{"id":17695,"date":"2012-06-30T07:11:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T06:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=17695"},"modified":"2017-04-04T22:08:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T21:08:15","slug":"wauchope-robert-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wauchope-robert-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Wauchope, Robert (L)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Robert Wauchope (1909-1979) <\/strong>was an American archaeologist who specialised in the prehistory <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wauchope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26754\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wauchope.jpg\" alt=\"Wauchope\" width=\"163\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a>of the Americas. In his <em>Lost Tribes &amp; Sunken Continents<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/w-z\/\">836<\/a>]<\/sup>, he adopts a softly sceptical view of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantology\/\">Atlantology<\/a>, discussing the consequences of proponents becoming obsessive about their pet theory and often abandoning objectivity in the process. He has some harsh criticism directed at the poorly constructed claims of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/churchward-%e2%80%98colonel%e2%80%99-james\/\">Churchward<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/le-plongeon-augustus\/\">Le Plongeon<\/a>. Although his book is now out print it is worth obtaining a used copy as it give a good overview of some of the popular \u2018alternative\u2019 pre-history theories of six decades ago and a sober assessment of them by a conventional scientist of that era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Wauchope (1909-1979) was an American archaeologist who specialised in the prehistory of the Americas. In his Lost Tribes &amp; Sunken Continents[836], he adopts a softly sceptical view of Atlantology, discussing the consequences of proponents becoming obsessive about their pet theory and often abandoning objectivity in the process. He has some harsh criticism directed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[186,139,1089,1088,85],"class_list":["post-17695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantology","tag-augustus-le-plongeon","tag-james-churward","tag-robert-wauchope","tag-sceptic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}