Exploring contemporary archaeology with The Last of Us

Franki Webb
2020
The Last of Us shows human society severely decimated by the Cordyceps infection, a fungal pathogen that attacks insects but manages to jump onto human hosts. Metaphorical in nature the infected represent "the dying remnants of a past society," (Farca and Ladeveze 2016, p.8)
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