Drawn to Archaeology: Using Comics for Outreach, Education and Academics in Archaeology

This thesis summarizes multiple ways of using comics to positively grow the field of archaeology. To be able to state these ways, I show how comics can be a useful education tool and why adopting the medium can enrich our field of science. Once this has been established, an explanation of how comics can be used to enrich education is given, and then a variety of approaches for archaeology to benefit from the medium are examined. The approaches range from using the medium in public outreach, (children’s) education and academic utilization. For each approach there are examples to show how academic pioneers have already tried to use the medium, and reasons to further understand the possibilities of using it further. I will discuss how archaeology can benefit from using the medium for diversifying our field of academic research, as well as some possible drawbacks of the medium such as cost and skill. In conclusion I explain how using comics shows a good possibility for archaeology to...Show moreThis thesis summarizes multiple ways of using comics to positively grow the field of archaeology. To be able to state these ways, I show how comics can be a useful education tool and why adopting the medium can enrich our field of science. Once this has been established, an explanation of how comics can be used to enrich education is given, and then a variety of approaches for archaeology to benefit from the medium are examined. The approaches range from using the medium in public outreach, (children’s) education and academic utilization. For each approach there are examples to show how academic pioneers have already tried to use the medium, and reasons to further understand the possibilities of using it further. I will discuss how archaeology can benefit from using the medium for diversifying our field of academic research, as well as some possible drawbacks of the medium such as cost and skill. In conclusion I explain how using comics shows a good possibility for archaeology to enrich our science, draw more people to our research, and include a more diverse part of society to enrich our collective capacity.Show less

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