Location: Idaho, Oregon Length: 15 min
For thousands of years, Native American people used Hells Canyon and the Snake River as a trading route, a place for hunting, fishing and gathering…
Location: Arizona Length: 14 min
To the Apache, it was BESH-BA-GOWAH: Metal Camp. To the pioneers of the 1800s, it was just a dusty ruin. But to archaeologists, this ancient pueblo is a gold mine of information. Seven centuries ago a small city of stone stood here: a home to an amazing people who developed a civilization long before the arrival of the Europeans…
Location: Guatemala Length: 24 min.
On a lake set amongst volcanoes in the Guatemalan highlands lies the contemporary Mayan town of Santiago Atitlan…
Location: Peru Length: 7 min
Atipanakuy is a Quechua word meaning "confrontation" or "fight." This imaginative film, much of it in Quechua with English and Spanish subtitles, reflects the Taki Ongoy cultural resistance movement of the 1500s and the rediscovery of Peruvian history through the rebirth of two scissors dancers, who dance through modern Peruvian culture…
Location: Spain Length: 30 min.
The gently rolling hills of the Sierra de Atapuerca in Spain hold many limestone caves used by humans for almost one million years. Using lots of computer 3D graphics, this documentary brings us face to face with discoveries made over the last twenty years at archaeological sites there…
Location: Guatemala Length: 9 min
The Mirador Basin, Guatemala, is noted for its many pre-Classic Maya cities and monuments, predating the Classic Maya sites of nearby Tikal by 800–1200 years…
Location: Cambodia Length: 7 min
Khmer King Jayavarman VII built Banteay Chhmar in northwest Cambodia at the end of the 12th Century using grandiose temple plans similar to those he adopted for Angkor…
Location: Turkey Length: 11 min
An ancient Armenian capital now part of Turkey in the heart of the South Caucasus region, Kars alternately came under Byzantine, Turkish, Georgian, Russian, and Armenian control…
Location: Utah Length: 57 min
When it was revealed in 2004, Range Creek Canyon became a worldwide sensation. In a special parcel of land wedged in a remote corner of Utah, the Wilcox family had protected hundreds—if not thousands—of ancient Fremont Culture archaeological sites.
Location: Florida Length: 28 min
Before Spanish explorers arrived 500 years ago, Florida was home to a variety of sophisticated and colorful native societies, including diverse groups such as the Calusa, Apalachee, Timacua, and Tequesta…