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which documents the generally negative portrayal or archaeologists in films from the 1920s. Archaeologists tend to be obsessive and hard-drinking and/or eccentric and out of touch with reality; desecrate tombs and unleash ancient curses; engage in treasure-hunting; and develop blatantly racist anthropological theories. Women are rarely given leading roles as serious archaeologists in films and the Indiana Jones trilogy seems to be inspired by the experiences of real nineteenth-century treasure-hunting antiquarians

looks at the theme of `encountering the alien' in the Doctor Who television series and in archaeology

discusses how archaeological theory has fallen between two extremes: a (once traditional) people-centred approach to explaining past human behaviour versus an (environmental) determinist explanation; and considers the viability of determinism as a philosophical concept in theory

which theorises the possibility that the remains of past civilisations may be discovered on other planets and suggests that a new sub-discipline of archaeology, called exo-archaeology, should be established to analyse, interpret and present these remains