BROWN – An Archaeological Perspective in 4 Layers
5th Annual Spotlight on Academics
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21m
12:00:00| United Kingdom |Directed by Sophie Jackson
Much in archaeology is brown – the layers of soil and deposits, the sherds, the 300 plus variations shown in the Musel Chart. Every archaeologist knows that brown is not just brown – variation, nuance, difference tell us much. Through case studies with 3 archaeologists working in India and Bolivia, this film takes us into these subtleties, right down to the microscopic and right out to the big picture questions of post colonialism.
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