UC Berkeley News : Berkeley Talks: How Archaeology Is Used In Comics

Berkeley CA

12 February, 2022

10:33 AM

Description

Press release from UC Berkeley News: Public Affairs 2022-02-12 Read the transcript. Subscribe to Berkeley Talks, a Berkeley News podcast that features lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley. Review us on Apple Podcasts. From flaming mammoths to frozen Neanderthals in crashed spaceships, archaeological inspiration is in a wide variety of comics. However, more subtle are the ways that comics creators portray archaeologists as people. Paulina Przystupa, a Ph.D. student in archaeology at the University of New Mexico and postdoctoral researcher in data visualization and reproducibility at the Alexandria Archive Institute, discusses how the field of archaeology and archaeologists are represented in comic books — the good, the bad and the ugly — and proposes ways archeologists can leverage comics to cultivate archaeological data literacy within the classroom and out in the community. Watch a video of Przystupa's talk on UC Berkeley's Archaeological Research Facility's YouTube page. Learn more about the Archaeological Research Facility. This press release was produced by UC Berkeley News. The views expressed here are the author's own.