The Good Old Days: Prehistoric Inequality - Ep 123

This week's episode is a listener-sponsored one! Ancient hunter-gatherers are often painted as egalitarian, with all members contributing to the needs of the group. But what does evidence from prehistory say about things like access to nutrition, or care for the sick or injured? Are there cases where some individuals were clearly treated differently from others? How far back can we go to find clues? Stay tuned, sleuths.

Links

• Did agriculture create inequality? (Scientific American)

• Hunter-getherer envy (SAPIENS)

• Issues with using modern forager groups as proxy for ancient ones (Evolutionary Anthropology)

• The earliest deliberate burial? (SAPIENS)

• Sunghir burials (SAPIENS)

• Different types of burials at Sunghir (Antiquity)

• Status-symbol scapulae? (Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences)

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Spooktober: They Built It On a Haunted Burial Ground - Ep 110

For decades, American horror has been haunted by the specter of the "Indian Burial Ground." This week, we look at the roots of the phenomenon, the history behind some of the most famous instances, and Indigenous responses to the trope. Plus, Amber serves the worst Maine accent while trying to explain the plot of Pet Sematary, and bullies you all into checking out her Book Club recs.

Links

• Why Every Horror Film of the 1980s Was Built On ‘Indian Burial Grounds’ (Atlas Obscura)

• The Indian Burying Ground (Poetry Foundation)

• The Suburban Horror of the Indian Burial Ground (The National Review)

• Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places (via WorldCat)

• ‘Winchester’ Continues Hollywood’s Tradition of Mining Native American Suffering for Ghost Stories (Wear Your Voice Magazine)

• Bury My Guilt in an Indian Burial Ground (Medium)

• Horror Older Than America: Whitewashing Native Tales For A Mass-Market Audience (Northwest Public Broadcasting)

• This Essay Was Not Built On an Ancient Indian Burial Ground (Off Screen)

• Twisting Conventions: A Feminist Indigenous Perspective on the Horror Genre (Off Screen)

• Jeff Barnaby on Blood Quantum and colonialist zombies (Seventh Row)

• Podcast Ep. 39: Jeff Barnaby’s Rhymes for Young Ghouls & Blood Quantum (Seventh Row)

• Blood Quantum (2020) Official Red Band Trailer HD (via YouTube)

• Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film (via WorldCat)

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Still Spooktober: They Built It on a Haunted Burial Ground - Ep 67

Spooktober winds to a close once again, and we end with a mystery. Bundle up and join Anna and Amber at Roopkund Lake, where bones scatter the shore and speculation and science meet. Who were the people whose skeletal remains keep appearing in a remote lake in northern India? How did they get there? How might we find out?

Links

• Nanda Devi Raaj Jat Yatra (Uttarakhand Tourism)

• 10 Things You Should Know About Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra (eUttarakhand)

• Roopkund Lake (EcoIndia)

• There's A Frozen Lake In India That's Full Of Skeletons. What On Earth Happened Here? (IFL Science)

• Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India (Atlas Obscura)

• Mystery Solved - The Skeleton Lake of India (Science, Dummy) cw: human remains

• Inside Roopkund Lake, The Curious Indian Lake Where Skeletons Wash Ashore (All That’s Interesting)

• Tourists to Roopkund trek back with human skeletons (The Indian Express)

• The Mystery of ‘Skeleton Lake’ Gets Deeper (The Atlantic)

• Biomolecular analyses of Roopkund skeletons show Mediterranean migrants in Indian Himalaya (Phys.org)

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