Field Season with Carlton Gover - Ep 148

This week, Anna and Amber sit down with archaeologist, podcaster, and member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, Carlton Shield Chief Gover. We talk about his path to archaeology, an Indigenous perspective on archaeology as history and heritage, how to prank your site supervisor, and more!

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Field Season: The Indiana Jones Episode - Ep 147

In this installment of Field Season, Amber and Anna take a trip to the semi-mythical world of cinematic archaeology. Who inspired the character of Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr.? Did the Indiana Jones franchise leave a lasting impression on archaeology? Plus--we've got a whole roundup of fellas that likely influenced the American public's perception of what an explorer should look like.

Links

• How Indiana Jones Actually Changed Archaeology (National Geographic)

• The Casual Colonialism of Lara Croft and Indiana Jones (Hyperallergic)

• 2 Archaeologists, Robert Braidwood, 95, And His Wife, Linda Braidwood, 93, Die (New York Times)

• Linda Braidwood (TrowelBlazers)

• Raiders of the Lost Journal: The Hunt for the Real Indiana Jones (Oriental Institute)

• Roy Chapman Andrews and the Kingdom of the Cretaceous Skulls (Scientific American)

• The real-life Indiana Jones was from Wisconsin (The Bozho)

• Badass? This Guy Was the Real-Life Inspiration for Indiana Jones (Adventure Journal)

• Roy Chapman Andrews: A Real Life Indiana Jones (MentalFloss)

• From the State Historian: Discovering the Explorer Hiram Bingham III (History.org)

• Finding Machu Picchu: A Look at Explorer Hiram Bingham, A Real-Life Indiana Jones (National Geographic)

• Who was the real Indiana Jones? -- EXCLUSIVE (Entertainment Weekly)

• Our Very Own Indiana Jones (Northwestern University)

• Walter A. Fairservis, 73, Dies; Was Archeologist and Author (New York Times)

• Science: Journey to Afghanistan (Time)

• ‘Fighting like angry sheep’: Wendell Phillips in the Gulf (National Archives)

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Field Season with Allyson Blanck - Ep 146

Anna and Amber are joined this week by Allyson Blanck, a Classical archaeologist and advocate for accessibility and inclusivity in the field. Learn about best practices for accommodating archaeologists with disabilities in the field, the changes that are already underway in the discipline, and how much farther we need to go. Plus, some excellent dog content and a discussion of ancient cranial surgery!

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• Allyson on Twitter: @ablanck_page

• https://classics.arizona.edu/people/ablanck

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Feeling it Out: Phenomenology - Ep 145

How do we capture a sense of the experience of living in a landscape of the past? What did the past smell like? What did it feel like? How can we understand ancient people's mindsets, perceptions, intentions, and emotions? Will Anna end up deeply confused? Tune in to find out!

Links

• A History of Archaeological Thought (via WorldCat)

• Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• How Can Phenomenological Methodologies help us understand past Landscapes? (The Post Hole)

• A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments (via WorldCat)

• Archaeological Theory: An Introduction (via WorldCat)

• Phenomenology in Practice: Towards a Methodology for a 'Subjective' Approach (European Journal of Archaeology, via ResearchGate)

• Experiencing the past? The development of a phenomenological archaeology in British prehistory (Archaeological Dialogues)

• Investigating Neolithization of Cultural Landscapes in East Asia: The NEOMAP Project (Journal of World Prehistory)

• Performance Space, Political Theater, and Audibility in Downtown Chaco (Acoustics)

• Mystery of 'chirping' pyramid decoded (Nature)

• Mapping an archaeology of the present: Counter-mapping at the Gummingurru stone arrangement site, southeast Queensland, Australia (Journal of Social Archaeology)

• Mapping an archaeology of the present: Counter-mapping at the Gummingurru stone arrangement site, southeast Queensland, Australia (via Academia.edu)

• Counter mapping at the Gummingurru stone arrangement site (via Academia.edu)

• Gummingurru in the Landscape (Prezi)

• A Phenomenological Approach to the Kom El-Shuqafa Catacombs (Cornell eCommons)

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Nazca, Outside the Lines - Ep 144

On this sponsored episode, Anna and Amber talk about the Nazca culture of coastal Peru. There's SO much more to talk about than the famous Nazca Lines. There's gorgeous ceramics, ingenious irrigation, trophy heads, cactus tripping, and much more!

Links

• The Puquios of Nasca (Latin American Antiquity)

• Cahuachi: New Evidence for an Early Nasca Ceremonial Role (Current Anthropology, via ResearchGate)

• Ritual Uses of Trophy Heads in Ancient Nasca Society (Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru,)

• Traditional Medicinal Plant Use in Northern Peru: Tracking Two Thousand Years of Healing Culture (Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine)

• Nasca Ceramics: Ancient Art from Peru’s South Coast (Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology)

• Nazca Pottery (World History Encyclopedia)

• Nasca Ceramic Iconography: An Overview (The Studio Potter)

• 2,000-Year-Old Nazca Line Featuring Lounging Cat Found in Peru (Smithsonian)

• 2,000-Year-Old Cat Etching Found at Nazca Lines Site in Peru (New York Times)

• Peru’s Nazca Line etchings depict bird species not native to the area (PBS)

• Identifying the bird figures of the Nasca pampas: An ornithological perspective (Journal of Archaeological Science)

• The Racism Behind Alien Mummy Hoaxes (The Atlantic)

• Ancient Nazca people of Peru created own demise (Seattle Times)

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