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Dr. Andrew Kinkella brings you stories about pseudo-archaeology and the real stories behind the false claims.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Andrew Kinkella turns disputes over the ancient past into clear lessons about evidence, persuasion and the cultural appeal of extraordinary claims.
Pseudo-Archaeology takes popular claims about lost civilizations, ancient monuments and cosmic catastrophes back to the evidence beneath them.
Graham Hancock's ancient supercivilization gets Dr. Andrew Kinkella's evidence check; you get the exasperated play-by-play.
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A skeptical look at a Scottsdale pseudo-archaeology meeting, strongest when it presses unsupported claims and the Grand Canyon Kinkade story.
This episode gives the Quest for Ancient Civilizations meeting in Scottsdale a skeptical, conversational treatment, with Andrew Kinkella framing pseudo-archaeology as something live and messy rather than fixed in place.
Sedona, pseudo-archaeology, and a skeptical look at where the story outruns the evidence.
Kinkella uses a Sedona trip to trace why pseudo-archaeology keeps finding an audience: it gives people a way to turn places and structures into stories that run well beyond the evidence.
A direct, practical answer to a question carbon-14 dating keeps dragging back into view.
The episode takes up the common claim that carbon-14 dating is fake and answers it plainly. Dr. Andrew Kinkella walks through how the method works, why it gets refined, and why a lot of the criticism misses the mark.
Old dates matter only when the evidence and context agree.
Episode 171 stays with the peopling of the new world and with the harder job of separating firm dates from fragile claims. Kinkella frames archaeology as a discipline that has to keep asking three things at once: whether the dates hold, whether the artifacts are truly human-made…
A careful reassessment that keeps faith with the book while widening the frame.
Pseudo-Archaeology treats Skull Wars as a serious reappraisal rather than a simple verdict. It presents the book as a useful guide to Kennewick Man, but it also widens the frame to North American archaeology and the long, uneasy relationship between archaeologists and Native…
A blunt, evidence-first critique of pseudo-archaeology and its favorite shortcuts.
Dr. Andrew Kienkella spends this installment pushing back on a familiar habit: build the story first, then go hunting for facts that fit it. The strongest stretches are the simplest ones.
A quiet remembrance that turns Brian Fagan's influence into a personal archaeology story.
Episode 167 slows down for a remembrance of Brian Fagan after news of his death at 88, and the quieter tone fits. Andrew Kinkella is plainly grateful here. He talks about how Fagan shaped his path into archaeology and, by extension, the work he does now.
A brisk, funny takedown of Fountain of Youth that lands its biggest tropes without overplaying them.
Pseudo-Archaeology gives Fountain of Youth a blunt, skeptical drubbing. Dr. Andrew Kinkella keeps the pace quick and the jokes sharp, and he stays locked on the movie's own choices: the awkward plotting, the sexy bad woman, the kung fu master trope, and the divorce-and-kids…
Mexican history, from the excavated to the conjectured.
Ira Glass frames weekly theme-driven segments spanning family secrets to Portland's protest conflict.
Shankar Vedantam unpacks the psychology behind relationships, careers, and money through researcher interviews.
David McRaney interviews researchers on cognitive bias, motivated reasoning, and why minds change.
Ryan Holiday pairs daily Stoic lessons with long-form guest conversations at his Texas bookstore.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
Episode 169 returns to the Shroud of Turin because it came up again on Piers Morgan Uncensored.
Andrew Kinkhella centers Pseudo-Archaeology episode 160 on the Moana Surfrider Hotel, built in 1901 on Waikiki Beach and older than the Royal Hawaiian from 1927.
Andrew Kinkella says the Dead Sea Scrolls are currently at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, where he was invited to see them 15 minutes before the public and later filmed for the museum's commercials.
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CRM Archaeology Podcast 313 centers on Heather McDaniel McDevitt recording while she has a two-week cough and Andrew Kinkella responding with specific preventative-health habits for field archaeologists.
Andrew Kienkella uses episode 165 to review the 2025 Cosmic Summit in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he says tickets started around $465 and a high-end pass reached about $2,600.
Pseudo-Archaeology episode 162 follows Dr.
Andrew Kinkella uses Episode 180 of Pseudo-Archaeology to answer the question, "is carbon-14 dating fake?" and he argues the method works while naming its limits.
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Andrew Kinkella uses episode 178 of Pseudo-Archaeology to rank favorite cryptids, starting with the Loch Ness Monster photo from 1933 and tracing its history back to the seventh century.
Andrew Kinkella revisits the 2018 paper "The Silurian hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?" by Gavin Schmidt and Adam Frank after Flint Dibble says it does not involve lizard people.
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Pseudo-Archaeology episode 164 moves between Dr.
Andrew Kinkalla uses Skull Wars, published in 2000 by David Hurst Thomas, to trace the book's main arc from Kennewick Man to the mound builder myth.
Episode 177 is the show's 2025 year-in-review.
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Episode 159 of Pseudo-Archaeology is recorded live from the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, with the host walking the lobby, grounds, and beachfront while trying out a phone recording setup.
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Host critically examines Father Robert Spitzer's appearance on Dad Saves America podcast discussing the Shroud of Turin.
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Sedona gets the Kinkella treatment.
Episode 179 goes right at alien disclosure hype.
Andrew Kinkella reviews the Quest for Ancient Civilizations conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, and notes that a Google search on December 5–7, 2025 put a melanoma course and the Dirt Expo ahead of it.
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