ABSTRACT
For more than ten years, German archaeologists have focused on the relationship between archaeology and popular culture. In most cases, their studies have concentrated on museums, films, and TV documentaries (Denzer 2004; Felder et al. 2003; Stern 1994; Schmidt 2000). In the print media, the focus has been on headlines and pictures. Whereas there have been some valuable studies in Scandinavia, Great Britain, and the United States a similar analysis of the German press is only in its infancy. One example is Cornelius Holtorf’s study of the Anglo-Saxon print media (Holtorf 2005c); and another is a seminar series at the Department of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Freiburg, where some aspects of the German print media were analysed for an overview. These analyses are based on the perspective of the archaeologists, looking at how their profession and most importantly they themselves are presented to the public. Needless to say, the results are rarely to their satisfaction.
