Research Laboratories of Archaeology: Videos

The short video segments below are from the PBS series Exploring North Carolina episodes “Man and Mammoth” and “10,000 Years Before Contact.” Exploring North Carolina is an original production by UNC-TV, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and DTS Software, Inc. Funding for these videos was provided by the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust.

Paleontologist Dale Russell of the North Carolina Museum of Natural
Sciences describes the plants and small animals living in North Carolina
during the last glacial maximum.

Paleontologist Dale Russell of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
explains the meaning of the word megafauna and describes the variety of
large animals living in North Carolina during the last glacial maximum.

Billy Oliver of the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology describes
the natural resources that played an important role in prehistoric American
Indian decisions regarding settlement location.

Jerry Wolfe, an elder in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, describes
what it was like to grow up in a Cherokee household in the mountains of
North Carolina.