TY - BOOK ID - 78645976 TI - Beardmore PY - 2018 SN - 077355534X 9780773555341 9780773555358 0773555358 9780773554665 0773554661 PB - Montreal Kingston London Chicago DB - UniCat KW - Royal Ontario Museum. KW - ROM KW - America KW - Ontario KW - Discovery and exploration KW - Norse. KW - Antiquities. KW - Archaeological museums and collections. KW - Hoaxes KW - Museums KW - Vikings KW - Fälschung KW - Funde KW - Wikinger KW - Grab KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. KW - Begräbnisstätte KW - Begräbnisplatz KW - Grabstätte KW - Grablege KW - Gräber KW - Bestattung KW - Friedhof KW - Gräberfeld KW - Bodenfund KW - Bodenfunde KW - Archäologische Funde KW - Ausgrabung KW - Bodendenkmal KW - Verfälschung KW - Fälschungen KW - Nachahmung KW - Plagiat KW - Original KW - Northmen KW - Humbugs KW - Deception KW - Fraud KW - Practical jokes KW - Archaeological collections KW - Anthropological museums and collections KW - Antiquities KW - Acquisitions KW - Collection and preservation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78645976 AB - In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the contents of a Viking grave that prospector Eddy Dodd said he had found on his mining claim east of Lake Nipigon. The relics remained on display for two decades, challenging understandings of when and where Europeans first reached the Americas. In 1956 the discovery was exposed as an unquestionable hoax, tarnishing the reputation of the museum director, Charles Trick Currelly, who had acquired the relics and insisted on their authenticity. Drawing on an array of archival sources, Douglas Hunter reconstructs the notorious hoax and its many players. Beardmore unfolds like a detective story as the author sifts through the voluminous evidence and follows the efforts of two unlikely debunkers, high-school teacher Teddy Elliott and government geologist T.L. Tanton, who find themselves up against Currelly and his scholarly allies. Along the way, the controversy draws in a who’s who of international figures in archaeology, Scandinavian studies, and the museum world, including anthropologist Edmund Carpenter, whose mid-1950s crusade against the find’s authenticity finally convinced scholars and curators that the grave was a fraud. Shedding light on museum practices and the state of the historical and archaeological professions in the mid-twentieth century, Beardmore offers an unparalleled view inside a major museum scandal to show how power can be exercised across professional networks and hamper efforts to arrive at the truth. ER -