Entries from Archaeolog tagged with 'Indiana Jones'

Archaeology, Science Fiction, and Pop Culture

The first time I TAed an archaeology class, we began by having our students draw a picture of an archaeologist. The result was predictable: a pile of comically bad drawings of Indiana Jones, leavened with a few nerdy-looking academic characters....

Hero! Real archaeology and ”Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”

All three previous movies about Indiana Jones have become quintessential adventure films. But how does Indy compare to real archaeology? asks Cornelius Holtorf who teaches archaeology and heritage studies (kulturarv, kulturmiljö) at the University of Kalmar in Sweden.