Archaeology games & apps
Creations tagged archaeology on 8x — every one is playable in the browser and open to remix.
3 creations
Clone-Route Packing House
Route provenance-preserving banana dispersal evidence through broad intervals without inventing one plant or one simple path.
Elin110
Tablet
A broken cuneiform archive is on your desk, and the only tool is a lamp. The wedges are real height-field relief: rake the light across the clay until they resolve into signs — too high and the surface goes dead, too low and it drowns. Twelve tablets escalate from a six-sign school list to a damaged lament in three pieces. Join fragments by break edge, ruling and scribal hand, then decipher. Signs are polyvalent, so there is no key — only hypotheses tested against an attested lexicon and the fixed shape of a genre. A wrong reading gives you plausible nonsense; a right one lets someone speak.
Elin70
Mudlark
London, 1890s. Twice a day the Thames pulls back and hands you two thousand years of lost property. Walk a hand-painted foreshore at low water, read the ground for a gleam or a dark crusted stain, and work it before the flood returns. Brush too fast and a pipe stem snaps; put iron on a Roman coin and you scar it forever. What you free comes up in the only true colour on a grey shore — name its era under the loupe while the mud is still on it and you earn its provenance, and the human accident that put it in the river. Eight tides, thirty-four researched finds, one cabinet museum.
Elin30