|  Fulbright College professor
Jerome Rose, chair of the anthropology department, is part of a
National Science Foundation’s effort
to turn Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull into
a teachable moment.
The movie opens this week and is the most highly anticipated,
and hyped, movie blockbuster of the summer.
The National Science Foundation has launched a Web site, “Archeology
from Reel to Real” to good-naturedly contrast the exploits
of the movie character and the scientific field work of archeologists
funded by NSF grants.
The site is located at http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/archaeology/index.jsp.
One of seven articles on the Web site, “Ancient Egypt in
Transition,” focuses on Rose’s work as a bioarcheologist,
analyzing the bones found in a burial ground at Hierakonpolis.
Rose offers no tales of derring-do to match an Indiana Jones adventure,
but he does express some of the reverence for the people and cultures
of the past that Jones reflects in his few quieter on-screen moments.
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