Talking Trash
Let’s face it. Archaeologists like to get trashed. And by that I mean that we seem to find ourselves in other people’s rubbish heaps, middens, landfills, and dumps from prehistory […]
Archaeogaming: Clearing up the Confusion
Today, Andrew Pallett of the Somethimes I Game blog, published a long-form interview with me that goes much deeper into the concepts of archaeogaming. There was a lot of discussion […]
“tl;dr”: A Public Conversation about Archaeogaming, Archaeology
INTRODUCTION This past week has been a great example of what open scholarship and pre-publication peer review can be. I was featured in an article, “The Archaeologist Who Studies World […]
Archaeogaming featured on Motherboard (Vice)
Archaeogaming is featured on today’s Motherboard, the science and technology portion of the Vice newsgroup online. Click here (or on the image above) to read the piece, written by Kathleen […]
Reddit as Public Archaeology: Peer Review of the No Man’s Sky Archaeological Survey
On March 2, 2015, I wrote a post about the possibility of conducting an archaeological survey of the upcoming game from Hello Games, No Man’s Sky, to be released sometime […]
Game Jam: Archaeology
On April 28, 2015, Shawn Graham (aka @electricarchaeo) wrote a post on his Electric Archaeology blog: “Ludi Incipiant! A Call for #Archaeogames?” It’s one of those so-simple-it’s-brilliant ideas that made […]
Meatspace Season 1, Episode 8
Originally posted on Caraheard:
This week, Richard and Bill welcomed their first guest into the studio: Andrew Reinhard. We convinced Andrew to talk to us about his research on Archaeogaming…
Game Over: How We Faked the Atari Excavation and Got Away with It
[NOTE: This post was originally published as an April Fool’s joke on April 1, 2015, and was taken down because a lot of people believed this story to be true. […]
VALUE: Videogames and Archaeology in Leiden UnivErsity
VALUE (Videogames and Archaeology in Leiden UnivErsity) has officially launched as of March 30, 2015. You can follow VALUE on Twitter here and Facebook here. But what is the VALUE […]
Archaeogaming Expedition I: Abandoned Metaverse
I’d been thinking about returning to Second Life for a while, and at the suggestion of fellow Punk Archaeologist Bill Caraher, actually did it (and blogged about it) yesterday. I […]
Keeping Our Games Alive: Video Game Archiving and Preservation
Today’s guest post is by Rebecca Hernandez-Gerber who is a video game archivist. In her writing, she focuses on media archaeology, digital preservation, and gaming history. Follow her on Twitter @ArchivistBecks. […]
Dungeon-Crawling on the Intellivision
My brother bought me an Intellivision Flashback. It was half-price at Sam’s Club. He knew exactly what he was doing, too: fueling my interest in archaeogaming and retrogaming while reminding […]
Archaeogaming at the University of Leiden (Guest Post!)
Introduction Today’s post is by Aris Politopoulos, a veteran gamer and Ph.D student at the University of Leiden. He recently spoke to his friends at Leiden’s Archaeology Forum on the […]
Thoughts from the Owner of E.T. Cartridge #8209
FROM THE EDITOR: A second winning eBay bidder reached out to Archaeogaming to talk about the reasons behind the desire to obtain one of the copies of E.T. excavated from […]
Video Game Numismatics: A Prelude to a Project
Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, and related objects. While numismatists are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, the discipline also […]
Exhuming Atari, or Punk Archaeology Levels Up
Here’s a guest post I wrote for the good people of Love Archaeology on their Almost Archaeology blog about the excavation of the Atari Dump Site. Have a read: Exhuming Atari, or Punk Archaeology Levels Up. Andrew Reinhard, Archaeogaming
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