We are now in the final stages of working on a little film to support a crowdfunding campaign for archaeologist John Winterburn’s Mudawwara Project. John has been involved in the excavation of three Great Arab Revolt redoubt sites in Jordan which overlooked the Hejaz Railway station in Medawwara during the legendary campaign to disrupt that …
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Update: Cristina Mosconi
Our collaborator Cristina Mosconi is now at the start of a PhD program at Exeter University which will help her develop her professional interest in locative media for heritage interpretation. Her MA work on a phone based app for use at the Rollright Stones, a megalithic site in Oxfordshire is now being developed into a …
Filling the Air with Sound
When the refreshed Imperial Valley Desert Museum re-opens after installation of new permanent exhibits in June 2015, the spine tingling voices you hear coming from ceiling speakers in one area of the museum will be from an Archaeoikon production. Teri Brewer and ethnographer Richard Carrico were recording a session with some of the distinguished Birdsingers …
ABX Returns
A second Anza Borrego Expedition field trip is now in planning for Spring 2016. We will be collaborating with local partners to develop a new field trip which will start from San Diego and explore lesser known byways of San Diego County and possibly northern Baja California for a week. Tentatively scheduled for March 2016, …
Film to be Featured in RAI International Ethnographic Film Festival
Our recent film A Donation to the Museum has been selected for screening and competition during the Royal Anthropological Institute’s 2015 International Ethnographic Film Festival to be held at the Watershed Cinema in Bristol June 16-19 2015.
Basque Arborglyph film to be featured on Strata/ Portraits of Humanity
An Archaeoikon film, Hunting the Mountain Picassos will soon be featured on the Archaeological Legacy Institute’s monthly Internet/TV show, “Strata: Portraits of Humanity,” produced by the Archaeological Legacy Institute. The film, made for the Nevada Arts Council’s folklife series Nevada Stories, explores the work of Great Basin Arborglyph collectors Jean and http://www.archaeologychannel.org/video-guide/strat
Namibian Workshops
Peter Wilcox, (our tech support specialist and head film editor for Archaeoikon) has just returned fro Namibia where he ran a film workshop for local students and documented the first Python conference in Namibia, using some of our latest sound equipment at the University of Namibia in Windhoek. Python is a programming language which Cardiff …
Conflict Archaeology Exhibit Fundraising Pitch Film
Archaeoikon members Teri Brewer and Cristina Mosconi are working with landscape archaeologist John Winterburn to prepare a pitch film to be used in a crowdfunding appeal to create an exhibit based on his recent work in Jordan. The Mudawarra Project will help mount an exhibit on the archaeology of the First World War era campaign …
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Developing a Workshop with Local Points of View
Teri Brewer is developing a new workshop with Crystal DeSoto of San Diego nature interpretation specialists Local Points of View. The workshop, Tools of the Trade is aimed at training interpretive guides who need guidance on dealing with sensitive archaeological resources during their tours. Contact us for information on workshop schedules.
Basque Arborglyphs
Hunting the Mountain Picassos, a short film made by Teri Brewer for the Nevada Arts Council and the Nevada Historical Society was featured on “Strata: Portraits of Humanity,” a program sponsored by the Archaeological Legacy Institute. The film explores the lifelong passion of Jean and Phillip Earl, collectors of arborglyphs: a tree carving tradition associated with …