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Archaeogaming as a sub-discipline of archaeology has gotten a lot of attention in the media. If you’re just passing through and would like to learn more about the archaeology in (and of) video games, this is a great place to start.

Articles

“Archaeogaming is Another Effort to Delve into the History of Games”, Stephanie Chan, VentureBeat (May 10, 2018)

“Anthropology Blogging 101: Archaeogaming”, Emma Louise Backe, Geek Anthropologist (November 7, 2017)

“Archaeologist Digs into Remains of No Man’s Sky Abandoned Player Civilization”, Gita Jackson, Kotaku (October 3, 2017)

“Los arqueólogos no se reconocen en los juegos de Indiana Jones y Lara Croft”, Cristina Sánchez, Hojaderouter (June 13, 2017)

“The Archaeologists Who are Using No Man’s Sky as a Dry-Run for Exploring Actual Space”, Robert Rath, ZAM (August 7, 2016)

“After the Success of Pokemon GO, how will Augmented Reality Impact Archaeological Sites?”, Sarah Bond, Forbes (July 17, 2016)

“The Future of Archaeology Starts with No Man’s Sky, Jordan Oloman, Killscreen (May 19, 2016)

“Archaeology of Video Games”, Carly Silver, about.com (December 3, 2015)

“Brand New Trend in Archaeology: Archaeogaming”, Annika Backe, Coins Weekly (November 26, 2015)

“What Digital Trash Dumped in Games Tells Us About the Players”, Douglas Heaven, New Scientist (November 18, 2015)

“Eine Vorbereitung auf von Maschinen erstellte Kulturen”, Jennifer Lepies, Technology Review (September 15, 2015)

“在游戏里考古的考古学家?不仅玩游戏,而且做学术!”, Guokr (September 1, 2015)

“Video Game Archaeology is Totally a Thing”, Damion Collins, Button Masher (August 20, 2015)

“RFI: Interview with Andrew Reinhard of Archaeogaming.com”, Andrew Pallett, Sometimes I Game (August 19, 2015)

“Actual Archaeologist is Digging through World of Warcraft, Skyrim, Luke Plunkett, Kotaku (August 14, 2015)

“The Archaeologist Who Studies World of Warcraft”, Kathleen Caulderwood, Vice Motherboard (August 13, 2015)

Podcasts

“Material Culture with Kaitlyn Kingsland,” Super Gamer Podcast, by Mark McAvory (May 2, 2022).

“Archaeogaming: the archaeology of and in gaming,” Heritage Unbounded, by Dr. Sarah Chicone (January 9, 2020).

“An Interview with Andrew Reinhard”First Person Scholar, by Justin Carpenter (January 16, 2019)

“One Man’s Quest for Real Archaeology in Video Game Worlds”2 Girls 1 Podcast, for the Daily Dot, hosted by Jen Jamula and Alli Gold (January 22, 2018)

No Man’s Sky Archaeological Survey”Culture File, Lyric FM radio (Ireland), Eleanor Flegg (April 26, 2016)

“What is Archaeogaming”Culture File, Lyric FM radio (Ireland), Eleanor Flegg (April 25, 2016)

“Archaeogaming”ArchaeoTech, Chris Webster and Chris Sims (January 11, 2016)

“‘We’re kind of making it up as we go along’ — What it’s like to be a video game archaeologist”Spark, Nora Jones, CBC Radio (October 2, 2015)

“Meatspace”, Caraheard, Bill Caraher and Richard Rothaus (April 16, 2015)

“The Atari Narratives” (with Bill Caraher), Digital Heritage Meets Interactive Storytelling, Tara Copplestone, University of York (April 12, 2015)

“Archaeology and Video Games”, Tristan Jordan Boyle, Anarchaeology

Video

“Meet the Archaeologist: Andrew Reinhard”, Marc Barkman-Astles, Archaeosoup (August 28, 2015)