GIANTS! Anatomy of an Archaeological Hoax

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/cardiff.htm

Chapter from Andrew White’s (not Andy White) autobiography detailing the author’s experiences in upstate New York when the Cardiff Giant was discovered.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/NYCOOgiant.html

Very cool site dealing with offbeat tourist sites, here discussing the Cardiff Giant.

http://www.marvin3m.com/cardiff.php

Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum’s home page. Visit to see P. T. Barnum’s fake (well, maybe it’s Barnum’s fake) of the Cardiff Giant.

http://www.andywhiteanthropology.com/blog/category/giants

Andy White’s devastating critique of the claim that there really were, as the Bible phrases it, “giants in those days.”

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/how-david-childress-created-the-myth-of-a-smithsonian-archaeological-conspiracy

Jason Colavito’s brilliant deconstruction of the often-made claim that there is a conspiracy to hide the truth about giants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO189oBtn5U

This is a 45-minute video about the Cardiff Giant, produced for the History Channel before they became the Supremely Crappy Channel. And yeah, I get a bunch of face time here. (Look at that hair! Giorgio Tsoukalos has nothing on me.)

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