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Location: France         Length: 12 min

Every summer, within a specialist center known as “La plateforme des arts du feu,” the small town of Melle, France, becomes a stage for experimentation in ancient metallurgy. It is here that a research French team of experimental archaeologists…

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Location: Michigan         Length: 24 min

Fort St. Joseph, begun as a French Jesuit mission in the 1680s, was one of the earliest European settlements in the western Great Lakes and an important link among the remote settlements of New France…

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Location: Malta         Length: 17 min

Long before Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids, Neolithic people in Malta built many impressive megalithic temples. Then the temple builders vanished from the archaeological record…

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Location: Pennsylvania         Length: 4 min

The Penn Museum’s exhibit, “Maya.2012: Lords of Time,” rides a wave of interest in the Maya calendar; which in 2012 reached the end of something, and hopefully the beginning of something else...

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Location: Guatemala         Length: 13 min

Dr. Mark Van Stone reads the Creation story on Quiriguá Stela C, the late Eighth Century monument in Guatemala telling the myth of the "Planting of the Three-Stone Hearth (of Creation)"…

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Location: Worldwide        Length: 7 min

Dr. Mark Van Stone, Keynote Speaker for TAC Festival 2012, explains how Maya hieroglyphs are constructed by writing a modern name in ancient phonetic Maya characters…

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Location: Guatemala        Length: 22 min.

An association of Tz’utujil Maya people from Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, struggle to establish a cultural center and archaeological site museum at the nearby lakeside site of Chuitinamit, once home to the Pre-Hispanic Maya King Tepepul and now badly looted…

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Location: Mesoamerica, South America        Length: 27 min. 

Three outstanding civilizations represent the last phases of pre-Conquest urban culture in the New World: the Maya, the Aztecs, and the Incas...

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Location: Federated States of Micronesia        Length: 19 min

Deep in the Menke Valley on the Micronesian island of Kosrae, between Hawaii and Guam, lies the site of Menke. Oral history relates that a temple existed there where people worshiped the goddess Sinlaku…

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Location: Colorado         Length: 3 min

Intense forest fires in July and August of 2000 caused the greatest natural destruction in the 95-year history of Mesa Verde National Park, a national and international archaeological treasure containing an abundant record of ancient Puebloan life…