Choose Your Own Adventure: Archaeological Excavation
Are you interested in archaeology? Did those Indiana Jones movies of the brave, adventurous archaeologist captivate you with the prospect of discovering the secrets of the past? Or perhaps one of the numerous museums filled with the fruits of archaeological labor captured your interest with the discovered works of people who lived so many lifetimes ago.
Whatever the reason is for your interest, you are probably aware that movies like Indiana Jones represent archaeology about as well as High School Musical represents a typical American high school. Even the museums don’t get into the process of finding the artifacts in a way that really describes how they are found.
Now, you could read a book or maybe even find a really long webpage explaining what an archaeologist does, how they do it, and what kind of methods they use, but that would also be a pretty long read. However, now that you have found this page you can learn the process of what an archaeologist does by following a simple text-based story with optional access to more information about important things in an archaeologist’s life. To make this game even better educational links will be posted so that EVEN MORE good knowledge is accessible at the click of a button.
This is an accessible, short rundown of what an archaeologist does in the field that also provides optional access to more detailed descriptions and links that provide an accurate and academic resource. This project was created by a senior archaeology minor for an archaeological methods and theory class at Millsaps College.
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