Preface Quick Start Guide Chapter 1: Science and Pseudoscience Belief in the Unbelievable The Morning of the Magicians Pseudoscience and Archaeology Why I Wrote This Book Frequently Asked Questions Best of the Web Critical Thinking Exercises Chapter 2: Epistemology: How You Know What You Know Knowing Things Collecting Information: Seeing Isn't Necessarily Believing Collecting Information: Relying on Others Science: Playing by the Rules There Is a Real and Knowable Universe The Universe Operates According to Understandable Laws The Laws Are Immutable The Laws Can Be Understood The Workings of Science The Case of Childbed Fever The Science and Nonscience: The Essential Differences A Rule in Assessing Explanations The Art of Science Where Do Hypotheses Come From? Testing Hypotheses The Human Enterprise of Science Science and Archaeology Frequently Asked Questions Best of the Web Critical Thinking Exercises Chapter 3: Anatomy of an Archaeological Hoax The Cardiff Giant: The Goliath of New York The Discovery The Beginning of the End Hull's Confession The End of the Giant Why Did They Do It? Current Perspectives: Frauds The Rules for a Successful Archaeological Hoax Frequently Asked Questions Best of the Web Critical Thinking Exercise Chapter 4: Dawson's Dawn Man: The Hoax at Piltdown The Evolutionary Context The Brain-Centered Paradigm A Remarkable Discovery in Sussex The Piltdown Enigma Unmasking the Hoax Whodunnit? Suspect: Charles Dawson Suspect: Arthur Smith Woodward Suspect: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Suspect: Sir Grafton Elliot Smith Suspect: Sir Arthur Keith Suspect: Martin A. C. Hinton Suspect: Lewis Abbott Suspect: W. J. Sallas Suspect: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Lesson of Piltdown Current Perspectives: Human Evolution Frequently Asked Questions Best of the Web Critical Thinking Exercise Chapter 5: Who Discovered America? America's First People A New World-To Europeans Biblical Exegesis and American Indians American Indians: From Israelites to Atlanteans Tracing the Source of Native Americans Out of Asia An "American Genesis"? Tracing People by Their Biology Archaeology of the First Americans Who's Next? After the Indians, Before Columbus Artifact Trails: Evidence of Visitors to the New World Europeans in America: The Norse Discovery of America A Newfound Land Where Was Vinland and Who Were the Skraelings? Norse Discovery of America: The Physical Evidence Other Evidence of the Viking Presence? Other Voyagers, Other Visitors A Chinese Discovery of the New World? Africans in Ancient America? Other Europeans in the New World Before Columbus? America Linguistics Inscriptions Architecture The Archaeological Verdict Archaeological Context: Digging Pits and Recovering Evidence Current Perspectives: The Peopling of the Americas Frequently Asked Questions Best of the Web Critical Thinking Exercises Chapter 6. The Myth of the Moundbuilders The Myth of a Vanished Race Who Were the Moundbuilders? Identifying the Vanished Race The Walum Olum The Archaeology of the Myth The Moundbuilder Mystery Solved Rationale for the Myth of a Vanished Race Current Perspectives: The Moundbuilders Frequently Asked Questions Best of the Web Critical Thinking Exercise Chapter 7: Lost: One Continent-Reward Atlantis: Where Are You? Atlantis: The Source of the Legend The Timaeus Dialogue The Critias Dialogue The Source and Meaning of Timaeus and Critias Who Invented Atlantis? Where Did Plato Get the Details of the Story? A Minoan Source After Plato Ignatius Donnelly: The Minnesota Congressman Atlantis After Donnelly Current Perspectiv.