It's A Wash - Ep 183 (ENCORE)

(ENCORE) 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?

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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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View to a Kilwa - The Medieval Swahili Coast (CLASSIC) - Ep 182

In this re-release of an EARLY classic, take a whirlwind tour of the Swahili coast and the economic and cultural exchanges over land and sea it has enjoyed for more than a thousand years, before zooming in on the very powerful, and very cool, medieval sultanate of Kilwa Kisawani.

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Links

• Making History: An archaeologist unearths the history of the Swahili States (Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin)

• East Africa: Five Million Years of History (The Public Medievalist)

• Early African History: fire, farming, Egypt, and the Bantu (Quatr.us)

• Collins & Pisarevsky (2004). "Amalgamating eastern Gondwana: The evolution of the Circum-Indian Orogens". Earth-Science Reviews.

• Richard Pankhurst, An Introduction to the Economic History of Ethiopia, (Lalibela House: 1961)

• Recipe for ambergris and eggs

• Early Global Connections: East Africa between Asia, and Mediterranean Europe (Global Middle Ages)

• Kilwa Kisiwani: Medieval Trade Center of Eastern Africa (Thought.Co)

• A lost city reveals the grandeur of medieval African civilization (Gizmodo)

• Chami FA. 2009. Kilwa and the Swahili Towns: Reflections from an archaeological perspective. In: Larsen K, editor. Knowledge, Renewal and Religion: Repositioning and changing ideological and material circumstances among the Swahili on the East African coast. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitututet.

• Fleisher J, Wynne-Jones S, Steele C, and Welham K. 2012. Geophysical Survey at Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania. Journal of African Archaeology 10(2):207-220.

• Pollard E. 2011. Safeguarding Swahili trade in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: a unique navigational complex in south-east Tanzania. World Archaeology 43(3):458-477.

• Pollard E, Fleisher J, and Wynne-Jones S. 2012. Beyond the Stone Town: Maritime Architecture at Fourteenth–Fifteenth Century Songo Mnara, Tanzania. Journal of Maritime Archaeology 7(1):43-62

• Wynne-Jones S. 2007. Creating urban communities at Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania, AD 800-1300. Antiquity 81:368-380.

• Wynne-Jones S. 2013. The public life of the Swahili stonehouse, 14th–15th centuries AD. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 32(4):759-773.

• Wynne-Jones S, and Fleisher J. 2012. Coins in Context: Local Economy, Value and Practice on the East African Swahili Coast. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 22(1):19-36.

• Zhao B. 2012. Global Trade and Swahili Cosmopolitan Material Culture: Chinese-Style Ceramic Shards from Sanje ya Kati and Songo Mnara (Kilwa, Tanzania). Journal of World History 23(1):41-85.

• Stone Towns of the Swahili Coast (Archaeology)

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Anthropology and Science Fiction with Pat Edwards - Ep 181

Pat Edwards is an author, game builder, and creator of all kinds of sci-fi and fantasy content. We all sit down and puzzle through some questions about the boundaries between archaeological interpretation and fiction, the use of anthropological tropes in pop culture, and strategies for drawing from the archaeological record for fictional world-building. We had a blast with this unconventional topic, and we hope you enjoy listening!

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• Pat Edwards

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The Sweet Stuff - Ep 180

We're bouncing back from some bumps in the road this week, and bring you a short and sweet episode about some of the history and archaeology of two sweet substances--maple syrup and sugarcane.

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Them There Hills: Mounds and the Myth of the Moundbuilders - Ep 179

Hello, lovely listeners--a whole bunch of life stuff has smacked us right in the face recently. Thank you so much for your patience and continued support--we really love you. This week's classic episode is all about mounds and the people that built (and absolutely did not build) them.

Links

• Cahokia: The Great Native American Metropolis (via WorldCat)

• Cahokia Mounds

• Watson Brake, a Middle Archaic Mound Complex in Northeast Louisiana (American Antiquity)

• 12th-Century Cahokia Was a “Melting Pot” (Archaeology)

• Cahokia and the Excavation of Mound 72 (Lithics Casting Lab)

• The Ancient Mounds of Poverty Point: A Place of Rings (via WorldCat)

• Moundbuilders (Newberry)

• Early pottery: Technology, Function, Style, and Interaction in the Lower Southeast (via WorldCat)

• White Settlers Buried the Truth About the Midwest’s Mysterious Mound Cities (Smithsonian)Check out Ken

• Feder’s take on the myth of the moundbuilders over on Archaeological Fantasies. He’s also the author of this week’s Dirt Book Club entry, Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science

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