PROMO - Summer Blockbusters: Apocalypto - The Dirt 199

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The Archaeology Podcast Network is taking a bit of a break for October, 2022. In the mean time, we’re introducing you to some of the other fantastic shows that we produce. Here’s an episode from The Dirt Podcast about the accuracies and inaccuracies about the 2006 film, “Apocalypto”.

Amber guides Anna through the jungle of the 2006 film Apocalypto...but hopefully a little less racistly than director Mel Gibson did! We’ll talk about human sacrifice, what was (and was not) going on in Maya culture in the 15th century CE, and the movie’s ending that couldn’t be more on the nose if it went “boop!”

Links

• The Story of Civilization (via Wikipedia)

• With help from a friend, Mel cut to the chase (The Washington Post)

• Mel Gibson criticizes Iraq war at film fest (Today)

• Is Apocalypto Pornography? (Archaeology)

• Relativism, Revisionism, Aboriginalism, and Emic/Etic Truth: The Case Study of Apocalypto (The Ethics of Anthropology and Amerindian Research: Reporting on Environmental Degradation and Warfare)

• The perduring Maya: new archaeology on early Colonial transitions (Antiquity, via ResearchGate)

• Maya Resistance to Colonial Rule in Everyday Life (The Latin American Anthropological Review)

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Indiana Jones and Pseudoarchaeology - Episode 77

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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

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Produced by Chris Webster and Tristan Boyle