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...Archaeology! Recall that our hero's day job is as a professor of archaeology. On vacations he goes out, makes trouble and saves the world. Or does he? Indy's job, basically, is plundering indigenous cultures for treasure, in capers that will cost hundreds of lives and add exactly nothing to the lore of civilization. (And, in three of the four movies, he comes home empty-handed.) But heck, it's an adventure movie; leave all ethnic scruples home. Scholars of antiquity will be pleased to know that Crystal Skull - with its runic inscriptions, vanished languages, hidden caves and dreadful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indiana Jones: Smart, Sleek, Familiar | 5/18/2008 | See Source »

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