Archaeology and the Movies Series

Archaeology and the Movies Series

There is a mystical connection between archaeology and movies. Archeologists use clues to reconstruct the past and movies show us the past and predict the future. Movies, however, are not constrained by facts. Movies construct, a past and a future, that is based on an individual or group subjective opinion of what the past was like or what the future will be. For example, Director John Ford has given us cavalry troopers wearing blue uniforms with yellow legs stripes while serving on the western frontier. In fact, they were more often dressed wearing buffalo hides and leather, and might not be recognized as U.S. military by modern observes. In this series, I will interview a number of archeologists, and solicit their views on movies that relate to their field of expertise in the Archaeology and the Movies Series.

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