[OR_Archaeology] Video "Why do we do archaeology?"

[Wendy Ann Wright]

Hi Susan & All,

Thanks for sharing this film.  It does an incredible job of making a visual
of the past to present.  I was having trouble loading the video from the
other link.  In case others are too, here is a link to the CRM firm that
produced it:

http://www.prairiearchaeology.com/

Looks like they have submitted it to the "7.5 Film Festival" at the 2010 SAA
75th Anniversary Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri <http://www.saa.org/>.

Cheers,
Wendy Ann

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Susan White <susan.white at state.or.us>wrote:

> Hey y'all;
>
> I've cut & pasted an e-mail from our SHPO listserv about a video produced
> by an archaeological firm in Illinois that is quite remarkable. I hope you
> take a few moments to watch (but close your eyes when the bulldozer appears)
> the digital reproductions and their placement are quite wonderful.
>
> Planting seeds for the future, Susan
>
> ********************************************************************
> Video about East St. Louis area project answers the question, "Why do we do
> archaeology?"
>
>        SPRINGFIELD - A new video about an archaeological investigation
> performed before the construction of an East St. Louis, Illinois elementary
> school answers the question, "Why do we need archaeology?"  The video is
> available on the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency's website at
> http://www.illinoishistory.gov/PS/archaeology.htm
>
> The 78th Street Archeological Site, Native American occupations located at
> the foundation of the Katie Harper Wright Elementary School explores the
> need for archaeology by featuring an Illinois project conducted at the
> construction site of an elementary school in East St. Louis.  The short,
> narrated video shows the discovery and investigation of a 1,000-year-old
> Native American village and graphically demonstrates why archaeological
> investigations are performed and what we can learn from these investigations
> into America's past.  The video explains the importance of archeology in
> easy to understand language that is accessible to school children and adults
> alike. 3-D interpretive renderings help visualize Native American life up to
> 1,000 years ago.
>
> The 78th Street archaeology site includes Mississippian (1000 - 1150 A.D)
> and  Oneota (1300 - 1400 A.D.) occupation, with the Oneota artifacts and
> evidence representing one of the largest such sites discovered to date in
> this archaeologically rich area of the country.  The site was first
> identified in 1989 during a required State of Illinois review process as
> part of a planned residential development.
>
> The archaeological investigation was conducted by Prairie Archaeology &
> Research, Ltd. of Springfield, Illinois in 2005, the firm that also produced
> the video.
>
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Wendy Ann Wright
Portland State University
Anthropology Department
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