Past Horizons TV — Archaeology Videos

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A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape

November 10, 2007 / Featured, Technology
Views: 8,040

This short film shows the landscape around Stonehenge as recorded by LIDAR survey (airborne 3D scanning). Millions of measurements were taken across the landscape, and here they have been turned into a ‘solid’ computer model to show how well the archaeology is recorded by this method. Prehistoric burial mounds (barrows), the great Cursus (a 2km Neolithic monument), the Bronze Age Avenue which links Stonehenge to the River Avon, and other henges such as Woodhenge and Durrington Walls are all clearly [...]

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Welcome to Catalhoyuk

September 18, 2007 / Film & TV, Travel
Views: 8,359

Created by Ona Johnson and Karis Eklund in 2004, this movie introduces the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey, to site visitors and enthusiasts alike.

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Achill Fieldschool Part 2 – 2007

September 16, 2007 / Excavation, Travel
Views: 5,569

Fulacht Fiadh – a bronze age cooking pit (arguable point here) that we tried to reproduce at midsummer. we failed, horribly, but we had a lot of fun doing it! For more on Achill to get involved.. go to http://www.achill-fieldschool.com

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Achill Archaeology Fieldschool part 1 2007

September 16, 2007 / Excavation, Travel
Views: 6,693

15 archaeologists all on a mountain. my! what crazy things we get into! For more on Achill Fieldschool and to to get involved.. go to http://www.achill-fieldschool.com

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Legio II Augusta

August 27, 2007 / Re-enactment
Views: 8,237

Trailer for a documentary on Roman Re-enactment by Imaginos Films (www.imaginosfilms.com)

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Regia Anglorum 2007

August 15, 2007 / Film & TV, Re-enactment
Views: 7,849

Regia Anglorum are a viking /saxon reenactment group in the UK For over a quarter of a century, Regia Anglorum has been re-creating history for audiences around the world. We can offer skilled, properly equipped and highly motivated men and women of all ages. We have horses and riders. We have four full-scale ship replicas and are planning another. We have a secluded permanent site. The best re-enactmen society in the world – probably.! http://www.regia.org/

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The Dig

July 19, 2007 / Comedy
Views: 5,050

The antics of an archaeology dig. The voices were taken off of the radio and cut together into this sound track. I animated the parts with Prunella, the fat opera lady in them.

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BULGARIA sensation – New Golden Mask of Thracian King Found

July 11, 2007 / Excavation, Film & TV
Views: 7,947

Golden mask and silver rhyton for wine were found today by Bulgarian archaeologis led by prof. Georgi Kitov. The findings are made at the Thracian mound close to the Sliven village of Topolchene, announced BNR. The findings are from a rich Thracian grave from IV century BC. It is supposed that the golden mask is of a Thracian king. For 150 years of archaeology in Bulgaria, this is the second time such a mask to be found in the country, [...]

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Bronze Age Burial in Kent

July 11, 2007 / Excavation
Views: 7,907

Kent, England: flint cairn atop tumulus. Saxon burials either side. Here, we dig exploratory trenches and use a metal detector for near-surface finds.

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3D Modeling Pipeline for Archaeological Visualization

May 19, 2007 / Technology
Views: 7,010

Archaeology is a destructive process in which accurate and detailed recording of a site is imperative. As a site is exposed, documentation is required in order to recreate and understand the site in context. We have developed a 3D modeling pipeline that can assist archaeologists in the documentation effort by building rich, geometrically and photometrically accurate 3D models of the site. The modeling effort begins with data acquisition (images, range scans, GIS data, and video) and ends with the use [...]

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VITA: Visual Interaction Tool for Archaeology

May 19, 2007 / Technology
Views: 4,884

We present VITA (Visual Interaction Tool for Archaeology), an experimental collaborative mixed reality system for offsite visualization of an archaeological dig. Our system allows multiple users to visualize the dig site in a mixed reality environment in which tracked, see-through, head-worn displays are combined with a multi-user, multi-touch, projected table surface, a large screen display, and tracked hand-held displays. We focus on augmenting existing archaeological analysis methods with new ways to organize, visualize, and combine the standard 2D information available [...]

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Public Archaeology

May 13, 2007 / Film & TV
Views: 4,919

A short film interviewing students on archaeology. University College London

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Excavation of Saxon Burial in Kent

April 11, 2007 / Excavation
Views: 6,876

The discovery and excavation of a 6th-century Saxon burial on a hillside in Kent, England, using both traditional and novel geophysical kit.

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The History Team

February 25, 2007 / Comedy
Views: 6,834

Archaeology program ‘The History Team’ are excavating a suspected Roman settlement. See more of the animations here: http://www.shoepie.co.uk/

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Project Flavia – Facial reconstruction

February 17, 2007 / Education, Technology
Views: 7,601

A few years back I was asked to reconstruct a face based on a skull found in York. using Photomodeller and a lot of research and hard work – this was the result. First the photographs of the skull were modelled in 3D with hundreds of points, then the thickness of soft tissue added – finally a ‘skin’ was stretched over the model and hair added. It was truly exciting to meet her face to face after nearly 2000 years.

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