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The Power of the Past
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Archaeologist Richard Miles presents a series charting the history of the breakthroughs and watersheds in our long quest to understand our ancient past. He shows how 20th-century attention turned f...
Archaeologist Richard Miles presents a series charting the history of the breakthroughs and watersheds in our long quest to understand our ancient past. He shows how 20th-century attention turned from civilization and kings to the search for the common man against a background of science and competing political ideologies.
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- Creator
- BBC Worldwide Ltd
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2014], c2013
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (60 min.) : sd., col
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn881398476
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on March 21, 2014.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Twentieth Century Architecture (1:56) -- Nineteenth Century Architecture (1:37) -- Piltdown Man (2:50) -- Exposing Hoax (1:39) -- Tomb of Tutankhamen (1:59) -- Public Relations (2:01) -- Dorchester Recreation (1:56) -- Socialist Archaeology (2:06) -- Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford (2:05) -- Skara Brae (3:00) -- Skara Brae as Communist Model (2:52) -- Great Thinkers Shape Archaeology (1:47) -- Nazi Archaeological Goals (1:48) -- Tracing Aryans to Scandinavia (1:43) -- Archaeologists and Communication (4:01) -- Difficulty for Archaeological Populism (0:43) -- Tollund Man (2:28) -- Tollund Man's Story (1:04) -- Mysteries of Tollund Man (3:06) -- Context of Feminist Archaeology (2:12) -- Gimbutas's Theories (1:58) -- Gimbutas's Legacy (1:45) -- Choosing Interpretation (4:23) -- Our Archaeological Legacy (2:01) -- Archaeological Importance of Garbage (1:46) -- History of Archaeology (2:50) -- Credits: The Power of the Past: Archaeology--A Secret History (0:44)