[August]

Originally Posted by Joefour

Go read the late Professor Barry Fell's "America B.C." and let those "academics" try to argue against his findings. They don't dare--they just ignore him. Erickson was a johnny come lately.

http://www.badarchaeology.com/?page_id=954

Many academic archaeologists were more than sceptical of Barry Fell’s claims: they were openly hostile to them. His claims for scientific rigour might hold for marine biology, but when it came to archaeological interpretation, he ignored the usual rules of evidence. Moreover, his publications were largely aimed at non specialists; instead of submitting his papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals (the usual procedure), he preferred to publish either in popular books or through the Epigraphic Society of North America, a society that can be characterised, not altogether unfairly, as being composed of his disciples. In other words, he shows all the characteristics of a Bad Archaeologist.