July 2024 (Rock art in Sweden; underwater archaeology in the Aegean) Description: (1) “The Time They Spent Here”: This film surveys the truly stunning rock art still visible on Sweden’s west coast, carved by artists beginning around 4,000 years ago, depicting Bronze Age animals, humans, ships, weapons, and symbols. Techniques to preserve this artistic heritage range from paper rubbings to digital reconstruction. (2) “Diving in Aegean History”: This film follows the first systematic underwater archaeological survey around Kasos Island in the Aegean Sea. The survey team did intensive diving in search of ancient shipwrecks and artifacts from Homeric times through the 20th century. Strata Portraits of Humanity is a monthly half-hour newsmagazine-style show designed for the cable TV and Internet platforms. Each episode of the human story is a portrait building on the many layers of the human experience. This is a record we are just beginning to uncover. From that perspective, Strata delivers in-depth coverage of a wide variety of archaeological and cultural heritage topics all around the world.