ABSTRACT
All students enter the classroom with some sort of archaeological knowledge. Whether that knowledge is the result of family vacations to archaeological sites or from watching television, they all have some idea of what they think archaeology is and what archaeologists do. Dr. Jane Baxter states, ‘[I]t would be difficult to argue that there is a more popular image of an archaeologist than Indiana Jones. … [He] has become the stereotypical image of an archaeologist. He is also very white and very male, and his character has become the racial and gendered stereotype of a “typical” archaeologist’ (Baxter 2002: 16). Most people have no idea what archaeology is really like, and the truth often disillusions them. How do we get students to stop having Indy-vision and see with archaeological vision? In other words, how do we address the misconceptions that students bring into the classroom with them?
