Fruits de la Mer - Ep 193

Welcome to episode one of our themed month: The Dirt at Sea! The oceans (and seas and lagoons and fjords and so on) have provided people with food and other resources for hundreds of thousands of years. We’ll be discussing some examples of this from the archaeological record. We’ll also investigate how archaeology can get at the relationship between people and the big blue – and it’s much more than just reconstructing ancient coastlines.

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• Living Ocean (NASA Science)

• Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as fisher-hunter-gatherers (Science)

• Neanderthals Really Liked Seafood (Smithsonian)

• Indigenous oyster fisheries persisted for millennia and should inform future management (Nature Communications)

• North American and Australian Indigenous Communities Farmed Oysters for 5,000-10,000 Years (Sci-News)

• Research Shares Importance Of Studying Indigenous Oyster Farming History (Tasting Table)

• Indigenous oyster fisheries were ‘fundamentally different’: Q&A with researcher Marco Hatch (Mongabay)

• Cetacean exploitation in Roman and medieval London (Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports)

• Guidance Note for Dealing with Stranded Whales, Dolphins and other large Marine Wildlife on Kent Coast (Kent City Council)

• Seeking Prehistoric Fermented Food in Japan and Korea (Current Anthropology)

• Thule Winter House (The Canadian Encyclopedia)

• Ancient seafarers may have hunted whales around the world (Science)

• Archaeologists Unearth Hollowed-Out Whale Vertebra Containing Human Jawbone, Remains of Newborn Lambs (Smithsonian)

• The Earliest Shell Fishhooks From The Americas Reveal Fishing Technology Of Pleistocene Maritime Foragers (American Antiquity)

• More Than 30 Million Years Ago, Monkeys Rafted Across the Atlantic to South America (Smithsonian)

• Human evolution: Small remains still pose big problems (Nature)

• On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners (New York Times)

• Scientists reveal how seascapes of the ancient world shaped genetic structure of European populations (Science Daily)

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Video Game Archaeology with Dr. Bill Farley - Ep 192

There are surprising intersections between video game creation and archaeology, and that, of course, comes along with the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of mining ancient history for content creation. Neither Anna nor Amber really grew up playing video games, so we are extremely lucky to have a guest expert, Dr. Bill Farley, Associate Professor of Anthropology at South Connecticut State University. Bill will be our guide on the subject. The Toad to our Mario Party. Right? That’s a thing, right?

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• Bill's YouTube channel

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Cargo Cults: Actually a Thing? - Ep 191

First used to describe religious movements that emerged in Melanesia following contact with Allied military personnel in World War II, cargo cults are sects and ritualized behaviors intended to summon outsiders (and their stuff) back and bring about a new age. We’ll explore theories for why they come about, discuss some examples of cargo cults in the traditional definition, and consider what parallels might exist in other cultures.

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• Cargo cults (The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology)

• How “Cargo Cult” Is Born: Scientific Angle on an Old Subject (Pacific Islands Monthly, via Trove)

• 50 Years Ago: Cargo Cults of Melanesia (Scientific American)

• The Cargo Cults (Air Force Magazine)

• Strange Stories of John Frum (Cargo Cult, via JSTOR)

• In John They Trust (Smithsonian Magazine)

• 'Cargo Cults' and the Prince Philip Movement (CenSAMM)

• Prince Philip: the unlikely but willing Pacific deity (The Guardian)

• Prince Philip: The Vanuatu tribes mourning the death of their 'god' (BBC News)

• Cargo Cult Science (Caltech Library)

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They Told Us So - Ep 190

We’ve had plenty of instances on the show (in the main feed and especially in Old News) of archaeological research bearing out information that existed already in the historical and oral traditions of Indigenous groups. We’ll discuss some examples of this, and we’ll also examine the relationship of Indigenous science and knowledge with the Western systems that actively invalidate and exclude them.

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• When Scientists “Discover” What Indigenous People Have Known For Centuries (Smithsonian)

• Folklore and earthquakes: Native American oral traditions from Cascadia compared with written traditions from Japan (Geological Society London Special Publications, via ResearchGate)

• Lost Apes Of The Congo (Time)

• Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in Northern Australia (Journal of Ethnobiology)

• Why These Birds Carry Flames In Their Beaks (National Geographic)

• The Birds That Start Fires: Using Indigenous Ecological Knowledge to Understand Animal Behavior (PLoS)

• Tribal History (Crater Lake Trust)

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (via WorldCat)

• Zoe Todd thread on Braiding Sweetgrass (Twitter)

• Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science (via WorldCat)

• Indigenous Fire Practices Shape our Land (National Parks Service)

• Knowledge of medicinal plants at risk as languages die out (The Guardian)

• Cultivating Connection: Restoring Clam Gardens (Biohabitats)

• Jessica Hernandez on Twitter

• Fresh Banana Leaves with Dr. Jessica Hernandez (YouTube)

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Becoming Dr. Bonesaw with Naomi Martisius - Ep 189

This week, Amber's under the weather, so Anna goes solo with special guest Dr. Naomi Martisius. Naomi tells us how she deciphers clues about human behavior by looking at tiny tiny VERY tiny portions of animal bone surfaces under a microscope. We’ll get into her undergraduate discovery that re-wrote a part of prehistory (no, really), and her work on the extremely cool bone artifacts and ornaments from Bacho Kiro Cave, in what is today Bulgaria.

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• Naomi's Bacho Kiro paper in the Journal of Human Evolution--available for free until June 25th!

• Amber's Fundraiser for Holler Health Justice

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