Building a Better Researcher, Part 2, with Tasha Bergson-Michelson - Ep 105b

The second half of Anna and Amber's conversation with librarian and research guru Tasha Bergson-Michelson. This week, we chat about the value of critical thinking, combatting misinformation in our social circles, and how to hack Wikipedia for the greater good. Plus, some unexpected facts about ice cream parlors and fog!

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Building a Better Researcher, Part 1, with Tasha Bergson-Michelson - Ep 105

Amber and Anna sit down to chat with the incomparable Tasha Bergson-Michelson, a librarian and educator. Research is a skill that is learned, and Tasha teaches us how to up our game. We learn about the process of good research, how to avoid sketchy sources, and the best ways to get started on any research project. We enjoyed talking with Tasha so much that we did it a whole bunch! Next week, we'll bring you the second half of our conversation.

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Queryin' the Illyrians - Ep 104

This week, on a sponsored episode, Anna and Amber examine the traces left by the various ancient cultures called "Illyrians." We've got some architecture, coin-nerdery, a smattering of religion, and a complicated political legacy. It all makes for an excellent entry in our collection of supporting characters from the Classical world!

Links

• The Illyrians on WorldCat

• Discovery of ‘Lost City’ in Albania Thrills Archaeologists (Balkan Insight)

• Image of a Liburnian Ship on Wikimedia Commons

• Nadin-Gradina Archaeological Project Gallery

• A Liburnian Necropolis from Nadin, Croatia (Institute for Study of the Ancient World)

• Illyrian Temples Found At Ancient Doclea In Montenegro (Archaeology News Network)

• Who are the Illyrians? The Use and Abuse of Archaeology in the Construction of National and Trans-National Identities in the Southwestern Balkans (via ResearchGate)

• Ancient Illyria : An Archaeological Exploration on WorldCat

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Illustrating Archaeology - Ep 103

This week, Anna and Amber take on archaeological illustration. That's right-it's an audio episode about an entirely visual topic! This'll go well. We cover the merits of hand drawing vs. photography, reveal some stories from our own...mixed experiences, and investigate the very cool technique of photogrammetry.

Links

• Pencils and Pixels: Drawing and Digital Media in Archaeological Field Recording (Journal of Field Archaeology)

• Why Archaeological drawing is still so important (New Archaeology)

• A Simple Photogrammetry Rig for the Reliable Creation of 3D Artifact Models in the Field: Lithic Examples from the Early Upper Paleolithic Sequence of Les Cottés (France) (Advances in Archaeological Practice)

• A Simple Method for Reliable Creation of 3D Artifact Models in the Field (Leakey Foundation)

• @SamScansStuff on Twitter

• IF/THEN Collection

• ‘Visual competence’ in archaeology: a problem hiding in plain sight (Antiquity)

• The Profession (Graphic Archaeology Group)

• Science and Art in Archaeological Illustration (Columbia College)

• Scientific Illustration | Time Team America (PBS)

• Resources (Graphic Archaeology Group)

• Approaches to Archaeological Illustration, A Handbook by Mélanie Steiner (via Digital Epigraphy)

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Chalk it Up to Science - Ep 102

This week, on a short but fun episode, Anna and Amber investigate some of the massive figures cut into the chalk landscape of the Southern UK. Who made them? How old are they? Why are there so many horses?

Links

• Cerne Abbas Giant is NOT prehistoric and may have been created just a few hundred years ago before becoming a propaganda tool for William of Orange, snail shells reveal (Daily Mail)

• England’s 7 most intriguing chalk figures and the stories behind them (Wanderlust)

• Chalk Hill Figures (Historic UK)

• Southern England Chalk Formation (Wikipedia)

• An Introduction to Prehistoric England (Before 43 BC) (English Heritage)

• Bronze Age discovery reveals surprising extent of Britain’s trade with Europe 3,600 years ago (The Conversation)

• Bronze Age Britain (BBC)

• Footprints, Size 10, From Britain’s Bronze Age (The New Yorker)

• The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe (Nature)

• Boom and bust in Bronze Age Britain: major copper production from the Great Orme mine and European trade, c. 1600–1400 BC (Antiquity)

• Against All Odds, England’s Massive Chalk Horse Has Survived 3,000 Years (Smithsonian)

• England’s Enormous Chalk Figures (Atlas Obscura via Google Earth)

• Britain's Spectacular (and Sometimes Mysterious) Hill Figures (Gizmodo UK)

• Why Is the Kiwi’s Egg So Big? (Audubon)

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