Ardal O'Hanlon: Tomb Raider

[Nearly Sane]

Caught up with this and really enjoyed it

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0017b0b via @bbciplayer

[Udayana]

Yes, was really interesting- archaeology vs personality vs contemporary politics ...

[Nearly Sane]

Yes, was really interesting- archaeology vs personality vs contemporary politics ...

And the interpretation with the same info doesn't  get affected. Loved the idea that even after these years the ideas could be justified.

[Gordon]

Watched it last night - the influence of politics on archaeology was a fascinating aspect coming so soon after partition, as was the Nazi museum director. 

[Anchorman]

I won't use the 'E' word, but there hasn't been a time when politics and nationalism wasn't mixed in with that particular branch of archaeology.
Even today, those on excavations have to tread on eggshells sometimes when dealing with officialdom, not to mention the media.

[SteveH]

Will have to watch that. What I have been watching - the first two episodes so far - is 'Digging for Britain' with Alice Roberts. The first episode also touched on politics; it was about the discovery in the 30s, in a cave in Southern Germany, of a very ancients figurine - it had a lion's head and upper body, and as man's lower body and legs. It was probably a shamanistic article. The problem was that the lead archaeologist was a Nazi, and member of the SS. He never returned to its investigation after the war, and it was suggested that he had repented of his Nazi beliefs, and the propaganda use made of the figurine.

[Anchorman]

Will have to watch that. What I have been watching - the first two episodes so far - is 'Digging for Britain' with Alice Roberts. The first episode also touched on politics; it was about the discovery in the 30s, in a cave in Southern Germany, of a very ancients figurine - it had a lion's head and upper body, and as man's lower body and legs. It was probably a shamanistic article. The problem was that the lead archaeologist was a Nazi, and member of the SS. He never returned to its investigation after the war, and it was suggested that he had repented of his Nazi beliefs, and the propaganda use made of the figurine.

 


Yes, that's par for the course as far as Nazi skewed ideology went.
The famous bust of Nefertiti which Borchart managed to gift to Berlin long before the rise of Nazism, was used by the S.S. 'scientists' to 'prove' that Arayan race types had migrated from Central Europe to the Nile Valley to become the dominant race there.
Indiana Jones stuff wasn't based on entirely thin air.

[SteveH]

Will have to watch that. What I have been watching - the first two episodes so far - is 'Digging for Britain' with Alice Roberts. The first episode also touched on politics; it was about the discovery in the 30s, in a cave in Southern Germany, of a very ancients figurine - it had a lion's head and upper body, and as man's lower body and legs. It was probably a shamanistic article. The problem was that the lead archaeologist was a Nazi, and member of the SS. He never returned to its investigation after the war, and it was suggested that he had repented of his Nazi beliefs, and the propaganda use made of the figurine.

Getting confused - the lion man was on 'Raiders of the Lost Past, with Janina Ramirez. There's a lot of archaeology on TV at the moment!