Friends and colleagues: In the most recent installment of the Video News from TAC, you will witness two remarkable archaeological excavations: one in the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River and the other on the beautiful Polynesian island of Tubuai.  See these stories in the September 2011 edition of this monthly half-hour show, available now on our nonprofit streaming-media Web site, The Archaeology Channel (http://www.archaeologychannel.org) as well as on cable TV in cities across the US.


Launched in October 2010, the Video News from TAC is designed for both online streaming and cable TV distribution.  Other subjects covered so far in the series include a tour of Thailand’s cultural heritage, an interview with Dr. Tom King, preserving the first Moon base, the indigenous people of Taiwan, a joint Hopi Tribe-USDA Forest Service effort to save ancient rock art panels, archaeologists and natives learning from each other on a Polynesian island, recording cultural heritage on the Thames 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, the Terracotta Army exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the disappearing hutong neighborhoods of Beijing, a Native American man rediscovering an ancient craft, the changing waterscape of the London Olympics, vandalism on the walls of an Oregon forest cave, the competitive results of TAC Festival 2011, the recovery of a prehistoric dugout canoe in Florida, a discourse on the Mexican Day of the Dead, Florida’s historic Fort Gadsden, and the ongoing and instructive decay of an abandoned Greek village.  Video News program details can be found at http://www.archaeologychannel.org/VideoNews.html.  The growing list of cable TV stations carrying the show is posted at http://www.archaeologychannel.org/VideoNewscabletv.htm.


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.


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Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA
President and Executive Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
http://www.archaeologychannel.org