The Roman Fort of Navio with Colin Merrony - ArchandAle 30

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. In this talk, Archaeology in the City proudly presents - Colin Merrony on "The Roman For of Navio" This talk took place on Thursday, February 27th, 2020 at the Red Deer in Sheffield.

This month we welcome the University of Sheffield's own Colin Merrony for a chat about the Roman fort of Navio. Colin is a veteran archaeologist and a teaching fellow at the uni, he has done extensive work throughout the Peak District including at Navio. In this talk, Colin explains the history of the Roman presence in the Peak District including their purported lead mining. He takes us through the past and current (and future!) plans to excavate Navio.

For more information about Archaeology in the City’s events and opportunities to get involved, please email archaeologyinthecity@sheffield.ac.uk or visit our website at archinthecity.wordpress.com. You can also find us on Twitter (@archinthecity), Instagram (@archaeointhecity), or Facebook (@archinthecity) Content Warning: Listener discretion is advised as there may be adult language

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Managing Your Employment Expectations and the CA Grad Student Strike - CRMArch 185

For the first two segments we talk about the differences between what field techs expect from a job and what an employer expects from a field tech. Related to that are the actual expectations that each should have. In the final segment we talk about the graduate student strike at University of California Universities.

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• http://www.succinctresearch.com/which-college-courses-helped-my-archaeology-career/

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Bill @succinctbill; Doug @openaccessarch; Stephen @processarch; Bill A. @archaeothoughts; Chris W @Archeowebby, @DIGTECHLLC, and @ArchPodNet

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• Bill White: Succinct Research

• Doug Rocks-MacQueen: Doug’s Archaeology

• Stephen Wagner: Process - Opinions on Doing Archaeology

• Chris Webster: Random Acts of Science

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Eat Locally: The Archaeology of Indigenous American Food - Ep 80

This week, Anna and Amber take a look at foodways in the archaeological record of North America. What does archaeological evidence say about what was cooked, who was cooking, and what vessels were used to prepare and store food? What evidence is there for recreating ancient and pre-contact diets? How does this fit in with contemporary food sovereignty movements among Indigenous people? How great are potatoes? All this and more!

Links

• Archaeological Studies of Cooking and Food Preparation (Journal of Archaeological Research)

• Reconstructing sexual divisions of labor from fingerprints on Ancestral Puebloan pottery (PNAS)

• Traditional Foods in Native America (CDC)

• Countryman: Foraging California's Wild Side

• What is mak-’amham? (Cafe Ohlone)

• Investigating the function of prehistoric stone bowls and griddle stones in the Aleutian Islands by lipid residue analysis (Quaternary Research)

• One of the Oldest Spuds In the World Is Poised For a Comeback (Heated by Medium)

• North American Indian Recipes – Acorn Recipes & Facts! (The People’s Paths)

• Native American Food (Arkansas Archaeological Survey)

• The Mitsitam Cafe Cookbook: Recipes from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (via WorldCat)

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Where The Military Takes Your Land And You Live In An RV - TAS 86

Chris Webster and Richie Cruz talk about everything from working on military bases to conferences.

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• Happy Archaeology Fun Time

• Roadster Adventures

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• Chris Webster

  • chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

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Carson Black and Primatology - Ruins 17

Today’s podcast guest is Carson Black, a graduate student at Central Washington University. Carson studies Primate Behavior and Ecology and is basically the next Jane Goodall. Carson did her undergraduate degree in Biological Anthropology at Colorado State University in Fort Collins (GO BUFFS). She wrote her senior thesis on Mantled howler monkey and sexual dimorphism in their feeding posture! Carson did primatology fieldwork in Costa Rica, archaeological and paleontological fieldwork in Northwest and Central Wyoming. She is super passionate about anthropology and other social topics. So get your howler monkeys howling and prepare for a poop-slinging episode of A Life of Ruins Podcast.

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• Carson Black

  • Instagram

  • Twitter

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• Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com

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GPR and Geophysics with Dr. Dan Bigman - ArchaeoTech 123

Dr. Dan Bigman from Bigman Geophysical joins the show once again to talk about GPR and other methods in a CRM context. Of course this works for any project, but, we focused on contract archaeology for some portions of this episode.

Links

• Bigman Geophysical

• Learn GPR

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• Webby: GoPro App

Contact

• Chris Webster

  • Twitter: @archeowebby

  • Email: chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

• Paul Zimmerman

  • Twitter: @lugal

  • Email: paul@lugal.com

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Birds of a Feather... - Animals 20

In this months episode, Alex and Simona talk about all things birds. Find out more about identifying avian remains, how we can use birds to reconstruct past environments and how humans have lived alongside them for millennia.

Links

• Cohen, A. and Serjeantson, D. (1986) "A Manual for the Identification of Bird Bones from Archaeological Sites". Archetype Books.

• Serjeantson, D. (2010) "17 Ravens and crows in Iron Age Britain: the Danebury Corvids Reconsidered". In "Birds in Archaeology: Proceedings of the 6th Meeting of the ICAZ Bird Working Group in Groningen". Barkhuis.

• Gaskell, J. (2000) "Who Killed the Great Auk?". Oxford University Press.

• Lawrence, D. (2006) "Neolithic Mortuary Practice in Orkney". Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 136. pp. 47-60.

• Luff, M. (1984) Animal Remains in Archaeology

• Shire Archaeology

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-50603415

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Music "Coconut - (dyalla remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY

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Not All Heroes Wear Capes: Countering Human Remains Trafficking - Dirt 79

This week, Anna and Amber are joined by Dr. Damien Huffer, a bioarchaeologist and crime fighter. Dr. Huffer’s work was featured way, way back in Episode 36, “The Unsettling Business of Curating Human Remains,” and Anna and Amber are keen to learn more. How does one get into this line of work? What makes people want to own parts of other people? What’s being done to stop trafficking, and what lies ahead?

Links

• The Bonetrade Project

• Alliance to Counter Crime Online

• Bringing Them Home: The Repatriation of Priceless Human Remains and Artifacts to Cambodia (SAFE: Saving Antiquities for Everyone)

• Fighting trade in human remains antiquities (Saturday Paper)

• This Archaeologist Uses Instagram To Track The Human Skeleton Trade (Forbes)

• The Insta-Dead: The rhetoric of the human remains trade on Instagram (Internet Archaeology)

• The Dirt Episode 36: The Unsettling Business of Curating Human Remains

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Can You Retire From A Career in Contract Archaeology? - CRMArch 184

This week we talk about retirement strategies and whether it’s even possible TO retire for professional archaeology. If you make it to the age where you have enough investment income or retirement has your body also made it? What are some alternative strategies?

Links

• Our Rich Journey Blog

• Playing With Fire - Calculator

• Stash

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• Bill White: Succinct Research

• Doug Rocks-MacQueen: Doug’s Archaeology

• Stephen Wagner: Process - Opinions on Doing Archaeology

• Chris Webster: Random Acts of Science

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Hasanlu: An Iron Age Whodunnit - Dirt 78

In the early first millennium BCE, the city of Hasanlu was destroyed in a single, terrible day. Excavations reveal murdered civilians and a citadel engulfed in fire, but who was responsible for destroying this town on the road to everywhere in Iron Age Western Asia? This week, Anna and Amber tell Hasanlu's story, and of the academic drama that followed its excavation (and continues to this day).

Links

• Ḥasanlu Teppe (Encyclopedia Iranica)

• Tell (mound) (Encyclopedia Britannica)

• Hasanlu Publication Project

• Hasanlu in the Iron Age (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)

• Rediscovering Hasanlu (Expedition)

• Special Issue: East of Assyria--The Highland Settlement of Hasanlu (Expedition)

• The Excavation of Hasanlu: An Archaeological Evaluation (Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research)

• Last Day at Hasanlu (Expedition)

• Iran's Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia (New Scientist)

• The Hasanlu Lovers (Penn Museum)

• Lovers, Friends, or Strangers? New Thoughts on a Museum Icon (Penn Museum)

• East of Assyria? Hasanlu and the Problem of Assyrianization (in Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period)

• Warfare at Hasanlu in the Late 9th Century B.C. (Expedition)

• Urartu (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)

• Who Destroyed Hasanlu IV? (Iran)

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The Problem of Archaeological Data with Dr. Peter McKeague - ArchaeoTech 122

Every year archaeologists create a wealth of data through fieldwork and research that is essential to our understanding and interpretation of the past. Despite the geographic character of much of that record, we consistently fail to realise its potential. Site plans and detailed survey data are routinely locked into the pages of PDF reports. As a result plans fossilised in print cannot easily be reused alongside other datasets to improve our understanding of the past. There is often no consistency in how mapped data can be combined across projects to map the archaeological landscape. We need to wake up to opportunities digital transformation presents us as archaeologists in presenting our data to a wide audience. Dr. Peter McKeague joins us to talk about this problem.

Links

• Towards a Sustainable Future for Digital Spatial Information and Technologies in European Archaeological Heritage Management

• Why the Historic Environment needs a Spatial Data Infrastructure, Internet Archaeology 43

• Saving European archaeology from the Digital Dark Ages: SEADDA

• RAMP project

• Past Map

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• Paul:

  • Binaural (iOS, Mac)

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• Chris Webster

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• Paul Zimmerman

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Our Ruined Lives with Lana Ruck - Ruins 16

Today’s podcast hostage is Lana...Lana...Lanaaaaaaa Ruck. Lana is a dual Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Anthropology and Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University, Bloomington. She works at Olduvai Gorge as a student researcher at the Stone Age Institute, and she is an avid science communicator through IU's science blog, ScIU (@sciublog).

Lana is a proud Texan, and got her B.A. in Anthropology at Texas Tech University and her M.A. at Florida Atlantic University. She has worked in Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Tanzania, focusing on stone tool technologies and toolmaking techniques. Lana is an interdisciplinary scientist and self-described "stone age neuroscientist."

Her research combines brain imaging techniques with experimental archaeology to explore how our uniquely-human system of technology, language, and cognition evolved. Unfortunately, Lana allowed Carlton to be one of her participants for her dissertation research, and we are very excited to spill the tea on how that disaster went.

Links

• Lana Ruck

  • Twitter: @lanaruck

  • Instagram: @lanalately

  • ScIU Instagram: @sciublog

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• Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com

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Indigenous Australian Archaeology - HeVo 38

On today’s episode Jessica hosts Dr. Chris Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Australian Studies and Archaeology at Flinders University. In 2017, Dr. Wilson was the first Indigenous Australian to be awarded a PhD in Archaeology. Dr. Wilson tells how the discovery of family history/geneaology, family and community involvement, and the archaeology of whaling all tied together within his Ph.D research. Throughout the episode he also shows how the archaeological research being done in Australia today, including his own fascinating zooarchaeology work, is breaking down misperceptions of Indigenous Australians. Towards the end of the episode Dr. Wilson touches on Indigenous rights and repatriation in Australia. Note: This includes a brief (and disturbing) discussion on repatriation from anatomy labs.

Links

• https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/christopher.wilson

• https://www.flinders.edu.au/braveminds/past-perspectives-from-a-pioneer

• David Horton aboriginal map

• Series-First Inventors

  • https://www.buttermedia.com.au/

  • https://www.buttermedia.com.au/dr-chris-wilson

• Boomerang

• Rutledge Book [Coming 2020]

  Ngarrindjeri Ruwar and the Archaeology of the Lower Murray, South Australia

• PhD Thesis

• National Indigenous Knowledges and Research Network (NIRAKN)

• International community on monuments science conference

• Museum exhibit- National Museum

• ABC News 24 - Dr Christopher Wilson - Ngarrindjeri archaeology

• IPINCH BIO

• Articles about becoming the first Indigenous Australia to get a PhD

• https://www.murrayvalleystandard.com.au/story/5017129/ngarrindjeri-man-chris-wilson-becomes-first-aboriginal-person-to-earn-phd-in-archaeology/

• https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-20/first-indigenous-australian-to-complete-archaeology-phd-to-grad/8961894

• Chris’ Email: christopher.wilson@flinders.edu.au

Contact

• Jessica

  • Jessica@livingheritageanthropology.org

  • @livingheritageA

  • @LivingHeritageResearchCouncil

• Lyle

  • Lyle.Balenquah@gmail.com

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The Dirt Travel Club: Bulgaria Edition - The Dirt 77

This week, Anna gets out her box of slides from her recent trip to Bulgaria. We discuss some of the deep history (and prehistory) of Bulgaria, as well as some mythology and folk traditions. Then, we have a chat about some of our favorite ways to experience different communities and cultures when we travel. (Hot tip: EAT EVERYTHING)

Links

• Late Neandertals and Early Modern Humans in Western Europe (Max Planck Gesellschaft)

• Levallois Technique - Middle Paleolithic Stone Tool Working (ThoughtCo)

• Zagreus (GreekMythology.com)

• Wine Traditions (BulWine)

• Kukeri, Bulgaria's Bizarre Festival of Monsters (Culture Trip)

• Surreal Pictures Show Bulgaria’s Masked Dancers Warding Off Evil Spirits (National Geographic)

• Kukeri – An old and scary Bulgarian tradition (Free Sofia Tour)

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• Email the Dirt Podcast

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Archaeology in the Eastern Mojave and YouTube Videos - Ep 85

This is another live recording of the You Call This Archaeology show by Chris Webster and Richie Cruz. We talk about archaeology near Ridgecrest, CA, the new GoPro Hero 8 Black Action camera and how to make quality YouTube videos.

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• Chris Webster

  • chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

• Richie Cruz

  • Happy Archaeology Fun Time

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Laughton-en-le-Morthen & Conquest Landscapes with Duncan Wright - Arch and Ale 29

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. In this talk, Archaeology in the City proudly presents - Duncan Wright on "Laughton & Conquest Landscapes." This talk took place on Thursday, January 30th, 2019 at the Red Deer in Sheffield.

Duncan is a senior lecturer at Bishop Grosseteste University. As an early Medievalist, he specialises in the establishment of kingships, studies of settlement, landscapes, and conflict. In this episode, Duncan speaks on the Norman Conquest of north England and the construction of early medieval castles. He has recently completed excavating in Laughton where he's found a Motte-and-Bailey earthwork castle, the remains of an Anglo-Saxon hall, and much more!

For more information about Archaeology in the City’s events and opportunities to get involved, please email archaeologyinthecity@sheffield.ac.uk or visit our website at archinthecity.wordpress.com. You can also find us on Twitter (@archinthecity), Instagram (@archaeointhecity), or Facebook (@archinthecity)

Content Warning: Listener discretion is advised as there may be adult language

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Found Artifacts and What To Do With Them - CRMArch 183

Responding to a listener email about a facebook post, the hosts discuss what to do about found artifacts. Whether you’re an archaeologist or not an archaeologist there are protocols you should follow if you find something that isn’t yours.

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• Bill White: Succinct Research

• Doug Rocks-MacQueen: Doug’s Archaeology

• Stephen Wagner: Process - Opinions on Doing Archaeology

• Chris Webster: Random Acts of Science

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Special Guest Kimberlee Moran and the Arch Street Project - Dirt 76

Anna and Amber are joined by forensic archaeologist Kimberlee Moran to talk about the unique story of the First Baptist Church cemetery in Philadelphia, PA. Our story this week has twists, turns, and more information about preserved brains than you might think possible!

Links

• Kimberlee Moran (Rutgers University - Camden)

• Arch Street Project

• Old bones found - and nobody's in charge (Philadelphia Inquirer) (cn images of human skeletal remains)

• A Colonial-Era Cemetery Resurfaces in Philadelphia (The New York Times) (cn images of human skeletal remains)

• Dr. Moran discussing forensic archaeology on NPR’s You’re the Expert Contact

• Email the Dirt Podcast

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Meanwhile, in Texas: A Conversation with Dr. Bryon Schroeder - Ruins 15

On this episode of A Life in Ruins Podcast, we interview Dr. Bryon Schroeder. Dr. Schroeder is currently the director of the Center for Big Bend Studies at Sul Ross University in Alpine, Texas. We discuss his early years "hunting" with his father and talk about both his thesis and dissertation research. We then transition into a crazy story involving paper mache, human bodies and terrible Texas laws.

Links

• Dr. Schroder

  • Email: bryon.schroeder@sulross.edu

• Center for Big Bend Studies

  • Website: https://cbbs.sulross.edu/index.php

  • Instagram

  • Faebook: http://www.facebook.com/CenterForBigBendStudies

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• Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com

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Drone-Based Photogrammetry and AI for Automated Arch Survey - ArchaeoTech 121

Dr. Hector Orengo joins us from Spain to talk about a recent paper where his team discusses using photogrammetry and AI to automate archaeological survey. It’s an interesting approach with promising results.

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• Chris Webster

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