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Last Chance for Discovery

Accession number: 
1980.0112
Production Years: 
1960 to 1980

Languages:

Length (minutes): 
26
Holding Institutions: 

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario: 16mm.
"This film is an account of an archeological dig at a known Indian village site near New Dundee, Ontario, by members of the then Waterloo Lutheran University. The extreme care and accurate records taken at a dig are demonstrated. Careful trowelling ensures that all artifacts are retrieved. Use is made of drawings, aerial photographs, etc. and several written reports are done. Soil stratigraphy is carefully studied and signs of actual buildings carefully plotted. After a four-week stretch in the field, the archeologists return to the university where labelling, sorting, assembly, and drawings are completed, data is collated on punched cards and stored in the computer. The film concludes by saying that there is a great deal of archeological work to be done in Canada."