A daily briefing of the archaeology and history of sites around the world.
Late Woodland Napier Site - Episode 131
On today's episode, Chris Webster tells you about his thesis research, a Late Woodland Napier Complicated Stamp pottery site in Georgia, USA. It's one of the only sites in the area with this much of this rare type of pottery and it's worth hearing about.
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Ancient America, Three Rivers Petroglyph Site - Episode 130
On today's episode Kenneth Feder continues the series based on his most recent book, "Ancient America: 50 Archaeological Sites You Should See For Yourself", with the Three Rivers Petroglyph Site in New Mexico. It's a little off the beaten path but well worth the visit.
Links
- Three Rivers Petroglyph Site
- Discount Code: RLFANDF30
- Info Sheet for Book
- Ancient America Book
Where Do Artifacts Go To Die? - Episode 129
I am a huge fan of talking about the past being created in the present, especially in the way examine objects that have travelled through time to reach us right now. Although, this focuses mainly on how we think about these items and their place with our framework of theory; however we often neglect how these items leave our thoughts and the present.
Contact
- tristan: @anarchaeologist
Discovery of Tollund Man - Episode 128
Tollund Man was discovered in May 1950. He is one of several so-called 'bog bodies' from Denmark and other places in Europe, deposited mainly in the Iron Age. He caused quite a stir, mainly because his head was so well preserved you can almost imagine he is merely asleep. He famously inspired the poet Seamus Heaney.
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Underwater Archaeologist George R. Fischer - Episode 127
On today's episode we talk about pioneering National Park Service Underwater Archaeologist George R. Fischer.
Ancient America, Cemetery Mound - Episode 126
On today's show Dr. Kenneth Feder talks about Cemetery Mound - just one of the 50 sites in his book "Ancient America: 50 Archaeological Sites You Should See For Yourself" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016).
Links
- Cemetery Mound Site PDF
- Discount Code: RLFANDF30
- Info Sheet for Book
- Ancient America Book
Children's Books about Prehistory - Episode 125
On today's episode Kim Biddulph, host of Prehis/Stories, brings you a few books that you can use to excite your kids about archaeology.
Check out the Prehis/Stories podcast on the APN!
Contacts
Ian Fleming, the Archaeologist - Episode 124
In this episode archaeologist and James Bond expert Edward Biddulph explores Ian Fleming's forays into amateur archaeology in Norfolk, England. It wasn't his first experience of archaeology, having also dived with Jacques Cousteau near Marseilles in France to see some underwater archaeology, but at Creake Abbey in Norfolk he worked with army sappers on an early form of metal-detecting.
The text of this podcast appeared in British Archaeology magazine in 2012. Biddulph, E, Adventure at Creake Abbey, British Archaeology Sept/Oct 2012, 22-7.
Links
- James Bond Memes http://jamesbondmemes.blogspot.co.uk/
Contact
- Edward Biddulph
Ancient America - Montezuma Castle - Episode 123
On today's episode we feature the first real episode of the Ancient America series with Kenneth Feder. Today features Site 23 Montezuma Castle from his book Ancient America - Fifty Archaeological Sites You Should See For Yourself (Rowman and Littlefield 2016).
Links
- Montezuma Castle
- Discount Code: RLFANDF30
- Info Sheet for Book
- Ancient America Book
Ancient America - Fifty Archaeological Sites You Should See For Yourself - Episode 122
On today's show we kick off a series based on Kenneth Feder's new book. Today, Ken talks about his motivation for the book, how it's structured, and what you can expect.
Links
- Discount Code: RLFANDF30
- Info Sheet for Book
- Ancient America Book
Archaeology and Chemistry: Are you Mad? - Episode 121
In today’s episode, Tristan, the Anarchaeologist talks about how people respond to learning that he studied a hard science jointly with archaeology; pointing out that many people think it’s a strange mix. Tristan breaks down this idea by explaining the way in which chemistry and archaeology work very well together.
John Lubbock - Episode 120
On John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury's birthday, we look at how he capitalized on his privileged status and his legacy in British and European archaeology. Not only did he coin the terms palaeolithic and neolithic, but he also introduced the first legislation protecting archaeological sites in Britain.
Links
- John Lubbock's Obituary
- Article by Pettitt and White about John Lubbock
- Link to Steven Mithen's book After the Ice
- Link to online versions of John Lubbock's Pre-Historic Times
Contacts
Uranium Dating - Episode 119
Uranium is a fantastic element, in fact it's one of the most interesting naturally occurring element with a long history, 4.2 billion years in fact.
Uranium has so many isotopes that there are number of options when we use it do to do dating.
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The Publican Project from Internet Archaeology - Episode 118
The Archaeology Data Service and Internet Archaeology are working on an internal project concerning the current and ongoing impact of our activities on publication policy and practice in archaeology (for short, we've called it PUBLICAN). We would value just a few minutes of your time, to collect some thoughts and quotes about how what we do and how what we do has changed or is changing your practice.
The Gravels of Abbeville - Episode 117
In this episode we examine a turning point in the development of both geology and archaeology and the acceptance of the antiquity of humankind through the discovery of stone tools in association with extinct animal bones.
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Internet Archaeology with Judith Winters - Episode 116
Judith Winters is the editor for the online journal Internet Archaeology (http://intarch.ac.uk/), she tells us a bit about the journal.
Internet Archaeology has been publishing on the web since 1996 and is the premier e-journal for archaeology. Internet Archaeology is an open access, independent, not-for-profit journal. It publishes quality academic content and explores the potential of electronic publication through the inclusion of video, audio, searchable data sets, full-colour images, visualisations, animations and interactive mapping. Internet Archaeology is international in scope, a journal without borders, and all content is peer-reviewed. Internet Archaeology is hosted by the Department of Archaeology at the University of York and digitally archived by the Archaeology Data Service.
Geophysics with Alistair Galt - Episode 115
On today's episode, Tristan sits down with Alistair Galt of AOC at CiFA2017 to talk about field geophysics. What's good, what's bad, and what does it all mean?
Aerial Cam Limited - CiFA 2017 - Episode 114
Today Tristan Boyle speaks to Adam Stanford of Aerial Cam. Aerial Cam are a Specialist Archaeological Photography service employing the latest techniques, equipment and software to produce high quality evidence photography and 3D visualization of heritage assets.
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Shovel Testing - Episode 113
On today's episode we learn about a common site discovery and reconnaissance method - the shovel test.
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Public Archaeology Education and Outreach - Episode 112
On this episode Emily Long talks about the importance of public archaeology education and outreach in the United States.
Links
- http://www.saa.org/publicftp/PUBLIC/forArchaeologists/outreach_PAis.html
- https://www.archaeological.org/education
- http://www.passportintime.com/
- http://www.crowcanyon.org/
- http://www.flpublicarchaeology.org/
- http://www.saa.org/publicftp/PUBLIC/resources/coordinators.html
Contact
- Emily: @Trowel_Tales
- troweltales.com
