With Indiana Jones being an archaeologist and how archaeology is a field in which it is necessary to specialize. I was thinking that Indiana Jones might have specialized in southwestern archaeology, and here are my reasons for that hypothesis.
(Acquired from ?theraider.net? timeline)
Examples:
- He lived in Utah from 1912 to at least 1914.
Summer 1912: Back at home in Utah, Indy acquires his famous fedora, some initial experience with a bullwhip and a lifelong horror of snakes. Indy also discovers that many treasures do not end up in museums, but rather in the hands of private treasure hunters when the Cross of Coronado is taken from some Indian ruins. (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)
Late Summer 1912: Later in the summer, Indy meets an Anasazi man who claims to be Billy the Kid. With his help, Indy helps stop a pair of bank robbers. (Young Indiana Jones and the Lost Gold of Durango -- Random House)
- Works or Travels in the Southwest
May/June 1928: Indy spends the 1927-1928 school year teaching at a small New England college. Once classes end, he plans to resume studies with fellow archaeologist Mara Rogers (they met during the southern France dig in 1924). Unfortunately, he receives a telegram announcing delays in their plans, so Indy heads off to Utah to study the Anasazi ruins without her. His traveling companion, Jack Shannon, is kidnapped by Roland Walcott (long thought dead) who mistakes Jack for Indy. Walcott's plan is to trade Indy/Jack for Mara's knowledge of a unicorn's horn. But Mara turns the tables on Walcott, saying that she will kill Indy herself before giving up the horn. Later, Marcus Brody and Indy work together with a fake horn to trick Mara out of the original. Once they recover the horn, Indy returns to the Anasazi ruins and replaces the horn in the crevice which dynamite. (Indiana Jones and the Unicorn's Legacy -- Bantam Books)
- In the Southwest during the Sky Pirates incident. 1930
- Before the Hollow Earth Expedition he is in the southwest looking for lost Spanish gold.1934
August 1943: When he returns to the states, Indiana rescues a colleague, Petryk, from Chicago mobsters and then goes to Utah to check on some seemingly contradictory information about the Anasazi culture. After a few adventures with the mobsters, Indy meets with some of the supposedly extinct Indians and finally returns to Barnett College. (Indiana Jones and the Lost People -- Goldmann)
1947: Indiana Jones, exhausted by conflicts, is trying to resume his digging career in the American Southwest, far from the excitement of his treasure-hunting past. Fortunately for Indy's adventurous soul, the world is still a dangerous place. The Soviet Union has slammed an Iron Curtain down across Europe, provoking the Cold War that will occupy East and West for half a century. Communist agents are everywhere, searching for a weapon to tip the balance of power in their favor. And they may have found something useful in the desert ruins of Babylon, the legendary Tower of Babel. Gennadi Volodnikov, an unorthodox Russian scholar, thinks the Tower housed a machine to reach across the dimensions of space and time, inspired by the winged god Marduk. When gears began to clatter, alarmed Babylonians toppled the Tower, scattering four of Marduk's disciples -- and parts of the machine -- to the far corners of the globe. Indy races the Soviets to recover those parts and stop them from repairing "Infernal Machine". (Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine -- LucasArts)
(Acquired from ?theraider.net? timeline)
Examples:
- He lived in Utah from 1912 to at least 1914.
Summer 1912: Back at home in Utah, Indy acquires his famous fedora, some initial experience with a bullwhip and a lifelong horror of snakes. Indy also discovers that many treasures do not end up in museums, but rather in the hands of private treasure hunters when the Cross of Coronado is taken from some Indian ruins. (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)
Late Summer 1912: Later in the summer, Indy meets an Anasazi man who claims to be Billy the Kid. With his help, Indy helps stop a pair of bank robbers. (Young Indiana Jones and the Lost Gold of Durango -- Random House)
- Works or Travels in the Southwest
May/June 1928: Indy spends the 1927-1928 school year teaching at a small New England college. Once classes end, he plans to resume studies with fellow archaeologist Mara Rogers (they met during the southern France dig in 1924). Unfortunately, he receives a telegram announcing delays in their plans, so Indy heads off to Utah to study the Anasazi ruins without her. His traveling companion, Jack Shannon, is kidnapped by Roland Walcott (long thought dead) who mistakes Jack for Indy. Walcott's plan is to trade Indy/Jack for Mara's knowledge of a unicorn's horn. But Mara turns the tables on Walcott, saying that she will kill Indy herself before giving up the horn. Later, Marcus Brody and Indy work together with a fake horn to trick Mara out of the original. Once they recover the horn, Indy returns to the Anasazi ruins and replaces the horn in the crevice which dynamite. (Indiana Jones and the Unicorn's Legacy -- Bantam Books)
- In the Southwest during the Sky Pirates incident. 1930
- Before the Hollow Earth Expedition he is in the southwest looking for lost Spanish gold.1934
August 1943: When he returns to the states, Indiana rescues a colleague, Petryk, from Chicago mobsters and then goes to Utah to check on some seemingly contradictory information about the Anasazi culture. After a few adventures with the mobsters, Indy meets with some of the supposedly extinct Indians and finally returns to Barnett College. (Indiana Jones and the Lost People -- Goldmann)
1947: Indiana Jones, exhausted by conflicts, is trying to resume his digging career in the American Southwest, far from the excitement of his treasure-hunting past. Fortunately for Indy's adventurous soul, the world is still a dangerous place. The Soviet Union has slammed an Iron Curtain down across Europe, provoking the Cold War that will occupy East and West for half a century. Communist agents are everywhere, searching for a weapon to tip the balance of power in their favor. And they may have found something useful in the desert ruins of Babylon, the legendary Tower of Babel. Gennadi Volodnikov, an unorthodox Russian scholar, thinks the Tower housed a machine to reach across the dimensions of space and time, inspired by the winged god Marduk. When gears began to clatter, alarmed Babylonians toppled the Tower, scattering four of Marduk's disciples -- and parts of the machine -- to the far corners of the globe. Indy races the Soviets to recover those parts and stop them from repairing "Infernal Machine". (Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine -- LucasArts)
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