- Title: Time Team USA
- Date: 1st January 1970
- Description:Time Team America is an adaptation of the British series,Time Team ,in collabaration with Channel 4,in which a team of professional archaeologists visit famous archaeological sites across the United States. They are led by host and artist Colin Campbell. Over five episodes,Time Team America tracels to Roanoke Island to look for evidence of the Lost Colony of Fort Raleigh and learn what life might have been like for the first English colonists. They go to the woodlands near the Savannah River in South Carolina to help with the excavation of the Topper site - one part of the team will dig a Clovis quarry,while the other will investigate a controversial cultural layer claimed to be pre-Clovis. In another episode Time Team America joins the ongoing research of New Philadelphia,(the first town in the United States to be founded by former salves some 30 years before the Civil War) as they search for the town's schoolhouse. Time Team America was invited to Range Creek in the Book Cliffs in Utah to help with the research into the extraordinary well-preserved pit-houses and granaries of Fremont people. Finally,the team go to Fort James in South Dakota,one of the few stone forts on the American frontier,which was abondoned a few years after it was builtin the 1860s. The team go on a mission to find out how big the fort was to protect its archaeology for future research.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Videotext Communications Ltd.
- Transmission Date:01/01/1970
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1970s