History

(1)  Dr. Chloe Duckworth, in her “ArchaeoDuck” vlog series, expounds on a glossary of archaeological terms, in this episode from Archaeometry to Geophysics.  (2) This film recounts the curious history of a 1st Century BC Egyptian mummy, covered in semi-legible hieroglyphs, which wound up in the “Library-Museum” of the village of Cazenovia in Madison County, New York.  The film covers the transport of this mummy to a nearby hospital for a series of CT scans, which determined the probable cause of death of the 19-25 year-old male named “Hen.”

(1)  Dr. Chloe Duckworth, in her “ArchaeoDuck” series, suggests what to take when you're packing for archaeological fieldwork.  (2) In the mountains of northern Iraq, researchers from Heidelberg University employ drones and photogrammetry to document ancient Mesopotamian rock art, rock-hewn tombs and reliefs of ancient kings.  (3) Conductor Arash Fouladvand, historian of Persian Music, leads a London-based branch of the Bahar Peace Choir.  We follow Arash as he takes the choir through an 1100-year-old poem by the famous Persian poet, Rudaki.

(1) Dr. Chloe Duckworth, in her “ArchaeoDuck” series, interviews osteoarchaeologist Dr. Lauren McIntyre.  Learn all about human osteology via decapitated Vikings and underground crypts.  Find out what the job is really like.  (2) In the 17th century, Šibenik, vibrant Mediterranean community and the largest city of Venetian Dalmatia, is besieged by the Ottoman Turks.  The people of Šibenik, under the unlikely but competent leadership of a German aristocrat, have to dig themselves out of a hopeless situation.

Produced in 2019 by Archaeological Legacy Institute

OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, presents Doug Borchert and his lecture 'John Mackay and Mark Twain: Mining and Literary Titans of the Comstock Lode, A Unique Friendship.'

A history and celebration of NapaTV on their 16th anniversary.

(1) Two episodes of Dr. Chloe Duckworth’s “ArchaeoDuck” series.  She compares the scant evidence analyzed by archaeology to a jigsaw puzzle and then explains how an archaeological site is formed and why archaeologists take it apart the way they do. (2) Archaeologist-filmmaker Adam Thompson puts forth a fascinating hypothesis to explain massive architectural features made of columnar basalt as far east as Nan Madol on Pohnpei.  Did Austronesian royal elite flee from Hindu expansion in Java and migrate to eastern Melanesia?

Produced in 2019 by Archaeological Legacy Institute

(1) In a short comedy shot in 2003 in the fish collection at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles Coounty, Gail, a university student, arrives at the fish archives of the Museum with a mission to identify bones from a dig on Santa Catalina Island.  She has a surprising adventure!  (2) In Tauste, northern Spain, a church tower supposedly built with the church in the 13th century, turns out to be the minaret of a former mosque built in the 11th century.  This video documents the research that led to this surprising conclusion and the re-imagining of Tauste history.

Three guests, major prizes, questions about Davis: The Davis Game Show has something for everyone (provided they live in Davis California).