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He uses a lot of the same tools as other fringe archaeologists to get stories on his work picked up by fringe publications and then cites them elsewhere as proof that his ideas are accepted. He’s a big self promoter and offers to talk to avocational Archaeology groups and sell tours in China. He combines things from all time periods and claims they are contemporary. He has no knowledge of rock art traditions in the region and if he did, he would know that many of the images he uses in his arguments have long and well documented trajectories of change through time locally and certainly don’t appear out of nowhere as he claims. In reality he just makes wild claims that very different imagery is the same and then designs a statistical test to “prove “ it using his already deeply flawed data. In a language where changing a character even a bit alters the meaning or makes it illegible he allows for tons of variation and substitutions in his “identification “ and then abuses statistical tools to give his arguments a feeling of scientific rigor to those who don’t have a background on those subjects. His arguments are laughably sloppy and full of special pleading. I was later asked by the society to come in and correct the record afterward. He came and talked at a local archaeology society meeting on the request of one member who was a fan. I’m a archaeologist working in the US Southwest and have had to deal with the pseudoarchaeology that Ruskamp has been promoting for several years. Previous AMAs | Previous Roundtables Featuresįeature posts are posted weekly.
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