July 17, 2019 was #AskAnArchaeologist day on Twitter. We decided to carry that over to YouTube. Watch the ArchaeoRPG collective engage with our community and answer questions about archaeology. Watch this very special episode.
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“Still Digging” the podcast is here
For the fans of audio content, Still Digging is now available as a podcast. Taken from the YouTube live stream show, listen to four archaeologist chat while you are on the go. Subscribe on Anchor or your favorite podcatcher.
Orcs, Racism, and Tolkien
The most recent episode of Still Digging featured a discussion of articles by James Mendez Hodes “Orcs, Briton and the Martial Racial Myth…” Part I and Part II. The articles focused on the use of cultural and racial stereotypes in the fantasy genre and in particular within the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons.
The ArchaeoRPG crew took that discussion and expanded on it discussing the roles that anthropology and archaeology had played in creating the kind of race science used within the fantasy genre. We then discussed what can we as archaeologists today do to change these embed pieces of the fantasy genre while still keeping the features of the genre that drew us to it to begin with.
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