A daily briefing of the archaeology and history of sites around the world.
The Moore's Mill Battle with Dr. Doug Scott - Episode 152
On today's episode Dr. Doug Scott talks about the Moore's Mill Civil War Battle in Missouri. Missouri comes in third for most battles in the Civil War. Dr. Scott talks about how they were able to determine through archaeology exactly what happened there and he talks about an ancestor of his that fought on that site.
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Etzanoa: Changing North American Archaeology - Episode 096
Dr. Don Blakeslee (Wichita State University) joins Chris Sims at the APN booth during SAA2017 to talk about his work at Etzanoa, a site in Southern Kansas that's changing what we know about North American archaeology.
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Dimensional Lumber and Historic Archaeology - Episode 050
On today's episode we get to learn about dimensional lumber! It's actually a thing and can be used to date sites in the west or wherever you find posts and other lumber that dates to the first half of the 20th century.
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Standard Sizes
These are the nominal and actual sizes of lumber.
Historical Archaeologist James Deetz - Episode 039
On today's show we celebrate the life of one of archaeology's greats - Dr. James Deetz. He is widely considered one of the fathers of historical archaeology and was a pioneer in many ways.
