So, when they found a little time off from treasure-digging, booby-trap-dodging and outrunning giant boulders, here’s what the archaeologists had to say. Larry Coben, archaeologist and founder/executive director of the Sustainable Preservation Initiative : Indiana Jones isn’t really an archeologist except in name. He doesn’t excavate in any of the movies, he doesn’t do surveys - he’s a treasure hunter, and archaeologists aren’t treasure hunters. The only thing I think I can say is that a lot of archaeologists would like to punch Nazis too, but that’s really the only similarity. That said, it’s a great adventure story and Indiana Jones is fun. It’s inspired people to get interested in archaeology - I would say that Indiana Jones has inspired a whole generation of people to be archaeologists. Archaeologists always say that it’s awful and it’s terrible and it is all those things. But I suspect there would be far less public interest in archaeology and far less funding for archaeology if not for the interest that he attracted. Saying that might get me in trouble with some of my colleagues, but I think it’s true.
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