Summer Blockbusters: The Dig - Ep 198

Welcome to a month of Summer Blockbusters, where we talk about the archaeology in movies that aren't Indiana Jones! This week, it's the 2021 film The Dig, starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan. We'll talk a bit about the film, but mostly about the real site portrayed in it--the Anglo Saxon burial at Sutton Hoo. This site was key to rewriting the understanding of post-Roman Britain, and was especially meaningful as a symbol of English national identity during WWII.

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• Here’s the True Tale Behind Netflix’s Buzzy New Carey Mulligan Archaeology Drama, ‘The Dig (Artnet)

• The True History Behind Netflix’s ‘The Dig’ and Sutton Hoo (Smithsonian)

• The Dig: Who was Sutton Hoo archaeologist Basil Brown? (BBC)

• The Dig (CautionSpoilers.com)

• What Netflix ‘The Dig’ Gets Right And ‘Slanderously’ Wrong About The Sutton Hoo Story (Forbes)

• The Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo (British Museum)

• The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, Volume 1: Excavations, Background, the Ship, Dating and Inventory (via WorldCat)

• Whetstone or Sceptre? (medieval.eu)

• An Introduction to Early Medieval England (C.410–1066) (English Heritage)

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Sea Peoples - Ep 197

“The Sea Peoples” is a term that refers to a seafaring culture of unclear origin that bopped around the eastern Mediterranean and adjoining areas around 1200-900 BCE. There are ancient Egyptian murals and reliefs that depict battles against these unnamed adversaries, but no definitive labels or helpful texts. So who were the Sea Peoples? We’ll discuss some theories, and probably not reach any conclusions apart from “wow people really care a lot about this, huh?”

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• Sea Peoples (World History Encyclopedia)

• Ask a Near Eastern Professional: Who are the Sea Peoples and what role did they play in the devastation of civilizations that occurred shortly after 1200 BCE? (Ancient Near East Today)

• Gaston Maspero and the Sea Peoples (SciHi)

• Rapid Change of Climate Did Not Cause the Fall of the Akkadian Empire (Ancient Near East Today)

• Who Were the Sea People? (ThoughtCo)

• Philistine (people) (Encyclopedia Britannica)

• Ancient DNA sheds light on the genetic origins of early Iron Age Philistines (Science Advances)

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The Dirt Gets Wrecked - Ep 196

Y'all, it has been a TOUGH WEEK. You can tell because Anna somehow manages to get the episode intro WRONG after doing it correctly nearly 200 times. But we're just gonna keep swimming! We couldn’t do a month-at-sea theme without talking about shipwrecks. And it’s not just pirate ships and the Titanic, either. We’ll discuss all kinds of underwater assemblages and the ways in which shipwreck archaeology helps us understand travel, life, commerce, connectivity, and more.

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• Dokos shipwreck (Wikipedia)

• Oldest Intact Shipwreck Discovered in the Black Sea (Smithsonian Magazine)

• Ancient Shipwreck (Archaeology)

• The Oldest Intact Shipwreck “Odysseus” was an Ancient Greek Vessel (Greek Reporter)

• Stamnos - The Siren Vase (British Museum)

• How the world's deepest shipwreck was found (BBC Future)

• Made in China (National Geographic)

• The Belitung Shipwreck (SEAArch)

• Silk Roads Programme (UNESCO)

• NOAA, partners discover wreck of 207-year-old whaling ship (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

• The Science of Shipwrecks (North Carolina Sea Grant)

• Episode 86 - Check Yourself Before You Shipwreck Yourself (The Dirt)

• How scientists keep ancient shipwrecks from crumbling into dust (Popular Science)

• Giant freeze dryer to preserve famous shipwreck (The History Blog)

• Sustainable Nanotechnologies for Curative and Preventive Wood Deacidification Treatments: An Eco-Friendly and Innovative Approach (Nanomaterials)

• The Salvage (Vasa Museet)

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CLAMoring for Data with Christine Bassett - Ep 195

Ahoy! We’re still at sea, the ocean is still None of Our Business, and yet we’re learning so much about it! This week, we’ve got a special guest to guide us. Christine Bassett is currently a program coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Weather Program Office (NOAA). Christine collects data from ancient Arctic shell middens to reconstruct climate and sea ice levels for archaeological sites in the Aleutian islands. Tune in to learn how she’s turning thousand-year-old clams into a climate thermometer!

Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from James Elliot!

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• The Unalaska Sea Ice Project

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Terra Nullius - Ep 194

Terra nullius is a Latin phrase meaning “nobody’s land,” but historically it has tended to mean something closer to *grabby hands.* What does it mean when a place is considered no one’s? Are there still places where people aren’t? Are there places where we've never been? The answers may surprise you.

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• Rockall (Wikipedia

• When Will It Get Too Hot for the Body to Survive? (Slate)

• The Alaskan Island That Humans Can’t Conquer (Smithsonian Magazine)

• The bones that could shape Antarctica’s fate (BBC Future)

• Three High-Altitude Peoples, Three Adaptations to Thin Air (National Geographic)

• Tibetans inherited high-altitude gene from ancient human (Science)

• Sama (Encyclopedia Britannica)

• The Identity and Social Mobility of Sama-Bajau (Sari)

• Explorer Reaches Bottom of the Mariana Trench, Breaks Record for Deepest Dive Ever (LiveScience)

• What Land Did Europeans Actually Discover? [Infographic] (Popular Science)

• The Wilderness Act (Wilderness Connect)

• Son Doong 360 (National Geographic)

• The last unmapped places on Earth (BBC Future)

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