The Ark Encounter with James Bielo - Episode 84

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Today we talk with Ethnographer James Bielo about his work with the Ark Encounter, a life-size Noah's Ark and religious-themed experience in Kentucky. We talk about the validity of replicas, religious sightseeing, and 3D printing as a way to communicate with the public. 

Links

• Dr. James Bielo - Miami University

• James S. Bielo - Home

• James Bielo on the Ark Encounter - Miami University

• Ark Encounter: Life-size Noah's Ark

• Ark Encounter: The Making of a Creationist Theme Park

• James S. Bielo

• Making a biblical theme park – The Immanent Frame

• Ark Park ready to set sail in culture war

Contact

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The Enigmatic Iximaya Hoax With Roxanne Davila and Marcello Canuto - Episode 83

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Today we're talking about the Iximaya hoax. Who were the Iximaya, where did they come from, and what part did P.T. Barnum play in all this? We're joined by special guests  Roxanne Davila and Marcello Canuto.

Links

• MARI

• Roxanne Davila

• Marcello Canuto

• Iximaya Pamphlet

• https://archive.org/details/illustratedmemoi00vela

• Ix Chel

• John Lloyd Stephens

• Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan

• Frederick Catherwood's artwork

  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Frederick_Catherwood

  • https://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/rarebook/exhibitions/catherwood/

• Lacandon

• Jean-Frédéric Waldeck

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Waldeck

  • http://www.reed.edu/uxmal/galleries/thumbnails/drawings/Drawings-Waldeck.htm

• Juan Galindo

• Lord Kingsboro

• Antiquities of Mexico

  • https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Kingsborough%2C+Edward+King%2C+viscount%2C+1795-1837%22

  • http://bibliotecadigital.rah.es/dgbrah/es/consulta/registro.cmd?id=5968

• Tod Browning's Freaks

• Pip and Flip Snow

  • http://www.thehumanmarvels.com/pip-flip-snow-pinheads-freaks/

  • http://blog.sartle.com/post/101300795651/american-horror-story-freak-art-show

• Rudolf Virchow

• Ian Graham

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Graham

  • https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/ian-graham-the-improbable-explorer/

• Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions

• The Road to Ruins

• Charles Lindbergh and A. V. Kidder Expedition

• Frans Blom

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Blom

  • http://cphpost.dk/history/frans-blom-tragic-wanderlust-in-the-wilds-of-mexico.html

• Tribes and Temples

• LiDAR and Maya Archaeology

• Case of the Ancient Astronauts

Contact

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Mermaids and Mummies - Episode 82

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Today we're looking at the Fiji Mummy and the recent Peruvian Mummy Hoax. How do these two cases intersect, what can one teach us about the other, and How does PT. Barnum fit into all this.

Links

• The Racism Behind Alien Mummy Hoaxes

• Pre-Columbian bodies are once again being used as evidence for extraterrestrial life.

• Did Researchers Find a Mummified, Three-fingered Alien in Nazca, Peru?

• Proof of aliens or another hoax? Conspiracy theorists claim they have found a three-fingered 'mummified humanoid' with an elongated skull in a South American cave

• P.T. Barnum Museum

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_Museum

• 15 Credibility Street #20: A Mummy-Bundle of BS

Contact

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(Re-Play) Afrocentrism and the New World - Episode 81 (16)

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Today we're talking about Afrocentrism. What is it? Does it hurt or help ancient African cultures? And how does it affect archaeology in the new world?

More about other ancient African cultures you may never have heard of:

• Great Zimbabwe:

  • http://www.greatzimbabweruins.com/

  • http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/364

• The Kingdom of Kush:

  • http://archaeology.about.com/od/kterms/g/kush.htm

• Nubia

  • http://www.kerma.ch/index.php?lang=en

  • https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=z_ZvHRpKT6Hw.k7AIqBspa9ew&hl=en

• The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Nubia

  • https://www.coursera.org/course/ancientnubia

• Feder, K. 1998-99 Archaeology and Afrocentrism: An Attempt to set the record straight. A Current Bibliography on African Affairs 29(3):199-210

Things to Read and Watch:

• Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy by George G. M. James, Ph.D

  • http://www.jpanafrican.com/ebooks/eBook%20Stolen%20Legacy.pdf

• The danger of a single story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=en

• Africans are fighting media poverty-porn by tweeting beautiful images of their real lives

  • http://www.theplaidzebra.com/africans-are-fighting-media-poverty-porn-by-tweeting-beautiful-images-of-their-real-lives/

Contact

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Mayan Hieroglyphics with Jeb Card - Episode 80

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Today we talk with co-host Jeb Card about Mayan Hieroglyphics. We talk about the Victorian worlds discovery of them, their fascination with them, how that fascination has endured into the modern-day, and how the Mayan language, including Hieroglyphics, is still a living language today. 

Links

• FAMSI resources

• Maya Glyph Workbook

• Wayeb resources

• Forest of Kings

• Maya Decipherment Blog by David Stuart and Stephen Houston

• Tazumal flask

  • http://miamioh.edu/news/top-stories/2017/04/jeb-card.html

  • https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ancient-mesoamerica/article/seventhcentury-inscribed-miniature-flask-from-copan-found-at-tazumal-el-salvador/6C01D75378694C9CCEE9E5A8A1267A37/core-reader

• Archaeology 365 episode on Tazumal flask

• Athanasius Kircher

• Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan by de Archbishop Diego de Landa

  • http://www.wayeb.org/download/resources/landa.pdf

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaci%C3%B3n_de_las_cosas_de_Yucat%C3%A1n

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Landa_alphabet

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Landa_alphabet#/media/File:De_Landa_alphabet.jpg

• Cracking the Maya Code Documentary

• Yuri Knorosov

• Centro de estudios Maya Yuri Knorosov

• Breaking the Maya Code

• Reading the Maya Glyphs

• Translating Maya Glyphs

• Reading Maya Art

• Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens

• Ancient Text, Modern Tablet - Handcrafted Cuneiform

• Jason Colavito and the Antediluvian Pyramid Myth

Contact

• Email us at ArchyFantasies@gmail.com

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