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3 unusual facts about Denise Schmandt-Besserat


Denise Schmandt-Besserat

Her work has been widely reported in the public media (Scientific American, Time, Life, New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor.) She was featured in several television programs such as Out of the Past (Discovery Channel), Discover (Disney Channel); The Nature of Things (CBC), Search for Solutions (PBS), and Tell the Truth (NBC).

She been cited Outstanding Woman in the Humanities by the American Association of University Women.

Richard Rudgley

In a review of the same work in Isis, however, archaeologist Denise Schmandt-Besserat is harshly critical, stating that Rudgley first fabricated a non-existent controversy about pre-historic cultures, then created heroes and villains by characterizing archaeologists as "wicked morons who conspire to keep prehistory in obscurity".



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