Them There Hills: Mounds and the Myth of the Moundbuilders - Ep 56
It’s all about mounds and moundbuilders on this week’s episode with Anna and Amber.
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Cahokia: The Great Native American Metropolis (via WorldCat)
Watson Brake, a Middle Archaic Mound Complex in Northeast Louisiana (American Antiquity)
12th-Century Cahokia Was a “Melting Pot” (Archaeology)
Cahokia and the Excavation of Mound 72 (Lithics Casting Lab)
The Ancient Mounds of Poverty Point: A Place of Rings (via WorldCat)
Moundbuilders (Newberry)
Early pottery: Technology, Function, Style, and Interaction in the Lower Southeast (via WorldCat)
White Settlers Buried the Truth About the Midwest’s Mysterious Mound Cities (Smithsonian)Check out Ken
Feder’s take on the myth of the moundbuilders over on Archaeological Fantasies. He’s also the author of this week’s Dirt Book Club entry, Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and
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Troy Story: Heinrich Schliemann and the Power of Lying - Ep 55
This week, we play some of the Classics: a look at Troy, the Trojan War, and its discovery. Enter Heinrich Schliemann, the archaeologist (nope) who excavated the site of Hisarlik, in present-day Turkey, found evidence of the end of the Iliad (nope), went on to excavate other Homeric heroes (again, nope), and completely changed the game for public interest in archaeological research and the possibility that Homer was based on historical events (actually, this one is true). Come for Amber attempting to recite the Aeneid, stay for Anna throwing books in disgust.
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An Arctic Expedition - Ep54
Amber's too cold, Anna's too hot, and we've both lost our dang minds! In an effort to think about something other than the summer heat, this week we're offering you a sampler platter of some of the amazing archaeology from the Arctic regions up north! Learn how people got to the Arctic, what some of them did when they got there, and what's happening to Arctic sites now in light of global warming. Also hyenas. Refreshing!
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The Peopling of the Americas: Evidence for Multiple Models (Discover)
Late Pleistocene exploration and settlement of the Americas by modern humans (Science)
Beringia (National Parks Service)
These First Americans Vanished Without a Trace — But Hints of Them Linger (LiveScience)
The ancient people in the high-latitude Arctic had well-developed trade (EurekAlert)
Do Canadian Carvings Depict Vikings? Removing Mammal Fat May Tell (LiveScience)
How Did Prehistoric Hyenas Reach the Americas? Through the Arctic (Ha’aretz)
As the Arctic Erodes, Archaeologists Are Racing to Protect Ancient Treasures (Smithsonian)
The Unalaska Sea Ice Project (Boston University Zooarchaeology Laboratory)
What Clam Thermometers Tell Us About Past Climates (Sapiens)
Clamshells and Climate Change: What seal bones and clamshells teach us about past climate (The Brink)
The Dirt Book Club!
The earth is faster now: indigenous observations of Arctic environmental change, by Igor Krupnik and Dyanna Jolly
The last imaginary place: a human history of the Arctic world, by Robert McGhee
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