As Dr. Jones returns to the big screen, a real archaeologist acknowledges the movie franchise's shortcomings while espousing its merits.
of archaeology in the popular imagination. As an archaeologist and a frequent moviegoer, I want to highlight another merit of the franchise: the cinematic expression of ethical issues at the very heart of anthropological thinking.
While this is definitely not the proper way to conduct fieldwork, the underlying premise is accurate: Archaeological excavations often destroy the context they seek to understand. In the 1800s, structures from other time periods were demolished when conservators restored the Athenian Acropolis to its Classical Greek form.ARCHAEOLOGISTS can PUNCH NAZIS … METAPHORICALLY, Indiana Jones searches for his kidnapped father, an eccentric medievalist played by Sean Connery. The senior professor Jones disappeared while looking for the Holy Grail, the cup Christ used during the Last Supper. Along the journey, Indiana discovers a Nazi lair in a castle and whispers, “Nazis.
The Communist regimes in the former U.S.S.R. and the Eastern bloc are intriguing in this respect. According to theof the party, Marxism was the sole acceptable reading of the past. Archaeology was tasked with the promotion of cultural unity among the Communist nations, leading to an explosion of studies into Slavic heritage.
Eventually, Indiana returns the Sivalinga stone to the village residents. Their religious leader states, “Now you see the merit of the rock you bring back.”A minute later Willie asks why he did not keep it, to which Indiana replies: “What for? They’d just put it in a museum, and it’d be another rock collecting dust.”
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