Indiana Jones and Pseudoarchaeology - Episode 77

Today we're talking about Indiana JOnes a pseudoarchaeological elements that run through almost all off the movies. We talk about how Indy came to be, why the movies are so dang good, and where certain archaeological themes came from and why they last.

Links

• Spitballing Indy

• Transcript of the Writing Session for Raiders of the Lost Ark

• Raiders of the Lost Archive

• Secret of the Incas

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzl4_ytmxDs

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZJaIc1SDbQ

• Harrison Ford elected to the AIA Board

  • https://www.archaeological.org/news/aianews/282

  • http://savingantiquities.org/harrison-ford-and-the-aia/

• Episode about Mummies and Cursed Artifacts

• Nabonidus

• The Ark and Dagon

• Peter Hiscock - Cinema, Supernatural Archaeology, and the Hidden Human Past

• Lingam (the inspiration for the Sankara Stones)

• Thuggee

• Opening of Raiders

• Aztec Sun Stone

• Inka Architecture

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_architecture

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saksaywaman

• Chavin de Huantar

• Tiwanaku Gateway of the SUn

• Manteño seat

• Dumbarton Oaks Tlazotetol

• Jane MacLaren Walsh - The Dumbarton Oaks Tlazolteotl: looking beneath the surface

Contact

• Email us at ArchyFantasies@gmail.com

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• Theme Music by ArcheoSoup Productions

Produced by Chris Webster and Tristan Boyle