ABSTRACT
Plenty of people are willing to accept supernatural or extraterrestrial angles to archaeology. Pyramid magic is a perennial fantasy that fascinates the public. Egyptian royalty in the third millennium BCE chose to order enormous pyramids of stone blocks constructed to enclose their tombs, one don't really know. Psychic archaeology seems to have capitalized on several different abilities: local resident's deep familiarity with a place; certain persons' unusually acute perception and recognition; and other individuals' willingness to spin a good yarn. Accounts of psychic archaeology tend to claim that the academic archaeologist is amazed by the unlettered psychic's uncanny ability to tell the professor where to dig to find things, or to identify a fragmentary artifact or feature. Back in the fourth century BCE, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote a parable about a great island destroyed by cataclysms. Controversies that most people associate with archaeology are generally not controversial among archaeologists, or, as with dinosaurs, not even archaeology.
