Hunt the Ancestors

Abstract

Anyone familiar with the BBC's long-running television series 'Meet the Ancestors' will recognise much of the format for the online game 'Hunt the Ancestor'. The site is based around a fictional rescue excavation in Greenshire; its aims are to recover a prehistoric burial under threat of destruction by a quarry. Despite the fact that the intention is to excavate human remains and produce the eponymous reconstructed human face at the end (and is it just me or do these always look just about the same?), it introduces the user to some important archaeological concepts.

Keywords

• archaeology
• Hunt the Ancestor
• online game
• archaeological concepts
• review