Have you ever wanted to use comics to learn about archaeology but weren’t sure how? Here, we explain where to start by describing the development of Tome Reader, an open educational resource (OER) that uses comics to cultivate archaeological data literacy.
book club
Of Mycenaean Men: The Public Archaeology Book Club
This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in defining data, understanding archaeological data, or discussing the impacts of archaeological data on modern society. Users should have some familiarity with group discussion or book clubs, but previous experience with data or archaeology is not required.
Tome Reader: The AAI Reads Comics Book Club
This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in reading archaeology-related comics, exploring how to use visuals in archaeology, or discussing the impacts of archaeological data on current comic books. Users should have some familiarity with group discussion or book clubs, but previous experience with data, archaeology, or comics is not required.
How to Make Your Own (Archaeological) Book Club
Welcome to the Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context‘s Data Story Shorts! Here in How to Make Your Own (Archaeological) Book Club we explain how we selected and created our Aggregative Series book club Data Stories. Reading and discussion—which we consider ways to read, work with, and communicate data—are essential for all archaeology learners.
Finding fun archaeology-related fiction
A Pun Goes Here: The AAI Reads Fiction Book Club is a great guide for running your own archaeology-fiction related book club. However, you might want to know how we found the books for that Data Story. Or, you might want help finding new reads yourself. In this article, we’ll tell you how we got […]
A Pun Goes Here: The AAI Reads Fiction Book Club
This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in reading fiction, understanding fictional uses of archaeological data, or discussing the impacts of archaeological data on fiction novels. Users should have some familiarity with group discussion or book clubs, but previous experience with data or archaeology is not required.
