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Hunter, Doug, 1959-
Subjects
Royal Ontario Museum -- History.
Vikings -- Ontario.
Hoaxes -- Ontario.
Ontario -- Antiquities.
Canada -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse.
North America -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse.
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Hunter, Doug, 1959-
Royal Ontario Museum -- History.
Vikings -- Ontario.
Hoaxes -- Ontario.
Ontario -- Antiquities.
Canada -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse.
North America -- Discovery and exploration -- Norse.
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Beardmore : the Viking hoax that rewrote history / Douglas Hunter.
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Hunter, Doug, 1959-
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018..
Call #:
971.301 H945b
Subjects
Royal
Ontario
Museum
--
History.
Vikings
--
Ontario
.
Hoaxes
--
Ontario
.
Ontario
--
Antiquities.
Canada
--
Discovery and exploration
--
Norse.
North America
--
Discovery and exploration
--
Norse.
Series
Carleton library; 246.
ISBN:
9780773554665 (hc.)
Description:
xv, 475 p., 8 b&w leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"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."--From publisher.
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