Tiny Plants: Paleoethnobotany with Special Guest Dr. Madelynn von Baeyer - Ep 83
Anna and Amber chat with Dr. Madelynn von Baeyer about archaeological plants. How do you find 'em? What can they tell us? What's the best archaeological plant? And what does any of this have to do with MUMMIES?!?
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Three Ancient Egyptian Coffins at Harvard University (Sketchfab)
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
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A Day at the Museum with Dr. Briana Pobiner - Ep 82
Anna and Amber chat with Dr. Briana Pobiner, a researcher and educator at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's Human Origins Program. We talk favorite hominins, meat science, evolutionary education, how to get the most out of a frolic through the museum, and some of the zillion other things Dr. Pobiner does.
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Briana Pobiner (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)
Briana Pobiner (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)
Dietary Detective: Smithsonian Scientist Briana Pobiner (Smithsonian Institution Youtube)
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Mark My Words: Linguistics! - Ep 81
In this episode, Amber and Anna talk about talking. It’s finally an episode on linguistics! We think about Neanderthal speech, wrestle with syntax and semantics, and have a whole language family reunion.
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What is Speech? What is Language? (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe (Nature)
Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia (Science)
Language Isolates and Their History, or, What’s Weird, Anyway?
Eat Locally: The Archaeology of Indigenous American Food - Ep 80
This week, Anna and Amber take a look at foodways in the archaeological record of North America. What does archaeological evidence say about what was cooked, who was cooking, and what vessels were used to prepare and store food? What evidence is there for recreating ancient and pre-contact diets? How does this fit in with contemporary food sovereignty movements among Indigenous people? How great are potatoes? All this and more!
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Archaeological Studies of Cooking and Food Preparation (Journal of Archaeological Research)
Reconstructing sexual divisions of labor from fingerprints on Ancestral Puebloan pottery (PNAS)
One of the Oldest Spuds In the World Is Poised For a Comeback (Heated by Medium)
North American Indian Recipes – Acorn Recipes & Facts! (The People’s Paths)
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Not All Heroes Wear Capes: Countering Human Remains Trafficking - Ep 79
This week, Anna and Amber are joined by Dr. Damien Huffer, a bioarchaeologist and crime fighter. Dr. Huffer’s work was featured way, way back in Episode 36, “The Unsettling Business of Curating Human Remains,” and Anna and Amber are keen to learn more. How does one get into this line of work? What makes people want to own parts of other people? What’s being done to stop trafficking, and what lies ahead?
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Fighting trade in human remains antiquities (Saturday Paper)
This Archaeologist Uses Instagram To Track The Human Skeleton Trade (Forbes)
The Insta-Dead: The rhetoric of the human remains trade on Instagram (Internet Archaeology)
The Dirt Episode 36: The Unsettling Business of Curating Human Remains
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