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Looking Back Through the Ages (1930)

1930 · Ephemeral film · 25 min

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About archaeological work at Mesa Verde National Monument and Canyon de Chelly. .

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25 minutes

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★★★ · Pass the Krazy glue · Spuzz · 2017-11-15

Interesting doc about archaelogical digs around the Arizona area. So interesting to see how times have changed. I have been to the Montezuma monument in Arizona, and they sure don't allow people climbing around there any more! (since 1951 actually). This film is probably more interesting in seeing how archaelogy procedures have changed as well. I am pretty stumped at the archaelogists insistance on putting together the clay pot pieces they found there using rubber, glue and paper mache.. Isnt it important to keep things the way they are instead of mucking it up?