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Space Archaeology: Alice Gorman at TEDxSydney

May 11, 2013 / Education, Featured, Film & TV
Views: 4,045

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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Geoanalytics at Mammoth Cave National Park

April 17, 2013 / Featured, Technology
Views: 22,497

This video showcases the work being done at North Carolina State University in collaboration with Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky. Here, we present Light Detection and Ranging Data (LiDAR) recorded at the Park. The discrete return points are shown along with surfaces that were interpolated from those points. Initial processing was done by Dr. Nicholas Skowronski (NPS). Post-processing and video creation was done by John Wall.

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Cyber Archaeology

April 3, 2013 / Excavation, Experimental, Featured, Technology
Views: 74,450

Maurizio Forte combines traditional archaeological techniques with new technologies to investigate — and visualize — ancient civilizations. Forte arrived at Duke in January as the William and Sue Gross Professor of Classical Studies. Learn more at https://today.duke.edu/2013/03/mauriz….

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Virtual Roman House Domitia

March 23, 2013 / Featured, Technology
Views: 129,900

Restitution 3D de la villa romaine Domitia Look at the long version : http://youtu.be/6dZdsiyAfoY (voir la version longue). Search terms:domitia roman house

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Panther Cave rock art recorded in 3D

March 8, 2013 / Featured, Film & TV, Technology
Views: 142,417

Best viewed in High Definition. Panther Cave, named after the giant panther at the far end of the site, contains Pecos River and Red Linear style pictographic imagery dating back approximately 4,000 years. Figures range in size from less than 6 inches (~10 cm) to over 10 feet (~3 m) in height. The larger Pecos River style figures are the most prominent, and include colorful human- and animal-like figures. The portion of the shelter shown in this model is approximately [...]

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Faces of Human Ancestors

March 5, 2013 / Featured, Film & TV, Technology
Views: 143,531

(Dan Petrovic): http://dejanseo.com.au/dan-petrovic/ morphed images recently featured on discovery.com Music: Nothing more than random stabbing at different keys in reaction to the video. Recorded live while watching the morph sequence. Credits: Washington State University; Sven Traenkner (c), “Safari zum Urmenschen” (“Safari to Human Ancestors”) exhibition, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Search terms:faces of human ancestorssenckenberg natural history museum faces of human ancestorssven traenkner

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Petroglyphs at Quail Creek: Rock Art from Petroglyph Canyon

February 28, 2013 / Featured, News, Technology, Uncategorized
Views: 11,669

http://www.moderncavepaintings.com – Quail Creek is in Petroglyph Canyon, located in a shaded narrow slickrock canyon. Among the glyphs are several figures with burden baskets. Near the south entrance station is a possible solstice site. In the higher Kolob Terrace region is the site type for the Cave Valley style, a large sandstone cave with dozens of pictographs, some superimposed, in a variety of colors. They date from archaic to Paiute. On the return, the group will see the Quail Creek [...]

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Archaeology’s Dirty Little Secrets with Sue Alcock

February 26, 2013 / Education, Featured, Film & TV
Views: 141,936

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:archaeology\s dirty little secretssue alcockarchaeology dirty little secretsarchaeology\s dirty little secretsecrets archéologie brown university

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

February 17, 2013 / Education, Featured
Views: 137,645

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: 126,215

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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Sand casting of a Bronze Age sword

February 4, 2013 / Experimental, Featured
Views: 78,202

Experimental casting performed in St.Fagans Open Air Museum on 12th January 2013 during the 7th Uk Experimental Archaeology Conference. http://experimentalarchaeology.org.uk/ http://exarc.net/ http://openarch.eu/ http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/stfagans/ http://www.parcomontale.it/ Search terms:zwaard gietenbronze gietenbronzkori kardexperiment about sand castinglooking for sand castingsand casting bronze age swords考古学剣

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Mapping the Layers of Life

February 4, 2013 / Excavation, Experimental, Featured, Technology
Views: 25,489

Bulgaria has several little known archaeological sites that potentially hold the answers to key questions about the foundation of western civilisation. Dr Shawn Ross of UNSW’s Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences led a field trip for the Tundzha Regional Archaelogical Project. With a group of students accompanying him, Mapping the Layers of Life is great example of the research/teaching nexus in action. More info on this project, including the revolutionary digital processes used to share and analyse data: http://humanities.arts.unsw.edu.au/news-and-events/archaeology-goes-digital-1…

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

January 28, 2013 / Education, Featured, Technology
Views: 23,070

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/ Search terms:drayton old lodge ruin

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Trash Can Archaeology

January 22, 2013 / Education, Featured
Views: 20,289

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:kids trash archaeologytrash can archaeology for kidstrash can archaeology theme for [...]

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Deep Time at Tall Hisban, Jordan

January 7, 2013 / Featured, Film & TV
Views: 27,699

Tall Hisban is an archaeological ruin between Madaba and Amman, Jordan. While the complete story of its history and how it interacts with the present day deserves a complete feature film, this short film serves as a teaser to a wider story. Everything was shot by one person during a 3 week dig. Some shots are from the surrounding regions, such as Madaba, Jerash, and Wadi Musa. Typography is “Fontin” by Jos Buivenga of exljbris Font Foundry Search terms:Una visión [...]

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