BRIEF CONTENTS // Preface xiii // Chapter 1 Science and Pseudoscience 1 // Chapter 2 Epistemology: How You Know What You Know 17 // chapter 3 GIANTS! Anatomy of an Archaeological Hoax 48 // chapter 4 Dawson’s Dawn Man: The Hoax at Piltdown 67 // Chapter 5 Who Discovered America? 90 // Chapter 6 Who’s Next? After the Indians, before Columbus 109 // Chapter 7 The Myth of the Mound Builders 138 // Chapters Lost: One Continent-Reward 169 // Chapter 9 Prehistoric E.T.: The Fantasy of Ancient Astronauts 196 // vi BRIEF CONTENTS // Chapter 10 The Mystery of Ancient Civilizations: How Did People Get So Smart? 220 // Chapter 11 Good Vibrations: Psychics and Archaeology 256 // Chapter 12 Old-Time Religion, New Age Visions, and Paranormal Predictions 274 // chapter 13 Epilogue: A Past We Deserve 296 // References 303 // Index 320