Location: Missouri Length: 30 min.
Six hundred years ago, humans, black bears, and mountain lions were inhabiting a Missouri cave. When the entrance collapsed, everything was trapped inside, creating a time capsule not to be discovered until a small hole in the ceiling exposed the cave in 1985…
Location: Worldwide Length: 39 min.
This film tells how forensic sciences and archaeology have been used to investigate international human-rights abuses in trouble spots around the world…
Location: Virginia Length: 11 min
Colonial Virginians and the Church of England established Elk Run Church in the 1740s. After the Revolutionary War, it became part of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia…
Location: South Carolina Length: 27 min.
This is an archaeological adventure at the Topper Site in Allendale County, South Carolina, famous for Clovis and possibly pre-Clovis artifacts. Here, early humans were coming to ancient chert quarries, making rudimentary knives and other tools...
Location: Worldwide Length: 10 min
In this personal-voice and very witty short film by University of Southern California student Amy Ramsey, the archaeologist/filmmaker explores what the public knows, and often misconstrues, about her field of study…
Location: Mauritania Length: 8 min
The golden sun setting between the soft dunes of the Sahara introduces this personal and deeply felt account in which the author reveals to the viewer a page of her intimate diary…
Location: Peru Length: 8 min
The Amazonian peoples of the eastern Peruvian rainforest, 300,000 people in 60 ethnic groups, have rich cultural traditions many centuries old…
Location: Iraq Length: 28 min.
This film in very shocking fashion details the horrendous destruction of the oldest treasures of human civilization held in the museums and archives of Iraq in the wake of the 2003 U.S. invasion…
Location: UK Length: 8 min
This film is a video mirror between the Past and the Future displayed on the tactile surface of Neolithic sarsen stone…
In the fifth century B.C., Greek historian Herodotus described Egypt as "A land won by the Egyptians and given them by the Nile." The wealth of ancient Egyptian civilization truly derived from the blessed river that moves through the country with the dignity of a Caliph...