia in the fourth millennium B.C. He has worked on various excavations in the Middle East. He is currently involved in inter-departmental collaborative work using ROVs to study shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. He teaches courses on the archaeology of the Near East as well as general courses concerning anthropology and archaeology.