State of the Monuments - WIA 40
The Bears Ears and Escalante National Monuments were recently reduced in size by the present administration. Chelsi, Emily, Kirsten, and Jessica discuss the action and its impacts on local populations and archaeology.
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- http://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2017/12/03/effort-to-shrink-bears-ears-national-monument-started-before-donald-trump-was-elected-president/
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/12/11/trump-is-being-sued-to-stop-him-from-shrinking-bears-ears-national-monument-by-85-percent-who-will-win/?utm_term=.3a3cb4a03390
- https://www.npr.org/2017/12/05/568507002/legal-challenges-mount-after-trumps-reduction-of-national-monumentshttps://www.teenvogue.com/story/patagonia-ceo-rose-marcario-on-suing-donald-trump
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/05/public-lands-uranium-mining-arizona-grand-canyon?CMP=share_btn_tw
Contact
- Women in Archaeology on Twitter (@womenarchys)
- Chelsi Slotten on Twitter (@osteoarchaeo)
- Emily Long on Twitter (@trowel_tales)
- Kirsten Lopez on Twitter (@archyfem)
- Show email: womeninarchaeology@gmail.com
What Would You Say, Ya Do Here, SHPO? - CRMArch 126
The State Historic Preservation Officer for each state and territory of the United States is a key part of the regulatory and preservation process. But, what would a state do without a SHPO? We discuss that hypothesis on today's show. We also talk about identifying CRM Archaeology as, well, CRM Archaeology. Why not just CRM? Why not something else?
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- ACHP: http://www.achp.gov
- NHPA: http://www.achp.gov/nhpa.pdf
- ACHP on SHPO: http://www.achp.gov/shpo.html
- NCSHPO: http://ncshpo.org
- What is SHPO: http://ncshpo.org/about-us/what-is-shpo/
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Turin - Arch365 359
Turin is a city rich in history, each square, church and opera house could be an Arch365 episode by itself.
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Otrar - Arch365 358
Otrar was a city in what is today Kazakhstan. Its place in central Asia along the fabled Silk Road made it a literal crossroads of ancient history.
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Mashantucket Pequot - Heritage Voices 12
On today’s episode, we host Marissa Turnbull and Michael Johnson, THPO and Deputy THPO of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation in Connecticut. Michael Johnson is also co-host of the Native Opinion Podcast. On this episode they talk about how their tribe went from very early colonization to only few families living on their state reservation in the 1970s to federal recognition and then to economic success that led to them being seen as a casino rather than a people. The Nation has found themselves in the middle of the debate on who is “a real Indian”. In 1993 Donald Trump argued before Congress that the Mashantucket Pequots should not have been given federal recognition and been able to become a gaming tribe because “they don’t look Indian”. We talk about what that’s been like for them as a tribe, but also how they would define their own narrative and the importance of education in doing that. Along those lines we talk about their history, their gardening and cultural education programs, and what they would like to achieve as a THPO, including seeking international repatriation of a wampum belt.
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- Trump 1993 testimony clip played within the episode followed by additional discussion with Blackfeet tribal member and Editor At Large of Indian Country Today Media Network, Gyasi Ross.
- Additional footage of 1993 Trump testimony discussing how he believed corruption was rampant in Native American casinos.
- “Native Opinion is a unique education, entertainment and informational radio show and podcast discussing American contemporary issues from Native American Indian perspectives. Co-hosts, Michael Kickingbear, of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, and, David GreyOwl, a member of the Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama, present an Indigenous view on American history, politics and culture, and how those things impact and shape Native American lives”.
- https://www.mptn-nsn.gov/default.aspx
- http://www.pequotmuseum.org/default.aspx
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Nineveh - Arch365 357
Nineveh was one of the greatest cities in the ancient world… for about fifty years before a coalition of rising powers in the ancient world allied together to raze it to the ground in 612 BC.
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Lindos - Arch365 356
Lindos is an archaeological site on the east coast of the island of Rhodes. The city has seen its fair share of history dating from its founding in Classical times by the the same Dorian people mentioned in your high school english class (when you were assigned to read the “Odyssey”), to the Medieval period (when the Knights of St. John defended the island from the Ottomans).
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Petra - Arch365 355
The Nabataean capital city of Petra is an archaeological site in southern Jordan. The city is most famous for temples and tombs cut into the rock walls that surround the city.
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Sannai-Maruyama Site - Arch365 354
The Sannai-Maruyama Site is a prehistoric Japanese settlement that dates from the Jomon Period (14,000-300 BC), first being settled in 2900 BC and being abandoned in 2300 BC (although the dates of its exact occupation do appear to be in dispute).
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Zacpeten - Arch365 353
Zacpeten is a Mayan city located on a peninsula on the shores of Lake Salpeten in the Peten Department (which are the equivalent US states) of northern Guatemala. The city went through several cycles of habitation and abandonment over its active lifespan.
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Shuqba Cave - Arch365 352
Shuqba Cave is the site of two of the most important finds in ancient Middle Eastern archaeology. This included the discovery of a previously unknown culture that inhabited the Eastern Mediterranean during the Epipaleolithic era (which is the end of the Ice Age, approximately 12,500-9500 BC), which was named the Natufian Culture (in honor of the nearby valley, Wadi an-Natuf).
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Pyramids of Argolis - Arch365 351
The Pyramids of Argolis were a series of pyramid shaped structures located in Argolid, Greece. Of these, only two remain (one at Hellenikon and another at Ligourio).
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Drones and Tech Gifts - ArchaeoTech 68
It's Drone time again! This is such a rapidly changing space that we have to cover it every now and again. And, many people ask me how to get into it and how to learn to fly. We cover all that in this episode. What do you learn on? What's more important for a trainer, camera or control? When should you upgrade?
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App of the Day
- Webby: Chalk
- Paul: GPS Tracks
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- Chris Webster
- Twitter: @archeowebby
- Email: chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com
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- Twitter: @lugal
- Email: paul@lugal.com
Temple Mount - Arch365 350
The Temple mount is a hill that forms the eastern section of the Old City of Jerusalem, which (as its name suggests) is the original city of Jerusalem mentioned in countless ancient books and is now a .9km square neighborhood separated from modern Jerusalem by the old city walls.
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On Museums with Chris and Paul - TAS 31
On today's episode, Chris and Paul sit on the National Mall in the middle of the United State's most prestigious museums. They talk about the current state of museums, what they like and don't like, and offer up some suggestions for the museum of the future.
Contact
- Chris Webster
Skellig Michael - Arch365 349
Skellig Michael is the larger of two Skellig islands off the southwestern coast of Ireland. A Gaelic Christian Monastery was founded there sometime between the 6th and 8th centuries and remained in use until the 12th century.
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Ur - Arch365 348
Ur was an important Sumerian coastal city-state in ancient Mesopotamia. The Sumerians were the people who invented the first writing system that relied on symbols to create words, instead of the hieroglyphic, pictograms and pictures that had been used before. Mesopotamia was a historical region that spanned over much of the Middle East.
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Tunnel of Eupalinos - Arch365 347
Today, making tunnels is easy. How many of us live near subways or drive through them. But someone had to do it first. OR (in today’s case) second.
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Machaquila - Arch365 346
Machaquila was once a city of monuments. Now it stands as a monument to looters and the encroaching world around it.
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Baghdad - Arch365 345
If any city could tell enough tales for thousand and thousand of thousand and one night, Baghdad is definitely one.