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  Dead Good Trailer

  April 21, 2012 / Education, Film & TV
  Views: 19,687

  We joined Archaeology for Schools at the Museum of Liverpool to have a look at their tours and workshops. Must say it was a great day and we would recommend the tours to anyone young or old! Full video coming soon… For Bookings Contact: Dean Paton Archaeology Co-ordinator Archaeology for Schools C.I.C — a not for profit community interest company Phone: +44 (0)1244 940 976 Mobile: 07896977889 info@archaeologyforschools.co.uk http://www.archaeologyforschools.co.uk In the mean time, follow them on Twitter: @arch4schools Or follow [...]

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  Virtual Vinča

  April 20, 2012 / Education, Featured, Film & TV, Technology
  Views: 25,696

  http://virtualvinca.com walktrough Virtual Vinča is an interdisciplinary digital art work of student Natalija Stojanović at the University of Art in Belgrade, Serbia. As a research scholar financed by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia Natalija chose to specialize in archaeology. She created a website with the aim of showing the public the Neolithic figurines excavated from 1998 to 2009 (and the most famous ones) at the archaeological site Vinča-Belo Brdo. Apart from creating 3D models [...]

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  Vinča figurines

  April 20, 2012 / Education, Film & TV
  Views: 19,762

  The Vinča culture is known worldwide for its figurines. They usually represent people, but some are in the shape of animals. These figurines are a treasure trove of data. They tell us a lot about the clothing, hairstyles and body decorations of the Vinča people as well as about the social organization of their communities. But how did they make these figurines​? Fine clay was mixed with sand and sometimes with a little chaff. The obtained mass was shaped as [...]

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  The Seal Stone

  April 19, 2012 / News
  Views: 16,113

  A rare example of Aleutian Island petroglyphs was recently donated to the University of Alaska Museum of the North. Go behind the scenes at our Open House to learn more about the museum’s artifacts and specimens. http://www.uaf.edu/museum/calendar/

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  History in the making ‘Italy’

  April 18, 2012 / Comedy, Film & TV
  Views: 18,757

  BBC Cymru Wales promotional campaign for the 6 Nations 2012 continues its journey through previously unseen Welsh history and returning, this time, to Wales in AD 74.

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  Archaeology of UAE and Building the Pyramids

  April 18, 2012 / Education, Featured, Film & TV
  Views: 18,799

  Animation entry for Habib Award Media Competition . by Khaula Yousef Hasan Ali Alloughani Noura Abdalla Mohamed Ali Al Jasmi SHC Archaeology of UAE This Animation describe how the archaeology in the UAE is important which the government makes research in many places in different area, we focused in this animation about Almaliha area and the oldest thing artefacts. We want to showcase the heritage richness with definition and translation, helps the viewer to understand archaeology in the UAE. Egypt [...]

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  Sources: Susanna Braund on the Sirens

  April 16, 2012 / Education, Featured
  Views: 14,755

  Prof. Susanna Braund (UBC) explores the ancient Greek myth that associates the Sirens with danger, and the reception of the myth by the outstanding contemporary Canadian poet Margaret Atwood.

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  Rome Reborn 2.2

  April 11, 2012 / Education, Technology
  Views: 18,188

  This video presents a fly-through of the latest version of Rome Reborn (2.2). The new version incorporates some new content (including the Pantheon) and for the first time includes animations. Rome Reborn is an international initiative to create a 3D digital model of the ancient city as it might have appeared in A.D. 320. For more about the project, please see: www.romereborn.virginia.edu. For more information, contact the project director, Prof. Bernard Frischer at: bernard.d.frischer@gmail.com; cell +1-310-266-0183.

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  Dr Jacqui Mulville at TEDxCardiff 2012

  April 11, 2012 / Education, Featured, Film & TV
  Views: 17,229

  An early interest in zoology combined with exposure to the thrill of archaeological discovery led Jacqui into the world of zooarchaeology — the study of human:animal interactions in the past. The result was a career in archaeology that has spread to work on material throughout Britain and across time. Now a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University she leads the Cardiff Osteological Research Group and is most famous for discovering the first ‘Royal Corgi’. Outside of the lab Jacqui has run [...]

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  Man’s ‘Earliest Fire Use’

  April 4, 2012 / News
  Views: 14,213

  Fascinating new evidence suggests the first homo erectus-created fires actually occurred 300,000 years earlier than we thought they did, fundamentally changing the timeline of human evolution. See the full story here: http://www.pasthorizonspr.com     for the Daily Conversation Add TDC to your circles on Google+ https://plus.google.com/100134925804523235350/posts Join the conversation on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/thedailyconversation Follow The Daily Conversation on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/thedailyconvo

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  Salt Making at Anderby Creek, Lincolnshire

  April 3, 2012 / Experimental, Film & TV
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  Salt making demonstration on the beach at Anderby Creek, Lincolnshire. Organised by artsNK and Heritage Lincolnshire, 25 March 2012. Demonstration given by Andrew and Annelise Fielding and Tom Lane. Two types of ceramic salt pan were used. 1. A pair of small pans had a peat fire lit directly underneath them. 2. A set of lozenge shaped salt pans, based on examples discovered at Ingoldmells Beach (just south of Anderby near Skegness). These salt pans were supported on pedestals of [...]

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  Fasti Online: Church of St. Mark between the Via Appia and Via Ardeatina

  March 31, 2012 / Excavation, Film & TV, News, Technology
  Views: 21,777

  Italian excavations between the Via Appia and the Via Ardeatina on the outskirts of Rome, in an area densely occupied by the famous catacombs, have revealed an unusual and rare circus-shaped early Christian funerary basilica containing more than 1000 burials believed to be the church commissioned by St. Mark, who served as pope for 263 days in AD 336. See more videos at: WEDIGROME

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  Fasti Online: Pompeii Archaeological Research Project

  March 31, 2012 / Excavation, Film & TV, News
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  The Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia, an American research project, is re-writing the social and economic history of Pompeii between the 2nd century BC and its destruction in AD 79 by excavating an overlooked and under-studied middle-class neighborhood in the shadow of the great public spaces. See more videos at: WEDIGROME

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  Fasti Online: Excavations on the northeastern slopes of the Palatine hill

  March 31, 2012 / Excavation, Film & TV, News, Technology
  Views: 20,500

  This big dig in the heart of Rome has been making extraordinary discoveries and rewriting the history of the city between the Colosseum and the Forum since 1986. This video takes you inside the fence and beyond the newspaper articles that have made headlines around the world. See more videos at: WEDIGROME

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  Ancient Stringed Instrument – Replica being played

  March 30, 2012 / News, Re-enactment
  Views: 19,944

  Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Culture Fiona Hyslop has revealed a small wooden fragment that it is believed comes from a lyre. It has been burnt and broken, but the notches where strings would have been placed are easy to distinguish on the artefact. Experts believe the remains are of the earliest stringed instrument ever found in Western Europe – dating to more than 2,300 years ago – at an excavation on the Island of Skye. Music archaeologists Dr Graeme Lawson [...]

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