Popular Culture
The subject has proven popular enough to spawn several re-creation-type television shows:
- The 1978 BBC TV series Living in the Past re-created life in an Iron Age village with 15 volunteers over a period of 13 months.
- Discovery Channel's I, Caveman and I, Caveman : The Great Hunt
- Discovery Channel's The Colony seasons 1 and 2 showed aspects of experimental archaeology
- Discovery Channel's Mythbusters often conduct experimental archaeology to test the capability of mythical ancient weapons including Archimedes' death ray, and the tree cannon, as well as testing the capabilities of known weapons including the hwacha and the effects of cannon balls and splintering.
Read more about this topic: Experimental Archaeology
Famous quotes containing the words popular and/or culture:
“The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races.... The economics of this musical esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“The higher, the more exalted the society, the greater is its culture and refinement, and the less does gossip prevail. People in such circles find too much of interest in the world of art and literature and science to discuss, without gloating over the shortcomings of their neighbors.”
—Mrs. H. O. Ward (1824–1899)