Lectures tagged "Archaeology"


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Sarah Hrdy: Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
Sarah Hrdy: Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
November 18, 2009
01:15:14
Anthropologist and primate sociobiologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy discusses her newest book, Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding, in which she emphasizes the need to consider our Pleistocene ancestors' peculiar mode of child-rearing.
Rainsford Island: Mercy's Dwelling Place
Elizabeth Carella
November 5, 2009
00:45:39
Curator and photographer Elizabeth Carella shares the colorful history of epidemics, shipwrecks, and daring escapes on Rainsford Island.
Boston's Spectacle Island and its Native American Past
Ellen Berkland
November 5, 2009
00:37:40
Boston City archeologist Ellen Berkland shows how archeologists have pieced together a rich story of the daily lives of some of the first communities in Boston, on Spectacle Island. The Boston Harbor Islands have been inhabited for thousands of years. From A.D.
Earth Changes and the Procession of the Equinox
Randall Carlson
August 9, 2009
01:52:00
Randall Carlson tries to dispel misunderstandings surrounding the Earth's changes and place the subject on a solid scientific foundation. He uses mythic traditions of the past with scientific research in the fields of geology, astronomy, paleontology, archeology and ancient history.
John Ochsendorf: Redesigning Communities and Carbon Neutrality
John Ochsendorf
April 28, 2009
01:00:37
MacArthur Award-winning structural engineer John Ochsendorf talks about how his interests in environmental science, history, archeology, and engineering led him to his work with historic structures, and then to his work redesigning communities to make them carbon neutral.
Tutankhamun: Golden King, Great Pharaoh
Clare Fitzgerald
March 18, 2009
00:59:29
Clare Fitzgerald, from the Michael C. Carlos Museum, discusses the two current exhibitions about the most famous archaeological discovery of all time: King Tut's tomb.
The Superorganism: Exploring Insect Societies
Edward O. Wilson
December 9, 2008
01:08:05
Edward O. Wilson describes the lives of social insects in his new volume, The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies.
NOVA: The Bible's Buried Secrets II
Paula Apsell
November 12, 2008
00:43:20
Panelists discuss the historic, scientific and theological mysteries brought up in The Bible's Buried Secrets, NOVA's landmark two-hour special.