When Biblically Inspired Pseudoscience and Clickbait Cause Looting
A team of anthropologists argues that shoddy research linking biblical Sodom to an archaeological site created media hype that harms science and leads to looting.
Austin "Chad" Hill
Austin “Chad” Hill is an archaeologist whose research focuses on the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Early Bronze Age periods of the Near East, with specializations in remote sensing, GIS, advanced image processing, and faunal analysis. He is a postdoctoral fellow in the Penn Paleoecology Lab in the department of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting scholar in the Spatial Archaeometry Lab in the department of anthropology at Dartmouth College. He is a co-director of the National Science Foundation-funded Kites in Context project. Follow him on Twitter @Achiii.