Digging Holes in Popular Culture
Archaeology and Science Fiction Miles Russell (ed.) with a Prgace by Douglas Adams
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12674682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Holtorf (0000-0002-0557-9651, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 243-245 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-5187 • E-ISSN: 1753-5530 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/pua.2002.2.4.243 |
| OpenAlex | W2071462039 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
While Jean-Luc Picard was in the Academy he excelled in his studies in archaeology. He even considered pursuing archaeology further and might have become the foremost archaeologist of his generation, but then he opted for a career in the Starfleet after all. As Captain of the Enterprise, Picard was still an avid amateur archaeologist, occasionally even publishing scientific papers on the subject and once addressing the Federation Archaeology Council in 2367. This is no coincidence. Science fiction, together with fictional crime, is the one literary genre which is most likely to feature archaeologists and archaeological reasoning. Here is the book that tells us why this is so. The session from which the book (though not all
Amateur · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Library science · Literature · Memoir · Publishing · Subject (documents · Classics · Computer Science · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
| Highly cited | No |
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