PROMO - Spines in Peru, Decapitated Romans and Egyptian Notepads - The Archaeology Show 158

The Archaeology Podcast Network is taking a bit of a break for October, 2022. In the mean time, we’re introducing you to some of the other fantastic shows that we produce. Here’s an episode from The Archaeology Show with three news articles from February 2022.

This week we have three interesting archaeology news articles. First, spines excavated in the Chincha valley of Peru are threaded on reeds posthumously. Archaeologist speculate this may have been done by the family members of the data after looting by the Spanish occurred. In segment 2 we take a look at a cemetery in the UK with an unusually high number of decapitated bodies. And finally, it turns out that ancient Egyptians used broken pot sherds as a type of notepad that school children used to practice script writing.

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• Native Peruvians threaded corpses’ spines on to sticks, study suggests

• Scientists found 192 spines threaded on poles in Peru, a macabre practice that may be a response to Europeans pillaging graves

• Decapitated skeletons of Roman 'criminals' found during England rail excavation.

• Fleet Marsten HS2

• Huge Discovery of 18,000 'Notepads' Documents Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

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Sea Peoples - Ep 197

“The Sea Peoples” is a term that refers to a seafaring culture of unclear origin that bopped around the eastern Mediterranean and adjoining areas around 1200-900 BCE. There are ancient Egyptian murals and reliefs that depict battles against these unnamed adversaries, but no definitive labels or helpful texts. So who were the Sea Peoples? We’ll discuss some theories, and probably not reach any conclusions apart from “wow people really care a lot about this, huh?”

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Links

• Sea Peoples (World History Encyclopedia)

• Ask a Near Eastern Professional: Who are the Sea Peoples and what role did they play in the devastation of civilizations that occurred shortly after 1200 BCE? (Ancient Near East Today)

• Gaston Maspero and the Sea Peoples (SciHi)

• Rapid Change of Climate Did Not Cause the Fall of the Akkadian Empire (Ancient Near East Today)

• Who Were the Sea People? (ThoughtCo)

• Philistine (people) (Encyclopedia Britannica)

• Ancient DNA sheds light on the genetic origins of early Iron Age Philistines (Science Advances)

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Kyle Jordan - Ep 162

Anna and Amber are joined by wonderful Special Guest, Kyle Jordan! Kyle is a disabled Egyptologist interested in themes of religion, magic and identity in the Egyptian world, with a specific focus on the appearance and interpretation of disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology as a discipline. We had a wonderful-- and long-- conversation with Kyle about how Egyptians viewed the embodiment of disability, how perception of disability in archaeology has changed (and how it still needs to change), and more.

Listener note, we mistakenly discuss the dialogue of a man and his ka, which was in fact between a man and his ba. This dialogue is on the subject of suicidal ideation, so please take care or skip forward at about [41:04.000].

Links

• Follow Kyle on Twitter!

• "Disability in Ancient Egypt - the Case of Geheset" (via YouTube)

• "Disability in Ancient Egyptian Myth and Literature" (via YouTube)

• Let That Be Your Last Battlefield: Tutankhamun and Disability (via Semantic Scholar)

• Dialogue of a Man with His Soul (Ethics of Suicide Digital Archive) (cn discussion of suicidal ideation)

• Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

• Westcar Papyrus: Khufu and the Magician (Ancient Egypt Online)

• Human History Gets a Rewrite (The Atlantic)

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Mummies' Day - Ep 136

This week, Anna and Amber celebrate some of the lesser-known mummies of the world. Amber shares her hometown mummies, while Anna spins the stories of a smoke-dried philosopher, a legendary Lama, and...a winery? Plus, one Egyptian mummy thrown in for good measure.

Links

• Jeremy Bentham (Crime Museum)

• English Philosopher’s Dressed-Up Skeleton Goes on View in New Glass Display (Smithsonian)

• Jeremy Bentham's Auto-Icon (Atlas Obscura)

• Jeremy Bentham’s Head Is Coming Out of Its Box and Under the Microscope (Atlas Obscura)

• Nightmarish mummies attracting curious to rural Philippi (West Virginia Explorer)

• Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

• The Mystery Behind Russia's Buddhist "Miracle" (The Culture Trip)

• Ivolginsky Datsan (Atlas Obscura)

• Summum Pyramid (Atlas Obscura)

• First-known pregnant mummy discovered (Live Science)

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Merry Hyksmas! With Dr. Chris Stantis - Ep 121

Seasons greetings! And by that we mean we're wrapping up 2020 by sitting down with Dr. Chris Stantis, who uses stable isotope analyses to learn how people lived in the ancient past. We discuss the real story of the Hyksos Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period in Egypt. Were they the pushy invaders they've been made out to be? Or is there more to the story? (There's more to the story). Not only ALL THIS, but Dr. Stantis convinces Amber and Anna to love those pesky little atoms--stable isotopes!

Links

• Who were the Hyksos? Challenging traditional narratives using strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) analysis of human remains from ancient Egypt (PLOSOne)

• The Foreigner as Scapegoat: Lessons from Ancient Egypt and Today (Chris Naughton dot com)

• Additionally, Dr. Stantis has the following recommendations for those interested in learning more about the Hyksos:

  • The Ascendancy of the Kushite Kingdom of Kerma in the Post Middle Kingdom Era: Revisiting the Second Intermediate Period of Ancient Egypt (Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley)

  • Dr. Danielle Candelora’s research on Hyksos and “race” in scholarship

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