Name: The Future of the Past
Released: 2000-05-11

Lost Worlds: The Story of Archaeology

S1 · E6 — The Future of the Past

S1:E6 · The Future of the Past

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6 episodes in this season

Stones and Bones

Treasure Seekers

Looking for the One Beginning

Digging by the Book

At the Service of the State

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Lost Worlds: The Story of Archaeology

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200010.0

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The Future of the Past

Season 1 · Episode 6 · May 11, 2000

What are the concerns of archaeology today? How will improved methods and scientific technology shift perspective on the past? The last episode of this series looks at the shift from excavating grand palaces to discovering and learning more about some of the earliest communities, such as at San Jose Magote in the Oaxaca Valley in Mexico, where evidence has been found of human habitation dating back 3,000 years. The program also interviews Professor George Bass of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology in Texas, the father of underwater archaeology, who has discovered and cataloged numerous shipwrecks off the coast of modern Turkey, some dating from the Bronze Age.

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Lost Worlds: The Story of Archaeology

TV Series

200010.0

Documentary

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The Future of the Past

Season 1 · Episode 6 · May 11, 2000

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