Strata-Portraits of Humanity - May_Edition_2019

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Strata: Portraits of Humanity, May 2019 (Fish Guys comedy; Muslim minaret in Spain) (1) In a short comedy shot in 2003 in the fish collection at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Gail, a university student, arrives at the fish archives of the Museum with a mission to identify bones from a dig on Santa Catalina Island. She has a surprising adventure! (2) In Tauste, northern Spain, a church tower supposedly built with the church in the 13th century, turns out to be the minaret of a former mosque built in the 11th century. This video documents the research that led to this surprising conclusion and the re-imagining of Tauste history. 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.

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