Do you like to watch anthro related tv programs?

[eleny]

I'm watching the Science Channel. The program on right now is a repeat doc from 2006 called Pre Human: Riddle of the Skull. It'll be on again twice tomorrow and then Saturday. They're examining a 7 million year old hominid skull found in Chad. Creating the bust from the piece of skull always gives me goosebumps.

Even if I can't always know right away what's going on and need to do more research on the net to find timelines and more info, I'm mesmerized by all these programs. From Meet The Ancestors to The Naked Archaeologist to Worst Jobs in History - I'm there.

[Jed Dilligan]

1. BBC's "Walking with Cavemen"

Not exactly the most PC nomenclature, but an excellent series.

[eleny]

3. As long as no one says...

"So easy a caveman can do it", we should be okay and avoid an existential crisis. :rofl:

[malta blue]

7. I told my mom she was going to turn me into that caveman

when she called the other day....I said "hold on, let me put you on speaker".

She laughed - thank goodness we can get through our mommy issues....

[malta blue]

2. It is the daily torture I subject my family to...

My husband will walk into the room and say "Hmmm....smells like a documentary to me..."

It is actually quite amusing. My daughter who will be 8 this week loves "Survivorman" on the Science Channel and she is starting to get more involved in watching the anthro related programming because "that is what mommy loves".

[eleny]

4. "that is what mommy loves"

Oh, that is so sweet!

[malta blue]

8. School ends tomorrow and she brought home her

"cave painting" from art class....after I move I will scan it in - it is too cool! She painted a hunt scene using only twigs and feathers to paint with. Little MB is the coolest kid ever! (IMHO)

[Cleita]

5. I do too.

I like to see what things might have looked like back when they were newly minted whether a living, breathing being, an artifact or a building. The programs do a good job of reconstructing what you have tried to do in your imagination.

[Jed Dilligan]

6. It's like an extension of my love for the paintings

in old National Geographics.

[Cleita]

9. I loved those too.

I had a collection of them back to the turn of the last century. I finally had to sell them at a yard sale because I had no room anymore to store them. :cry: My loss though was someone else's gain and it was someone who would treasure them.