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A visit with Alex Barker, Director, Museum of Art and Archeology
Additional Interview Clips
A Survey of Alex Barker’s Work
Barker’s Fieldwork in Romania
The Museum of Art and Archaeology
Museum Ethics
Museum Ethics (cont.)
More than the Object’s Label
Collaborative Research
Beyond the Moundbuilder Myth
How Barker Came to this Field
The Bronze Age
Inside the Museum of Art and Archaeology
Romanian Surrealist Artist, Victor Brauner
Barker’s Fieldwork in the New World
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prehistory
Barker has also being doing fieldwork in the New World, especially in ancient Missouri and the Ancient Southeast and in more recent historical periods, from 1000 to 1500 CE across the American midcontinent. Art styles of all of those regions used the same basic symbols, apparently referring to the same basic concepts.