New Indiana Jones Movie to Offer Accurate Archaeology
Instead of fighting Nazis, Indy will spend a good portion of the movie working to accumulate sufficient grants for his field excavations.
The dig it’s self will be the climax of the movie, bringing Indy to a site on the border of Argentina and Brazil. When contacted for further comment, George Lucas had this to say:
“We’re looking for realism here, so the ‘crystal skull’ is just a metaphor for information, anything more would be foolish. What you should really have in mind is ceramics. When people think of Indian Jones we want them to think of pot sherds.”
I actually believed it when I read the first couple of paragraphs. Not because it’s plausible or even remotely likely, but just because I am that gullible.
Naturally to spring it on y’all I had to wait a day, because nobody else was likely to buy it on April 1st.
LOL. Good one!
You know, at some of the digs here in Israel, both we the volunteers and the archaeologist boss (in Indy hat) would hum the leitmotif from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” whenever we were on to something big.
That is so, so cool. Have you volunteered on many excavations? I’d love to hear about your experiences.
Over the years I’ve been on many expeditions (several dig seasons) at 8 or 9 different sites, from prehistoric up to Crusader periods. As a volunteer I’ve stayed in a tent, a monastery, a kibbutz, a youth hostel, and a straw bungalo (all pretty primative) with wonderful fellow diggers. The digs are usually in the summer, when Israel is at its hottest. Lately I have to do the fieldwork as a real job, for pay, in the Old City. The pickaxe is my favorite tool. Scorpions, wasps, and chiggers are my least favorite companions. Archaeology is a great life. Come on over and dig, everybody!
That sounds absolutely dreamy. Except for the scorpions.
Do you have one dig in particular that you recall as your favorite?
Bwhaha.
Yes! Exactly!
“The dig it’s self…”
I knew you would never reward grammar like that with a quote and a link, liv, unless you had some sneaky motive…
I very seriously considered correcting it, but I decided to keep it as is to underscore just how ludicrously gullible I am.
Sorry. Iment to put this were the eek things are.
HOW THE HECK DO YA PUT PICTURES IN THE COMMENTS????!!!
oh let me try it.
Ha ha! I tricked you!