PAL has worked with clients and local Native American groups to document archaeological investigations and produce informative and educational video products for local school and community groups. These videos highlight archaeological research in Rhode Island. They explain how archaeologists discover sites and how they work to record and collect site information before roads, bridges, and new neighborhoods are built. These videos show how archaeologists link the past with the future. They can be reserved by contacting the PAL Educational Programs Department. If you would like more information about these multimedia productions, contact Alan Leveillee.

Examples of PAL's multimedia productions include:

7000 Years of Prehistory on the Assabet River: The Pine Hawk Site

This 15 minute video was produced as a visual record of archaeological investigations done on the Pine Hawk Site, a prehistoric site located on the Assabet River in Acton, Massachusetts. This 7000 year old site was the subject of a data recovery program completed as part of the planning process for a town wastewater treatment facility. The site was found to contain evidence of a long sequence of Native American settlement. The video outlines the sequence of archaeological studies from initial discovery of the Pine Hawk Site to the excavation, laboratory analysis of artifacts and other types of information and interpretation of ancient Native American activities carried out for the data recovery program.

Back to the Past

Back to the Past is a 25-minute video that documents and presents the discoveries at the Lambert Farm Prehistoric Site in Warwick, Rhode Island. This video follows a team of professional and volunteer archaeologists during their two years of fieldwork and research as new homes were being built around a 1,000-year-old site where the ceremonial activities of the ancestors of the Narragansett Indians included burying their dogs.

A Place in Time

A Place in Time is a 20-minute video produced for middle schools and community groups. It presents the results and interpretations following the archaeological excavations of a Native American site on the island of Jamestown, Rhode Island. It was produced for the Rhode Island Department of Transportation to fulfill the public presentation requirements of a program of data recovery at this 5,000-year-old site.

Narragansett Reflections

Narragansett Reflections is a 20-minute anthropological documentary. It is an uninterrupted interview with Ella Sekatau, a Narragansett elder and Tribal historian. Ella visits the Joyner archaeological site in Jamestown, Rhode Island and reflects upon her impressions of the landscape, the archaeological record, and the oral traditions of the Narragansett Indian people who have lived and died here since the beginning.