Aliens atlantis and - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What is archaeology? - A method to study past human activity by studying things people made and used. According to Kida, what are the six mistakes we make in our thought processes? - - we prefer stories to statistics - we seek to confirm - we rarely appreciate the role of chance and coincidence - we can misperceive the world - we oversimlify - we have faulty memories What is pseudoscience? - A claim, belief or practice which is presented as scientific, but which does not follow the sc...

Columbus' notable accomplishment was - he was excellent at navigating by dead reckoning, knew how to get to the Americas and back, and he opened up the New World to European exploitation When does Graham Hancock believe the Lost Civilization was destroyed? - around 12,000 years ago A 9,300 year old skeleton discovered in Washington state that exhibited - Kennewick man The conical burial mounds in the Ohio River Valley containing exotic grave goods belong to the - Adena/Hopewell culture...