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  • History of the Salmon River at the Cooper’s Ferry Locality

    History of the Salmon River at the Cooper’s Ferry Locality

    Dr. Loren Davis of Oregon State University’s Anthropology Department talks about the history of the Salmon River near the Cooper’s Ferry locality

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  • National Museum of Iran

    National Museum of Iran

    National Museum of Iran, aging more than 70 years, containing 300,000 museum objects in an area more than 20,000 square meters, is not only the largest museum of History and Archaeology of the country, but ranks as one of the few most prestigious museums of the world in regard to grand volume, diversity and quality of its huge monuments. In the Iranian museum tradition it is considered Iran’s mother museum, aiming at preserving relics of the past to hand down [...]

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  • Salt Making at Anderby Creek, Lincolnshire

    Salt Making at Anderby Creek, Lincolnshire

    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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  • Hominid Death Trap

    Hominid Death Trap

    The Two Million Year Old Boy : http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ What caused so many ancient hominids to fall to their deaths at this South African cave?

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  • Stonehenge – Ylvis (Music Video)

    Stonehenge – Ylvis (Music Video)

    Ylvis – “What’s the meaning of Stonehenge?” The incredible ballade of Stonehenge by norwegian comedian Vegard Ylvisaker. From the norwegian talk show ‘I kveld med Ylvis’ on TVNorge. Lyrics: My life is so successful. I’ve got everything a man could ever need. Got a thousand dollar haircut and I even got a talk show on TV. And I know I should be happy, but instead there’s a question I can’t get out of my head. What’s the meaning of Stonehenge? [...]

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  • Mass Viking Decapitations

    Viking Apocalypse National Geographic : THU DEC 22 2012 http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ What violent event caused this many beheadings? Search terms:masa de vikingos

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  • Ephemera: Archaeology on Television

    Ephemera: Archaeology on Television

    Ephemera, made in 2004 by Sean Caveille, is a short film about the popularity of archaeology/history programmes on TV. At the time, new quick-paced series like Extreme Archaeology (Channel 4) and Hidden Treasure (BBC 2) were desperately trying to capture new viewers by turning archaeology into that most dreaded of adjectives – ‘sexy’. Four years later and the BBC are trying to do the same thing again with Bonekickers… Ephemera has a distinctive visual style which is achieved through placing [...]

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