Past Horizons TV

Durrington All Saints Infant School learn about Archaeology

PHTV — Fri, 18 May 2012 08:27:08 +0000

Persimmon Homes South Coast organised for Wessex Archaeology to spend the day teaching the children from Durrington All Saints Infant School about the rich history of the area they live in.

Going for Bronze: Making a Reconstruction Pot

PHTV — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:36:53 +0000

This film follows the making of a reconstruction trevisker ware bronze age pot, at a pottery on Dartmoor.

The pot was commissioned by the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter as part of the partnership exhibition ‘Going for Bronze’ with the Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA).

The finished pot can be seen at DNPA’s Postbridge Information Centre Easter – October 2012.

The film is copyright DNPA 2010. For more information go to www.dartmoor.gov.uk

Connecting Colorado

PHTV — Sun, 13 May 2012 14:41:09 +0000

Archaeology & Historic Preservation Month 2012

See how archaeology and historic preservation connect and strengthen communities in Colorado.

http://www.historycolorado.org/

GlowHenge

PHTV — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:51:30 +0000

Stonehenge Riverside Project GlowHenge evening at Woodhenge near Durrington Walls.

Trippy!

From Adam Stanford at Aerial Cam and the Stonehenge Riverside Project

Galatas — the unknown palace

PHTV — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:49:43 +0000

he “Palace” at Galatas was only discovered and excavated in the early 1990s. The site is located 30 kilometres south of Heraklion, near the villages of Galatas and Arkalochori. From the site there are fine views towards southern Crete.

The large, paved central courtyard of the palace runs north-south and measures 16 metres by 32 metres. It was originally surrounded by a four-wing building. Of the four wings the East wing is the best preserved, followed by the North, while the west and south wings are very poorly preserved.The East Wing measures 70 metres by 60 metres and was built between 1700 BCE and 1650 BCE. It was destroyed by fire and rebuilt during the second half of the century. It was finally destroyed around 1500 BCE, probably by earthquakes.

The site is very important as it contains a palace built only in one period. Other palace sites contain remains from several palaces built at different times.

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Archaeology of Ashdown Forest – East Sussex

PHTV — Sat, 05 May 2012 07:21:26 +0000

This film describes how LiDar has been used to discover more about the history and archaeology of Ashdown Forest in East Sussex.

http://www.ashdownforest.org/enjoy/history.php

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Rock Art & Archaeology: Investigating Ritual Landscape in the Mongolian Altai

PHTV — Fri, 04 May 2012 06:24:01 +0000

Rock Art & Archaeology: Investigating Ritual Landscape in the Mongolian Altai

NEH grant funded project to research the Rock Art and Archaeological sites in the Biluut Rock Art Complex in Western Mongolia. The film is shot with Panasonic HDC-TM900 and edited in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Learn more about the project and the videographer here:

http://www.jamesianmills.com/

and here:

http://www.artsmagazine.info/articles.php?view=detail&id=2007112920292456417

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Open Exeter: Creating Data – Archaeology

PHTV — Tue, 01 May 2012 08:07:17 +0000

Duncan Wright, one of the PhD students working on the Open Exeter project, demonstrates how he creates his data. For more information on Open Exeter see: http://as.exeter.ac.uk/library/resources/openaccess/openexeter/

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Standing with Stones

PHTV — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:52:55 +0000

http://standingwithstones.net

Standing with Stones is a remarkable and unprecedented documentary film that takes the viewer beyond Stonehenge on an incredible journey of discovery that reveals the true wealth and extent of Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain & Ireland.

If you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the length and breadth of the British Isles, visiting the most intriguing and enigmatic monuments that our ancestors left us, from Cornwall through England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland to the outer reaches of the Hebrides and Orkney, then you will love this film.

Written and presented by writer and explorer Rupert Soskin and shot and edited by broadcast producer Michael Bott, this film is a stunningly beautiful and absorbing two and a quarter hour tour of our ancient heritage in the company of an engaging and knowledgeable host – the journey of a lifetime.