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Archaeology and the Moving Image
Public Archaeology, 2014
Archaeological filmmaking has been a relatively underexamined subject in academic literature. As the technology for creating, editing, and distributing video becomes increasingly available it is important to understand the broader context of archaeological filmmaking, from television documentaries to footage shot as an additional method of recording to the informal “home videos” in archaeology. This article provides a foundation for building a greater understanding of archaeology and the moving image. The history of filmmaking in archaeology in the United States and United Kingdom, from Dorothy Garrod's footage shot at Mt. Carmel to cutting edge digital video shared on social networking websites, follows innovations within archaeological practice as well as availability and affordability of technology. While there have been extensive analyses of movies and television shows about archaeological subjects, the topic of archaeological film has been characterized by reactions to these outside perspectives, rather than examinations of footage created by archaeologists. This footage can be understood to fall within several filmic genres, including expository, direct testimonial, impressionistic, and phenomenological films, each with their own purpose and expressive qualities. Footage taken on site can also be perceived as a form of surveillance, and can modify behavior while present as a form of panopticon. After the footage is taken, there are considerations regarding audience, distribution, and methods for evaluation, as these films are increasingly available on social media platforms. Finally, after providing this broad context for archaeological filmmaking, I consider potential futures for the moving image in archaeology.
The Camera ‘at the trowel’s edge’: Personal Video Recording in Archaeological Research
Published in Journal of Archaeological Method Theory, March 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1, pp 238-270.
Video recording is increasingly becoming a favourable medium in archaeological research, particularly as an unconventional documentation tool that captures the elusive processes of on-going interpretation in an audio-visual format. Our research was part of the Personal Architectonics Through INteraction with Artefacts (PATINA) project, a project focused on the design of technologies for supporting research. Archaeological fieldwork is one of the research environments being studied by the project, and one of our primary concerns was to observe and record current research practices in the wild, and to examine the influence of new technologies on those practices. This research brings together well established and advanced observation techniques used in social sciences and computing fields such as Human Computer Interaction with archaeological research and presents the deployment of an off-the-shelf wearable camcorder as a recording interface in archaeological fieldwork. The paper discusses the user evaluation methodology and the results, while addressing long standing and timely theoretical discussions on the role of video recording in archaeological research. Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1007/s10816-015-9239-x
Australian Archaeology 77: 120-126, 2013
In 2009 we produced a series of edited video clips to demonstrate practical methods to archaeology students at the University of Sydney. The videos were made publicly accessible on the internet via YouTube and incorporated into teaching of an undergraduate archaeological field methods unit in 2010 and 2011. This paper outlines the authors’ experiences of making and using the videos for teaching and discusses results of student questionnaire feedback about the videos and the unit. The results provide insight into the effectiveness of different ways of teaching practical archaeology in the context of large class sizes and limited resources, and the potential of using digital video technologies to communicate archaeology to students and other audiences.
Archaeology and the Media [2007]
The public’s fascination with archaeology has meant that archaeologists have had to deal with media more regularly than other scholarly disciplines. How archaeologists communicate their research to the public through the media and how the media view archaeologists has become an important feature in the contemporary world of academic and professional archaeologists. In this volume, a group of archaeologists, many with media backgrounds, address the wide range of questions in this intersection of fields. An array of media forms are included including television, film, photography, the popular press, art, video games, radio and digital media with a focus on the overriding question: what are the long-term implications of the increasing exposure through and reliance upon media forms for archaeology in the contemporary world. The volume should be of interest to archaeologists and those teaching public archaeology courses.
Experimental Archaeology in media
2003
State Archaeological Museum Warsaw, Poland * l The author, who is a co-writer of number of documentary series concerning experimental archaeology, presents an overview of the presentation of archaeology in the Polish media: TV broadcasts from archaeological shows, documentary series and educational multimedia packages.
Introduction: Archaeology and the Media
Introduction to T. Clack and M. Brittain (eds) 2007. 'Archaeology and the Media'. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. Archaeology is more prevalent in the media today than ever before. Likewise, the media is more prevalent in archaeology than has previously been experienced. Media is both the means to mass communication and the material agency by which that communication is transmitted, transferred, or conveyed. Different media have impacted upon archaeology in different ways, and a future relationship with the media lies in an uncertain balance with the emergence of the digital era of technology. What has archaeology’s relationship with the media looked like in the past, what are the issues at stake in this relationship today, and is archaeology suitably equipped for this partnership in a future of increasingly rapid information transfers?
Annual Review of Anthropology, 2022
Digital archaeology is both a pervasive practice and a unique subdiscipline within archaeology. The diverse digital methods and tools employed by archaeologists have led to a proliferation of innovative practice that has fundamentally reconfigured the discipline. Rather than reviewing specific technologies, this review situates digital archaeology within broader theoretical debates regarding Craft and Embodiment, Materiality, The Uncanny, and Ethics, Politics, and Accessibility. A future digital archaeology must move beyond skeuomorphic submission and replication of previous structural inequalities to foment new archaeological imaginaries.