Past Horizons TV — Archaeology Videos

January 29, 2012 / Featured, Film & TV /
Views: 1,333

Deganwy Castle: Siege, Bloodshed & Destruction

This film briefly covers over 2000 years of history at the site of Deganwy Castle, North Wales, and was produced by Myrddin Phillips, a newly graduated Welsh film producer. It was created as part of an community open day event to celebrate the work that Cadw have now completed, in conserving, interpreting and making accessible this important Welsh Castle for the enjoyment and appreciation of future generations. The hugely successful event, packed full of heritage based activities focused around the [...]

January 27, 2012 / Featured, Film & TV /
Views: 1,816

Cultural Heritage and the BLM Oregon

The archaeological and historic sites the BLM manages are known as cultural resources. Cultural resources can include a vast range in types of sites and landscapes that result from past human activities. Archaeological sites on public lands in Oregon and Washington include rockshelters, quarries, campsites, village sites, and rock art sites. Historic sites and structures on public lands include lighthouses, ranches and homesteads, railroad logging camps, Civilian Conservation Corps sites and many roads and trails. Some sites have traditional cultural [...]

January 26, 2012 / Comedy, Featured, Film & TV /
Views: 2,014

Stonehenge – Ylvis (Music Video)

Ylvis – “What’s the meaning of Stonehenge?” The incredible ballade of Stonehenge by norwegian comedian Vegard Ylvisaker. From the norwegian talk show ‘I kveld med Ylvis’ on TVNorge. Lyrics: My life is so successful. I’ve got everything a man could ever need. Got a thousand dollar haircut and I even got a talk show on TV. And I know I should be happy, but instead there’s a question I can’t get out of my head. What’s the meaning of Stonehenge? [...]

January 24, 2012 / Featured, Technology /
Views: 2,429

The Sweet Track, Somerset – In the Groove

A run along the full (2km) length of the Sweet Track, an Early Neolithic timber built walkway across a patch of the Somerset Levels. This is a fabulous record of the track, the connections it has with further afield and has a damn good beat as well.! Check out Digital Digging here: http://digitaldigging.co.uk/

January 21, 2012 / Featured /
Views: 2,842

Bronze Age Gold of Somerset

The Bronze Age gold hoard from Priddy is one of the most important finds to be made in Somerset in recent years. Curator of Archaeology, Steve Minnitt, is passionate about objects from the past. He wants to share what these artefacts meant to people thousands of years ago.

January 20, 2012 / Education, Featured /
Views: 2,929

How To Use a Handheld GPS in Survey

This video is one of a series of four training videos that have been created by the Scotland’s Rural Past (SRP) project to provide guidance on different archaeological survey techniques. SRP is run by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS). Find out more at http://www.rcahms.gov.uk and follow them on Twitter http://twitter.com/rcahms and Facebook http://on.fb.me/bDIHwV

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An archaeological cremation

February 4, 2012 / Experimental, Re-enactment
Views: 120

Archaeologist Paul Duffy conducts an unusual experiment using a pig as stand-in for a human being (health and safety gone mad!). How will the remains compare with our ancestors’ bones after their bodies were cremated? It’s all part of the Discover Bute Family Midsummer Celebration at Scalpsie on the Isle of Bute

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Cardiff University Conservation Tour

February 2, 2012 / Education
Views: 532

Produced by Arianna Carini and Marisa Kalvins MSc in Conservation Practice: http://courses.cardiff.ac.uk/postgraduate/course/detail/1087.html MSc in Professional Conservation: http://courses.cardiff.ac.uk/postgraduate/course/detail/240.html MSc in Care of Collections:http://courses.cardiff.ac.uk/postgraduate/course/detail/241.html

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Duplicating the Fossils of Human Evolution at Penn

January 31, 2012 / News, Technology
Views: 608

Discovering a multi-million year old human fossil may represent a truly one-of-a-kind look into the history of the human species, but even the most well preserved specimen is not much use in a vacuum. Fossils must be compared to each other to give scientists insight into where they fit in the long progression to humans of today, and here, the rarity of such finds are a real obstacle. Janet Monge has a solution. As the associate director and manager of [...]

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USC Scientist Cracks Mysterious “Copiale Cipher”

January 31, 2012 / Film & TV, News
Views: 620

USC’s Professor Kevin Knight is part of an international team that finally cracked the “Copiale Cipher,” a strange, 105-page message handwritten in abstract symbols and Latin letters revealing the rituals and political leanings of a 18th-century secret society in Germany. Knight, a computer scientist at the USC Information Sciences Institute, is now targeting other famous unsolved codes, such as the last section of “Kryptos,” an encrypted message carved into a granite sculpture on the grounds of the CIA headquarters. But [...]

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Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) – Official Trailer

January 31, 2012 / Film & TV
Views: 614

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting. Released on 2011 Directed by: Werner Herzog

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Virtual Archaeology and the Stonehenge landscape

January 30, 2012 / Film & TV, Technology
Views: 803

Using quad bikes and computer gaming software, archaeologists are reconstructing the landscape around Stonehenge to learn more about this ancient monument. Read more about new discoveries at Stonehenge in this Scientific American feature: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=putting-stonehenge-in-its-place For latest videos from the Scientific American video page :http://scientificamerican.com/video.cfm

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Deganwy Castle: Siege, Bloodshed & Destruction

January 29, 2012 / Featured, Film & TV
Views: 1,334

This film briefly covers over 2000 years of history at the site of Deganwy Castle, North Wales, and was produced by Myrddin Phillips, a newly graduated Welsh film producer. It was created as part of an community open day event to celebrate the work that Cadw have now completed, in conserving, interpreting and making accessible this important Welsh Castle for the enjoyment and appreciation of future generations. The hugely successful event, packed full of heritage based activities focused around the [...]

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Hominid Death Trap

January 29, 2012 / Film & TV
Views: 845

The Two Million Year Old Boy : http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ What caused so many ancient hominids to fall to their deaths at this South African cave?

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Cultural Heritage and the BLM Oregon

January 27, 2012 / Featured, Film & TV
Views: 1,817

The archaeological and historic sites the BLM manages are known as cultural resources. Cultural resources can include a vast range in types of sites and landscapes that result from past human activities. Archaeological sites on public lands in Oregon and Washington include rockshelters, quarries, campsites, village sites, and rock art sites. Historic sites and structures on public lands include lighthouses, ranches and homesteads, railroad logging camps, Civilian Conservation Corps sites and many roads and trails. Some sites have traditional cultural [...]

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Stonehenge – Ylvis (Music Video)

January 26, 2012 / Comedy, Featured, Film & TV
Views: 2,015

Ylvis – “What’s the meaning of Stonehenge?” The incredible ballade of Stonehenge by norwegian comedian Vegard Ylvisaker. From the norwegian talk show ‘I kveld med Ylvis’ on TVNorge. Lyrics: My life is so successful. I’ve got everything a man could ever need. Got a thousand dollar haircut and I even got a talk show on TV. And I know I should be happy, but instead there’s a question I can’t get out of my head. What’s the meaning of Stonehenge? [...]

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UAV technology in aerial archaeology

January 26, 2012 / Technology
Views: 1,261

Microcopter camera platform use in archaeology. From the Hungarian company http://www.deltahf.hu/

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In search of shipwreck Royal Charlotte

January 25, 2012 / Excavation
Views: 1,390

On 4 January 2012, an Australian National Maritime Museum archaeological expedition team set out to Frederick Reef in the Coral Sea to locate the remains of the India bound ship Royal Charlotte, shipwrecked in 1825. With great success the team did find the remains of the wreck, including an anchor chain, anchor and cannon. Enjoy this amazing underwater footage of the dive team during their search of the wreck. Read the Maritime Archaeology blog for daily logs of the expedition: [...]

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The Sweet Track, Somerset – In the Groove

January 24, 2012 / Featured, Technology
Views: 2,430

A run along the full (2km) length of the Sweet Track, an Early Neolithic timber built walkway across a patch of the Somerset Levels. This is a fabulous record of the track, the connections it has with further afield and has a damn good beat as well.! Check out Digital Digging here: http://digitaldigging.co.uk/

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Discovering Ancient Italy’s Etruscan and Roman Coast with Earthwatch

January 24, 2012 / Excavation, Travel
Views: 1,503

Volunteer video and slideshow of pictures taken on our archaeological expedition in Italy. For more information, visit www.earthwatch.org/exped/camilli.html You will also find many more projects on the PROJECT SEARCH from Past Horizons

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Iron Age smelting demonstration

January 23, 2012 / Education, Experimental
Views: 1,866

Experimental archaeologist Jake Keen demonstrates some of the concepts of iron smelting in a bloomery furnace using techniques believed to have been used during the British Iron Age. The demonstration was part of Wessex Archaeology’s annual practical archaeology course in 2004

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