Abstract:In my favorite scene from the Hollywood blockbuster movie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989), the title character, a swashbuckling treasure hunter who supports himself by slumming it with an academic job in the Ivy League, insists to his class of sleepy undergraduates that "90% of an archaeologist's time is spent in the library. Myths can only be taken at face value. We do not follow maps to buried treasures, and X never ever marks the spot." In the end, of course, it is precisely thi… Show more
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