Defining the Fringe of Contemporary Australian Archaeology: Pyramidiots, Paranoia and the Paranormal.

With limited landscape identification training, an enthusiasm for discovery and strange cultural biases, fringe operators have utilised new technologies to justify old fallacies through variant forms of amateur archaeology.

This collection draws on the wealth of work currently being undertaken by contemporary archaeologists in Australia, from rock art observations to art/archaeology experiments and even space archaeology.

It explores archaeology on the edge, contextualising the fringe dwellers that operate on the periphery of accepted academia.

It also looks at contemporary archaeological theory and practice in relation to these fringe operators, developing approaches toward interaction, in contrast to the more common reaction of repudiation.