Episode Details

Today we’re reviewing Don Verdean (2015), the story of a washed-up Biblical archaeologist who, under pressure from his financial backers, begins to fake his discoveries. This movie is rife with pseudoarchaeological references, so we’ve invited Dr. Andrew Kinkella back to help us break it down. As a bonus, he uses his film degree to explain why, despite being hilarious, this movie is actually terrible.

Dr. Andrew Kinkella’s Links:

• Kinkella Teaches Archaeology
• The Pseudo-Archaeology Podcast
• CRM Archaeology Podcast

Links

• The Frontonasal Suture
• Is carbon dating fake? Pseudo-Archaeology 180
• Ark of the Covenant in Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion
• The Oak Island Mystery
• The Kensington Runestone
• Moundbuilder Myths and Viking Runestones – Great Plains Archaeology Podcast 36
• Holy Grail in America (2009)
• Is There Archaeological Evidence That The Knights Templar Came To America? Mysteries Unearthed
• Genesis 19: Sodom and Gomorroah Destroyed
• 1 Samuel 17: David and Goliath
• Surovell et al. (2026) A mid-Holocene age for Monte Verde challenges the timeline of human colonization of South America
• Dog digs up possible link to notorious 19th-century Devon murder case
• Under the Banner of Heaven (2022)
• Johnny Jerusalem’s sarcophagus in a Utah dump

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