The American Flat Mill near Virginia City, Nevada - TAS 87
The American Flat Mill was built at great expense in 1922 and shut down just four years later. It was a marvel of architecture and has an amazing story associated with it. On this episode we talk to BLM archaeologist Alicia Jenson and the archaeologist that wrote the report on the site, Ron Reno, about the American Flat Mill and how and why the BLM did what they did with it.
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Chris Webster
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Site Assessments After a Significant Weather Event with Dr. Tanya Peres - ArchaeoTech 125
Way back on episode 93 Paul and Chris talked about the article linked below but couldn’t work out a schedule with the authors. Well, now we have Dr. Tanya Peres on to talk about that article and the challenges and successes experienced when assessing sites after a major rain storm in Tennessee.
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Chris Webster
Twitter: @archeowebby
Paul Zimmerman
Twitter: @lugal
Email: paul@lugal.com
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A Giant April Fool's Episode - The Dirt Pod
This year's April Fool's Day episode is on the biggest thing that never was: giants! Dive normal-sized-headfirst into conspiracy theories and hoaxes surrounding giants in the archaeological record, and meet some giants that didn't exist in Saudi Arabia, India, the Caucasus, and Appalachia.
Links
Did the Smithsonian Destroy Thousands of Giant Human Skeletons? (Snopes)
"Skeleton of Giant" Is Internet Photo Hoax (National Geographic)
Scholars debunk myth of prehistoric giants in West Virginia (West Virginia Explorer)
Giant Amerindians: Fact or Fantasy? (Southeastern Archaeology)
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Tiny Plants: Paleoethnobotany with Special Guest Dr. Madelynn von Baeyer - Dirt 83
Anna and Amber chat with Dr. Madelynn von Baeyer about archaeological plants. How do you find 'em? What can they tell us? What's the best archaeological plant? And what does any of this have to do with MUMMIES?!?
Links
Three Ancient Egyptian Coffins at Harvard University (Sketchfab)
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
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CRM in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond - Ep 186
As we move into a new world for many of us, probably all of us, we have to learn to live not only with new restrictions, but, with a potentially changed world on the other side of all this. Whether many people die, businesses fail, or it’s business as usual we need to prepare. How are you preparing for life during, and, on the other side of this pandemic?
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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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Part II- All We Are Is Donny Dust in the Wind - Ruins 18.2
Our hosts Carlton and David interview primitive survival expert Donny Dust about his prehistoric tool kit and his strategies for surviving in the bush. Donny was a contestant on the History Channel Show 'Alone' season 6 and 'Alone: The Beast' season 1. He is also the author of several books including Earthroamer and Scavenger: A Primal Approach to Lifestyle Change. He also runs his own primitive survival school called Paleo Tracks Survival.
Halfway through the interview, our hosts and guest are joined by Devin Pettigrew. Devin is a Ph.D. student at CU Boulder researching ancient weapons technology and ballistics. He joins in on the interview to provide a more dynamic and academic discussion regarding Donny's experiences and knowledge. AKA nerding out over cool stuff.
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Email: donny.dust1@gmail.com
Instagram: @donnydust
Twitter: @DonnyDust
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Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast
Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast
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A Day at the Museum with Dr. Briana Pobiner - DIrt 82
Anna and Amber chat with Dr. Briana Pobiner, a researcher and educator at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's Human Origins Program. We talk favorite hominins, meat science, evolutionary education, how to get the most out of a frolic through the museum, and some of the zillion other things Dr. Pobiner does.
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Briana Pobiner (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)
Briana Pobiner (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)
Dietary Detective: Smithsonian Scientist Briana Pobiner (Smithsonian Institution Youtube)
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Part I- Our Ruined Lives Reunion - Ep 18
On this episode our three hosts recount their recent adventure in Colorado together last month. This is the first time the three intrepid cowboys of science have been in the same place since SAA’s ABQ in 2019. Contrary to their own expectations, Carlton, Connor, and David were extremely productive. They talk about museum visits, live streaming, Alpha, powwows, and more! This episode is part one of two. Part two will release later this week!
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Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast
Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast
Twitter: @alifeinruinspod
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Working Remotely During The Zombie Apocalypse - ArchaeoTech 124
From video conferencing tools to the immediate and lasting effects on field archaeology, Paul and Chris talk about working during this unique time in history.
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App of the Day
Webby: Stash Invest
Paul: Visual Studio
Contact
Chris Webster
Twitter: @archeowebby
Paul Zimmerman
Twitter: @lugal
Email: paul@lugal.com
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Mark My Words: Linguistics! - Dirt 81
In this episode, Amber and Anna talk about talking. It’s finally an episode on linguistics! We think about Neanderthal speech, wrestle with syntax and semantics, and have a whole language family reunion.
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What is Speech? What is Language? (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe (Nature)
Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia (Science)
Language Isolates and Their History, or, What’s Weird, Anyway?
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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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
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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)
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)
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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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Chris Webster
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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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Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast
Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast
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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.
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App of the Day
Webby: GoPro App
Contact
Chris Webster
Twitter: @archeowebby
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
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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
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?
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Follow Our Panelists On Twitter
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
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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
Special Issue: East of Assyria--The Highland Settlement of Hasanlu (Expedition)
Iran's Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia (New Scientist)
Lovers, Friends, or Strangers? New Thoughts on a Museum Icon (Penn Museum)
Warfare at Hasanlu in the Late 9th Century B.C. (Expedition)