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
Decapitated skeletons of Roman 'criminals' found during England rail excavation.
Huge Discovery of 18,000 'Notepads' Documents Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
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Sorry to Barge In - Ep 133
This week, Anna and Amber are playing catch-up after attending the SAA conference, recovering from vaccine shots, and life in general. We'll be taking the rest of April off for a short break. In the meantime, please enjoy a cleaned-up version of a Dirt After Dark episode where Anna treats Amber to the story of the Roman emperor Caligula's absurd pleasure boats on a tiny, tiny lake.
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Nemi Ships: How Caligula's Floating Pleasure Palaces Were Found and Lost Again (Discover)
Divers to scour lake for Emperor Caligula’s 2,000-year-old pleasure ship (Washington Post)
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