This is slighly unrelated to this thread, but I thought someone in the
museum world would be interested. I saw a bit of a program on the
Learning Channal's Archaeology program which documented a US University
Archaeology Department that was 'excavating' the nuclear test sites in
the southwest. In particular, a lot of attention was being paid to
finding the original mannequins used in the houses that were destroyed.
They had great footage of the houses as they were set up--as mini
dioramas of a real home--in preparation for the tests. An interesting
use of dioramas.
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Tamara Little
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Vancouver, UBC
Museum Anthropology