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Amy Ramsay is an historical archaeologist a
To all interested parties:
Amy Ramsay is an historical archaeologist at UC-Berkeley. She produced the following video, "Excavating Television" at a summer course at USC. Take a look!
Cheryl Smith Lintner
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Subject: TV Archaeology examined on TAC
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Friends and colleagues: Don't believe everything you see on TV!
Archaeologists increasingly are concerned with depictions of their
discipline on
television and how this affects public
understanding. A personal (and
light-hearted)
reflection of this concern by an archaeologist is the subject of Excavating
Television, the latest video feature on our nonprofit streaming-media Web
site,
The Archaeology Channel (http://www.archaeologychannel.org).
In this personal-voice and very witty short film by University of Southern
California student Amy Ramsey, the archaeologist/filmmaker explores what the
public knows, and often misconstrues, about her field of study. She
interviews
people and finds out that they often have inaccurate perceptions about
archaeology. She concludes that the media are largely responsible for
misleading
people about archaeology and urges her audience to be a bit skeptical about
archaeology stories they see and hear through media sources.
This and other programs are available on TAC for your
use and enjoyment. We
urge you to support this public service by participating in our Membership
(http://www.archaeologychannel.org/member.html) and Underwriting
(http://www.archaeologychannel.org/sponsor.shtml) programs. Only with
your help can we
continue and enhance our nonprofit public-education and visitor-supported
programming. We also welcome new content partners as we reach out to the
world
community.
Please forward this message to others who may be interested and let us know
if you wish to be removed from our mailing list.
Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA
President and Executive Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
http://www.archaeologychannel.org
Friends and colleagues: Don't believe everything you see on TV!
Archaeologists increasingly are concerned with depictions of their
discipline on television and how this affects public understanding. A
personal (and light-hearted) reflection of this concern by an
archaeologist is the subject of Excavating Television, the latest video
feature on our nonprofit streaming-media Web site, The Archaeology Channel (http://www.archaeologychannel.org).
In this personal-voice and very witty short film by University of
Southern California student Amy Ramsey, the archaeologist/filmmaker
explores what the public knows, and often misconstrues, about her field
of study. She interviews people and finds out that they often have
inaccurate perceptions about archaeology. She concludes that the media
are largely responsible for misleading people about archaeology and
urges her audience to be a bit skeptical about archaeology stories they
see and hear through media sources.
This and other programs are available on TAC for your use and
enjoyment. We urge you to support this public service by participating
in our Membership (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/member.html) and Underwriting (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/sponsor.shtml)
programs. Only with your help can we continue and enhance our
nonprofit public-education and visitor-supported programming. We also
welcome new content partners as we reach out to the world community.
Please forward this message to others who may be interested and let us know if you wish to be removed from our mailing list.
Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA
President and Executive Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
http://www.archaeologychannel.org
*** Please note, I will no longer be using my berkeley.edu address. Please contact me at [log in to unmask] Thanks! ***
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