Peter Kolosimo

Peter Kolosimo, pseudonym of Pier Domenico Colosimo (Modena,15 December 1922 – Milan, 23 March 1984), was an Italian journalist and writer. He is ranked amongst the founders of pseudoarchaeology (in Italian: ''fantarcheologia''), a controversial topic in which interpretations of the past are made that are not accepted by the archaeological science community, which rejects the accepted data-gathering and analytical methods of the discipline. He also popularised ancient astronaut theories of contact between extraterrestrial beings and ancient human civilizations.

During the late 1950s and the 1960s, he was published in some of the first Italian science fiction magazines, such as ''Romanzi del Cosmo'' ("Cosmic Novels"), and his articles were regularly featured in the science/science fiction magazine ''Oltre il Cielo'' ("Beyond the Sky"). He published many more books, all widely popular and translated in 60 countries, including Russia, Japan, and China. In the 1970s and early 1980s until his death, he was the editor of many magazines, including ''Pi Kappa'', a "fantarchaeologia" magazine covering the same topics that Kolosimo did in his books. In later life, he wrote a few books with his wife, Caterina, by whom he had a daughter, Alessandra (born 1970).

Kolosimo also founded and coordinated the Italian Association for Prehistoric Studies (ASP).

He died in Milan in 1984. Provided by Wikipedia