Indiana Jones and Lara Croft. How does one start on the path to be like them?

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okay i thought this was a joke topic but since youre taking it so serious i dont know why you need our help you seem to have it pretty figured out
 
I'm not sifting through Joe Rogan's podcast to find info on an Atlantis claim. Nothing against him for what he does but I wouldn't doubt it involved; astral projections, a hallucinogenic-inspired vision telling of the lost civilization, or Edgar Cayce's hypnosis.
 
IDK it seems like survival shows are all the rage right now.

Are you comfortable drinking your own piss? People will pay good money to watch a dehydrated man drink his own piss.
 
hiroshawn said:
I am already in the process of enlisting and going Special Forces (Where I will be a medic.)
So no need for doctors when im off in the jungle. (Research SF 18D they are walking hospitals) Next I will grab a BS in archaeology before moving to to a bigger Uni to grab a masters. While traveling as well. I will be playing poker and gambling so money won't be an issue.
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Oh come on, either you're trolling or you don't realize that life isn't a movie. You can't possibly be considering gambling as a guaranteed source of income?
 
I mean you can be an archaeological site raider and steal human heritage artifacts and resell them on the black market so they can end up in some millionaire's collection. But you're gonna get shot at, and you will have to deal with malaria and poisonous snakes. Are you a bad enough dude? Do you have your own private aircraft?
 
Flo_Evans said:
IDK it seems like survival shows are all the rage right now.

Are you comfortable drinking your own piss? People will pay good money to watch a dehydrated man drink his own piss.
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akira28 said:
I mean you can be an archaeological site raider and steal human heritage artifacts and resell them on the black market so they can end up in some millionaire's collection. But you're gonna get shot at, and you will have to deal with malaria and poisonous snakes. Are you a bad enough dude? Do you have your own private aircraft?
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No I am stealing to sell to millionaire's. I will hunt things down for prestige.
 
Nightshade1765 said:
Oh come on, either you're trolling or you don't realize that life isn't a movie. You can't possibly be considering gambling as a guaranteed source of income?
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clearly you are not familiar with the Parlay Prince lol

Shawn, please go to Honduras. We've got all kinds of Mayan shit still undiscovered because no one can be arsed to fund those expeditions.
 
You definitely will need your own transportation flying wise. I would take a few classes flying or find someone to split the payout with you on it.
 
hiroshawn said:
No I am stealing to sell to millionaire's. I will hunt things down for prestige.
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So you are going to just go and hunt shit? Like just start walking about a Jungle hoping to find a temple? Bro, You trippin.

Archeologists spend their lives trying to discover new hidden tombs/temples/settlements using folktales, written records, translations and topographical maps. Learning to do all that can take a life time and you expect to just "make it work coz you got a dream"?

Also you can't just go digging around wherever you feel like it, the vast majority of the locations you might have a chance of finding shit it are protected and owned land.
 
hiroshawn said:
No I am stealing to sell to millionaire's. I will hunt things down for prestige.
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I'll wait for a further explanation then, but really, check out that Z book. There have been centuries of cowboy arkys, and a lot of them died, and the ones that didn't often turned out to be pieces of shit. So if you want legit prestige today, you won't be grave robbing and dealing with rock thieves and unsavory characters who destroy sites looking for something to sell to rich foreigners. You'll be discovering and preserving, and it will be very un-Nathan Drake like.
 
pulga said:
clearly you are not familiar with the Parlay Prince lol

Shawn, please go to Honduras. We've got all kinds of Mayan shit still undiscovered because no one can be arsed to fund those expeditions.
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Obviously there are professional poker players that do quite well for themselves.

Excuse me for having any doubts that the guy asking how to become Nathan Drake on an internet message board might not be one of those people.
 
Get a degree in archeology. Buddy of mine got his degree from univ of Florida and now digs for stuff on some island in the middle of nowhere.
 
I'm actually trying to live up to this as well. This September, I'll be teaching English in China for a year. While I'm there, I'll try to explore as much of the area as I can. I plan to hopscotch from one country to another every year to teach and have adventures.
 
StalkerUKCG said:
So you are going to just go and hunt shit? Like just start walking about a Jungle hoping to find a temple? Bro, You trippin.

Archeologists spend their lives trying to discover new hidden tombs/temples/settlements using folktales, written records, translations and topographical maps. Learning to do all that can take a life time and you expect to just "make it work coz you got a dream"?

Also you can't just go digging around wherever you feel like it, the vast majority of the locations you might have a chance of finding shit it are protected and owned land.
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Yes of course I will be using tales and written records. I'm not saying it will be easy. The journey alone will bring me pleasure. I will have a frontman get permission to explore and dig areas if I don't I will just go in and dig anyway. With the military experience i will be like a real life Solid Snake. People get lost in the jungle all the time. If I have to do some time in prison then so be it, that's part of the journey.
 
akira28 said:
I'll wait for a further explanation then, but really, check out that Z book. There have been centuries of cowboy arkys, and a lot of them died, and the ones that didn't often turned out to be pieces of shit. So if you want legit prestige today, you won't be grave robbing and dealing with rock thieves and unsavory characters who destroy sites looking for something to sell to rich foreigners. You'll be discovering and preserving, and it will be very un-Nathan Drake like.
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Yea i won't be destroying shit like Drake though. I always get sad when I think of Drake destroying Shambala and El Dorado.
 
hiroshawn said:
Yes of course I will be using tales and written records. I'm not saying it will be easy. The journey alone will bring me pleasure. I will have a frontman get permission to explore and dig areas if I don't I will just go in and dig anyway. With the military experience i will be like a real life Solid Snake. People get lost in the jungle all the time. If I have to do some time in prison then so be it, that's part of the journey.
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This is unreal.
 
You probably could make a "survival archeology" show, problem is that all the "undiscovered" cool shit is in places that are very dangerous, be it climate, geography, or the people. And lots of places don't put you in jail, they put you in the ground. When you get caught digging around in North Korea, Iran, or Columbian drug fields, good luck!

FWIW, instead of US Special Forces go join the French Foreign Legion, that sounds cooler for your show :P

And you really need to be focusing on marine archeology. Go find those pyramids in the great lakes or something!
 
jason10mm said:
You probably could make a "survival archeology" show, problem is that all the "undiscovered" cool shit is in places that are very dangerous, be it climate, geography, or the people. And lots of places don't put you in jail, they put you in the ground. When you get caught digging around in North Korea, Iran, or Columbian drug fields, good luck!

FWIW, instead of US Special Forces go join the French Foreign Legion, that sounds cooler for your show :P

And you really need to be focusing on marine archeology. Go find those pyramids in the great lakes or something!
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It's not about sounding cool it's about skills. US Special Forces (Green Berets) is the perfect outfit to join that would give me the skills to survive anywhere.
 
I got a PhD in Paleontology so I could get invited to a secret island dinosaur theme park. That was after I became the sheriff of a resort town in New England so I could battle a 25 foot great white. Next I'm going to get a divorce and become estranged from my kids because I think that will add the right amount of tension during the coming Martian invasion.
 
pretty sure joining special forces still won't get you enough funding for what you're planning

you're better off ignoring all the academics part and just dive straight into the action part, hire an academic/go to libraries for all the research stuff

i'm pretty sure treasure hunters still exist in this day and age, your best bet would be finding shipwrecks imo, i bet there are still tonnes of gold buried under the sea

maybe find one, get your name out there and hope for some evil mastermind/rich dude to hire you
 
If you are truly assuming Neogaf is the go-to reference for the type of archaeology in which charisma and bombastic physical features are at the helm of recovering ancient secrets and supernatural objects and also you aren't just making this thread because SpikeTV is running an Indy marathon then I recommend my overly simplified but very effective two point plan:

1. Stop watching movies
2. Go to school


Let's see how much funding you have for expeditions after a proper education and then we can talk.
 
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