Time Team America

Seasons

2009

USA

6.8

TV-PG

From PBS - TIME TEAM AMERICA plunges the viewer into the grime and glory of real-life archaeology: epiphany and exhaustion, discovery, and disappointment. The team endures dirt, sweat, dust, and rain to explore the mysteries of the past through what they find buried below the ground. Part adventure, part hard science, part reality show, TIME TEAM AMERICA applies the latest technology and the team's collective expertise to solving the riddles of the past--against a ticking clock. The team has just three days to find out what it can at each site.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Fort Raleigh, North Carolina

In 1586 a group of English colonists arrived in the New World. When ships returned three years later, the settlement was empty and colonists gone. Only the word Croatoan carved on a gatepost left a clue. Time Team tries to locate the site.

S1 • E2

Topper, South Carolina

When did humans arrive in North America? The traditional view is Native Americans crossed the Bering land bridge 13,000 years ago, the Clovis culture. The team has 3 days to search out evidence that could rock the archaeological world.

S1 • E3

New Philadelphia, Illinois

In 1836 Frank McWorter purchased his freedom from a plantation owner, purchased his family out of slavery, moved to Illinois and started a town. What remains of New Philadelphia? They search for a schoolhouse for African American children.

S1 • E4

Range Creek, Utah

From PBS - The picturesque and remote canyons of southern Utah contain what remains of the Fremont Indians who lived there 1,000 years ago. The Fremonts stashed their food in clay granaries high on the cliffs, and entered their underground homes through a hole in the ceiling. They decorated rock walls with petroglyphs that remain a mystery to this day. Our team learns what life was like in these canyons a thousand years ago.

S1 • E5

Fort James, South Dakota

From PBS - In 1865, a unit of cavalry soldiers found themselves sent west to defend pioneer settlers against angry Sioux Indians in what is now South Dakota. The soldiers built one of the few stone forts on the American frontier. The fort's quartzite walls still peek out from under a grassy field. Our team has just three days to map, dig, and uncover what remains of Fort James, and what they find tells an intriguing tale of 1865 frontier life.