Teaching Archaeology in the Age of Disinformation

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

After three decades of teaching archaeology courses at the college level, students still ask me about my views on Sasquatch, aliens, and intelligent design. In fact, these questions come up more frequently now than they ever had in the past. Those of us who teach archaeology are faced with a paradox: while current advancements in science technology lead to more precise field and laboratory techniques, mainstream society is bombarded by the internet and the entertainment industry with falsehoods, fake news, and spectacular bogus claims about the nature of the human past designed as click-bait. This presentation will explore strategies for combatting pseudoscience in the age of disinformation and to help our students recognize the importance of the scientific method.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35551.0