An Under-the-Weather Special - Ep 203

Anna is sick this week, so we've been unable to record new episodes. But rather than leave you hanging, we're releasing a lightly trimmed version of the latest episode of Old News. We've got human bone jewelry, the first Black Baptist church in colonial America, alleged art crimes, some seriously inclement weather, and more!

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Links

• Human bones used for making pendants in the Stone Age (Phys.org)

• French Authorities Detain Two Archaeologists, Including a Louvre Curator, as Part of an Ongoing International Art-Trafficking Dragnet (Artnet)

• Excavation of graves begins at site of colonial Black church (NBC News, AP)

• First Baptist Church Excavation Project (Colonial Williamsburg website)

• 5,200-year-old stone carving chrysalis found in north China (Xinhua)

• Rare coffee beans dating back 167 years ago found by archaeologists working on the Metro Tunnel project (9News)

• Jawbone Discovered in Spain May Be Oldest Known Hominin Fossil (Archaeology)

• A massive tsunami destroyed the Spanish city of Seville in the 3rd century, new study finds (El Pais)

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Field Season with Carlton Gover - Ep 148

This week, Anna and Amber sit down with archaeologist, podcaster, and member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, Carlton Shield Chief Gover. We talk about his path to archaeology, an Indigenous perspective on archaeology as history and heritage, how to prank your site supervisor, and more!

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Other People of Size - Ep 132

A follow-up and expansion to episode 99, People of Size, Anna and Amber explore other categories of largeness and how they’re represented in the archaeological record. We discuss fat bodies that are coded male, the strength and bulk of sumo wrestlers, and cultural and historical shifts in the aesthetic of the male body.

Links

• Professor Chris Forth on fatness (University of Kansas)

• Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy (Herman Pontzer)

• Japanese Sumo Wrestling (The Independent)

• Shinto origins of sumo (Wikipedia)

• The sumo diet (sumo.usa)

• Average body fat percentage (Wikipedia)

• How Strong Were Ancient People? (Discover Magazine)

• Late Pleistocene swimmers compared to modern athletes (Journal of Human Evolution)

• The male image in art history (Artsy.com)

• The forgotten history of fat men’s clubs (NPR)

• Anatomy of The Incredible Hulk (Scientific American)

• Using X Men to teach about hominin speciation (Great Lakes Ethnohistorian)

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Book Club Bonanza - Ep 84

Settle into your comfiest chair for Book Club with Anna and Amber this week. We talk about our favorite books, movies, and TV shows with archaeological or anthropological themes! We've also got some tips for listeners on how to get your literary fix while you're sheltering in place.

Links

• 8 Home Library Apps to Keep Your Book Collection Organized (Book Riot)

• Thanks to Bookshop, There Is No Reason to Buy Books on Amazon Anymore (InsideHook)

• An Update From Emily Powell (Powell’s Books)

• National Emergency Library (Archive.gov)

• Crocodile on the Sandbank

• Lest Darkness Fall

• Motel of the Mysteries

• Compass

• The Last Neanderthal

• The English Patient

• Anil’s Ghost

• The Golden Goblet

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Cache of the Day - Ep 57

This week, Anna and Amber take their inspiration from an archaeological news story and dive into some hidden treasures!

Links

• Samuel Pepys’ 1666 diaries about his beloved parmesan [http://www.pepys.info/1666/1666sep.html] (Pepys.info)

• Grave of 'real-life Asterix' who fought Caesar found amid trove of weapons and possessions in West Sussex [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/22/real-life-asterix-fought-caesar-found-amid-trove-weapons-possessions/] (The Telegraph)

• Archaeologists find richest cache of ancient mind-altering drugs in South America [https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/archaeologists-find-richest-cache-ancient-mind-altering-drugs-south-america] (Science)

• Clovis-era Tool Cache 13,000 Years Old Shows Evidence Of Camel, Horse Butchering [https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090225132355.htm] (Science Daily)

• Under Maryland Street, Ties to African Past [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/science/21arch.html] (The New York Times)

• A Cache of 18th-Century Rockets Discovered in India [https://www.archaeology-world.com/a-cache-of-18th-century-rockets-discovered-in-india/] (Archaeology World)

• A Dog Named Monty Has Dug Up a Rare Cache of Bronze Age Artifacts in the Czech Republic [https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dog-archaeologist-czech-republic-1351412] (ArtNet)

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