Whenever I talk to kids about archaeology, I ask if they know of any fictional archaeologists from movies or TV. Some of them know Indiana Jones, but I like to mention Ariel from The Little Mermaid because she’s actually seen, like… studying artifacts to learn about the people who made them rather than just. Uh. Acquiring them from other people. She also seems to do a damn fine job of conserving them.
Thats not archaeology its anthropology.
She studies and conserves physical artifacts left behind by humans she cannot observe or speak to in order to learn about them. That is archaeology. Only after she is able to observe and interact with them does it stop being archaeology.
SO THAT’S WHERE I GOT IT FROM
actually that’s just looting
not to discourse about a Disney movie but they’re literally merpeople who live at the bottom of the ocean and the shipwrecks are archeological sites in their backyards and ‘human studies’ is illegal
sorry there isn’t an official Museum Collections Curator Princess in Disney canon but I’m trying to communicate ideas to literal actual children who have never heard of archaeology before
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