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- Archaeology has played a role in scores of iconic Hollywood films, from “The Mummy” to “Titanic.” But what’s a real-life archaeologist’s take on these movies? New York University archaeologist Mariana Castro reacts to 10 scenes featuring the most famous fictional archaeologists and treasure hunters, from Indiana Jones to Lara Croft, and rates them based on their realism.
Find out how realistic Indiana Jones’ adventures are in movies like “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” Watch Mariana dissect Nicolas Cage’s methodology in “National Treasure,” Angelina Jolie’s field gear in “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” Max von Sydow’s’s Iraq excavation in “The Exorcist,” and Rachel Weisz’s exhumation of the sarcophagus in “The Mummy.” She breaks down the important differences between excavation and looting, does some myth-busting about the pseudoarchaeology depicted in movies like “Stargate,” critiques Matthew McConaughey’s archaeological practices in “Sahara,” and tells us what Disney’s “Atlantis: The Lost Empire” actually gets right about archaeology.
From an expert’s perspective, find out whether archaeologists really use metal detectors, why the military does sometimes get involved in archaeological projects, why alien and space archaeology isn’t a thing, and why actual fieldwork doesn’t look like the shipwreck exploration seen in James Cameron’s “Titanic.” Plus, why booby traps aren’t all that common archaeology finds, and what tricks ancient civilizations actually used to deter looters.
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When you realize the protagonists in these movies are actually just looters and grave robbers.
Indy wanted to stop the Nazis finding god-like artifacts so he gets a pass lol.
@@1Chasg Indy and Lara talk about stopping the bad guys and do eventually do so, but they're first and foremost adrenaline junkies who don't want to "lose".
The difference between archeology and grave-robbing is a few centuries...
@@Mugthraka the difference is scientific work.
There are grave looters today as well.
@@sokolo161 Knowledge for humanity VS selfishly enriching yourself
First thing my professor ever said to us; you’re now scientists in training, not Indiana Jones. And a week later half my class disappeared
Diekje
I hope they got all their money back.
lol most of our students were there because they hated Indiana jones and wanted to know more about the culture that created the glass skull lol
I feel like a lot of people enter careers because they have misconceptions from media. I'm studying chem, and our chem and forensic chem programs kinda operate as sisters. The first day of orientation, the professors told the forensics students "This is not NCIS. What you see on TV is not what you will be doing here, and it's likely not what you will do in your careers."
About 75% of the forensic chem majors from that day are no longer in the program.
Reminds me of the astronomy elective I took in college. Day one, the classroom was packed and everyone was brimming with excitement. Day two, we talked about the difference between astronomy and astrology. Day 3, the room was practically empty so many people had dropped. 🙄
@@TheSkyHazCloudz Sounds like something you get told when searching the class.
"The booby traps are much more interesting and unique than the idol." Holy crap, I never thought about that! That's awesome, I'm so glad she pointed that out.
It's a goldmine of information. Not just the decorations and the architecture are fascinating, but you can analyse the production marks, look for traces of movement, look at the mineral makeup to determine if the boulders came from the site itself or somewhere else entirely.
Pollen could be found I crevices and dated. There are so many possible methods that could be applied, it's crazy.
Sites like these are the wet fantasy for an archaeologist
Yeah same! I mean in addition to what Malin M says, the booby traps themselves would say a lot about a culture. What about their culture lead them to make physical traps instead of writing down curses like other cultures? What kind of traps were they and how were they constructed? And taken together with other things at the site, what does that say about the culture that created them and their approach to anything and everything?
Idols on the other hand, they are pretty common across different civilizations in some form or another.
Even as a kid, I wondered how they had functional ancient pneumatic and mechanical systems to shoot the darts in the traps...
All those movies are set in the 1920 / 30ies - where archeology still was in its infancy and pretty much indistinguishable from plain old grave robbery. So I can chalk up those inaccuracies to modern archeology to that.
But intrestingly enough - while much quieter and lower in profile, the scene from the exorcist was very intensive compared to the other scenes.
Off course they would be. If this People can build a working Booby Trap with compressed Air, that works 1000 Years later, Moving Stones that are attached to a Mechanisem that lets them move down with only Lianas, that also work 1000 Years later. Yep, that would, indeed, be very Interesting. But much more Interesting would be the reason, how such a technologycal advanced society has fallen.
I'm gonna start writing curses on my refrigerator door.
"woe and strife upon ye who partake of my holy tuna casserole"
@@evilbetty7217 😂
"The cooked and raw chicken have been mixed. Good luck."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jenn...in fact "don't everrrr touch my tuna casserole" is the same symbolic act a curse is.
You can see the joy on her face when The Atlantis came up
Yeah, that was a cute moment, when she sees the movie you can almost hear the YAY! in her mind.
Ha, I felt the same way! I adore that movie. Glad I got the chance to see it on the big screen.
Aside from her face smiling. She even made a gentle clap.
Gotta ask her if she also spikes her dynamite with oregano...
and she gave it a 10 😄
"It's very problematic when you start to assign wonders of humanity to an external source of power."
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK PLEASE!!
Literally read it as she said it👀🤯
Say it louder for that guy on History Channel saying, "ALIENS"
In "Stargate's" defense, however, it actually *was* a movie about aliens, so there's that.
How do we know there was no extraterrestrial involvement in earths massive history?
MihalyMusic just because white people couldn’t do it, doesn’t mean it was aliens 😁
"Man, forget that golden idol, there is a working pressure plate and functional dart trap in this ancient temple!"
A pressure plate that still works off exact pressure to boot, and collapses the temple.....for reasons
The thing is, the bad guy isn't after the temple itself or any of the booby traps. If Indy gets the idol out before him and back to the museum, he or another crew to go back and inspect the temple more fully later. He didn't plan on the whole thing falling apart on his way out. Or losing the idol.
Yeah but it's easier to sell the idol, and then buy proper landmines instead.
"Booby traps aren't that common"
Me: So what you're saying is there's still a chance
I'm obviously not an expert, but I feel like booby traps in tombs like the ones frequently portrayed in movies would probably be more along the lines of floors designed to give out if substantial weight was put on them.
Like I said, though, that's just what I'd assume.
There were a few collapsing traps found in tombs and other structures if I remember correctly.
But nothing that eloborate. The tomb of the first emperor of china is also said to have been full of traps and that it's one of the reasons the actual tomb in the center of the necropolis wasn't opened yet. But that thing is overkill in every way so no surprise there. It's actually perefect for a movie.
Also, I'm pretty sure that people who put those "traps" there, obviously didn't put them just so that many Indiana's can go on Jones'ing. They were more meant for looters, who were common especially in Ancient Egypt where it was pretty much common knowledge that our dear Pharaoh who recently died was buried with all his gold trinkets and shit, because traditionaly in Egypt, Pharaohs own their gold for ever
@@Casshio wait are you saying with how every damn Egyptian tomb was robbed like 3000 years ago there are STILL unopened tombs in less interesting countries (no offense)?
@@KasumiRINA Yes, who knows how many unopened tombs are still out there. And China definitely ain't uninteresting. That is something you'd say if you don't know about it. It's history is incredibly complex, violent and very vibrant.
I can't wait for 'A Real Time-Traveler breaks down Time Traveling scenes in movies'
Already seen that one
Such a video exists in the time time from
Stephen Hawking held a cocktail party for time travellers once.
@@conormurphy4328 me too but it doesn't come out for a few more years.
That will have already been done.
“Booby traps aren’t very common.” Me: “wait...HOW COMMON ARE THEY?”
depends on what you define as a boobytrap
Tomb of the first Chinese Emperor is full booby traps
@@purefoldnz3070 I suppose if you count "incredibly difficult to open" and "full of poisonous mercury vapor" as booby traps, then yeah...
If you define booby trap as a soft, nice shaped and elegant, yes you are right
Usually traps are left by pirates or zealots
Usually so old they already went off or no longer work. But sometimes work, there is a hole that seems to be nothing but traps and really deep.
Between her humility, her savage crushing of silly Hollywood tropes and drama, her sweet voice, and her passion at the end with the Atlantis clip, I find her extremely wonderful and adorable ^-^
Get out of the western world and you will find many sweet lovely girls.
@@booboobear6490 weird comment
Respect women
@@mk_ultra1497 Says the CIA "mind control" person. Is that that a request or an instruction?
Check out her epic hand movements @17:05 :)
I got to work with an archaeologist in an isolated part of Hawaii. We were digging a bunch of holes and his job was to make sure we weren't destroying any polynesian artifacts. He was bored, cranky, and cynical about his job most of the time, but when we actually found something, or started telling a story of past finds, he became really earnest and animated. Really eager to share his knowledge. Mad respect to you archies and what you do.
If that ain't the truth about every archaeologist 😂
Next: a real restaurant owner breaks down SpongeBob and the Krusty krabs
Even as a non restaurant owner I can answer this. Food is a bit better then micdonalds but the facility needs to be shut down for safety violations. Mr Krabs needs to be adited and arrested for skimping on adiquent pay, possible mishandaling of funds and the possibility of actual theft from plankton in the form of the resipie that might or might not have proof of their coroperation in its creation. In otherwords the foods great and cheap but mr krabs a piece of shit
As an architect student, what can I say is: The kitchen layout isn't very effective, it's not suitable for fast food restaurant
Eh make it be Macdonalds or something
That restaurant wouldn't be open, any respectable food agency wouldn't keep it open, selling burgers to fish, do you hate fish?
This comment shall never gain a like for it has reached true divinity.
"Dogs fighting is a big part of what I see on digs."
How many demons have you unleashed?! Tell us right this second.
Lmao
LOL!
Lololololol!!!
Well, I've seen that some areas are having massive locust swarms, so Pazuzu is having fun. :)
@Yaroslav L or spiking virus floating around
This video really made me understand something. The relics are part of the building and the building is part of the relics. If we really think about it, antiques are a single element together. Its like removing a stained glass from a gothic cathedral... they are not isolated, they complement each other.
same. i never really thought about it like that but it makes total sense.
Good pupil.
And currently so many of those items are kept in museum warehouses in the Western world instead of being returned to, at the very least, the country of origin. Most of them aren't available to be seen by the public and we aren't taught the history of where (or how) they come from and how they add to our understanding of history as a whole.
@@anyawillowfan exactly the point I was about to make.
Absolutely, which is why it's a shame so many ancient sites were looted without understanding the context, greed has erased our own past.
I'm an archaeologist and everything that she said is spot on, especially about how we have to be very diplomatic when conducting public relations.
Only experts will know of their works.
Very true. My instructor had developed good relations with not just land owners but native American tribes across the state.
i'm an archaeologist and i disagree with all of this
@@alanboyle54 that’s not very diplomatic of you (kidding)
SO HOW COMMON ARE THE BOOBY TRAPS?!?!?!? (Asking because I need to know and, as an archeologist, I want to know how many YOU personally have seen/experienced.)
To be fair to Evelyn in The Mummy, she's not an archaeologist. She's a librarian.
Anyone else read "librarian" in that dramatic (drunk) way Evelyn does in the film?
Not to mention the lack of hard hats probably stems from it taking place in the early 1900s. And the lack of added protection for the body was due to the fact it was a prison for it.
@@zeusdarkgod7727 Also they were technically looters since it was a personal initiative rather than an expedition financed by somebody
They also went for comedy, not realism. 🙂
Librarian here. She is as much a librarian as she is an archeologist.
I wanted to call her bluff and look up whether Stargate's sonic dating was a real thing or not, but then I realized that typing "sonic dating" into the searchbar would probably give me to results I wasn't exactly looking for
It will produce a result of sonic... Dating... 😂
Gotta go fast
"sound waves soil"
It's more about finding stuff in the ground using sound waves.
However, while gprs are used in archeology, afaik, they can not give you a date, while the actual soil sample might.
it is also useful, since different layers of soil contain different time period.
Mostly it is used to identify that "Hey, there's something there worth investigating".
However, dunno about the US, but in Russia. My sister said, they only dig, where the soil movement alread started uncovering, what was buried beneath. Like landslids and stuff. o,o
Also marshes. Nothing stays buried in marshes.
Unscheduled off world activation.
I searched for it. Exactly what I did not want to find
I really like how she was able to point out “well this is meant to be more cinematic” “yeah this is more meant to be like the game” “if it were completely realistic it would be boring”. She thinks about and understands perspective
Wonderfully intelligent in that regard
In my humble opinion, Atlantis: The Lost Empire one if not the most underrated Disney movie out there.
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YEEEES, Atlantis is just my favorite Disney of all time! So criminally underrated not only for the movie itself but for the soundtrack as well! So sad...
It's up there with Treasure Planet :D Really love those era of Disney!
Brother Bear as well!! 😍
I think "The Black Hole" is still Disneys best! But liked Atlantis pretty much. Not only because of the arwork of Mike "Hellboy" Mignola.
She looks like the girl from a painting
The girl with the pearl earring?
with the pearls?
The Vermeer painting.
Lol everyone had the same idea! It's Girl With a Pearl Earrings by Johannes Vermeer, and I just looked at a picture, and the nose, eye, and lip shape between the two of them is very very similar. The fact that she's wearing a similar lip gloss and scarf around her head helps too haha
Right 🥰
"For example... curses??" is gonna be the hot new catchphrase
"It's very problematic to assign wonders of humanity to an external source of power." -- words of gold, now I want to hear more of her words. :)
I remember as a kid watching Indiana Jones wanting to be an archaeologist. Then I minored in anthropology many years later and realize Indy spends more time destroying sites than studying them.
In essence: you'd spend way less time finding the holy grail and more time trying to figure out if a piece of clay with an indent is a cup or a bowl.
"I don't see why a teenager would be able to identify a lost object."
*Unless that teenager's Indiana Jones.*
Hahaha yeah that's exactly what I was thinking.
"I don't see a child doing this"
An intelligent, adventurous teen age boy doing some thing impulsive and stupid in the name of righteousness is unbelievable?
Indiana literally had to recite something before he spoke with his father.
Some children are this smart and we underestimate them every day.
Consider jones Sr, I can totally see him knowing every relic. He probably wasn't allowed to eat dinner until he recited the illiad....in Greek.
I'm impressed. It's nice to see someone so educated use words like "probably" and "likely." She doesn't presume to know everything. That's real intelligence.
They really teach you this when you study to become an archaeologist. The way I was told was that 99% of every artifact on Earth is either destroyed or yet to be uncovered. How can we be certain of anything when we only know a fraction of the past?
@@floatinjellies "That aren't pretentious" being the operative phrase, sadly.
If that is your measure for "real intelligence" then your standards are low.
You mean that’s “likely” real intelligence.
I think a lot of scientist types are like that due to the nature of their work.
I love how archeology in media is like "find the thing, dig the thing, we have the thing" but irl it's many many many many different specializations all working together to make a recreation of the past and try to understand our human heritage. You have geologists and chemists and people that specialize in food and art and fabric and clothing and architecture and engineering and anthropology. It's all science as applied to the study of the past.
Yep. In general, scientific research is more complex than media makes it out to be.
Am I the only one find her voice incredibly calming and didn't even realise she spoke 20 minutes? She needs to be back. That radiating sweetness is incredible
Now I want an aventure movie, where the hero stops at the booby trap, to put it into historical context😅
@Rising Horizon Gaming my role model as future archaeologist
@Rising Horizon Gaming so... what's the title of the said "tnt made for tv movies series"?
@@SersiSays It's called "The Librarian". There are three films: 'The Librarian: Quest for the Spear', 'The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines', and 'The Librarian III: The Curse of the Judas Chalice'.
@@Aquila_Sol There's also a fantastic tv series around 2014 or so called
The Librarians in that series.
Right? Can you imagine all that amazing technology they pass up to grab a sculpture?
It's quiet funny, when a horror movie like the Exorzist is more accurate then all archaeologist movies together. ^^
MrPsycho667 ?
@@brandonc5074 It is an horror movie and archaeology isn't its subject, yet it is more accurate than most movies about archaeology.
@@djidjit972 Possibly because unlike the other movies revolving around the archeology, there's no need to present it in a shiny exciting Hollywood way
@@TooLittleInfo True enough. Many of the other movies are trying to make archeology cool or sexy but THE EXORCIST is a film which wants to suck you into its real world aesthetic in order to be more convincing with its otherworldly elements.
And it was very effective.
I hate that movie. Scared the crap out of me as a kid and I've never been able to watch it since.
___
Also, if they _did_ film at a real dig site, does that mean they "cheated" here?
In Raiders of the Lost Ark there are a quit simular excavation scene but more raw (because of the Nazis)
My archaeology professor said something over and over about how archaeologists love garbage. Sometimes it's the only thing that survives and if they find complete objects oh its on. Like broken pots are so important. You also look at dirt a lot, there's a whole book about different dirt colors. Tombs are well preserved but it only tells people a few things about how people lived and they're important parts but not everything. I reallllly like this lady because like she said it is not about the one physically valuable artifact, that's what looters do, if they found a site like some of these everything would be examined and carefully excavated. Also there is a long history of archaeologists being the looters and a lot of controversy around private collections that never ever see the light of day, but now there is a pretty much world wide protection system of cultural heritage for new finds and what can be used for knowledge in museums and what should be left to the people.
Scrolled to find this comment or write myself. Anthropology 1101: “archeologists analyze trash, we just examine what someone has left over” also the important question of value. Archeologists never place value on something; it’s a piece to be studied and share history and it is still just garbage, old garbage but still garbage.
Archaeologists are scavengers, haha
I collect film promotional flyers and just random ad promos and flyers if I found them interesting, and I have a close-to-be-complete collection for everything that was shown in theatres of my town in 2013-2020 I think? And some more scattered over 2006 to 2021. My Mom thinks it's trash and would sigh and say 'At least this will make a historian or maybe an archaeologist very happy a few hundred years down the line...' =D
Ahh, yes, there was this documentary about Herculaneum where they explained about what they learned from the things they found in Herculaneum's sewers. It was fascinating!
'Midden heaps' and greasy, burned stains make archeologists so happy. They are like crime scene cleaners with hyper OCD.
Many years ago I was in college and I began to do archaeology as my major. I grew up watching every Indiana Jones movie probably three or four times a year absolutely loved it. And I remember sitting in my very first class for my archaeology major and told that most archaeologist end up working in a museum and never actually get to go out to the field. I changed majors from history and archaeology to history and education because if I’m going to have to sit in a room all day I might as will be a teacher
She's so sweet and explains very well :)
The little clap at Atlantis: the lost empire... YES! Underrated film, loved it when I was a kid, knew as soon as she clapped and smiled, no matter how unrealistic the film is, she'd give it a 10/10.
She looks like she came out of a 17th century painting.
Mariana Losa e Ferreira de Castro, she is a portuguese archeologist. Mariana is a sweet and very talented person.
She certainly appears and sounds as you’ve described.
oh somebody has a crush....
@@retepnosbig4859 I do! She's a cutie and there is nothing more attractive than an intelligent woman!
Todas as arqueologas de portugal são bonitas assim ?
She's portuguese? I thought she was Asian American. She looks like one
Loved how she eloquently talked about existence within context.
it's such a simple logical concept it's shocking people don't get it.
Exactly. Re-writing or changing history to suit your current world-view doesn't change history, it just makes you more ignorant to history.
@@pauls478 But what if your objective is to correct the propaganda of the past? A lot of countries are rewriting their history as part of their decolonisation effort. Surely some 'historical revisionism' is warranted, no?
"We all try to dress like Indiana Jones but nobody looks that good."
Ouch, my feelings! 😭😂
This is such a great idea, though. Very much appreciate it! 😊
Yay for a Portuguese archaeologist doing a breakdown video!! I'm all here for this!
As a fellow archaeologist, we use metal detectors all the time! It's very useful for finding small metal items you might have missed by eye. But the archaeology of the Netherlands differs a lot from other regions like the Middle-East. We never use pickaxes and use shovels instead, there is no bedrock here.
Wanted to be an archaeologist when i was younger because me dad bought me a book about cool ancient stuff. Thanks for the nostalgia.
Did you became one?
@@shahul8222 lol, no.
"You Need to return whatever you excavate to the Country of origin."
So, basically most of the historical items in European Museums then, from Egypt, other parts of Africa...
Thats the private funders fault...
@@lucas-xf7rc a lot of things are loans too, though. Quite a few items have been legally returned to their country of origin. There is a lot of work to be done still. It's a work in progress.
There are some debates though about objects that can be traced to one country/culture, but were found in another. Legally, the items belong to the country they were found in, which, in my opinion, makes sense. The journey of an object is just as much part of the history as its origin
So return them to places where it is likely that they will be destroyed by Islamic militias? Although it is a growing risk in Europe too.
yeeeeeah, i study archaeology and this is a big debate. I am not going into too much details (unless someone wants to hear that) but basically, countries came together and went. Look there is no keeping track of what belongs to who everything should just stay where it is now. Naturally all the countries that had stuff taken from them disagreed but besides starting a war over it there is nothing they can do.
Luca Schlichte Most truly valuable (historically that is) artifacts that are in museums are on loan from the country of origin.
Stuff that predates those guidelines is kept where it is after seven different countries claim to be the artifact’s “country of origin” at the exact same time.
Then there are all those debates about what a country of origin even means: should artifacts from English colonists in America go back to England or stay in the US?
Very happy that she gave the Atlantis movie a 10/10. I'd say it's one of my favorite Disney movies growing up and I think it is somewhat underappreciated.
6:15 im russian, and i can confirm that i dont know what the hell are they talking about, thats how butchered the language is
True, I just understood « da ».
ya i was like, Wow clearly no one ever heard Russian on that set..
I always assume foreign languages are butchered (as in, any language not the native language in the movie being filmed) in movies so I can be pleasantly surprised when they are not. I don’t know how many “that’s not how that’s pronounced or the right word” I have said in American movies with German, and I’ve only had a high school level of BASIC AMERICAN TAUGHT German to reference. I’ve seen in it German movies (that I watched in German class) do weird pronunciations and weird grammar in English as well, so I just kinda assume it’s the whole movie industry.
@@abalogan lucky. I wish I never heard russian, or the noise their missiles and drones make outside my window every other day.
18:53
To be fair, this sarcophagus in "The Mummy" has no layers, bandages and wooden coffin inside because the guy (Imhotep) was sentenced to be buried alive. They even see the scratches left by his fingers a few seconds later, if I'm not mistaken.
Great video though! ;)
Not only that, it was very obvious (to me at least) that the sarcophagus from Sahara wasn't Egyptian at all.
As an archeaologist I really like the fakt that you said "No, don't tell any conservator you did that" about throwing artefacts ahahah
Mariana: "OK, just gunna be very clear, archaeologists do not carry bullwhips."
Me: "... but why not?"
There is an old vietnamese royal tomb with several centuries of locked doors and treasure vaults. One door is centuries more advanced than the others and has never been opened. That needs a movie. Except, the royal family and govt were still fighting over the contents last i heard.
No offense interested but I'm honestly surprised that once the communist regime took over they didn't make an attempt at it
@@firestorm165 intended* Also why would that be offensive?
@@firestorm165 they did, its in my comment above. The govt and royal family are still fighting over the contents. Did you know the amish live in communes? They are communist. Dont steal very often.
Broaden your horizons beyond indoctrination.
@@pudgeboyardee32 Amish are more of a cooperative, private property is important in these communities. Maybe you should be the one broadening your horizons...assumptions will get you in trouble!
If Hollywood finds out they’ll hire a white actor, teach him a couple sentences and give him the main role
Ms Castro's book "The Function of the Roman Army in Southern Arabia Petraea" is an informative read for anyone interested in the modern, landscape-based, but multi-discipline approach to archaeology - very clear, very readable.
Thanks for the tip.
HER: i dont think he can predict where the ship is
ME: but thats my boy riley tho
Mom when she digging on my fridge :
"There is something ancient..and evil things happened in this place.."
Me: "You mean that 2 years old milk carton beneath the pile of pasta tupperware ?"
8:35 tell that to the British museum 😭😭
Ooh. Such a burn.😆
*British Empire Intensifies*
and French Museums...and American Museums...basically any culture that colonized....
Nope. They are safe and have the best facilities to study these artifacts.
Also, it doesn't matter where the artifacts are. They certainly don't care.
@@Novarcharesk A paternalising attitude will keep you from realising that most countries have accomplished experts, specially on the field of their own culture. besides, the lack of those does not give a country the right to steal the cultural property of another just to entretain its citzens. Also, i dont know about you, but most people actually feel pasionate and identify themselves with their OWN CULTURE. So yea, they do care.
I'm still waiting for a Plumber, Pimp, or Landscaper Breaks down 10 scenes from movies. At this rate, it's going to happen.
I’m interested in the pimp one
@@eyekandy3000 going to review Kramer walking down the street?
YES! Another person appreciating the underrated Atlantis: The Lost Empire!
The little clap she does.
I really admire Ms Castro and would love to see more of her! She is very well spoken and obviously very intelligent, I love at the end when she tried to explain the feeling of wonder she feels to the cartoon.
What an amazingly interesting job to have!
"I would not be playing golf in an ancient egyptian city" - Mariana Castro, 2020
Homegirl here is really looking past the wild west days of archaeology with all those 2 ratings, we've come a long way, though.
Can you elaborate? I'm curious how things were compared to modern times, plus one of my characters is an archaeologist in a story I'm working on
The Smoove Fox I’m an archaeology student, so not a professional yet, however I hope I can help somewhat here (if I’ve been paying enough attention XD)!
Archaeology as a field has evolved over time to become as methodical as it is today.
The ‘wild west’ days the op is referring to is most likely the period of the Grand Tour, 17th and 18th C. archaeology ventures by (often young) European aristocrats going on a tour around classical period sites in Greece and Italy, and then later Egypt. During this period people would travel to archaeological sites and observe the ‘excavations’ taking place. These excavations would largely involve tunnelling through the archaeology and looking for treasures, I believe people observing would then often bid on those treasures.
The most famous example of this practice is Pompeii. A lot of knowledge was lost during the initial excavations in Pompeii due to their lack of care when excavating and their sole interest in treasures. These days things such as small bits of rubble, charcoal and pot are valuable but back then the main interest was items of aesthetic value, as opposed to scientific and historical value. Such people were even known to use dynamite to open up barrows in England.
Some people undertook archaeology in this period and carried out such methods as a major hobby and in the UK we refer to them as Antiquarians rather than archaeologists (they may have a different name in other countries, I don’t know). Undoubtedly they were vital in increasing our knowledge of the past and helping the field to evolve to where it is today and many have interesting stories and we’re interesting characters but their methods were, as discussed, rash and destructive and they did not put the same emphasis on knowledge that we do today.
Nowadays even the type and depth of soil things are found in is valuable in and of itself, back then such things were rarely even recorded.
I’ve tried to be as brief as I could whilst providing enough info but, hopefully, that’ll help give you an idea of what archaeology was like in the past (it truly was ‘wild west’ like at certain points!) and good luck with your story! 😊
Lol yeah. When she explained that historical artifacts lose their value when removed from their context...
The British: 👁👄👁
I could recognize this accent anywhere...
Represent, Mariana 🇵🇹
The clip from The Last Crusade only makes sense if you know that Indy travelled the world as a kid and that's why he would know the value of the artifact.
The one thing that always irritated me with that Indiana Jones "statuette/sand bag exchange scene"...how was he supposed to know how much that statuette weighed? That never made sense.
he didn't, he looked at the idol, estimated the weight, he thought his bag was too heavy so he got rid of some of the sand, switched it but he guessed wrong which is why the trap was triggered
@@lunatickgeo
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Thank you for describing the scene, which I have seen a dozen times over the years, once again.
Unfortunately, you forgot to explain how he estimated the weight of the statuette *without picking it up.*
*That's what never made sense.*
I am able to compare two weights if I hold them both, but I can't simply guess the weight of one thing _(made out of one material),_ while only holding a different thing _(made out_ _of a completely different material)._ And it doesn't matter that he got rid of some of the sand,...if he had picked up a few stones instead, to add them to the bag's weight, the mystery would've been the same... *he never had a way of knowing/estimating the correct weight of the statuette, that he tried to exchange.*
So, the whole scene was meaningless from beginning to end. He could have equally well just grabbed the damn thing and start running - the result would've been the exact same.
@@o.b.7217 you're right, I did just that, didn't I? assuming the filmmakers weren't just doing it for dramatics, my understanding is that Indiana would know that a gold bar is more or less 27 pounds so using that as his basis and seeing the idol he made the comparison and guessed...wrongly as it turned out
now this is how I always understood the scene as I saw it, the same way I would see a chair and make an assumption as to its weight based on nothing but on what I'm looking at and sometimes I'm right and sometimes I'm wrong
I'm not defending the scene by any means just sharing how I always thought of it and why it never occurred to me to question it
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I don't question it from a comedic point - I get why it's there. I, too, laugh about the scene.
But if we leave the comedy out, and look at the scene from a serious angle _(which I like to do with movie scenes, from time to time),_ then the whole scene is complete nonsense.
Btw: gold ingots come in various sizes and weights, so trying to figure out the weight of that idol _(shaped in an irregular form)_ by comparing it mentally alone with a rectangular shaped gold ingot of any of many possible weights, doesn't really make sense.
Plus: if we're going with your 27 pounds guess - that's roughly 12 kilograms.
That idol weighs nowhere near 12 kg. Look at how easy he throws it, and how easy the other guy catches it. Try doing that with a 12 kg weight. To give you a comparison: the heaviest bowling ball weighs 16 pound - roughly 7.5 kg
Again: I see and understand the comedic of the scene. But they could have sold it better. Even by simply showing us Indy reading an old manuscript, where the approximated weight of the idol is mentioned, or something like that.
@@o.b.7217 I got the number 27 pounds because I googled that the standard weight of a gold ingot, which I figure a tomb raider like Indiana would know. I agree about the idol not looking like it weighs 12kg which is why I guess he got rid of some of the sand in the little bag. I just want to say in case it isn't clear. I don't disagree with anything you're saying, I just offered my view on why I never questioned that scene. I think it's pretty clear that Indiana Jones is less of a scientist and more of a procurer of artifacts for the museum. He doesn't study artifacts, he gets paid to get them for museums for actual scholars to study them. He only knows enough to find the things, which explains why instead of studying the temple or the traps or taking time with the idol, he just made a guess based on nothing and hoping he was right (he wasn't). I mean if we go by his movies, he's not exactly somebody who takes his time and plan, he's very much a fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants kind of guy.
They should have had her rate Buster’s archaeology in Arrested Development
where?
@@elizabethbennet4791 An amazing 2000s series called "Arrested Development". In one scene, one of the characters, a mama's boy named Buster, left his archaeology's homework in the back seat of the family car. That "homework" was a partially excavated human skull, ruined by Buster's incompetence. Watch it, it's hillarious!
@@ArdanArianis im an archaeologist and I rate it 10/10 unironically, its very accurate
@@iamlivin6186 👍🏽👍🏽
Early in my career, we were working on a dig situated on a plato above military training grounds. Every day a solder would appear at around 1pm to inform us when the tank exercises were going to start. Except one day when they forgot about us. Fortuitously, a co-worker was coming back to the site from the town and was stopped at the gates of the compound because the maneuvers were about to start. They only let him in when they realised 30 people were still riiiight above the targets. 🤣😂 So he drove like a maniac to us, and we had 15 mins to clear out. EVERYTHING was just left there as we simply ran to the cars.
Be an archaeologist they said; it'll be fun, they said. But still no whips. 🤷♀️😂
Young Indy scene: what's his age have to do with it? He had an archeologist father, an Oxford tutor, and at least one field mentor. The key question is more how he'd confidently ID the cross from a discreet distance in subterranean lighting.
At least he can see the shape of the cross and he knows his own location. Could that be enough?
I really liked how she explained things and her comentary on aliens lol, but contemporary archeologists tend to forget how archeologists used to do things when the discpline was just starting, like when they used to dinamite things, "reconstruct" things because they didn't look as mejestic as they thought they should've been, buy from looters (completely missing the context from where things were found), and other fun activities
p.s. Indiana's father was into medieval studies and history, so he could've seen that cross in one of his father's books, thus explaining why a child knew about it.
Itzel Trujillo that’s what i was thinking; for some of the clips she seemed to ignore the context those clips were from; they’re inaccurate for modern professional archeology but not as inaccurate for the time period. Another example is the clip from The Mummy - while digging from underneath is not something you’d usually do, iirc in the film they were trying to ‘steal’ the find from a rival group so would’ve been unable to do a conventional dig to get at it, and the reason for the lack of conventional accouchements in the sarcophagus was because Imhotep was put in the sarcophagus as a method of execution, not conventional burial (criticising the clip for that not being a real thing would have been valid though).
To be fair, the clip is missing the context of the story of Henry Jones, Jr. as chronicled in "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" TV series, where it goes into more of young Indy's life, which also includes quite a bit of archaeology as a young boy. Combined with his father's insistence that Indy learn Greek, one gets an idea that Indy is actually pretty advanced in archaeology.
@@electricdevil2422 Grow up.
@@rogermucroy750 Mind your business. No one was talking to you.
coolaccountname I was not trying to fault her for not knowing the context, what I meant was that sometimes contemporary archeologists forget how things used to be done in the good ol’ days, now archeologists wouldn’t do lot of what is shown in this films, like taking the object or corpses out of their context, I understand that she was shown small fragments of those films, the issue I found was that she talked as if archaeologists were always ethical and had very precise methods to work with, which isn’t true, she was applying contemporary standards, which is completely anachronistic
Archeologist: "Booby traps aren't common."
Me: So what I'm hearing is, they're not impossible
Quite possible if the owners of the location live right outside and are actively maintaining it, which seems plausible given they are quite pissed that some white man has come in and stolen their icon and give chase.
I love that she loves Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Imagine an Indy movie where he goes into a tomb and stops at the first booby trap for weeks to study it and has a crew come in to excavate the thing. Yeah.... still a better movie than the last one we got.
Also the fact that no one bats an eye after opening a box starts melting people’s faces.
Oh man I am a history geek so as a kid I wanted to be archeologist/egyptologist... still read on old history and any interesting archeology article I find
I'm a huge Indiana Jones fan. The reason Indy knew what the object was even as a teenager is because his father was an archeologist. And anytime he wanted to speak to his father, he had to recite a piece of history. I love these movies. It's something I share with my father. I can see that you haven't watched the films, maybe?
More movie reviews from her please! Loved the video, she is great at communicating her craft with the rest of us, job well done👍
"Returning things to the country of origin"is something The British Museum need to learn big time.
**Atlantis comes up**
Mariana: **claps in joy**
In the past, archaeologists were really not much different from looters. The guys who found the tomb of Tut were pretty interested in treasure. It's even more so with a lot of marine archaeology, look at the atocha. Some exceptions are the titanic and many ww2 ships. It's a more recent thing that archaeologists became more concerned about preserving context (probably after ww2, partly in response to Nazi Germany looting and destroying countless cultural treasures).
these always make me so happy and excited to see people in these fields get excited for moments in movies or just be like super genuine about reactions and explanations.
1:21 that’s a excellent point. As much as We love to see artifacts in museums, one can’t help but wonder what the context of the objects.
I love her straight to the facts honesty. She has shed a new light on archaeology I didn't even think I could visualize. Incredible interview and responses.
Occam's Teacup: The simplest explanation is "Aliens."
Because it rests in a saucer.
lol
She came at this from a modern mindset. Many of these movies were set 50+ years ago when we didn't use current methods for excavating.
She is a actually very very funny. I didn't expect that from the archeology expert.
I rate her 10/10
i took my first intro to anthropology class this semester and i absolutely fell in LOVE with the field. i honestly did not think i would enjoy it as much as i did.. taking an archeology class and a biological anthropology class next semester :) it was v interesting hearing what she had to say
Is she Portuguese? I'm from Portugal myself and judging from her name and the way she pronounced it, not to mention her accent when speaking english, I'm almost certain she is. Love her by the way!!
Yes she is
Atlantis and the Mummy are some of my favorite movies ever! This video was everything I could have ever asked for and more
*Main character sneezes*
Her: Yeh. We don't do that
I did my civil service in the archeological department of my country. After 4 months i was looking after most of the young interns, so i was invited to some interviews for new interns. One of the guys was very charismatic and stood out, but when he was asked of the reasons he wanted the internship, he referred to indiana jones. In front of the head of excarvations. Never do that in this profession. Its like mocking them. Working there was certanly interesting, but quite sobering. Quite interesting characters in this type of work, but the excarvations i worked on felt more like contruction sites. More spates and pickaxes than brushes and spatulas.
Indiana Jones, exists....
Lady: “I’m about to end this mans whole career.”
he deserves it!
I appreciate how grounded in reality Mariana Castro is.
It's always delightful to see experts excited about their field, even in the movies. [And, yes, Indiana's hat is still brilliant!]
From what I've found most anthropology or archeology students got into it cause of Indiana Jones, The Mummy, Jurassic Park, or Atlantis (which was mine)
Have an archeologist or a historian review the Uncharted series!
There’s actually a ton of history behind the lost cities and treasures in those games. Especially Uncharted 4.
Achaeology is mostly digging in the heat, picking up any ceramics pieces and getting real exited if you find a whole cup.
Loved her hand gestures while talking 🥰
Problem : several of these aren’t archeologists! They are treasure hunters (modern day looters). They aren’t going to be delicate
Indiana Jones is one though:D Well he at least claims to be and is depicted like one.But I would actually say that he's the measure for what an archeologist is so...
6:20 "They are actualy speaking russian"
No, they aren't.
They are trying, but failing spectacularly. So much so we had russian subtitles for this "russ
ian" language.
As a kid, I spent two hours trying to understand what they realy tried to say, not subtitled stuff. Fun times!
Yep, the best Russian so far was in the "Red Heat", when Arnie arrested that drug dealer XD
I don't want to sound rude by attenpting to correct your sentence, but I believe it's "No, they aren't." instead of "No, they don't."
Correct me if I'm wrong
@@Mike-ef8rf fixed, thx.
@@totchj haha true 😅
@@totchj "bedazzled" has good russian too, when Brendan Frazer became a drug lord
17:54
*Entire sarcophagus falls from ceiling*
"You really should be wearing a construction hat"
Also young Indy scene: he's making an independent and perhaps brash choice to steal the cross from the looters. He's not interpreting policy or law. Hence his choice backfires and the law turns up on the side of the looters, at least initially.
Seems consistent with what you've told us, Ms. Castro.
16:11 This lady just indirectly clapped back Giorgio A. Tsoukalos's whole career.
Giorgio is to archeology, what astrology is to astronomy
In defense of the Indiana Jones movies one has to add that there are other scene which seem rather accurate, especially at the beginning of 1, 2 and 4, when he is teaching, talking to his colleagues and giving advise to students in the library (except the treasure hunting parts). The literature he mentiones is outdated of course but nontheless legitimate scientific literature. Nice clip!
Another accurate scene is in 1 when the Nazis are in Egypt and seem to be doing a proper dig
He actually teaches them not to do things that he then goes out and does. But considering: Lucas and Spielberg thought of him like a superhero who acts one way in his secret identity, then puts on the outfit, and becomes someone else entirely. (Sort of like how Daredevil is not a very good lawyer in his off hours since he would get disbarred and/or jailed for being a vigilante.)
A fantastic ambassador for archaeology. I love her infectious grounded enthusiasm.
She's Portuguese!! Much love from Portugal!!
I actually got to learn new things about archaeology, quite interesting!
16:21 My american archaeology professors would always assign the myth that aliens somehow built the architecural feats of early cultures (esp mesoamerican and south american pre-Columbian) to racism. They were white btw- it's really obvious when you think about it.
@Rising Horizon Gaming There are a few BILLION people out there who really believe that the world and all living creatures were created by a supernatural being so...
@Rising Horizon Gaming To be fair there is a difference between believing aliens built the world, and believing there is other life out there in the universe. I can see the latter being a fair opinion since life came to be on earth why couldn't it also happen on other planets?
If you knew physics and statistics then you wouldn’t say aliens built it.
You do know that people think aliens built the stone hedge right? Even though it was built by white people. So white people are racist against white people...? Yeah, right. Not everything is racist.
Well your archaeology professors are obviously leftards obsesed with white guilt and leftist ideology.