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OLD ENGLISH: Battle of Brunanburh Poem (937 AD)

January 6, 2012 / Featured, Re-enactment
Views: 15,176

The Battle of Brunanburh was an English victory in 937 by the army of Æthelstan, King of England, and his brother Edmund over the combined armies of Olaf III Guthfrithson, the Norse-Gael King of Dublin, Constantine II, King of Scots, and Owen I, King of Strathclyde. Though relatively little known today, it was called “the greatest single battle in Anglo-Saxon history before Hastings.” Brunanburh marks “the moment when Englishness came of age.” The battle resulted in an English victory, celebrated [...]

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Dover Beaker Decorating

January 6, 2012 / Experimental
Views: 11,869

Decorating one of the 60 replica Bronze-Age beakers that I made for Canterbury Archaeological Trust Bronze-Age Boat Project.

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Orkney Gateway to the Atlantic Project Episode 13

January 5, 2012 / Excavation, Film & TV
Views: 12,350

The second season of this international collaborative project draws together staff and students from University of Bradford, City University of New York and Orkney College UHI. The aim of this ongoing project is to enhance our understanding of human adaptation to changes in climate and environment, as well as cultural change due to contact and migration (such as the appearance in the archaeological record of Scandinavian culture in the Pictish / Norse transition). This year the focus is on two [...]

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Trossingen Lyre (6th century Germanic Lyre)

January 5, 2012 / Experimental, Re-enactment
Views: 14,311

This video shows Corwen Broch playing his reconstruction of the lyre found recently at Trossingen in Germany. The lyre has six nylgut strings (gut can be substituted on request), a body carved from oak and (unlike the original which had an oak soundboard) a maple soundboard for extra volume. Unlike Anglo-Saxon lyres the Germanic lyres have a one piece body without a separate yoke. These instruments are for sale at www.ancientmusic.co.uk

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Cuneiform Tablet Restoration

January 5, 2012 / Education, Technology
Views: 11,000

Narrated by Assistant Curator, Dr. Adam Aja, this video explores The Semitic Museum’s Cuneiform Tablet Restoration Project. These tablets were excavated from Nuzi (modern day Iraq). The Semitic Museum began this restoration project in 1999. Narrated by Assistant Curator, Dr. Adam Aja, this video explores The Semitic Museum’s Cuneiform Tablet Restoration Project. These tablets were excavated from Nuzi (modern day Iraq). The Semitic Museum began this restoration project in 1999.

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When Archaeology Tools matter – Infomercial!

January 5, 2012 / Comedy, Featured
Views: 13,996

Oh yes, this film from the archives from the 1920s (or is that 7.20pm) shows how having the right archaeology equipment can turn a nightmare into a dream! Yes with Past Horizons Tools, you will save time and money in the long run. http://www.pasthorizons.com/shop you can also join them on facebook! Yes the Facebook thing… come along, bring your friends and have a laugh! http://www.facebook.com/archstore

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Excavation into a Civil War Bombproof at Fort Pocahontas

January 4, 2012 / Excavation
Views: 8,585

Archaeological work reveals the timbers from an underground bombproof structure at Confederate Fort Pocahontas, this is then followed by photographs of other bombproofs from the Civil War. A special thanks to Carson Hudson Jr. and Amy Miller for permission to use their rendition of the Civil War era song, “Was My Brother in the Battle?”, from their CD Hard Times Stephen Foster Remembered. http://www.facebook.com/historicjamestowne

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The Lost World of Old Europe

January 2, 2012 / Education
Views: 9,674

The unknown world of “Old Europe” is revealed in this exhibition, which features more than 200 Neolithic objects from Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova. Among the exhibits are impressive models of the human form, stunning painted pottery and metalwork, including the earliest known assemblage of gold artifacts from the cemetery of Varna. The exhibition, which is organized by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, in collaboration with the National History Museum of Romania, Bucharest [...]

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Julius Caesar: The Siege of Alesia 52 BC

January 1, 2012 / Film & TV, Re-enactment
Views: 12,486

From the film ‘Julius Caesar‘, the siege of Alesia & the Surrender of Vercingetorix King of all the Gauls in September 52 BC. Caesar’s 12 Legions of approx 60,000 men against a total of 330,000 Gauls, 80,000 of them under the command of Vercingetorix were besieged in the Alesia oppidium & 250,000 reliefe force under the command of Commius. The badly outnumbered Romans fought stubbornly & defended both Contravallation & Circumvallation (Defence walls) at once. Despite the odds, the result [...]

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Commercial for archaeology

December 31, 2011 / Film & TV
Views: 7,746

Filmed and edited an archaeology commercial for Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin. This project was extensive because of all the trick shots and underwater filming. It was a great experience.

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Archaeology Adventure Quest

December 31, 2011 / Comedy, Featured, Pseudo-Arch
Views: 21,593

Thrill to the award-nominated adventures of television’s Dirk Logan as he travels the world in search of a quest for archaeology!

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Roman Potter of Middlewich

December 31, 2011 / Film & TV, Re-enactment
Views: 12,251

Anyone who has ever visited the Roman Middlewich festival is certain to have seen a Roman potter busy at work producing Roman pottery & demonstrating his skills in reproducing in authentic detail pots and vessels from the Roman period. Now see this exclusive feature shot and produced by James Balme at the 2011 Middlewich Roman Festival highlighting the amazing reproductions produced by the renowned Trinity Court Potteries. From TVPresenter4History http://www.youtube.com/user/Tvpresenter4history?feature=watch

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3D Technologies in Archaeology

December 30, 2011 / Featured, Technology
Views: 13,332

This is a compilation of some of our other videos, and some new material, put together for the Council for British Archaeology Wessex regional conference, held at the Ordnance Survey headquarters in Southampton, UK. In this short film, you can see the Stonehenge landscape in 3D, view some 3D models of bones from the Amesbury Archer’s skeleton, scans of WWI and WWII graffiti, and a new cut of the Seabed Prehistory archaeological reconstruction. The video was put together by Tom [...]

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Welsh Rock Cannon

December 30, 2011 / News
Views: 7,099

Antur Stiniog are building a £1.3m downhill biking course in the mountains above Llechwedd. During construction the on-site archaeologist discovered a rock cannon causing one of the bike tracks to be re-routed. A rock cannon, also known in Welsh as a cerrig cannan, craig cannan, or in the 19th century, craig fagnel (plural: craig fagnelau; Welsh: magnel – gun, cannon), is a rock or boulder which has been bored with holes which can be partly loaded with black powder (gunpowder) [...]

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The Mystery of Paleontology’s “Hobbit”

December 29, 2011 / Education
Views: 9,857

Ian Tattersall, paleoanthropologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, describes the discovery of fossil LB1 (nicknamed the “hobbit”), and the mystery surrounding the nearly complete skeleton. —– Leakey Lecture – A Debate: Who was the Hobbit? Dr. Robert Martin Field Museum of Natural History Dr. Ian Tattersall American Museum of Natural History Found on an obscure island, the tiny, small-brained, big-footed, “Homo florensiencsis,” or “the hobbit,” is unlike any other discovery. Where did this being come from, [...]

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