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Indiana Jones: Myth, Reality and 21st Century Archaeology

Indiana Jones: Myth, Reality and 21st Century Archaeology

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April 20th 2016: Archaeological Training in the 21st Century

Despite Indiana Jones' order to "get out of the library," archaeological training involves a fair amount of school work. At school, archaeologists must both intensively train in a particular focus, but must also gain a good understanding of areas of expertise outside their specialty. Recently, shifts in the archaeological job market have led many to ask whether traditional training methods are still relevant and how we can better train new archaeologists. Join us tonight with our guest Dr. Victor Thompson, as we discuss how the demands of contemporary archaeology and what that means for edu

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Victor Thompson

Victor D. Thompson is Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Center for Archaeological Sciences at the University of Georgia. His primary interests are in the Native American societies and early European colonists that occupied the coastal and wetland areas of the American Southeast. The focus of these studies is to understand the long-term dynamics between humans and their environments and how these trajectories experienced ruptures and displacement at the moment of European contact.
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