The Cowboys of Science with Spencer Pelton - Ruins 01
This Saturday, these three cowboys of science will be hosting our first guest - Dr. Spencer Pelton PhD, RPA. Arguably, THE cowboy of science.
Spencer is one of the most talented, accomplished, and brilliant archaeologists in the country. The dude has over a dozen publications and literally just got his PhD last year.
Anyone that knows Spencer will tell you that he’s one of the most enjoyable people to be around and was a mentor to a lot of us during our time at Wyoming.
Spencer’s research varies from lithic technology, hunter-gatherer ecology, to human evolution, and his dissertation focused on hominid thermal regulation.
The list of his accomplishments would fill this page, so we’ll let his smooth, Johnny Cash-like drawl tell you his life story! We’re super excited.
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Spenser:
Twitter: @docpelton
Research: Research Gate
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Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast
Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast
Determining Eligibility - CRMArch 163
Using criteria from the National Park Service and other sources archaeologists are tasked to determine an archaeological resource's eligibility for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. This isn't so easy sometimes and we have criteria and integrity considerations to look at. This episode is a discussion of that process and the issues that come up when trying to do it.
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Bill White: Succinct Research
Doug Rocks-MacQueen: Doug’s Archaeology
Stephen Wagner: Process - Opinions on Doing Archaeology
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Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner - Animals 10
This episode is all about chickens! How to eat them. How to identify them. Different types. All things chicken. There’s even a few chicken jokes.
Sources
The Silkie Bantam
Cultural and Scientific Perceptions of Human-Chicken Interactions
Katz, B. (2018) "Chicken Bones May Be the Legacy of Our Time"
Serjeantson, D. and Cohen, C. (1996) Manual for the Identification of Bird Bones from Archaeological Sites. Archetype Publications.
Fagan, B. (2015) The Intimate Bond: How animals shaped human history
London: Bloomsbury Press
Van Grouw, K. (2018) Unnatural Selection
Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press
Grau Sologestoa, I. (2018) "Pots, chicken and building deposits: the archaeology of folk and official religion during the High Middle Ages in the Basque Country." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
Gibbins, A. (2016) "How An Ancient Pope Helped Make Chickens Fat". Science.
Gorman, J. (2016) "Chickens Weren't Always Dinner for Humans". The New York Times.
Contact
Alex Fitzpatrick
Twitter: @archaeologyfitz
Simona Falanga
Twitter: @CrazyBoneLady
Music
"Coconut - (dyalla remix)"
Archaeology Skills in the Real World - TAS 64
Today, April and Chris talk about their skills as archaeologists and how they translate to the real world. Can identifying artifacts in the field help you in another aspect of your life? What about writing? Accuracy? Project Management?
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US Border Archaeology - TAS 63
This episode was originally recorded live on KNVC 95.1 FM in Carson City Nevada on April 19th, 2019. Chris talks about several past episodes on TAS, and then “digs” in to his work on the US/Mexican border. No guests today; just the ramblings of a heat-stressed archaeologist.
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Chris Webster
Reconstructing a Lost Town with Edward Gonzalez-Tennant - ArchaeoTech 104
Edward Gonzalez-Tennant is a GIS and open source digital archaeology expert. We brought him on to talk about GIS but the conversation quickly turned to his work at historic Rosewood - a predominantly African-American town in Florida that was destroyed by riots and the Rosewood Massacre over 100 years ago. EGT is using digital archaeology and traditional methods to reconstruct this town so visitors and descendants can know what it was like to live in that area at in the early 1900s.
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Chris Webster
Twitter: @archeowebby
Paul Zimmerman
Twitter: @lugal
Email: paul@lugal.com
I Agree with Graham Hancock?! - Modern Myth Moment - 1
Ok, before you type your strongly worded tweet or you decide to #cancel me please give me a moment to explain. As has been highlighted recently, archaeology has a problem with impact with getting the information out there. Perhaps there’s nothing wrong with the food, its just the service isn’t what you want.
With his new book released graham hancock appeared on the Joe Rogan show and obviously talked at length about his book, he made some salient points and importantly he tied himself to those ideas and that’s where I think we can learn something about outreach.
If you want to argue, tweet at me or send me an email:
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Career Monitors and Mental Health - CRMArch 162
In some areas of the country archaeologists are monitoring for construction projects. That’s not unique. What is unique is that some of these archaeologists are monitoring for years at a time and they’re losing their skills. We talk about that, and, mental health issues in contract archaeology.
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Blogs:
Bill White: Succinct Research
Doug Rocks-MacQueen: Doug’s Archaeology
Stephen Wagner: Process - Opinions on Doing Archaeology
Chris Webster: Random Acts of Science
The Archaeological Spectrum - HeVo 28
On today’s podcast Jessica hosts Rebecca Heidenreich (Diné), a graduate student at Arizona State University (and Jessica even refrained from making any Sun Devils jokes!) studying GIS. Rebecca talks about her experiences in both academia and CRM and how the two differ. She also talks about what it’s like navigating indigenous and scientific perspectives. It’s a very personal interview and an important listen for anyone trying to better understand what it’s like to be an indigenous archaeologist.
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The Modern Myth of Nuclear Power with Martin Pfeiffer - Modern Myth - Episode 2
Quick, Marty, we gotta save the world! From what!? From nuclear annihilation.
Perhaps not so grand, but in this Modern Myth episode we get to grips with the ideas behind nuclear weapons and the boogeyman of radiation, Martin Pfeiffer is a PhD student researching nuclear anthropology and loves going into musems to #LickTheBomb, (he tells us how their casings taste) and what it means to be an activist for denuclearisation of the modern world.
Links
Carol Cohn - “Sex and Death in the World of Defense Intellectuals.”
Twitter:
@NuclearAnthro - for cats and nuclear bombs
@anarchaeologist - for your hosts malarky
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Project Archaeology with Samantha Kirkley - TAS 62
Today episode is a recording of Chris’ radio show on KNVC.org 95.1 FM in Carson City, Nevada. He’s joined by guest co-host Richie Cruz and Samantha Kirtkley to talk about her involvement with Project Archaeology.
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Chris Webster
Integrating Aerial and Underwater Data for Archaeology - ArchaeoTech 103
In a recent book chapter, linked below, the integration of underwater and terrestrial archaeology was discussed. It got Chris and Paul thinking about those two spaces and how they are linked in the archaeological record. When seas fluctuate sites are buried and revealed and thinking about them together can help archaeologists interpret the past.
Links
“Integrating Aerial and Underwater Data for Archaeology: Digital Maritime Landscapes in 3D”. Chapter 14 in “3D Recording and Interpretation for Maritime Archaeology”. Springer 2019
Jonathan Benjamin, John McCarthy, Chelsea Wiseman, Shane Bevin, Jarrad Kowlessar, Peter Moe Astrup, John Naumann, and Jorg Hacker
App of the Day
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Chris Webster
Twitter: @archeowebby
Paul Zimmerman
Twitter: @lugal
Email: paul@lugal.com
CRM Archaeologist Michelle Cross - TAS 61
Today’s show is a recording of Chris’ radio show on Carson Community Media in Carson City, Nevada. it’s with CRM Archaeologist Michelle Cross from Stantec. She was just elected the next president of the Society for California Archaeology.
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Chris Webster
Digital Site Management with Michiel Kappers of InTerris Registries - ArchaeoTech 102
Chris interviews Michiel Kappers at the 2019 Society for California Archaeology meetings in Sacramento last March. Michiel runs InTerris Registries, a digital site management software with a lot of power. Learn more about it and how you can use it on your next project.
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Chris Webster
Twitter: @archeowebby
Paul Zimmerman
Twitter: @lugal
Email: paul@lugal.com
A Horse, Of Course - Animals 09
On today's episode of ArchaeoAnimals, we'll be talking about horse bones! Why are they so venerated in the past? How is this reflected in the way we find horse burials? And why are their bones just so large and scary?!
We were also joined by two zooarchaeology researchers, Rúnar Leifsson and Albína Hulda Pálsdóttir, who have told us all about their fascinating research on Icelandic horses!
Links
Read more about their project here: https://titan.uio.no/node/3154
You can check our Runar’s research at the following link: https://opinvisindi.is/handle/20.500.11815/1004
Albína’s project website: https://www.mn.uio.no/cees/english/research/projects/690456/index.html
You can follow Albína on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/AlbinaIcelander
Bibliography
Hillson, S. (1992) Mammal Bones and Teeth: An Introductory Guide to Methods of Identification. London: University College London Institute of Archaeology
Fagan, B. (2015) The Intimate Bond: How animals shaped human history. London: Bloomsbury Press
Contact
Alex Fitzpatrick
Twitter: @archaeologyfitz
Simona Falanga
Twitter: @CrazyBoneLady
Music
"Coconut - (dyalla remix)"
Richie Cruz and CRM Archaeology from KNVC 95.1 FM - TAS 60
This episode is a recording of a live radio show from Chris Webster called The Archaeology Radio Show. Listen live on Fridays at the links below. The guest is Richie Cruz and he talks about Cultural Resource Management Archaeology with Chris.
Links
KNVC Listen Live
Contact
Chris Webster
Digital Humanities with Sebastian Heath - ArchaeoTech 101
Today we have on the line Sebastian Heath from NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Dr. Heath is ISAW's go-to Digital Humanities professor, and we'd like to discuss his take on DH in archaeology.
Links
Sebastian’s Info:
Twitter: @sebhth
Github: SFSheath
App of the Day
Contact
Chris Webster
Twitter: @archeowebby
Paul Zimmerman
Twitter: @lugal
Email: paul@lugal.com
Witchcraft: The Best Bits - Arch and Ale 23
Archaeology and Ale is a monthly series of talks presented by Archaeology in the City, part of the University of Sheffield Archaeology Department’s outreach programme.
Archaeology and Ale proudly presents - Leigh-Anne Baldrige on ‘Witchcraft: the best bits’. This talk took place on Thursday 22nd November at the Red Deer, Sheffield.
Leigh-Anne is the Collections Access Curator at Museums Sheffield, and can be found on Twitter at @LeighKitty1.
For more information about Museums Sheffield, visit their website at http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/.
For more information about Archaeology in the City’s events and opportunities to get involved, please email archaeologyinthecity@sheffield.ac.uk, visit our website at archinthecity.wordpress.com, tweet us @archinthecity, or find us on Facebook.
Content Warning: Listener discretion is advised, as there is adult language and themes. Thank you.
Castleton and Hope Through the Years - Arch and Ale 22
Archaeology and Ale proudly presents - Colin Merrony on ‘Castleton and Hope through the years’. This talk took place on Thursday 31st January at the Red Deer, Sheffield.
Colin is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Sheffield and a former commercial archaeologist. For the last eleven years, he has been involved in excavations at Castleton and Hope, uncovering archaeology from across the last 2000 years, including a Medieval hospital, unusual burials and even some unique 16th century plasterwork!
Read more about Colin through the University of Sheffield staff pages https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/archaeology/people/merrony. For more about Colin’s digs, visit the Castleton Historical Society website https://castletonhistorical.co.uk/and blog https://castletonhistoricalsociety.wordpress.com/.
For more information about Archaeology in the City’s events and opportunities to get involved, please email archaeologyinthecity@sheffield.ac.uk, visit our website at archinthecity.wordpress.com, tweet us @archinthecity, or find us on Facebook.
Content Warning: Listener discretion is advised, as there is adult language. Thank you.
Anarchy in CRMArch with Lewis Borck - CRMArch 159
In this episode we speak with Lewis Borck about his article "Constructing the Future History: Prefiguration as Historical Epistemology and the Chronopolitics of Archaeology" and how it applies to CRM archaeology as we practice it.
Links
Lewis Borck
Twitter: @LewisBorck
Instagram: @the_tatooed_trowel
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Bill @succinctbill; Doug @openaccessarch; Stephen @processarch; Bill A. @archaeothoughts; Chris W @Archeowebby, @DIGTECHLLC, and @ArchPodNet
Blogs:
Bill White: Succinct Research
Doug Rocks-MacQueen: Doug’s Archaeology
Stephen Wagner: Process - Opinions on Doing Archaeology
Chris Webster: Random Acts of Science