The lessons of the past give us clues to what we should look to for the future. Brian Fagan explains how archaeology, anthropology and the study of ancient eras contribute to our comprehension of Climate Change. If you combine the long-term view with the view of today, you get a unique picture of how humans have adapted to ancient climate change - Mr. Fagan says at the International Workshop The Social Dimension of Adaptation to Climate Change in Venice

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Tags: Great Warming Archaeology Anthropology Adaptattion drought flood fagan
Date: 2010-03-07

ARCHAEOLOGY: Broken pottery, glass, tobacco pipes and other items are frequent finds in towns and villages around England. By studying the shapes and patterns we can build up a picture of general household items used in previous Centuries as well as sometimes tracing the origin of manufacture. This information can be useful to archaeologists. This Video presentation covers a small group of items found near the City of Exeter in Devon, England. The music and video are copyright Dawnmist <br> <br> More here <a title="See more of Duncans videos here" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/DawnmistStudio" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Visit Dawnmist Studios here </a>

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Tags: English Archaeology Field Walking 17th and 18th Century Ceramics Clay Tobacco Pipes Devon Exeter
Date: 2010-02-23

Images with phalerae from the Dacian Silver Treasure found at Lupu, Romania... The treasurse is dated between the 1st century BC - 1st century AD. As Romanian archaeologist I.H. Crisan remarked, the female dresses depicted on the phalerae are almost identhicall to those used by Romanian peasant woman in rural areas until the 1950`s. Background music is by Silvestru Lungoci

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Tags: Dacians Thracians Romanians Dacia Romania Burebista Decebal Sarmizegetusa Zalmoxis archaeology
Date: 2010-02-21

Now we head to Hubei Province in Southern China, where archaeologists discovered an ancient tomb filled with priceless relics early last year. Unfortunately for the archaeologists, recently uncovered evidence suggests that they might not be the first ones to have found the tomb.

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Tags: Hubei ancient tomb archaeologist
Date: 2010-02-21

This video shows some of my work on a petroglyph site that I found near El Paso, Texas in January 2010. The linear petroglyphs are found on limestone bedrock and are very difficult to see under normally lighting conditions. To reveal the details of the petroglyphs, a series of mildly convergent stereo pair images were collected to create a high-resolution 3D model of the glyphs. The process produced a 0.5 millimeter 3D model of the surface of the bedrock. Several pecked lines are apparent in the 3D model that are not easily visible otherwise.

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Tags: Petroglyph, Photogrammetry, 3D, Mark Willis, archeology, archaeology, rock art, El Paso, Texas
Date: 2010-02-03

Filmed during a chilly afternoon in January 2010. The prehistoric standing stones of Stanton Drew lay dusted by snow as the Winter sun fades gradually into the day’s end. Painterly clouds, above, behind and around, move with delicate grace.

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Tags: Stanton Drew henge megalith prehistoric monument standing stone
Date: 2010-01-29

A quick look at the story of human remains being found on the foreshore of the Thames in 2009 and how the Thames Discovery Programme got involved. See more at www.thamesdiscovery.org.

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Tags: foreshore, volunteer, Thames, river, skull, skeleton, London
Date: 2010-01-26

http://www.Dig-ItGames.com Roman Town is a fun educational and learning game that explores ancient Roman history, through educational computer games in archaeology - a fun educational PC game for kids ages 8-15. The Roman Town PC Game teaches analytical thinking, team building, multitasking and problem solving. The 3D adventure game download, Roman Town is the premier Roman archaeology, educational, teaching and learning computer game for kids.

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Date: 2010-01-23

This video explores one of our many research strengths at La TrobeUniversity, Studies of the Past. It features interviews with key researchers including: * Professor Tim Murray, Professor of Archaeology and studying the early Melbourne urban landscape. * Professor Marilyn Lake, an award winning Australian historian. * Dr Ben Kear, a paleontologist studying the long-term effects of climate.

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Tags: history archaeology paleontology fossils dinosaurs la trobe la trobe university melbourne australia
Date: 2010-01-09

This episode looks at the Thames Dicovery Programme's Forum and Workshop Day at University College London in November 2009. We also hear from some of the volunteers about why they got involved and what they are doing.

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Tags: Outreach, London, University COllege London, Volunteer, Forum, COnference, Workshop
Date: 2009-12-30

For a better quality version of this video and a full explanation (plus music credits) go to http://www.vimeo.com/7236017. Shot and edited by me during the 2007 field season at Catalhoyuk.

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Tags: turkey, neolithic, excavation, time-lapse, digging, catalhoyuk
Date: 2009-12-30

Chinese archeologists have unearthed a large third-century tomb. They say it could be that of the legendary politician and general, Cao Cao from NDTV

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Tags: NTDTV News China Cao
Date: 2009-12-30

An exploration of how digital 3D visualisation can be used in archaeological site work. truly breathtaking! Credits: experiment of visualization in archaeology, the 3D model was realized using computer vision, meshlab and 3Dstudio Max, the model was visualized in full scale through a cave sistem authors: Nicolo' Dell'Unto and Mattias Wallergård researchers at the Department of design sciences, Lund University

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Tags: digital archaeology virtual archaeology Reflex Lund University 3D coform
Date: 2009-12-13

Vikings in a meeting with a hilarious twist... Director: Per Tomas Govertsen In Northern Norway during the Iron-age, there were about 10-15 Chiefdoms, one of which was at Borg in Lofoten. This is the only place where a Chieftains farm is found. Excavations shows that it was established around 500 AD. Experience the reconstructed longhouse, craftsmen at work, join in the activities, row the Viking ship, see the smithy, an exhibition of original artefacts, animals of ancient breed, café and museum shop. Maybe even a Viking will appear?

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Tags: viking singing vikings lofoten vikingship ormen lange battle rowing family trip holiday urlaub unique expe
Date: 2009-12-13

This is a short video designed to show the average person what it is archaeologists do as well as some of its applications and overall importance.

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Tags: Importance IUP CRM Public Education Heritage Action
Date: 2009-12-12

Study of Ancient Copper Mine in Jordan. using the latest in wireless technology - data capture and storage of 3D information

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Tags: DigitalArchaeology LivingCollections birds education south america trees bushes SnakeCharmers snakes wings da
Date: 2009-12-12

This is the 4th Video made for the Thames Discovery Programme (www.thamesdiscovery.org). In this one, potential volunteers are introduced to the concept of planning timbers; why this is useful and how the information is used.

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Tags: Thames London archaeology Ships timber planning volunteers Foreshore
Date: 2009-12-03

This is the 3rd episode in a series of short films made for the Thames Discovery Programme (www.thamesdiscovery.org). In this episode we see some of what the volunteers get up to and hear from some from some of the people who are already involved in the project.

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Tags: Thames, London, volunteer, surveying, archaeology, foreshore,
Date: 2009-12-03

This video is the ninth of a series of videos following excavations in 2008 in Central London. More have been made to follow the post-ex process as well, but are yet to be uploaded to the project's website (www.lparchaeology.com/prescot/)

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Tags: outreach, digital, London, salvage, excavation
Date: 2009-12-03

A classic scene from the eerie vintage short-film adaptation of the M.R James Story, 'A warning to the Curious'. This is the scene where the amateur archaeologist meets a mysterious local guardian. But not before he warns him with the words 'no digging here'.

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Tags: diggin digging james warning to the curious no here horror vintage BBC norfolk ghost story archaeology
Date: 2009-11-30