{"id":13921,"date":"2012-03-05T14:26:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T19:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13921"},"modified":"2012-03-05T14:26:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T19:26:46","slug":"new-tv-shows-to-glamourize-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/05\/new-tv-shows-to-glamourize-archaeology\/","title":{"rendered":"New TV shows to &#8220;glamourize&#8221; archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This sounds <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/scienceinsider\/2012\/03\/archaeologists-protest-glamorizan.html?ref=hp\" target=\"_blank\">particularly dire<\/a>, on multiple levels:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On 20 March, Spike TV will premiere a new show called <em>American Digger<\/em>, while a show called <em>Diggers<\/em> on the National Geographic Channel made its debut 28 February. Both shows &#8220;promote and glorify the looting and destruction of archaeological sites,&#8221; Society for American Archaeology (SAA) President William F. Limp wrote in a message posted earlier this week to the SAA listserv.<\/p>\n<p>The premise of <em>American Digger<\/em>, which is being hosted by a former professional wrestler, was laid out in a recent announcement by Spike TV. A team of &#8220;diggers&#8221; will &#8220;scour target-rich areas, such as battlefields and historic sites, in hopes of striking it rich by unearthing and selling rare pieces of American history.&#8221; Similar locales are featured in National Geographic&#8217;s <em>Diggers<\/em>. In the second episode, set in South Carolina, Revolutionary War and War of 1812 buttons, bullets, and coins were recovered at a former plantation.<\/p>\n<p>After viewing the first two episodes of <em>Diggers<\/em>, Iowa&#8217;s State archaeologist John Doershuk posted a review to the American Cultural Resources Association listserv, in which he lamented: &#8220;The most damaging thing, I think, about this show is that no effort was made to document where anything came from or discussion of associations &mdash; each discovered item was handled piece-meal.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ablogabouthistory.com\/2012\/03\/05\/the-problem-with-treasure-hunter-tv-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Blog About History<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sounds particularly dire, on multiple levels: On 20 March, Spike TV will premiere a new show called American Digger, while a show called Diggers on the National Geographic Channel made its debut 28 February. Both shows &#8220;promote and glorify the looting and destruction of archaeological sites,&#8221; Society for American Archaeology (SAA) President William F. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28,16,13],"tags":[288,86,39,101],"class_list":["post-13921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","category-science","category-usa","tag-archaeology","tag-criticism","tag-junkscience","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3Cx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13922,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13921\/revisions\/13922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}