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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.

Royal Ontario Museum. --- ROM --- America --- Ontario --- Discovery and exploration --- Norse. --- Antiquities. --- Archaeological museums and collections. --- Hoaxes --- Museums --- Vikings --- Fälschung --- Funde --- Wikinger --- Grab --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. --- Begräbnisstätte --- Begräbnisplatz --- Grabstätte --- Grablege --- Gräber --- Bestattung --- Friedhof --- Gräberfeld --- Bodenfund --- Bodenfunde --- Archäologische Funde --- Ausgrabung --- Bodendenkmal --- Verfälschung --- Fälschungen --- Nachahmung --- Plagiat --- Original --- Northmen --- Humbugs --- Deception --- Fraud --- Practical jokes --- Archaeological collections --- Anthropological museums and collections --- Antiquities --- Acquisitions --- Collection and preservation

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"The area of the Judean Foothills - the biblical Shephelah - has in recent years become one of the most intensively excavated regions in the world. Numerous projects, at sites of different types and utilizing various methodological approaches, are actively excavating in this region. Of particular importance are the discoveries dating to the Iron Age, a period when this region was a transition zone between various cultures ... Philistine, Canaanite, Judahite, and Israelite. The current volume includes reports from eight of the excavations currently being conducted in the region (Azekah, Beth Shemesh, Gezer, Khirbet Qeiyafa, Tel Burna, Tel Halif, Tell es-Safi/Gath, and Tel Zayit), as well as a general study of the region by Ido Koch. The importance of this volume lies not only in the fact that it collects up-to-date reports on most of the current excavations in the region but also demonstrates the lively, at times even boisterous, scholarly discussions taking place on various issues relating to the archaeology and history of the Iron Age Shephelah and its immediate environs. This volume serves as an excellent introduction to current research on the Iron Age in this crucial zone and also serves as a reflection of current trends, methodologies, and approaches in the archaeology of the Southern Levant" ...

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Iron age --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Civilization --- Shephelah (Israel) --- Shefelah (Israel) --- Shefelat Yehudah (Israel) --- Antiquities. --- Ausgrabung --- Eisenzeit --- Funde --- Šefēlā --- Bodenfund --- Bodenfunde --- Archäologische Funde --- Bodendenkmal --- Frühe Eisenzeit --- Früheisenzeit --- Metallzeit --- v1400-v700 --- Grabung --- Archäologische Grabung --- Ausgrabungen --- Grabungen --- Schefela --- Schephela --- Shefela --- Shfela --- Shephelah --- Shefelah --- Sephela --- HaShefela --- Hash Shefela --- Shfelat Yehuda --- Judean foothills --- Hügelland --- Israel

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The Late Roman fort at Yotvata is located in the southern Arava some 40 km north of Eilat/Aqaba (ancient Aila). The modern Hebrew name of the site is based on its suggested identification with biblical Jotbathah (Deut 10:7), where the Israelites encamped during their desert wanderings. The modern Arabic name of the site, Ein Ghadian, may preserve the ancient Roman name Ad Dianam. Because the Late Roman fort at Yotvata is visible as a low mound next to the Arava road, it has long been known to scholars. Each June between 2003 and 2007, Gwyn Davies (Florida International University) and Jodi Magness (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) co-directed excavations here. This volume provides the results of those excavations, adding substantially to our knowledge of Roman defenses in the third and fourth centuries of the Common Era, along the trade route that traversed the southern Arava and on the eastern frontier of the Empire.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Fortification, Roman --- Romans --- Ethnology --- Italic peoples --- Latini (Italic people) --- Roman fortification --- Architecture, Roman --- Classical antiquities --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Yoṭvatah (Israel) --- Yotvata (Israel) --- Yot'bathah (Israel) --- יטבתה --- Antiquities, Roman. --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Fortifications romaines --- Romains --- Yotvata (Israël) --- Antiquités romaines --- Kastell. --- Römerzeit. --- Funde. --- Archäologische Stätte. --- Romans. --- Fortification, Roman. --- Classical antiquities. --- Antiquities, Classical --- Antiquities, Grecian --- Antiquities, Roman --- Archaeology, Classical --- Classical archaeology --- Roman antiquities --- Antiquities --- Archaeological museums and collections --- Art, Ancient --- Classical philology --- Israel --- Palestine --- Dawlat Isrāʼīl --- Država Izrael --- Dzi︠a︡rz︠h︡ava Izrailʹ --- Gosudarstvo Izrailʹ --- I-se-lieh --- Israele --- Isrāʼīl --- Isŭrael --- Isuraeru --- Izrael --- Izrailʹ --- Medinat Israel --- Medinat Yiśraʼel --- Stát Izrael --- State of Israel --- Yiselie --- Yiśraʼel --- Ισραήλ --- Израиль --- Государство Израиль --- Дзяржава Ізраіль --- Ізраіль --- מדינת ישראל --- ישראל --- إسرائيل --- دولة إسرائيل --- イスラエル --- 以色列 --- Fundstätte --- Ausgrabungsstätte --- Ausgrabungsort --- Archäologische Stätten --- Archäologischer Park --- Bodenfund --- Bodenfunde --- Archäologische Funde --- Ausgrabung --- Bodendenkmal --- Römische Zeit --- Antike --- Römisches Reich --- v753-500 --- Castellum --- Römerkastell --- Kastelle --- Auxiliarkastell --- Lager --- Befestigung --- Legionslager --- Römisches Reich