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Friends and colleagues: The recoveryof a prehistoric dugout canoe in Florida’s Tampa Bay and a discourse on theMexican Day of the Dead celebration are the latest features on the VideoNews from TAC.  See these stories inthe July 2011 edition of this monthly half-hour show, available now onour nonprofit streaming-media Web site, The Archaeology Channel(http://www.archaeologychannel.org) as well as on cable TV in cities across theUS.
 
Launchedin October 2010, the Video News from TAC is designed for both onlinestreaming and cable TV distribution. Other subjects covered so far in the series include a tour of Thailand’scultural heritage, an interview with Dr. Tom King, preserving the first Moonbase, the indigenous people of Taiwan, a joint Hopi Tribe-USDA Forest Serviceeffort to save ancient rock art panels, archaeologists and natives learningfrom each other on a Polynesian island, recording cultural heritage on theThames River in London, ongoing excavations at a long-inhabited site in Jordan,a tour of Classical sites in Italy, a video tribute to Dr. Donny George, theTerracotta Army exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the disappearinghutong neighborhoods of Beijing, a Native American man rediscovering an ancientcraft, the changing waterscape of the London Olympics, vandalism on the wallsof an Oregon forest cave, and the competitive results of TAC Festival 2011.  Video News program details can befound at http://www.archaeologychannel.org/VideoNews.html.  The growing list of cable TV stationscarrying the show is posted athttp://www.archaeologychannel.org/VideoNewscabletv.htm.
 
Thisand other programs are available on TAC for your use and enjoyment.  We urge you to support this public service byparticipating 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 andenhance our nonprofit public-education and visitor-supported programming.  We also welcome new content partners as wereach out to the world community.
 
Pleaseforward this message to others who may be interested.
 
RichardM. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA
Presidentand Executive Director
ArchaeologicalLegacy Institute
http://www.archaeologychannel.org
 

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Melisa McChesney
Executive Assistant
Archaeological Legacy Institute