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Space Archaeology: Alice Gorman at TEDxSydney

May 11, 2013 / Education, Featured, Film & TV
Views: 20,223

Alice Gorman is an archaeologist who specialises in the material culture of space exploration, from its origins in the 1930s through to the present. Her particular focus is orbital debris, or “space junk”, including historic satellites. Her aim is to contribute a cultural-heritage perspective to international agreements on reducing the orbital debris problem. Other areas she has researched and written about include rocket launch sites, tracking stations, Skylab, and Russian landing sites on Venus. Alice is a lecturer in the [...]

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Analyzing the Past – Chemistry, Archaeology, and Art: Ruth Ann Armitage at TEDx

May 6, 2013 / Education, Film & TV
Views: 16,996

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations) [...]

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The Day We Learned To Think

April 28, 2013 / Education, Film & TV
Views: 19,625

Understanding of humans’ earliest past often comes from studying fossils. They tell us much of what we know about the people who lived before us. There is one thing fossils cannot tell us; at what point did we stop living day-to-day and start to think symbolically, to represent ideas about our environment and how we could change it? At a dig in South Africa the discovery of a small piece of ochre pigment, 70,000 years old, has raised some very [...]

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Community Archaeology in the Beman Triangle

March 17, 2013 / Education, Excavation, News
Views: 138,785

Wesleyan’s Sarah Croucher – Community Archaeology in the Beman Triangle Sarah Croucher is assistant professor of anthropology, assistant professor of archaeology at Wesleyan University. She works with her students on a community archaeology project in the “Beman Triangle” in Middletown, CT. The houses built on this land from the 1840s were home to a community of African Americans living in Middletown, tied to the A.M.E. Zion Church. Artifacts discovered in 19th century buried trash pits in the area shed new [...]

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Archaeology’s Dirty Little Secrets with Sue Alcock

February 26, 2013 / Education, Featured, Film & TV
Views: 149,754

The course Archaeology’s Dirty Little Secrets by Sue Alcock from Brown University will be offered free of charge to everyone on the Course Sign up at http://www.coursera.org/course/secrets. Search terms:sue alcockarchaeology\s dirty little secretswhat is archaeology dirtly little sectretsecrets archéologie brown universitysecrets archeologiefacebookArchaeologys Dirty Little secretDIRTY LITTLE SECRET ARCHAELOLOGYarchaeology\s dirty little secretarchaeologys dirty secretarchaeology dirty little secrets

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HCC Dig in Bibracte, France

February 19, 2013 / Education, Excavation, News
Views: 134,320

This summer, students from Howard Community College worked alongside 10 other European Universities at an excavation site in Bibracte, France. Bibracte was one of Europe’s earliest towns — a capital for the Aedui, a Gallic ‘tribe’ conquered by Julius Caesar during the Gallic Wars. HCC is the only US institution to work at the archaeological site. Many thanks to the team’s instructor, Dr. Laura Cripps, for producing this video. http://www.howardcc.edu/academics/international/office_international_education/FranceArchaeologyStudyAbroad/FranceArchaeologyStudyAbroad.html http://www.bibracte.fr/index_uk.php Search terms:bribacte-francebibracte archäologiebibracte excavationsthe bibracte dig

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Great Riddles in Archaeology: King Arthur, Camelot, and the Quest for a Holy Grail

February 17, 2013 / Education, Featured
Views: 138,730

For centuries, the legend of King Arthur, Camelot and the quest for the Holy Grail has captivated the world. Was there really a Holy Grail, and how did it find its way to Britain and the Arthurian legend? Were Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table real historical figures? What does the archaeology of this era tell us? Dr. Richard Hodges, the Williams Director of the Penn Museum and a noted Medievalist, is the kickoff speaker of this popular [...]

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Sword Fighting As It Was For the Vikings

February 9, 2013 / Education, Featured, Re-enactment
Views: 127,519

Watch this webisode and find more videos narrated by Colm Feore at http://www.museumsecrets.tv. Museum Secrets Season 3 – Premiere TV Broadcast in Canada Starts March 14, 2013! Broadcasts on History (Canada) on Thursdays at 9 PM; Fridays at 10 PM and Saturdays at 8 PM. Museum Secrets is a hit TV series and rich media website that travels to the world’s extraordinary museums, revealing the stories of irreplaceable treasures, probing familiar legends and assumptions, and using cutting edge research and [...]

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You Had to Be Strong Just to Wear the Armor as a Viking

February 9, 2013 / Education, Re-enactment
Views: 78,042

Watch this webisode and find more videos narrated by Colm Feore at http://www.museumsecrets.tv. Museum Secrets Season 3 – Premiere TV Broadcast in Canada Starts March 14, 2013! Broadcasts on History (Canada) on Thursdays at 9 PM; Fridays at 10 PM and Saturdays at 8 PM. Museum Secrets is a hit TV series and rich media website that travels to the world’s extraordinary museums, revealing the stories of irreplaceable treasures, probing familiar legends and assumptions, and using cutting edge research and [...]

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The Rock Art Mapping Project (RAMP)

January 28, 2013 / Education, News, Technology
Views: 24,430

As technology moves forward, new methods of capturing, presenting and storing valuable rock art data has become available. The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) together with the African Conservation Trust (ACT) are using state-of-the-art technology to create the first digitized archive of every known San rock art site in the Drakensberg mountain range. This is done using digital photography, 360° digital video, GPS plotting of each site, GIS mapping and 3D laser scanning. All known sites (some not visited since the [...]

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Ruin in the grounds of Drayton Old Lodge, Norwich, UK – octocopter footage

January 28, 2013 / Education, Featured, Technology
Views: 24,240

his is the ruin of a lodge built in around 1432, overlooking the River Wensum and the main road into Norwich at the time. It is surrounded by trees so required careful flying.I will go back in the summer as it looks very different then! For more photos and video please see: http://www.hexcam.co.uk http://www.facebook.com/hexcam Music: (extract from) “Quiet Hours” by onlymeith http://ccmixter.org/files/onlymeith/39658 is licensed under a Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Trash Can Archaeology

January 22, 2013 / Education, Featured
Views: 21,120

2013 Texas Summer Reading Program – What’s in your trash? Educator Kim Lehman invites us to go on an archaeological dig in our own house! Based on materials available in the 2013 Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) Children’s Program manual, Dig Into the Past chapter. Learn more about the Texas Summer Reading Program at https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/projects/trc/index.html What a great way to get kids to think about what they see! Search terms:garbage archaeology kidstrash can archaeology for kidstrash can archeology theme

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Vestal Hairdressing: recreating the “Seni Crines”

January 10, 2013 / Education, Experimental, Film & TV
Views: 25,121

Analysis and recreation (upon a live model) of the “seni crines” hairstyle of ancient Rome’s Vestal Virgin priestesses. Research based on ancient artefacts and primary sources. An amplification of the poster presented at the Archaeological Institute of America annual meeting, January 3-6, 2013. Janet Stephens Search terms:seni crinesصنع اشعار او شعر

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QGIS Tutorial for Archaeologists

January 6, 2013 / Education, Featured, Technology
Views: 28,013

This video tutorial has been designed for those students undertaking the Diploma in Archaeological Studies at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol but works good for anyone wanting a basic structured grounding. in QGIS by Paul Driscoll Search terms:qgis tutorialquantum gis archaeologyدروس quantum gisutilisation qgis tuto archéologietutoriel qgis archéologiequantum gis dla archeologówQGIS チュートリアルqgis tutorial videosarchaeology qgisqgis for archaeology

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Archaeoroutes – Landscape Archaeology

January 2, 2013 / Education, Travel
Views: 25,717

A very brief guide to the archaeological features you can see in the hills of Britain. This was written to provide CPD for mountain leaders and to support the Archaeoroutes range of walks. Go to http://www.archaeoroutes.co.uk/cpd for more information and a quiz… Search terms:archeologia krajobrazuhow to read archaeological landscape景観　考古学景観考古学

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