With over 3 billion individuals that play video games worldwide, gamers consume immense amounts of data about the digital worlds they explore.Archaeogaming as Scholarly Playencourages readers to step into the intersection of archaeology and video games to critically examine how these games (re)present the past and those associated with exhuming it, should they be archaeologists or adventurers. In doing so, this volume suggests alternative approaches to archaeological pedagogy and provides new narratives in theoretical discourse.
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Introduction: Why Play with the Past? Archaeogaming, Ludology, and a Brief
Introduction
Megan Rhodes Victor
Part I: Archaeogaming: Representation & Pedagogy
Chapter
1. Publish (or Plunder) or Perish? Women and Professional
Archaeology in The Elder Scrolls Online
Krystiana L. Krupa
Chapter
2. The 4x Model Game and the Archaeology of Movement, Migration and
Settler Colonialism
Michael Zimmerman, Shannon Martino, and Renee Nejo
Chapter
3. The Roots of the Tech Tree. City-building Games as a Learning
Tool for Early Urbanization
Briana Jackson & Kate Minniti
Chapter
4. Who is Holding the Controller of this Narrative?: Combatting
Antiquated Representations of Archaeology with The Elder Scrolls Onlines
Antiquities System
Megan Rhodes Victor
Part II: Archaeogaming: Methodology & Theory
Chapter
5. Its an Open World Out There: Using Open-World Video Games as
Pedagogical Tools for Archaeological Survey
London Patterson
Chapter
6. Nixtun-Chich in Roblox: An Icarian Fall into an Ancient Maya
City
Timothy W. Pugh, Evelyn Chan Nieto, and Gabriela W. Zygado
Chapter
7. Fallout 3: A Cultural Imagined Landscape or an Imaginary
Non-Place?
João Luís Sequeira
Chapter
8. Implications of Neurodiversity in Archaeogaming
Kal Clintberg
Conclusion: Where We Are and Where We Are Going: A Look at the Present and
Future of Archaeogaming as a Subfield of Archaeology
Robert T. Nyamushosho
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Megan Rhodes Victor is an assistant professor at Queens College and at the CUNY Graduate Center. Prior to their current appointment, Victor was a postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford Archaeology Center (20182020) where they oversaw excavations in the Arboretum on the Stanford University campus.
