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Odyssey : Other People's Garbage
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Although written documents record more than 350 years of events in North America, they reveal little about what everyday life was like. The three segments of this magazine-format film explore the c...
Although written documents record more than 350 years of events in North America, they reveal little about what everyday life was like. The three segments of this magazine-format film explore the current work of historical archaeologists at three sites across the United States. Details of peoples' lives are revealed in excavations at slave quarters on St. Simon Island, slag heaps in northern California mining towns occupied between 1859 and 1902, and subway construction sites in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where urban archaeologists devise new methods to discover artifacts in land still used. Distributed by PBS Distribution.
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- Creator
- Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
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- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2014]
- ©1980
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (59 min.) : sound, color
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn879609102
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 01, 2014.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Historical Archaeology (1:59) -- California Coal Boom (1:47) -- Somersville Dig (2:18) -- Excavating a Ghost Town (1:32) -- Researching Ghost Town Residents (3:01) -- Oral Histories (2:24) -- Drawing Visual Memories (3:01) -- Identifying Layers of History (3:54) -- Uncovering a Mining Town Structure (2:40) -- St. Simons Site (1:44) -- Excavating a Slave Settlement (2:02) -- Dating Historical Artifacts (2:37) -- Uncovering a Slave Cabin (2:15) -- Gun Flint Mystery (2:13) -- Excavating the Slave Diet (2:42) -- New Plantation Knowledge (2:07) -- Race to Save the Past (3:10) -- Urban Archaeology (2:15) -- Boston Transport History (2:01) -- Identifying Sites at Risk (2:29) -- Balancing Archaeology and Construction (3:45) -- Dating a Colonial Site (1:03) -- Conserving a Colonial Site (3:08) -- Credits: Odyssey: Other People's Garbage (1:54)