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SCENE 3

NATASHA VOLKEN, ARCHAEOLOGIST MONIQUE THOMPSON, ARCHEOLOGIST EXT. IPANEMA BEACH - BRAZIL- DAY.

NATASHA VOLKEN RIDES STRONG AMONG THE IMPOSING IPANEMA BEACHE UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES, RAISING DUST. SHE STOPS AND DISMOUNTS BESIDE TWO TIED HORSES. WITH MONIQUE THOMPSON, THEY SQUAT DOWN BESIDE A STREAM, FILLING THEIR BACKPACKS WITH COLD WATER. IT IS GET UP AND LOOK FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ETHNOLOGICAL CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF IPANEMA. NATASHA VOLKEN HAS GRAY EYES AND IS SEXY LIKE MONIQUE, WITH AN ARISTOCRATIC AIR OF COMA DESPITE HER YOUTH. NATASHA VOLKEN AND MONIQUE THOMPSON WEAR A GRAY COAT AND SHOW EXUBERANT PHYSICAL FORM.

NATASHA VOLKEN, ARCHAEOLOGIST

NATASHA VOLKEN, ARCHEOLOGIST SMILES LIKE A GENUINE SAFETY IN THE LOOK. YOUR SKIN IS PERFECT. SHE LEANS DOWN ON HER KNEES, PLACING A HAND ON THE GROUND AFTER DISMOUNTING THE HORSE. IN THE WATER MIRROR OF THE SEA, THEIR FACES ALMOST

TOUCH THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN. SOUND OF HORSES. NATASHA VOLKEN, ARCHAEOLOGIST BEGINS TO CLEAN HER HANDS, ARMS AND FACE AT THE SEA'S EDGE AND GETS UP, LOOKING AT THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE.

Camp, village, Village, Rock Art, Landfill, Cerrito, Teso, Mound of Island of Marajó, path, road. Underground House , Cemetery , Specific Activity of Ceramics, Housing, Ceremonial, Fort or Fortification, Lito-Ceramic Housing, Housing, Lytic Workshop, Polisher, Quilombo, Jesuit Reduction , Sambaqui, Berbigueira, Concheiro, Annular, Circular, Ellipsoidal, Irregular, Linear , not delimited, Rectangular, Triangular. Cave with 1-meter thick archaeological sediment, extremely rich in varied materials. Flanked with two shelters. With paintings. Sediment churned by hunters of treasure in the Islands Cagarras in Ipanema or the 8,000 miles of line coast of shipwreck sites. Ceramic site located on the top of a small hill; with little slope, approximately 200 meters from a stream in the gaucho pampa. Ceramic fragments without decoration and thick. At the crime scene, anything can be relevant. The archaeological question is whether a place or place is what to focus on. What should I study, look, think, feel?

MONIQUE THOMPSON, ARCHAEOLOGIST

Is a sign that background noise? The task is to identify symptomatic details, evidence substantive and structure them for a picture or narrative coherent can be made and remade for s future s archaeologist s with new technologies and other theories. Relations of landscape culture and their concepts form one theoretical field in the heart of the archaeological imagination. What stands out as a figure or subject in relation to the context and the setting? Alternatively, should I just TYPE, CLASSIFY, PROCESS? PROCESS.

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NATASHA VOLKEN, ARCHAEOLOGIST

We should start going back to the Institute of Archeology. In April, there was the Dai Ethnic Minority Water Splashing Festival. Here we must study, look, think, feel this festival, from three to four days, which is a traditional festival for the Dai people in Xishuangbanna and elsewhere ... here, to send the old and bring the new, and to wish each other the best. Splashes of water are presented at this festival as entertainment.

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MONIQUE THOMPSON, ARCHAEOLOGIST

On the eve of the first day of the festival, activities include launching rockets and rowing a dragon-shaped boat. The second day is known as the Neutral Day, which belongs to neither the old nor the New Year. On that day, according to custom, people usually stay at home or hunt in the mountains. You forgot down here. Initial. Right next to…If you guys are all set, I’m gonna take off.

NATASHA VOLKEN, ARCHAEOLOGIST

The third day falls on New Year's Day. In the morning, people get dressed and go to the temple to worship Buddha. They make three to five piles of sand in the shape of a Chinese pagoda over three feet high and plant eight bamboo branches at the top wrapped in red and green strips. They then sit around the pagodas to respectfully listen to scriptures and historical legends and pray for a long time and many descendants.

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MONIQUE THOMPSON, ARCHAEOLOGIST

In the afternoon, every woman has to carry fresh water to clean the Buddha statue so that she can receive her blessing. People then pour water on each other to symbolize the blessing, rinsing disease and disaster with holy water for a happy life. At night, music accompanied by drums reverberates through all the villages and people like to dance and sing as much as they like. That is what I know about the De'Ang ethnic minority, not the festival.

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The festival is entitled Water Splashing and is practiced by the De'angs, which usually takes place in mid-April; it is similar in some ways to that of the Dais. Near the festival, people are busy preparing new clothes, rice cakes, water dragons and barrels. The elders gather at the temple and build a small room where Sakiamuni's worship ceremony takes place. Here, the water dragon, carved out of a huge block of wood four to five meters long, erected. It is painted and equipped with grooves.

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MONIQUE THOMPSON, ARCHAEOLOGIST

Do De'angs make water dragons?

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NATASHA VOLKEN, ARCHAEOLOGIST

Yes, in the wood, as I said. The girls carry a basin full of water, which flows into the figure of the Buddha in a small room through an opening. The oldest with the most prestige carries the flowers, dives into the water and spreads the water over people to bless them so that they are lucky and have a good start to the year.

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MONIQUE THOMPSON, ARCHEOLOGIST

I imagine that at that moment, people get excited, wishing each other New Year's greetings.

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Young people raise barrels over their heads, pouring water into the hands of their elders to bless everyone with a happy life, good health and longevity. Many traditions here in Yunnan, may have arrived in Brazil where cultural diffusion took place. Marajó Island, for example, in the north of Brazil. Here in Yunnan, the elders reach out and hold the water to greet and bless the youth. After the ceremony, people line up behind the elephant leg drum, flowing on the side of the spring, riverbank and begin to sing, dance, chase and splash water on each other.

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Is the Water Splashing Festival the ceremony that the De'angs celebrate in the New Year and an opportunity to meet their lovers?

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NATASHA VOLKEN, ARCHAEOLOGIST

Sending the bamboo basket is a popular activity among the De'angs. Late at night, the boys visit the girls and offer baskets for them ... the most beautiful is kept for their loved one to express their love and obtain their return, affective return.

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MONIQUE THOMPSON, ARCHEOLOGIST

So, are we looking for archaeological remains of girls who may have received several baskets?

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NATASHA VOLKEN, ARCHAEOLOGIST

Yes, but the final lover was settled at the festival where the water was thrown, depending on the basket the girl carried, soon we would find different typologies here. C atom each girl carries a beautiful basket; the boys scrutinize the baskets on the backs of Boy in to see which one belonged to him.

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MONIQUE THOMPSON, ARCHEOLOGIST

After watering the two lovers were, they throw water at each other for expresser his excitement and joy, here in m ethnic minoring of Achang, too.

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NATASHA VOLKEN, ARCHAEOLOGIST

The Achang ethnic minority celebrates the same summer Monique as a cultural overlap with the Dai ethnic minority. It was a good opportunity for young people to choose their lovers. The girls' families usually prepare eight delicious dishes to welcome the boys who come to woo them. Only when all the guests have arrived, can everyone sit down.

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MONIQUE THOMPSON, ARCHAEOLOGIST

The information says that a boy has to go with a chicken head from the hidden girl's family and, as a punishment; he has to drink wine if the girl finds the chicken head.

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NATASHA VOLKEN, ARCHAEOLOGIST

Case contrary, the girl should drink. If the thief is caught on the spot, he will not only be penalized, but also provoked by the girls. After the meal, he has to give money to the girl based on the cost of the dishes without being spotted.

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THEY GET ON THEIR HORSES. MONIQUE OFFERS NATASHA HER WATER BOTTLE AND MONIQUE TAKES A SIP, LETTING IT RUN DOWN HER SHIRT AND GETTING IT WET, REVEALING HER SHAPES.

MONIQUE THOMPSON, ARCHEOLOGIST

Somewhat?

NATASHA VOLKEN, ARCHAEOLOGIST

Not that I saw it.

MONIQUE THOMPSON, ARCHAEOLOGIST

How close did you get?

NATASHA VOLKEN, ARCHAEOLOGIST

CLOSE ENOUGH TO SEE THAT THERE WERE NO INVADERS, THEY WERE DEAD. LOCAL DIALECTS HAVE LITTLE DIFFERENCE AND CAN USUALLY SPEAK TO EACH OTHER. THERE ARE NO WORDS IN THE PUMI PEOPLE. PUMI PO HERE IN NINGLANG IS USED TO SPELL THE PUMI LANGUAGE IN TIBETAN TO RECORD LEGENDS AND HISTORICAL SONGS, BUT THEY ARE NOT POPULAR AND ARE NOW WIDELY USED IN THE CHINA.

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MONIQUE THOMPSON, ARCHEOLOGIST

(Skeptical) Or asleep?

NATASHA VOLKEN, ARCHAEOLOGIST

I think these looters are dead. We must return to the title.

MONIQUE THOMPSON, ARCHEOLOGIST

(with the suggestion of a smile) Do the dead scare you?

NATASHA VOLKEN, ARCHAEOLOGIST

Ms. First Minister say issue that should track them here in Brazil, because the language of the Pumi people belonging to linguistic branch Yi of Tibetan-Burmese language group of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The Pumi people live in a multi-clan, mainly on the mountainside, and the houses are shaped like a wooden patio. The Pumi people have their own unique culture and art. Among them, myths, legends and stories are the most numerous.

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We tracked them on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

NATASHA VOLKEN, ARCHAEOLOGIST

The Pumi people can sing and dance. In the case of a wedding or funeral party, a "song for song" contest assumed. Pumi men also relish sports such as shooting, archery, wrestling and martial arts. The most popular traditional national festival of Pumi is the Ohwa Festival, the New Year.

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CLOSE ON NATACHA'S FEET LOOKING AT THE MOON IN THE WATER MIRROR AND POINTING IT WITH THE FINGER.