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Video News from TAC - November 2013
Eugene’s Civic Stadium; Chinle Valley Singers in China
(1) Civic Stadium in Eugene, Oregon, is one of the last remaining Depression-era ballparks in the US. Last used for public events in 2009, it now stands empty, its future uncertain. This short video is a trailer for a planned documentary on the stadium and its place in the local community. (2) The Chinle Valley Singers are a Navajo family group who have shared their rich cultural tradition since 1981 in story-telling and in songs and dances adapted from ceremonial contexts. In 2012 they performed for audiences at the University of Shanghai in China.
Video News from TAC - October 2013
Lummi Nation and coal exports; Day of the Dead; They Called Him Skipper
(1) Jay Julius, fisherman and tribal council member of the Lummi Nation, who have lived on Puget Sound for millenia, opposes the use of Cherry Point, Washington, as the largest coal export terminal in North America. (2) The Winchester Cultural Center in Las Vegas is where diverse Hispanic communities share their ways of celebrating the Day of the Dead in a multi-day festival. (3) Lacey V. Murrow was the Director of Highways for Washington State from 1933 to 1940 and is best known for building the historic Lake Washington floating bridge.
Video News from TAC - September 2013
Hozomeen chert; WWII segregation; Guam trailer
(1) Used for making flaked stone tools, Hozomeen chert illustrates a 10,000 year tradition of Native American involvement with the rugged North Cascades of Washington State. (2) Archaeologists at Tyntesfield, England, investigate an American military complex where segregated soldiers may have resided during World War II. What went on there proves to be hard to determine. (3) The ALI film team visited Guam in June 2013 for a film project about Guam’s cultural heritage. Here we present our film trailer.
Video News from TAC - August 2013
Ebey Slough Bridge; Sandor Lau interview
(1) In 1927, a new and innovative bridge closed one of the last gaps in the Pacific Coast Highway between Mexico and Canada: Ebey Slough between Everett and Marysville, Washington. In 2012, the Washington State DOT decommissioned the bridge and documented its historic character. (2) Rick Pettigrew interviews Sandor Lau about his planned TV series, “Sandor’s Oregon Trail.” Sandor intends to trek the old Oregon Trail and tell its story in front of millions of viewers.
Video News from TAC - July 2013
Arizona roadside prehistoric site; Tom Dillehay interview
(1) In an area of northeastern Arizona formerly used by the Zuni, Hopi, Apache, and Navaho, archaeologists with the Arizona Department of Transportation explore a prehistoric habitation site, the Beethoven Site. The area was slated for future highway construction work. (2) At TAC Festival 2013, Rick Pettigrew interviews Keynote Speaker Tom Dillehay, whose work at the Monte Verde Site in Chile overturned the Clovis-First hypothesis for the peopling of the Americas. He explains how it took two decades of persistent research to accomplish this feat.
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Audio News from Archaeologica, 24 November- 30 November 2013
Seasonal encampment in Labrador; revealing results from Buddha’s birthplace; early Neolithic earthworks near Stonehenge; obsidian phallic objects in New Britain
Audio News from Archaeologica 17 November - 23 November 2013
Middle Bronze Age wine cellar in northern Israel; Mexican temple dedicated to the Lord of Death; organic compounds preserved Egyptian meat mummies; ancient Siberian DNA links to Native Americans.
Audio News from Archaeologica 10 November - 16 November 2013
Huge Roman port revealed by excavation; ancient temple in Iran; Crusader burial with two swords in Finland; part of Confederate ironclad raised to the surface.
Audio News from Archaeologica 3 November - 9 November 2013
Ancient cave art found in Brazil; Roman eagle sculpture stuns British archaeologists; massive stones moved on ice to Beijing’s Forbidden City; Egyptian mummy’s beaded collar reassembled.
Audio News from Archaeologica 27 October - 2 November 2013
Pollen study indicates drought ended the Levant Bronze Age; Norwegian Viking silk came from Persia; pre-Inca religious center in northern Peru; volunteer retirees save Roman history.
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