Watching Brief: Indiana Jones & Stonehenge - The Public Image of Archaeology - Feb 2017
Welcome to Watching Brief. A new monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube.
As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.
Links:
Armchair archaeology: find lost civilisations using your laptop:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2017/feb/06/armchair-archaeology-find-lost-civilisations-laptop-globalxplorer
How to Practice Archaeology Without Leaving the House:
http://www.worldreportnow.com/practice-archaeology/5219/
Spies in the sky: the answer to stopping archaeological looting?
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0202/Spies-in-the-sky-the-answer-to-stopping-archaeological-looting
Hundreds of ancient earthworks resembling Stonehenge found in Amazon rainforest:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/02/06/hundreds-ancient-earthworks-resembling-stonehenge-found-amazon/