Mythteries and Mythnomers - Ep 101

Since back-to-school season is rolling around again, let's return to our annual tradition of busting myths and righting wrongs! This time, we cover pyramid construction (and curses), the Genghis Khan family reunion, the end of James Cook, Stonehenge, the Dark Ages, and more. This episode is not to be myth-ed.

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• This 4,500-Year-Old Ramp Contraption May Have Been Used to Build Egypt's Great Pyramid (LiveScience)

• How Were the Egyptian Pyramids Built? (LiveScience)

• Was It Really a Mummy’s Curse? (JSTOR Daily)

• Tomb of Pennut - Amada (Osirisnet)

• 'Bent' pyramid: Egypt opens ancient oddity for tourism (The Guardian)

• Ancient Egyptian tomb warnings, curses and ghosts (National Museums Scotland)

• Whence Came Stonehenge’s Stones? Now We Know (The New York Times)

• We owe it all to superstud Genghis (The Guardian)

• Did Genghis Khan really kill 1,748,000 people in one hour? (How Stuff Works)

• 1 in 200 Men Are Direct Descendants of Genghis Khan (Discover)

• Genghis Khan's Genetic Legacy Has Competition (Scientific American)

• 1.5m Chinese 'descendants of one man' (BBC News)

• The genetic imprint of Niall of the Nine Hostages (Irish Times)

• A Y-Chromosome Signature of Hegemony in Gaelic Ireland (American Journal of Human Genetics)

• Mythbusting Cook: Fact fiction and total fallacy (Australian National Maritime Museum)

• Cooktown's Indigenous people help commemorate 250 years since Captain Cook's landing with re-enactment (ABC)

• How the foolish rumour that Hawaiians ate Cook began (National Indigenous Television)

• The ‘Dark Ages’ Weren’t As Dark As We Thought (LitHub)

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It's Time to Talk About the Future - Ep 100

This week, for our ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE, Anna and Amber bend their brains around the archaeology of the future and the future of archaeology. What will excavation look like in 100, 1,000, or 5,000 years? What about human evolution? Human culture? Language? We come up with more questions than answers, and have a great time doing it. THANK YOU for getting us to Episode 100!

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• Chicken Bones May Be the Legacy of Our Time (Smithsonian)

• The broiler chicken as a signal of a human reconfigured biosphere (Royal Society Open Science)

• Changes in the lead isotopic composition of blood, diet and air in Australia over a decade: Globalization and implications for future isotopic studies (Environmental Research)

• Dietary Heterogeneity among Western Industrialized Countries Reflected in the Stable Isotope Ratios of Human Hair (PLoS One)

• The Future of Archaeology Is 'Spacejunk' (The Atlantic)

• The Future of Archeology Is Plastic (Medium)

• The past, present and future of human evolution (Nature)

• What May Become of Homo sapiens (Scientific American)

• Edible Insects and Human Evolution (via Project MUSE)

• Dougal Dixon - After Man (A Zoology of the Future) 1981 (Monster Brains blog)

• Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future (via WorldCat)

• How Afrofuturism Can Help the World Mend (Wired)

• The Long Now Foundation

• What will English language look like in the future? (Oxford Academic on YouTube)

• What will the English language be like in 100 years? (The Conversation)

• Esperanto (Encyclopedia Britannica)

• Incubus (1966) on YouTube

• Hello (Adele Cover) - Esperanto version (YouTube)

• Pleistocenese: A Language of 40,000 Years Ago (Justin B. Rye)

• Futurese: The American Language in 3000 AD (Justin B. Rye)

• Beyond Biohazard: Why Danger Symbols Can’t Last Forever (99% Invisible)

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People of Size - Ep 99

Amber and Anna explore perceptions of human body shape in different times and places. What’s the difference between fatness and obesity? Why should we look askance at BMI? What is UP with Peter Paul Rubens and his damp, shiny nudes? And more!

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• The Bizarre and Racist History of the BMI (Medium’s Elemental)

• A History of Obesity, or How What Was Good Became Ugly and Then Bad (Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease)

• The evolution of human fatness and susceptibility to obesity: an ethological approach (Biological Reviews)

• A Brief History of Obesity: Truths and Illusions (Clinical Oncology News)

• Obesity in the paleolithic era (Hormones)

• Obesity in the Neolithic Era: A Greek Female Figurine (Obesity Surgery)

• The significance of Sarah Baartman (BBC)

• Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (via Worldcat)

• Socio-cultural norms of body size in Westerners and Polynesians affect heart rate variability and emotion during social interactions (Culture and Brain)

• How paradise became the fattest place in the world (CNN)

• How a Powerful Obesity Gene Helped Samoans Conquer the South Pacific (Gizmodo)

• A thrifty variant in CREBRF strongly influences body mass index in Samoans (Nature Genetics)

• “Un-Hottentoting the Queen of Punt” (via Academia.edu)

• The Expedition to Punt (Nova)

• Queen of Punt (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

• When Fat Was in Fashion (New York Times)

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Oscan the Right Questions - Ep 98

This week, on a special sponsored episode, Anna and Amber explore some of the lesser-known Italic cultural groups that were peripheral to Ancient Rome. We seek out Samnites and uncover Umbrians. We also take a brief tour of Etruscan wine country.

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Hip Neanderthals with Mayowa Adeboyega - Ep 97

These hips don't lie. Amber and Anna talk with paleoanthropologist Mayowa Adeboyega about her research on the evolution of the pelvis. Mayowa also gives us some insights on the experience of being Black in academia, and how she uses science communication and the occasional silliness to make anthropology more accessible.

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