Research Catalog

Title

Digging holes in popular culture : archaeology and science fiction / edited by Miles Russell ; with a preface by Douglas Adams.

Author

Theoretical Archaeology Group (England). Conference (1997)

Publication

Oxford : Oxbow ; Oakville, CT : [Distributed by] D. Brown Book Co., c2002.

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Additional Authors

• Bournemouth University. School of Conservation Sciences.
• Russell, Miles.

Description

xv, 174 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Occasional paper / Bournemouth University. School of Conservation Sciences ; 7

Uniform Title

Occasional paper (Bournemouth University. School of Conservation Sciences) ; 7.

Subject

• Archaeology in literature > Congresses
• Archaeology in literature
• Popular culture > Congresses
• Science fiction films > History and criticism
• Science fiction television programs
• Science fiction, American > History and criticism
• Science fiction, English > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Papers originally presented at the 1997 Theoretical Archaeological Group conference.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-174).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Are we perceived to be what we say we are? / John Gale -- The celluloid archaeologist : an X-rated exposé / Steven Membury -- Archaeology and Star Trek / Lynette Russell -- "The myth makers" : archaeology in Doctor Who / Brian Boyd -- "No more heroes any more" : the dangerous world of the pop culture archaeologist / Miles Russell -- A novel prehistory / Julia Murphy -- Imaginary places, real monuments : field monuments of Lancre, Terry Pratchetts' Discworld / Martin Brown -- "Under old earth" : material culture, identity and history in the work of Cordwainer Smith / Alasdair Brooks -- The explanation / Philip Rahtz -- A quick sketch of the Enterprise / John Hodgson -- Past futures or present pasts / Rob Haslam -- Towards an LSMR and MSMR (lunar and Martian sites and monuments records) : recording planetary spacecraft landing sites as archaeological monuments of the future / Greg Fewer -- The case of exo-archaeology / Vicky Walsh -- Archaeology and the extraterrestrial : Blair Cuspids, Martian monuments and beyond the infinite / Keith Matthews -- Archaeology in science fiction : a bibliography / Anita Cohen Williams.

ISBN

1842170635

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library