The Prehistoric Japanese Pt 1 - Ep 69

This week, it’s a sponsored episode (thanks Elizabeth!) and part one in a two-part series on ancient Japan. This week—the Jomon, prehistoric Japanese hunter-gatherers, and their descendants, the Ainu indigenous people. Also, some bears.

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• Spotlight on Research: What Can Archaeology Tell Us About the Prehistory of the Japanese Islands? (Hokkaido University)

• The Untold Story of Japan’s First People (Sapiens)

• A-hunting we will go! (Heritage of Japan)

• Tattooing Among Japan’s Ainu People (Lars Krutak)

• Ainu Decorative Needlework (TRC Leiden)

• 20 Vintage Portraits of Japanese Ainu Women With Their Traditional Tattooed Lips (Heritage Daily)

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It's A Wash - Ep 68

This week, Anna and Amber decided to clean up their act and take a look at the history of bathing and hygiene. We’re dipping our toes into Roman baths, sweating through Finnish and Russian saunas, discussing the shrewd marketing behind the “Halitosis Effect,” and more. Plus, what even IS soap, anyway?

Links

• A natural history of hygiene (Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology)

• Evidence that disgust evolved to protect from risk of disease (Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences)

• The First Soap - The first recorded evidence of soap making (Soap History)

• Out of the Vapors: A Social and Architectural History of Bathhouse Row

• More Than a Bath: An Examination of Japanese Bathing Culture (Claremont Colleges)

• Self-Reflection in the Tub: Japanese Bathing Culture, Identity, and Cultural Nationalism (Asia Pacific Perspectives)

• Dip into the history of the Japanese 'system bath' (Japan Times)

• Networking Naked With Finland's Diplomatic Sauna Society (The Atlantic)

• A `working' bath: Finland's answer to negotiations. SAUNA DIPLOMACY (Christian Science Monitor)

• The Standard Guide to Global Bathing Cultures (Standard Hotels)

• The History and Science Behind Your Terrible Breath (Smithsonian)

• Fighting bad breath -- a battle through centuries (Los Angeles Times)

• Who invented the toothbrush and when was it invented? (Library of Congress)

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October Bonus Episode - Deep Cuts - Ep 67b

Deep Cuts from October episodes.

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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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Spooktober: The Nature of Evil - Ep 66

Come along for a look at the anthropology of “evil,” some of the psychological designations that true crime podcasts might neglect, some wildly speculative thoughts about the roots of human evil, and how scores on “psychopath tests” vary across societies. Plus, the earliest cold case murder, Machiavelli on Machiavellianism, and unfortunately, the entirely unwelcome reappearance of the Evil Neanderthal theory.

Links

• Cultural Relativism (WIkibooks)

• How evil is a socially constructed concept: Evil across societies (The Manitoban)

• Demons, Dybbuks, Ghosts, & Golems (My Jewish Learning)

• Psychiatric labeling in cross-cultural perspective (Science)

• The Anthropology of Evil

• The Nature of Evil (Huffington Post)

• The Stigma of Personality Disorders (Current Psychiatry Reports)

• Personality Disorders (The Mayo Clinic)

• Why It Pays to Be a Bit of a Psychopath (LiveScience)

• Successful cavemen were serial killers (New York Post)

• The Criminal Psychopath: History, Neuroscience, Treatment, and Economics (Jurimetrics)

• Quick and Dirty: Some Psychosocial Costs Associated with the Dark Triad in Three Countries (Evolutionary Psychology)

• A world shrouded in darkness: Accounting for variance in the Dark Triad traits around the world (ANU)

• This Author Thinks We Might Be on the Verge of a New Generation of Serial Killers (Vice)

• World's Oldest Cold Case: A 430,000-Year-Old Murder Victim Found In Pit Of Bones (Forbes)

• Unraveling the True Machiavelli (JHU Arts & Sciences Magazine)

• 500-year-old arrest warrant for Machiavelli discovered (Archaeology.wiki)

• Monster Talk episode with Jon Ronson discussing the Psychopath Test

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