Satire, and entertainment- over the joining of anthropology with sports broadcasting. Imagine Olduvai Gorge and Monday Night Football together.
“All hail the anguished and half-desperate!”
The deep and rich primate voice of Jeans Levi-Strauss howls over his microphone as title graphics grace the plasma television screens. The words “HOMINID NIGHT SCAVENGING” remain in place as images replaying the National Geographic’s visual respect for the landscapes and the life within: baboons wandering the plains, Black Rhinos standing on guard, wart hogs baring their tusked teeth, as small tribes of “cavemen” wander in search of food.
A trio of popular announcers host their popular ‘once-a-week’ broadcast of sports taking place in the Lower-Middle-Upper Paleolithic Eras. The highly advanced technology from Homo sapiensfuture days allows for time-travel broadcasts. Science fiction often told of being able to visit other worlds, without the guests discovering they had visitors.
Prepare then, to be welcomed to the Anthropology Sports Channel’s(ASC) evening presentation of Hominid Night Scavenging! (drum rolls with offbeats and counterbeat is heard loudly) A 21st Century entertainment celebrated in sports bars throughout the now modern Earth. Especially in those striptease clubs where cavewomen can ‘compete’- using original human mating rituals going beyond just looking. Embracing sights, sounds, smells(yumm), touches and tastes to get Mr. Right’s attentions. Their mating dances and grinds fall under the magic of Levi-Strauss’ greetings. “Welcome. This week we are broadcasting from Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania”.
His accompanying visuals lay bare to modern eyes a steep-sided ravine in the Great Rift Valley here in the Serengeti Plains frontiering eastern Africa. Clear blue cloudless skies become the background for the many flocks of vultures circling. Flying quietly above them, undisturbed, is a large, light-grey colored simple looking craft: the WHATYEAR blimp.
The vultures think the giant lettered word is simple, very pretty feathers. As do any other living creatures who observe the this floating blimp. Human airships have the advantage of being as quiet as listening to the blowing of the wind.
Riding the broadcast centerpiece: all three show personalities, multiple high lensed cameras and operators, numerous computers with graphics programming, and the oof-stage piloting and broadcast crews. People living on the road/air every full season before returning back to home in modern times.
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