Research Laboratories of Archaeology


Prehistoric Technology

The short video segments below are from the PBS series Exploring North Carolina episode “10,000 Years Before Contact” and the exhibit The Ancient Carolinians. Exploring North Carolina is an original production by UNC-TV, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and DTS Software, Inc. Funding was provided by the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust. The Ancient Carolinians was created by the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center in collaboration with the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, both at UNC-Chapel Hill, with funding provided by the Alcoa Foundation.

 


  • Steve Watts of the Schiele Museum of Natural History explains that Stone Age
    technology is part of the history of all humans.



  • Steve Watts of the Schiele Museum of Natural History demonstrates how to make
    a stone tool.



  • Steve Watts of the Schiele Museum of Natural History describes hafting
    techniques and their importance for understanding how people used stone tools.



  • Lisa Williams of Pettigrew State Park discusses the prehistoric canoes
    that have been discovered in eastern North Carolina.


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