Archaeogaming As Scholarly Play : The Intersection of Archaeology and Gaming.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Victor, Megan Rhodes.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virtual reality in archaeology.

Video games in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

Mainstream Cultural Relevance: Uses world-famous franchises like Zelda, Fallout, and The Elder Scrolls to make complex archaeological theories accessible and engaging for a global gaming audience. Innovative Educational Toolkit: Provides practical, modern strategies for using video games as pedagogical tools to teach history, ethics, and research methodology in the classroom. Critical Ethical Analysis: Examines how digital media shapes public perception of "ownership" of the past, challenging traditional stereotypes of archaeologists and tomb-raiding adventurers.

Contents:

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Table of contents

List of figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction Why Play with the Past?: Archaeogaming, Ludology, and a Brief Introduction

Part I. Archaeogaming: Representation &amp

Pedagogy

Chapter 1 Publish (or Plunder) or Perish?: Women and Professional Archaeology in The Elder Scrolls Online

Chapter 2 The 4X Model Game and the Archaeology of Movement, Migration, and Settler Colonialism

Chapter 3 The Roots of the Tech Tree: City- Building Games as a Learning Tool for Early Urbanization

Chapter 4 Who Is Holding the Controller of This Narrative?: Combatting Antiquated Representations of Archaeology with The Elder Scrolls Online's Antiquities System

Part II. Archaeogaming: Methodology &amp

Theory

Chapter 5 It's an Open World Out There: Using Open- World Video Games as Pedagogical Tools for Archaeological Survey

Chapter 6 Nixtun-Ch'ich' in Roblox: An Icarian Fall into an Ancient Maya City

Chapter 7 Fallout 3: A Cultural Imagined Landscape or an Imaginary Non-place?

Chapter 8 The Implications of Neurodiversity in Archaeogaming

Conclusion Where We Are and Where We Are Going: A Look at the Present and Future of Archaeogaming as a Subfield of Archaeology

Ludography

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Victor, Megan Rhodes Archaeogaming As Scholarly Play

ISBN:

9781836955689

OCLC:

1594240187