How Long Ago Was the Past? - Ep 168

When does “The Past” start, and how far back does it go? How long did it take people to get places in the past? How do we attempt to hold the vastness of time and geography in our minds? Not well, especially in an audio medium, but we’re excited to blow your minds.

Links

• The Greatest Animal War (Nautilus)

• The last slave ship survivor and her descendants identified (National Geographic)

• How Far Can A Horse Travel In A Day? (8 Facts) (Deep Hollow Ranch)

• RGS-IBG Expedition Handbook (Royal Geographical Society)

• Speed Under Sail of Ancient Ships (Transactions of the American Philological Association)

• An Ordinary Ship and Its Stories of Early Globalism: World Travel, Mass Production, and Art in the Global Middle Ages (Journal of Medieval Worlds)

• Royal Road (Livius.org)

• ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World (Stanford University)

• Modeling Ancient Population Structures and Movement in Linguistics (Annual Review of Anthropology)

• Convergent geographic patterns between grizzly bear population genetic structure and Indigenous language groups in coastal British Columbia, Canada (Ecology and Society)

• Human mobility and innovation spreading in ancient times: a stochastic agent-based simulation approach (EPJ Data Service)

• Optimising human community sizes (Evolution and Human Behavior)

• Size of human groups during the Paleolithic and the evolutionary significance of increased group size (Behavioral and Brain Sciences)

• The Oaxaca Barrio in Teotihuacan: Mortuary Customs and Ethnicity in Mesoamerica's Greatest Metropolis (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)

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Hasanlu: An Iron Age Whodunnit - Ep 78

In the early first millennium BCE, the city of Hasanlu was destroyed in a single, terrible day. Excavations reveal murdered civilians and a citadel engulfed in fire, but who was responsible for destroying this town on the road to everywhere in Iron Age Western Asia? This week, Anna and Amber tell Hasanlu's story, and of the academic drama that followed its excavation (and continues to this day).

Links

• Ḥasanlu Teppe (Encyclopedia Iranica)

• Tell (mound) (Encyclopedia Britannica)

• Hasanlu Publication Project

• Hasanlu in the Iron Age (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)

• Rediscovering Hasanlu (Expedition)

• Special Issue: East of Assyria--The Highland Settlement of Hasanlu (Expedition)

• The Excavation of Hasanlu: An Archaeological Evaluation (Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research)

• Last Day at Hasanlu (Expedition)

• Iran's Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia (New Scientist)

• The Hasanlu Lovers (Penn Museum)

• Lovers, Friends, or Strangers? New Thoughts on a Museum Icon (Penn Museum)

• East of Assyria? Hasanlu and the Problem of Assyrianization (in Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period)

• Warfare at Hasanlu in the Late 9th Century B.C. (Expedition)

• Urartu (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)

• Who Destroyed Hasanlu IV? (Iran)

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The Dirt Potcast: Ceramics in Archaeology - Ep 58

This week, we’re talking ceramics! Anna and Amber explain how bits of pottery aren’t called shards, but do hold lots of secrets (and sometimes blood!), the role of ceramics in archaeology, evidence for amateur and student potters, and how Amber clearly didn’t miss her calling as a ceramic artist.

Links

• Basic Concepts: Pottery in the Archaeological Record (Archaeology Review)
  [https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2007/01/basic-concepts-pottery-in-the-archaeological-record/]

• Ancient Chinese pottery confirmed as the oldest yet found (The Guardian)
  [https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/jun/28/ancient-chinese-pottery-oldest-yet]

• Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) in the Study of Archaeological Ceramics (Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis)
  [https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199681532.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199681532-e-24]

• Thule tradition (University of Waterloo)
  [http://anthropology.uwaterloo.ca/ArcticArchStuff/thule.html]

• Ceramic Technology of Arctic Alaska: An Experimental and Adaptive Craft (Teal Sullivan)
  [http://www.tealsullivan.com/ceramics/arcticpottery/]

• How to Make an Unfired Clay Cooking Pot: Understanding the Technological Choices Made by Arctic Potters (Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory)
  [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25653111?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents]

• Muweilah (Universes in Universe)
  [https://universes.art/en/art-destinations/sharjah/archaeological-sites/muweilah]

• Prehistoric Children Working and Playing: A Southwestern Case Study in Learning Ceramics (Journal of Archaeological Research)
  [https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/jar.57.4.3631354]

• The Dirt Book Club!
  When Clay Sings (via WorldCat) [https://www.worldcat.org/title/when-clay-sings/oclc/340283]

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