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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
Barker’s Fieldwork in the New World
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
Inside the Museum of Art and Archaeology
Romanian Surrealist Artist, Victor Brauner
The Bronze Age
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archaeology
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Barker talks about his work studying the European Bronze Age, which refers to a period of cultural history that succeeded the Stone Age and was characterized by the use of tools made of bronze and by metal smelting. The dates for the Bronze Age vary according to location, he explains, and the site he's currently investigating is deeply stratified, meaning it has many levels of successive cultural occupation.