The Department of Anthropology invites you to : Archaeology at the Movies!! Thursday nights 8:30 – 11:00 pm Grant Auditorium

Bored? Need to get out of the house? The Department of Anthropology will be screening features films Thursday nights 8:30 – 11:00 in Grant Auditorium in the Falk College building, adjacent to the Carrier Dome. Classic films, the movies deal with popular images of archaeology and archaeological themes and can be used as extra credit in designated anthropology classes. Introductions to the films provide background and context. Many of the films have been selected because they are not commonly available or available in quality format via online and streaming sources. But regardless of their availability, this is an opportunity to see feature films on the big screen. If you are interested in this opportunity for extra credit in an anthropology class, please contact your professor or teaching assistant. See you at the movies! Chris DeCorse

October 22: Indiana Jones and Raiders of the November 12: Iceman (Paramount, 1984):Anthropologist Stanley Lost Ark (Paramount, 1981) Winner of five Shephard (played by Timothy Hutton) is brought to an arctic academy awards, this is the first film in the base where the body of a prehistoric man, imbedded in ice for Indiana Jones film franchise; an American 40,000 years, has been discovered. Scientists are able to action-adventure film serial directed by Steven resuscitate the "iceman", who is placed in a simulated Spielberg, based on a story by George Lucas, environment for study. Confused and recognizing his strange starring Harrison Ford. Set in 1936, Ford surroundings, scientists see him as a source of information on the portrays Indiana Jones, a globe-trotting body's adaptability, fire walking, and the possibility of freezing archaeologist, vying with the Nazis to recover the sick until a cure is discovered. Can the Iceman survive in this the lost Ark of the Covenant, a relic said to modern world? make an army invincible.

October 29: Caveman (MGM, November 19: The of Z (Paramount Pictures and Plan B 1981):An American slapstick comedy Entertainment, 2016)A biographical adventure drama. In 1905, film starring Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, (played by Charlie Hunnam) follows an 18th Shelley Long and Barbara Bach. In the century text that describes a city deep in the Amazonian jungle, course of adventures, cave dwellers a place that Fawcett calls "the Lost City of Z". Supported by the fight off dinosaurs, discover sedative Royal Geographical Society, Fawcett led two expeditions to drugs, fire, invent cooking, music, find the lost city; on the second of which he and his son weapons, and learn how to walk disappeared. The lost City of Z may actually be the upright. Bashed by critics, the film archaeological site of Kuhikugu, near the headwaters of the remains a cult classic. Xingu River, discovered by Westerners in 1925. The site contains extensive ruins and earthworks.

All safety protocols will be followed. Grant Auditorium in Falk College allows ample space for social distancing. Film showing times may be modified.