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America from the Ground Up! Season 1. Episode 5, The science of archaeology.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeology--Methodology.
- Archaeology.
- Radiocarbon dating.
- Archaeological geology.
- Underwater archaeology.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (27 minutes)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [Mount Pleasant, MI] : Central Michigan University, [2014]
- [Eugene, Oregon] : Heritage Broadcasting Service, [2014]
- System Details:
- digital
- Summary:
- In a change of pace from the previous episodes, this installment, entitled "The Science of Archaeology," discusses standard processes of finding, sampling and excavating archaeological sites. It also explores ways in which archaeologists process, preserve and interpret the artifacts that such excavations uncover. This episode uses longer film segments, selected from interviews and discussions included in other episodes of this series, to present ways in which archaeologists discover, acquire and reduce raw data about the past into meaningful hypotheses regarding the human significance of those data, using especially examples from the archaeology of the North American sites addressed in this series.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on March 31, 2025).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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