A senior archaeologist for Eachtra, Finn Delaney, @finndelaney, discusses the rise and fall of archaeology through the boom and bust and today’s technology. ‘Archaeology 2.0′ — It’s not your parents’ Time Team anymore! Filmed at Ignite Galway on October 13th, 2011. Video: Stephen Kavanagh Audio: Bryan Rabbitte Editing: Ciarán Winters
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
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 [...]
Mathew Morris describes the process of undertaking a Archaeological dig in an Urban environment looking for Medieval remains. Mathew Morris is an Archaeologist working for University of Leicester Archaeological Services and was the dig manager on the Greyfriars project – The Search for King Richard III.
While we’re on the topic of interesting studies from Oregon state researchers, let’s take this moment to pivot to our Cooper’s Ferry archaeology series. Tonight marks the first video in an investigative series produced by Beaver news reporter Hayden Wilcox. Hayden was able to travel with associate professor of anthropology Dr. Loren Davis for the summer for an inside look at what it means to be an archaeologist. This report was supported by OSU and the Bureau of Land management. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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/
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…
Archaeologists may not need to get their hands so dirty any more, thanks to the kind of digital technology being pioneered at Southampton University. Its ‘µ-VIS Centre for Computed Tomography’ possesses the largest, high energy scanner of its kind in Europe: a ‘micro-CT’ machine manufactured by Nikon. Capable of resolutions better than 0.1mm – the diameter of a human hair – it allows archaeologists to carefully examine material while still encased in soil.
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 [...]
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/
Archeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed a treasure dating back to the third century BC. Gold rings, figurines, bracelets and buttons have been dug up after over 2000 years of lying in a Bulgarian hillside, ear the village of Sveshtari, 400km from the Bulgarian capital Sofia. The treasure is from the Thracian Empire – a civilisation that competed with the Greeks and Romans for land and influence. Al Jazeera’s John Joe Regan explains.
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!
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
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