Time Team

oldarchystudent · Post by **oldarchystudent** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:41 am

Does anyone else watch this program? I love it, but I grit my teeth the way they excavate - with construction diggers and back hoes in many cases. I can't believe they would potentially destroy a lot of evidence for a TV series. They only have 3 days to work the site, so they are in CRM excavation mode I suppose, but I'd rather see some of these sites excavated scientifically rather than at breakneck speed.

Here in Canada I think we're three years behind in the episodes, and I've seen the same ones two years running.....

But I still love the series, especially Phil with his West Country accent. Makes an old Bristolian proud!

stan · Post by **stan** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:58 am

I haven't seen Time TEam, but then I don't have cable or satellite. I don't know if it has been broadcast in the US.

We had a famous archaeologist in North Carolina named Joffre Lanning Coe who made news in the 40's, I believe, by using a bulldozer with a very wide blade to scrape off topsoil of an ancient site which was to become the bottom of a lake in about two weeks..
By doing so he was able to find and map firepits and post holes.

marduk · Post by **marduk** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:03 am

Does anyone else watch this program

just about everyone as they schedule it when theres nothing else on but religious programs on sundays (hence its popularity)
theres even a spoof of it
http://www.grimeteam.co.uk/

stan · Post by **stan** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:05 am

OAS, I think you can delete those duplicate posts by clicking on edit in each one and select all and delete...

Post by **Minimalist** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:46 am

I watch it whenever it's on.

I don't get why they have to rush through everything but its interesting.

oldarchystudent · Post by **oldarchystudent** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:14 pm

stan wrote:OAS, I think you can delete those duplicate posts by clicking on edit in each one and select all and delete...

That worked - thanks!

Tech · Post by **Tech** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:35 pm

Seen every episode at least twice , good ole sky discovery civilization channel . Too many roman villas though . Didnt like the aircraft or the overseas episodes but loved the three day live all day ones.

stan · Post by **stan** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:48 pm

Is Time Team devoted to the British Isles?

I was amused by Mark Twain's observation that in England, everything
was so....OLD! All the tour guides reminded his group just how old everything was...."See this wall? It's 900 years old!" and so on.

However, I would think that, to an archaeologist, England, like most of the "old' world, is archaeo heaven. I mean, the oldest hominid habitation is said to be 700 k. years ago! It seems that a new discovery is made every day there by farmers or construction workers.

oldarchystudent · Post by **oldarchystudent** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:33 pm

The Time Team episodes I've seen are all British Isles, although Tech's post talks about some overseas episodes? Where did they go, Tech?

Tech · Post by **Tech** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:13 pm

One episode was the original settler landing in america , another was caribbean islands , another a jamacian plantation and a couple at sunken ships including the goliath. My favourite was the ancient river course where they found all the mammoths.

oldarchystudent · Post by **oldarchystudent** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:01 pm

We are way behind here. I emailed the channel that broadcasts it and they promised a new series in the fall. Still waiting - it's reruns on Sundays right now.

marduk · Post by **marduk** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:10 pm

I love the way it never repeats itself
like how every week they discover the same piece of pot in the first trench they put in according to some blurs on a plan from geofizz and the pot always turns out to be from a fabulous piece of heirloom probably owned by a nobleman
but its always from a different culture, just amazing

you colonials are missing out as well really
Tony Robinson is a previous existence played Baldrick
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en ... a=N&tab=wi
the companion to Edmund Black Adder a BBC comedy show that was probably the best comedy we ever had
His catchphrase was "I have a cunning plan my lord" (usually it wasn't)
i.e. His cunning plan to escape from some french revolutionarys

You know how when you cut of a chickens head they run around and around. Well we wait until they cut off our heads and then we jump up, run around and around and out the courtyard to freedom.

far better than are you being severed (i'm free) or Benny Hill which is about the only british comedy that ever made it stateside without you guys slaughtering it with your own versions like you did with Red Dwarf and the Office

Leona Conner · Post by **Leona Conner** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:07 pm

It use o be on History International, have seen it for several months. I've e-mail the station several times requesting they bring it back. They have a great site and it's nice to know they are still going strong.

Right now they're showing Meet the Ancestors, which is pretty good. I love to see how they can reconstruct the faces.

stan · Post by **stan** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:35 am

My 3 favorite britcoms:

(not in order)
Are you Being Served?
monty python
the Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

stan · Post by **stan** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:38 am

Did anyone see the episode of Secrets of the Dead (I think) about Stonehenge a few months ago?

They claimed to have found a royal burial nearby and claimed that the Stonehenge was a monument to his royal highness.
THey claimed he was a foreigner, a great warrior, who excited admiration because he had gold jewelry in his hair.
THat's the only time I've heard of that idea.