Indiana Jones: Myth, Reality And 21st Century Archaeology

Today Indiana Jones Myth Reality and 21st Century Archaeology unlocks the proverbial shackles to talk about an increasingly common feature of conflicts in the 20th and 21st century: Interment and incarceration. Though many internment, detention, or prison camps are temporary structures they leave their mark both in the space they were constructed and on the people who were incarcerated there. We talk about the importance of archaeologies of internment as a relatively new field in archaeology and as a politically sensitive endeavor archaeologists are taking on. With us is Dr. Bonnie Clark who has done work at Amache, the site of Colorado's WWII era Japanese American internment camp, and Ms. Judy Thomas who has conducted Archaeological Investigations of Second World War Prisoner of War Camps at Fort Hood, Texas. Together the Indy Team and our guests will discuss how people coped with confinement, how the materials are interpreted, and how descendent communities are involved.