Tag: Time Team
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Time Team’s Digital Renaissance: From Iron Age Tunnels to YouTube
Origins in a Somerset Field Thirty-two years ago, a small team of archaeologists gathered for a weekend in Somerset, not for a grand academic conference, but to film a television programme. They wanted to bring the past to life in Athelney, the landscape where, 1,200 years ago, King Alfred the Great is said to have…
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Time Team’s Digital Renaissance: From Iron Age Tunnels to YouTube Gold
From a Weekend Project to a Digital Phenomenon Thirty-two years ago, a modest gathering of archaeologists in Somerset embarked on a weekend project that would reshape how the public engages with the past. Time Team, born from a simple belief in hands-on fieldwork, has evolved into a cultural phenomenon that bridged dusty dig sites and…