Stop Ruining America's Past

Series: Public Broadcast Laboratory Series

Genre: Television

Year Published: 1968

Creator: Natl Educational TV Inc

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Documents the campaign to save archeological sites in Illinois from destruction by urban and industrial expansion. Explains the significance of the sites. Shows archeologists and students during an emergency midwinter dig. , One segment from episode 119 of PBL. Describes the campaign to save Illinois' archaeological sites from urban and industrial expansion. Interviews Stuart Struever, archaeology professor at Northwestern University, who explains the significance of the sites. Shows Struever and others surveying and digging at sites. Ends with the suggestion that the area's heritage could be saved with the help of others., One segment from episode 119 of PBL. Describes the campaign to save Illinois' archaeological sites from urban and industrial expansion. Interviews Stuart Struever, archaeology professor at Northwestern University, who explains the significance of the sites. Shows Struever and others surveying and digging at sites. Ends with the suggestion that the area's heritage could be saved with the help of others.

Complete Record: Documents the campaign to save archeological sites in Illinois from destruction by urban and industrial expansion. Explains the significance of the sites. Shows archeologists and students during an emergency midwinter dig. , One segment from episode 119 of PBL. Describes the campaign to save Illinois' archaeological sites from urban and industrial expansion. Interviews Stuart Struever, archaeology professor at Northwestern University, who explains the significance of the sites. Shows Struever and others surveying and digging at sites. Ends with the suggestion that the area's heritage could be saved with the help of others., One segment from episode 119 of PBL. Describes the campaign to save Illinois' archaeological sites from urban and industrial expansion. Interviews Stuart Struever, archaeology professor at Northwestern University, who explains the significance of the sites. Shows Struever and others surveying and digging at sites. Ends with the suggestion that the area's heritage could be saved with the help of others.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.