TAC Fest 2003 Pages
The Archaeology Channel
International Film & Video Festival
Willamette National Forest Scenic Heritage Tours
The following trips will be available to attendees of The Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival. These trips are ALL DAY trips lasting about 7.5 hours. For each trip, roughly 1.5 hours of travel time is required each way. These trips will take place during the day on Thursday, July 17th, and Friday, July 18th. A $15 donation is requested for participants. Space is limited, so pre-registration is required. Please register early. Space availability can be increased if the demand is high. Festival tickets will be required of all participants. All of these trips will be leaving from the McDonald Theatre, 10th and Willamette, in downtown Eugene. There is a public parking facility one block east of the theater. These trips explore various archaeological and geographic sites in the surrounding Willamette National Forest and Oregon Coast. Following are the trip descriptions.
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All trips leave from the McDonald Theatre at 9:00 am and return at 4:30 pm
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1.5 hours of van travel is required each way
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Please bring a sack lunch and beverage (food is available on some trips)
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Bring bug spray, sunscreen, rain jacket, hiking shoes, warm clothing
| July 17th Trips |
McKenzie River Scenic Tour
Date: July 17th
Description: Enjoy spectacular natural & cultural sites along the McKenzie River. Begin with a tour of the historic Fish Lake Remount Station (approx 1 1/2 hours); Visit Clear Lake, a geologic wonder of the western Cascades, formed by a lava flow from Little Nash Crater about 3000 years ago, drowning a mature forest still visible underwater. Eat lunch here at the café or bring your own. Continue on down the river to Sahalie Falls, take a short hike down to Koosah Falls.
Trip Specifics: Path is paved, gently sloping downhill. One way or round trip is possible (waterfall loop 1 1/2 hours, or if time is limited go one way (45 min.) and we'll pick up participants at Koosah. Hike rates EASY to MODERATE.
Spaces Available: 6
People of the Ancient Forests Tour
Date: July 17th
Description: Walk among the tall trees of the Fall Creek drainage while learning about the archaeology of this area of the Western Cascades. Visit Slick Creek Cave near the Bedrock Campground, unfortunately looted several decades ago. Enjoy your picnic lunch at CCC-constructed Clark Creek Organization Camp (bring your own lunch). After lunch, participants can enjoy a leisurely 1/2 mile stroll along a paved interpretive trail through a bit of old growth forest.
Trip Specifics: Hike Rating EASY, as well as being a shorter day trip. Return to Eugene early about 3:00pm.
Spaces Available: 6
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) alumni picnic: Longbow Organizational Camp, Sweet Home Ranger District. THIS IS NOT A GUIDE TOUR but a concurrent EVENT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Contact Joanne West (541-367-9206) or Jan Wellhouser (541-466-5511) for further information.
| July 18th Trips |
Cultural Imprints on the Oregon Coast
Date: July 18th
Description: Head west to the coastal town of Florence and north along the shore to Cape Perpetua Scenic Area, meet atop Cape Perpetua, some 800 feet above sea level for orientation to area and cultural sites. Proceed north to Yachats for lunch at Drift Inn or the Adobe restaurant overlooking the sea. Engage in further discussions of coastal archaeology over lunch. Return to Cape Perpetua, tour visitor center and walk to prehistoric shell middens and CCC camp. Enjoy a brief stop at Heceta Light Station, sand dunes overlook, and Siuslaw prehistoric winter village site en route to Eugene.
Trip Specifics: EASY to MODERATE hike, beach environment. Coastal weather is especially unpredictable. Be prepared for sun, wind, fog or rain.
Spaces Available: 6
Santiam Wagon Road Tour
Date: July 18th
Description: Stroll along about 2&1/2 miles of well preserved wagon road, through native NW forests along the South Santiam River in the Cascade Range while learning about the local natural and cultural history. Bring Lunch to eat along the way and plan to stop for fresh pie or other snacks at the historic Mountain House before heading back down to Eugene.
Trip specifics: This hike would be considered MODERATE due to length and undulating landscape.
Spaces Available: 6
Please contact Archaeological Legacy Institute either by e-mail (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or by phone (541-484-5293) to register for one of these tours.
Symposium on Heritage Film
Downtown Athletic Club, Eugene, Oregon, USA, 18 July 2003
Friday, 18 July 2003, 1-5 PM
The Symposium on Heritage Film provides an opportunity for film makers, distributors, broadcasters, indigenous groups, and archaeologists to come together and share ideas and perspectives. The Symposium format will be fairly informal, involving presentations from individual producers followed by a discussion on goals, problems, techniques, and experiences among those who are connected with, or wish to be connected with, the genre of film on archaeology and indigenous peoples.
Schedule:
Friday, 18 July 2003, 1-5 PM
Location:
Downtown Athletic Club, 10th & Williamette, Eugene, Oregon, USA
$20 contribution requested
Presenters:
- -- Dean Love, Dean Love Productions, Silver Spring, Maryland (producer of Festival-screened film, Cave of the Glowing Skulls)
- -- Michael Majdic, President of Mid-Oregon Production Arts Network, Eugene, Oregon
- -- Richard Pettigrew, Archaeological Legacy Institute, Eugene, Oregon (Festival organizer and producer of The Archaeology Channel)
- -- Ryan Polomski, Austin, Texas (co-director and producer of Festival-screened film, Hand Made: Three Stories from Guatemala): The Spirit of Grass-Roots Media and Cross-cultural Collaboration: A Case Study
- -- Gray Warriner, Camera One, Seattle, Washington (producer of Festival-screened film, Chaco)
To register, please e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to indicate whether you wish to be a presenter or an audience member. We will be taking contributions at the meeting room.
Project Archaeology Teacher Workshop
Downtown Athletic Club, Eugene, Oregon, 17 & 18 July 2003
- Learn about early Oregon peoples and ancient civilizations
- Take home new ideas and classroom projects on civilizations
- Find out how archaeologists work
- Get the Native American perspective on archaeology
- Learn about issues in discovering and preserving our past
- Activities designed for 4th-7th grades can be adapted for any age level
Instructors include experienced Project Archaeology staff archaeologists from the Bureau of Land Management:
- Megg Heath, BLM Heritage Education Project Manager, Anasazi Heritage Center, Dolores, CO
- Fran Philipek, BLM Salem Office Archaeologist, Oregon Project Archaeology State Coordinator
Sign-up Deadline: 8 July
Schedule:
Thursday, 17 July, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm Bring your own lunch or order in with the group
Friday, 18 July, 8:30 - Noon
$45 fee includes
- One free ticket to The Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival at the McDonald Theatre
- Or one free ticket to one of the guided archaeology field trips to the Oregon Cascades and Oregon Coast
- Texts provided: Intrigue of the Past: A Teacher's Activity Guide for Fourth Through Seventh Grade, by Smith, Letts, Moe, and Patterson, BLM, 1997. Exploring Oregon's Past: A Teacher's Activity Guide for Fourth Through Seventh Grades, BLM Oregon State Office, 1997. Archaeology of Oregon, by C. Melvin Aikens, BLM Oregon State Office, 1993, 302 pp.
To register, print and complete the Registration Form and send with your $45 check to TAC Festival, P.O. Box 5302, Eugene, OR 97405. To pay by credit card: Go to http://www.archaeologychannel.org and use the Helping.org link to pay through our on-line donation process. On the form there, enter "for Teacher Workshop" in the "Designation" area. Then mail the Registration Form (with a notation that you have paid by credit card) as above or fax to 541-338-3109.
Children's Program
8:30 a.m. - Noon, Friday, July 18, 2003
University of Oregon Museum of Natural History
1680 E. 15th Ave., Eugene 541-346-3024
http://natural-history.uoregon.edu
Program designed for children aged 6 through 10 years
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Making petroglyphs
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Digging for clues to our history
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Interpreting clues to our history
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Viewing videos on archaeology and indigenous peoples
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Learning about houses of the first peoples in the Northwest
Location: In and around the Museum of Natural History on the University of Oregon campus. Permit parking is available in front of the Museum Access to other parking of 17th Avenue and Columbia Street. Permits are available at the Museum front desk.
Head Instructor: Judith Seagel, Master Teacher with Reno, Nevada, Public SchoolsChildren will be given a juice break.
Fee: $15 Pre-registration is required. Registration deadline is Friday, July 11. Space is limited, so register early.
To register, make check out to TAC Festival and mail with this registration form (print it out and then fill it out) to Children's Program, TAC International Film and Video Festival, P.O. Box 5302, Eugene, OR 97405. Please print.
Child's name_________________________________________ Age__________
Parent or Guardian__________________________________________________
Home phone_____________________ Daytime phone_____________________
E-mail address_____________________________________________________
Brian Fagan
Brian Fagan was born in England and educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied archaeology and anthropology (BA 1959, MA 1962, PhD 1965). He spent six years as Keeper of Prehistory at the Livingstone Museum in Zambia, Central Africa, and came to the U.S. in 1966. He was Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, in 1966/67, and has been Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1967. He is now a leading archaeological generalist, with a recognized expertise in the broad issues of human prehistory. At the same time, he has specialized in teaching, writing, and lecturing about American and general archaeology to the public. Regarded as one of the world's leading archaeological writers, he is the author or editor of 46 books, including seven widely used undergraduate college texts. Fagan has contributed over 100 specialist papers to many national and international journals. He is a Contributing Editor to American Archaeology and Discover Archaeology magazines, and formerly wrote a regular column for Archaeology Magazine. He serves on the Editorial Boards of six academic and general periodicals and has many popular magazine credits, including Scientific American and Gentleman's Quarterly. He has been an archaeological consultant for many organizations, including National Geographic Society, Time/Life, Encyclopedia Britannica, and Microsoft Encarta. Fagan has lectured extensively about archaeology and other subjects throughout the world at many venues, including the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the National Geographic Society, the San Francisco City Lecture Program, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Getty Conservation Institute. He gives an average of 8 public lectures a year and turns down many other invitations. Beyond regular appearances on TV talk shows and radio programs, he has extensive experience with the development of Public Television programs and was the developer/writer of Patterns of the Past, an NPR series in 1984-86. He has worked as a consultant for the BBC, RKO, and many Hollywood production companies on documentaries. In 1995 he was Senior Series Consultant for Time/Life Television's Lost Civilizations Emmy-winning series, which has been aired several times on NBC and the Learning Channel and around the world. He currently involved in a National Geographic Society TV series called "Treasure Seekers." He was awarded the 1996 Society of Professional Archaeologists' Distinguished Service Award for his "untiring efforts to bring archaeology in front of the public." He also received a Presidential Citation Award from the Society for American Archaeology in 1996 for his work in textbook, general writing and media activities. He received the Society's first Public Education Award in 1997.
Jean Clottes
Jean Clottes was born in the French Pyrenees in 1933 and studied at Toulouse University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1975. He was appointed Director of Prehistoric Antiquities for Midi-Pyrénées in 1971. This vast area (bigger than Switzerland) is one of the richest and most famous in France for prehistoric studies and in particular for prehistoric painted cave art. He led excavations on Early Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic, and several Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in the region. In 1992, he was appointed General Inspector for Archaeology at the French Ministry of Culture and in 1993 became Scientific Advisor at the same Ministry for prehistoric rock art, a position he held until retiring in 1999. Dr. Clottes is a member of numerous French and international archaeological councils, commissions and societies and is a former President and currently Honorary President of the Société Préhistorique Française. He has organized a number of national and international conferences on prehistoric art and has taught at Toulouse University and as a visiting professor at UC Berkeley. He has given many public lectures on rock art in France and in other countries (Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia,Canada, China, Denmark, England, Italy, Germany, Luxemburg, Namibia, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA). He is widely known for his research and management work at spectacular Chauvet Cave, the site of the oldest known European cave art, and heads the committee working to protect the art there when it opens to the public in 2005. He is the editor of the International Newsletter on Rock Art (distributed to 106 countries) and has published over 300 scientific articles and written or edited 18 books. He is particularly interested in all aspects of rock art, including its meaning and age as well as its interpretation for the public
| Best Film (by Jury) |
| . A Kalahari Family, Part 5: Death by Myth (Kalfam Productions; John Marshall, Lorna Marshall; Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources; USA) |
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| Honorable Mention (in order): |
| . The Last Days of Zeugma (Gedeon Programmes, France) |
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| The Human Odyssey, Part 1: The Dawn of Man (Tangram - Christian Bauer Filmproduktion, Germany) |
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| The Lost Memory of Easter Island (Gedeon Programmes, France) |
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A Kalahari Family, Part 2: End of the Road (Kalfam Productions; John Marshall, Lorna Marshall; Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources; USA)
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| Special Mention (by Jury) |
| . The Last Days of Zeugma (Gedeon Programmes, France); for its artistry and sense of discovery . |
| Use of Animation (by Jury) |
| . Best Use of Animation: Ground Zero/Sacred Ground (Karen Aqua, USA) |
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| Honorable Mention (in order): |
| . The Last Days of Zeugma (Gedeon Programmes, France) |
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| The Lost Memory of Easter Island (Gedeon Programmes, France) |
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| The House of Hermogenes (Foundation of the Hellenic World, Greece) |
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The Human Odyssey, Part 1: The Dawn of Man (Tangram - Christian Bauer Filmproduktion, Germany)
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| Audience Favorite Competiton (by Festival audience) |
| . Audience Favorite Award: A Kalahari Family, Part 5: Death by Myth (Kalfam Productions; John Marshall, Lorna Marshall; Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources; USA) |
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| Honorable Mention (in order): |
| . The Last Days of Zeugma (Gedeon Programmes, France) |
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| A Kalahari Family, Part 2: End of the Road (Kalfam Productions; John Marshall, Lorna Marshall; Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources; USA) |
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| The Lost Memory of Easter Island (Gedeon Programmes, France) |
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| Return to Belaye: A Rite of Passage (Yellow Cat Productions; Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources; USA) |
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“WPA Archaeology” examines the economic, scientific and cultural impacts of a massive work relief program conducted across Kentucky during the Great Depression. The WPA archaeology program was much more than the jobs it created. It laid the foundation for today’s understanding of Kentucky’s diverse prehistoric American Indian cultures. Some of America’s best and brightest young archaeologists supervised their work. This film joins Dr. Lathel F. Duffield, former University of Kentucky Anthropology professor and member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and Mr. John B. Elliot, former WPA archaeologist, as they explore the diverse legacies of Kentucky’s Depression-era archaeology projects.
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Play with Windows Media Player: 300k or 700k
Length: 27 min.
Country: USA
Distributor: Voyageur Media Group, Inc.
Contact: Tom Law, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Festival Screenings and Awards:
Screened:
Kentucky Educational Television
Kentucky Heritage Council Annual Conference
Honorable Mention:
Columbus International Film and Video Festival
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This trip through the national archaeological parks in Israel reminds us that the people who inhibit the earth share common roots. It also tells how history was during the years that preceded the creation, along with Hebraism, of the two other monotheistic religions, Christianity and Islam.
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Length: 50 min.
Country: Italy
Distributor: Generali Group
Contact: Luise Dario, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Festival Screenings and Awards:
Screened:
Rovereto, Italy 2002
Kineon, Bruselles 2001
Kukaba Antalya, Turkey 2002
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This film explores new archaeological research on the monumental earthworks of the ancient Ohio Hopewell people. About two thousand years ago, the Ohio Hopewell built thousands of monumental earthworks in the central Ohio Valley, including the largest geometric enclosures in the world. No one knows exactly why. Searching for the Great Hopewell Road explores new research into the mysterious legacies of the Hopewell with unprecedented aerial videography, computer animation, rare archival images and compelling interviews with archaeologists, historians and Native Americans.
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Length: 57 min.
Country: USA
Distributor: Pangea Productions, Ltd.
Contact: Tom Law, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Festival Screenings and Awards:
First Place:
Columbus International Film and Video Festival