In Search of the Early Americans
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: AAK4632FA; HSFA 1976.1.1
name: label: Creator
content: Pendry, Alan
label: Creator
content: Shell Oil Company
place: label: Place
content: Mesa Verde (Calif.)
label: Place
content: Pueblo Bonito Site (N.M.)
label: Place
content: Chaco Canyon (N.M.)
label: Place
content: North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Paleogeography
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from the Shell Oil Company in 1976.
creator: label: Creator
content: Pendry, Alan
label: Creator
content: Shell Oil Company
culture: label: Culture
content: Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi): Chaco (archaeological)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (42 minutes, color sound, 1,512 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1975
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1976.01
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Sound films
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film produced by the Shell Oil Company in consultation with the Smithsonian Department of Anthropology. Film presents the theory that a prehistoric land bridge existed between Seward Peninsula and Siberia allowing the migration of man to North America. Animated scenes depict the formation of glaciers and the subsequent fall in sea level creating the landbridge. Sites depicted and discussed include Mesa Verde in Colorado, Chaco Canyon and Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico, Cahokia Mound in Illinois, and the Mississippian Mounds of southeast United States. Discussion of lifeways in the Anasazi pueblos includes tool and pottery making demonstrations. Other subjects discussed are the history of cultivation, particularly corn, and dating sites using tree rings.

Legacy keywords: Tools and implements American Indian ; Pottery American Indian ; Museum exhibits ; Dendrochronology ; Geomorphology ; Corn ; Paleography ; Pueblo Indians

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