As to international access to online videos, in Canada we're also barred
from accessing this content even though we receive multiple PBS broadcasts
on television. Ironically, American cultural colonialism stops at the
internet. Haven't been home to watch any full episodes yet, but from the
trailers that I've seen it looks like a pretty faithful translation of the
UK formula to the higher-octane US context.
The *feel* of it is similar to a field school that I was just part of, but
I need to watch full episodes to see whether the kinds of important
questions that Nth American archaeologists are asking at site are making it
through the scripting and editing process. I was pleased to find that
during the Musqueam-UBC Archaeology Field School all those thorny issues of
the contemporary relevance of archaeology, problems with theories of social
complexity, questions of what is and is not evidence and why, the trouble
with statistics, community involvement, colonial practices, and so on were
right at the core of the 6 weeks.
Would love to hear more from those who've seen the episodes about whether
the emphasis on the extreme-adventure, adrenaline rush of finding an object
evident in the trailers is mediated in the shows. I think that Time Team UK
has done a great job re-focusing on process rather than artefacts. TIme
Team Canada would never be economically viable, but would make for very
interesting TV....
Would also be interested in people's reactions to the short clip on the
differences between historic and prehistoric (used interchangeably with
pre-contact) archaeology that's on their website.
best
Angela
--On Thursday, July 23, 2009 09:26 -0500 "Agbe-Davies, Anna"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Good Morning, All,
>
> The TTA website contains full episodes of all shows that have aired (to
> date Ft Raleigh, Topper, and New Philadelphia). We watched one on-line
> last night b/c of preemption by President Obama...Maybe the issue is
> accessing episodes from outside the US? That would be ridiculous, but
> maybe the site works in this way?
>
> I am biased, as my SO is one of the team members, but I can say as
> co-director of a project that the team visited that I am VERY pleased
> with how our project came across on t.v. The producers and their crew
> really seem to get archaeology.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anna Agbe-Davies
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:23:40 +0200
> From: Cornelius Holtorf <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Time Team America
>
> So who of you has had the opportunity to watch the first few episodes of
> Ti=
> me Team America and can report? Does it work? How does it compare with
> the =
> UK version? Just curious as the webpages at
> http://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam=
> / dont let me watch a full episode...
>
> C
>
> ---
> Cornelius Holtorf
> University of Kalmar, Sweden
> soon Linnaeus University
> http://web.comhem.se/cornelius=
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