I think you can say that about any show. I agree with you though. Time Team took on a life on its own. Dig Ventures are proof of this

Mick was an absolute legend. He was one of the first people to re-define archaeology, liberating it from what people perceived as the province of posh professors and millionaire eccentrics, to one of ordinary working class people with regional accents and appealing personalities. His students must have absolutely adored the gift of his superb guidance. Imagine climbing into a university minibus with him and heading off to a dig somewhere, brimming with anticipation and joy. It would have been a dream come true for me. I really miss him still, and felt he would always be here as the welcome face of an absolutely enthralling field. Mick Aston was pure class, and is still missed immensely.

wudgee www.slideshare.net/DigNation/7-professor-carenza-lewis-the-black-death

Crash Box www.slideshare.net/DigNation/7-professor-carenza-lewis-the-black-death

John Emerson, four hundred years of what, white, Caucasian history. Native American history goes back a bit more. Perhaps not as exciting as what the Europeans have, but certainly not fair to just brush it off either.

Except for Cahokia which goes back a millennium, or the pueblo cultures, or dateable clovis sites, or... But yeah, its all low density stuff, its not like Britain where a random geophys might well turn up Roman, Saxon, iron age, paleolithics etc... throw a cat and it lands on archeology.

@Rad Derry there are indeed, but unlike England the pre columbian sites in north America are both low density (rare), involve less "construction" ... stone walls, large arrays of post holes, etc..., lack iron and bronze age artifacts since north america was largely non metallic, and lack the constant flood of different cultures that washed over england. Dig a random backyard in a rural english village and you might find lithic,bronze age, iron age, roman, Romano-British, angle, saxon, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Victorian. Dig a backyard in a rural north American backyard and you will probably have no human artifacts at all or if your very lucky you might find a fire trace or a piece of worked flint. Since most NA cultures used basketry rather than pottery, and since in MOST of the country there weren't dense settled villages, you're unlikely to find diagnostic pottery. There are thousands of archeological sites of interest in north america, but there are over six million square miles of land...

@@RickBoat When you're used to European archaeology, North American archaeology tends to be far more subtle. That subtlety has its own depths. If all we can detect is what we already know; if all we can see is what we already know how to look for; if all we respect is what is already part of our knowledge base...then what's happening here? Ethnocentrism, for sure; and what else? Hundreds of thousands of people lived thousands of years in the Western Hemisphere. Very, very--very!--few North Americans know zip about what went on in their backyard before the European influx. They don't even know its basic geology. It is perhaps not surprising that they don't know what to look for, or what they're seeing if they find it.

@@souloftheteacher9427 i completely agree. It's a problem tho that those subtleties don't present well in something like time team. At any pre columbian time there were probably not more than a couple of thousand people in what is now Kansas. That makes for a bery low density background. The sites that have been dug in detail are fascinating with the indications of links ranging across the continent, but those sites are rare and hard to find. Time team kansas is, essentially impossible.

There's a link to the slides in the video description if that helps!

Your comment says everything about you….moronic, idiotic and just plain stupid.