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" ... The primary theme among these popular pseudoarchaeology books that professionals have a major problem with is ethnocentrism, or the idea that we can judge other cultures based on the yardstick of our own. But racism figures in here too. Archaeologist Larry Zimmerman reviews The Lost Colonies of Ancient America by Frank Joseph, who insists that mainstream archaeologists are the ones ignoring information on transoceanic voyages and that any number of past civilizations may have colonized the New World first. Zimmerman, though, notes that "Joseph echoes half a millennium of speculation geared toward inventing a deep Old World history in the Americas, thereby challenging the primacy of American Indians in the hemisphere, or at least implying their inferiority, their poor stewardship of the land, and the need to civilize them, all in the service of Manifest Destiny and justification for taking their land." Similarly, John Ruskamp's Asiatic Echoes: The Identification of Chinese Pictograms in Pre-Columbian North American Rock Writing, reviewed by archaeologist Angus Quinlan, puts forth the idea that pictograms found in North American rock art are Chinese script characters left by an otherwise archaeologically invisible trip across the Pacific. The similarity is substantial, Ruskamp insists, but Quinlan calls it "another illustration of deductive thinking at its worst." Further, Quinlan points out that these sorts of interpretations that try to shoehorn in foreign visitors to explain New World culture are "disrespectful of the Native American cultures that used rock art in their sociocultural routines." ... "
" ... These sensational shows may be exciting to viewers, but they represent problematic distortions of the human past that rise to the level of pseudoarchaeology. Pseudoarchaeological claims make use of archaeological materials, such as ancient architecture or artifacts, but consistently disregard even the most basic of archaeological methods. For example, the chronological context of objects is often ignored to draw connections between different ancient cultures. Ignatius Donnelly popularized this practice in the 1880s when he claimed that the pyramids built by the Classic period Maya and those built by the Old Kingdom Egyptians were so similar that they necessitated a cultural connection; even though these structures were separated by almost 3,000 years of history. ... "