“Nothing Shocks Me. I’m A Scientist. : Has the taser made the bullwhip redundant for field archaeology?"
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A New Typology of pre-Columbian Eastern South American “Tomb Traps” and Trigger Mechanisms: Kinetic, Projectile and False Floor Types in a Newly Discovered Tomb
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Fieldwork in a Time of Global Political Unrest: Negotiating Competing Fieldwork Interests with Fascist Antiquarian Expeditions through Local Connections and Forceful Interaction
The Role of Bronze Age Hebrew Artefacts in the Pseudo-scientific Agenda of the Ahnenerbe
Inconsistencies in Ideology: Jewish Antiquities and National Socialist Archaeology
Military Funding and Logistical Support for Archaeological Expeditions: A Comparison of Two Competing Strategies
Recording under Pressure: Minimal Field Recording Standards in Hostile Environments
In Defense of the Schliemann Method: Two Success Stories in Locating Named Artefacts From a Combination of Historical Research, Mythology Scholarship and Archaeological Fieldwork
The Use of Heritage and Mythology to Legitimise Local and Regional Power Structures in the British Raj
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He got paid to punch tickets and Nazis? Lucky! I had to work in a brewery.
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Let me guess, at the Elsinore brewery? Checking beer bottles for mice?
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To be fair, East Germany in the 1950s wasn’t quite the prison it became after the Wall was built in 1961. The Soviets claimed that they were building a new neutral Germany in their former occupation zone unaffiliated with either Bloc.
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The film’s set in 1957. The University was renamed to “Karl Marx University, Leipzig” in 1953, so the symbolism was already there.
Unfortunately for Jones, Leipzig Universtity’s dalliance with repressive authority does not end with mere symbolism.
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On the other hand. if Jones was interested in teaching in West Germany, he might have discovered that his academic superiors somehow escaped denazification. Which might have made for a more interesting movie, come to think of it.
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I dunno, but it would probably be fabulous!
I showed this to my ex last month, who is an actual archaeologist. She could find no obvious faults in the central thesis.
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Very dangerous, you go first: Relying on local expertise at archeological sites.
Importance of learning Hovitos
Close your eyes: When to ignore the work of colleagues.
Context analysis of scarification patterns.
Dating the boss’s daughter (published in Penthouse letters)
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Arguably, the wall just gave concrete form to the divisions made starkly obvious with the Berlin Blockade and subsequent airlift.
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“Toward a Standardized Practice in Mapping Techniques Based on Body Modifications and Scarification.”
“There was no letter ‘J’” - Religious Tests and Puzzles in the Early Christian Period.
“Indigenous Cardio-thoractic Surgical Techniques as Practiced Amongst Thugee Sect Leaders.”
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and the Kingdom of the Disco Ball?
forgive me
Edit: “Don’t open your eyes!”
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From an interview with Simon Pegg, touching on a college paper he once wrote.
The piece was actually called Base and Super Sucker which was a play on the phrase “Basic Super Structure”, which is a Marxist proposition, hegemony and consent in Star Wars and related works. Basically I was using Marxist modes of critical theory to address Star Wars .
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The thesis suggested that by watching films like those you are participating in those fears and preoccupations … All those films [in the late seventies and mid-eighties] are riddled with bomb paranoia and also with justifications for having bombs like that. So you have weapons like the Genesis Project in Star Trek , you have the Death Star, the Force, you have the Ark of the Covenant, all of which are fine in the hands of good people. Like the Ark is fine if it’s owned by the Americans, the Genesis Project is fine if it’s with the Federation, but with the Klingons it’s a weapon; the Death Star is a bad thing because bad people shouldn’t have big bombs. It was basically kind of saying that ultimate power is okay as long as it’s in the hands of the righteous. So yes we’re allowed to wield nuclear bombs, but they aren’t, that kind of thing. And also Raiders of the Lost Ark is the most brilliant one in that it’s saying “If you don’t look at it, it can’t hurt you.
Indiana Jones wasn’t a communist, but he did want the intellectual freedom to study archeology through marxist modes of analysis. Marshall College (as well as a good many other schools) thought that this demand made him a communist subversive.
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Also, Ostriches are indestructible.
Let’s make aeroplanes out of them.
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Chef’s kiss!
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I liked the one season of the TV series where Indy managed to be in every campaign of World War I, including Africa, Middle East, Russian Revolution and Easter Rebellion.
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