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Strata: Portraits of Humanity - January 2015

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The Secret Passage; prehistoric Florida canoe update; Roman soldier tombstone in UK

In a short animated film, a small boy discovers an ancient grave by accident and witnesses its looting and destruction. After 3 years soaking in a tank filled with a preservative solution, the 1,100 year old Native American dugout canoe excavated in 2011...

The Town Below

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Development of the modern city of Alexandria, Egypt, has obscured traces of old Alexandria on the surface, but an ancient subterranean world of waterworks still remains to be fully explored. Visitors to the place in classical times admired the cisterns there, which are said to have numbered in the hundreds and formed a true underground city.

Excavations at Bu Maher Fort, Bahrain

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A British archaeology field team explores a historic fort in the small island country of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf to find out what remains beneath the ground. Geoarchaeological investigation reveals a detailed picture of the evolution of this part of Bahrain’s only remaining virgin shoreline.

Tubuai: An Archaic East Polynesian Island

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In 2007, a group of archaeologists from the University of Otago, New Zealand, led by the late Rob Bollt and filmed by Adam Thompson, came to Tubuai, an island in east Polynesia, to look for traces of some of the greatest explorers in human history, who arrived on the island about 1000 years ago.

One Step before Archaeology: The Formation of a Deposition

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Moussai is a small village in the region of Mylopotamos, Crete, abandoned in the late 1960s. In only a few decades, the village has been transformed into an advanced stage of decay.