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Kentucky Archaeology is an on-going series of short documentaries
about new scientific research on the state's ancient American
Indian cultures. Voyageur, in association with the Kentucky
Heritage Council, has produced four episodes that examine
a range of subjects, from ancient mud glyphs and remote
rockshelters to Adena settlements and Works Progress Administration
(WPA) era archaeology. |
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Kentucky Archaeology combines expert interviews
with video footage of sites, artifacts and excavations,
rare archival photographs and music for a fascinating
look at life in prehistoric Kentucky. This series is being
broadcast by Kentucky Educational Television (KET) and
distributed to schools via the Kentucky Star instructional
television system. More information about this educational
series, including home videos and lesson plans, is available
at the Kentucky Heritage Council's website. |
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Volume I |
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#101) "Ancient Fires at Cliff Palace
Pond" (10:30 min.) |
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Archaeologist Cecil Ison examines new scientific
research surrounding a remote rockshelter that shows American
Indians used fire to manage their environment 8,000 years
ago. |
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#102) "The Adena People: Moundbuilders
of Kentucky" (6:00 min.) |
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Archaeologist Berle Clay searches for the
elusive habitation sites of the Adena people who built
monumental earthworks about 2,000 years ago. |
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#103) "Saving a Kentucky Time Capsule"
(9:00 min.) |
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Archaeologists, cavers and a landowner join
forces to preserve ancient American Indian mud glyphs
discovered deep inside a Kentucky cavern. |
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Volume II |
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#104) "WPA Archaeology: Legacies
of an Era" (24:25 min.) |
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Anthropologist Dr. Lathel Duffield describes
the motivations, discoveries and legacies of WPA archaeology,
an era of unprecedented fieldwork conducted throughout
the state from the late 1930s until World War II. |
