Methods for evaluating web sites and scientific claims:

• Evaluating web resources, by SSU's own Paula Hammett
• Distinguishing science from pseudoscience, by Elizabeth J. Lawlor
• Evaluating science and archaeology in the media: excellent links, including specialists' responses to specific claims.

Some search engines to use for checking what other sites link to or discuss a site:

• Google advanced search shows you what other pages link to the one you are evaluating. Paste the URL into the space labeled "Find pages that link to the page"

• Google Excellent for general searching

• Altavista Good for general searching

Find out who or what institution owns the domain name of the site:

• Verisign domain name database

Lists of mostly legitimate archaeology sites:

• ArchNet: A huge listing of sites from professional to personal. Try either the "regional" or "topic" views.

• Archaeology on the Net: Another listing of sites from professional to personal. Use the "regional" link list on the upper left; links in the lower section take you to Amazon.com to buy books.

Some seriously questionable archaeology sites:

• Atlantis Project

• Atlantis:  The Lost Continent Finally Found

• Atlantis in Antarctica?

• Many fascinating articles, some more archaeological than others

• Megalithic England:  The Atlantean Dimensions

• Atlantis in Japan?

• Atlantis in Bolivia?

• Noah's Ark Search home page.  Lots of photo albums.

• The Search for Noah's Ark Lots of links to other fringe pages.

• Noah's Ark -- The Search is Over  Lots of video clips.

• Still more on Noah's Ark

• Ark of the Covenant discovered

• Proof of the parting of the Red Sea

• Cyquest Search for Wholeness A list of Goddess links

• The Goddess Uncovered "Rethinking our Prehistory"

• Goddess Worship:  That real "old time religion"?

• The Grail Quest or The Orion Archetype and The Destiny of Man Part V: The Chalice and The Blade

• The Pyramids and the Bible Code 

• The Great Pyramid is a water pump

• The pyramids are much older than previously thought

• StarFire:  The Gold of the Gods (Part 3) (Part 3 is most relevant to this class.)

• Aliens Built the Pyramids

• Alien Pyramids?

• Ancient Egyptians in Illinois!

• Ancient Visitors

• Forbidden Archaeology: Proof that humans are much older than previously thought

• Graham Hancock home page

• The continental US was visited by many different societies before Columbus

• Sophisticated interpretation of ancient mounds and roads in Ohio

• Ancient Celtic visitors to Japan

• Ancient Celtic visitors to New Hampshire:  America's Stonehenge  

• Ancient Celtic visitors to West Virginia

• Ancient Celtic visitors to Oklahoma

• Ancient Celtic visitors to Cherokee, California

• Ancient Celtic visitors to Inyo, California

• Ley Lines Mysterious lines connecting ancient Megalithic sites in England

• Stonehenge, the Beginning of Camelot

• Stonehenge, USA: Built by Native Americans or migrant Europeans?

• Megalithic England:  The Atlantean Dimensions

• The Evidence for Ancient Atomic Warfare (Part 1)and "Vitrified Ruins in California's Death Valley: Evidence of Atomic War?"

• Dinosaurs and humans co-existed

Some sites devoted to debunking or refuting wild archaeological claims:

• Skeptical views of fringe archaeology

• Hall of Ma'at: Debunking fringe Egyptology and other subjects

• The Antiquity of Man Click the "Pseudoscience" link for lots of sites debunking fringe Egyptology, Noah's Ark, etc.; also conventional explanations for supposed mysteries

Intro to Archaeology Web Project by Bruce Owen
Copyright (c) 2002, Bruce Owen. All rights reserved.
Please send comments on content and presentation to bruce.owen@sonoma.edu.
URL of this document: http://bruceowen.com/introarch/32402fWebProject.htm
Revised: 28 September 2002