SOURCES – 13 archaeological hoaxes that fooled people for way too long

The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “13 archaeological hoaxes that fooled people for way too long.”

  1. Drake’s Plate — the end of the mystery?
  2. Mysterious Crystal Skull on Exhibit for the First Time at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History
  3. Historical Aspects of the Calaveras Skull Controversy
  4. New genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created ‘Piltdown man’
  5. Newspaper unearths archaeologist’s fake find
  6. The Truth about Fakes
  7. The Vinland Map
  8. Conclusive Proof That the Newark Decalogue Stone Is a Forgery (and Not a Very Good One at That)
  9. Material Analysis of the Scotford-Soper-Savage Michigan Relics
  10. Romans in Tucson? The Story of an Archaeological Hoax
  11. Elephant Pipes and Israelite Tablets: the controversy between the United States Bureau of Ethnography and the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences
  12. Spanish archaeologist sentenced for faking Basque finds