You Call This Archaeology LIVE from April 19, 2020 - Ep 89

Welcome to another presentation of the Facebook Live recording of The Archaeology Show called “You Call This Archaeology”. Chris Webster is joined by Richie Cruz and we talk about all things archaeology and NOT archaeology. Enjoy this random, rambling, episode :)

Links

• Roadster Adventures

• Lumafusion

• Happy Archaeology Fun Time

Contact

• Chris Webster

  • chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

Headphones and CRM in the Apocalypse UK Edition - Ep 188

We recorded this episode on Chris' birthday and for his birthday his wife got him the new Bose Frames Alto audio sunglasses. That sparked off a conversation about headphone and speaker policies on excavations and during survey. We also have Doug tell us how archaeology and archaeologists are fairing in the UK during the Coronavirus lock-down and social distancing.

Links

• Bose Frames

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

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

Check Yourself Before You Shipwreck Yourself - Dirt 86

Anna and Amber venture beneath the waves this week to bring you an episode about shipwrecks and underwater archaeology! We visit a few of the most famous ships in Davy Jones' Locker, Amber learns that underwater archaeology means more than "just pick it up from the bottom," and Anna dusts off that pirate accent.

Links

• The popular “pirate accent” is based on Robert Newton’s performance in the movie Treasure Island (The Vintage News)

• Underwater Archaeology (NOAA)

• More Than Just Archaeology Underwater (Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology)

• Uluburun Late Bronze Age Shipwreck Excavation (Institute of Nautical Archaeology)

• Queen Anne’s Revenge Project

• Archaeology of Titanic (Archaeology)

• RMS Titanic (Archaeology)

• Surveying the Titanic (Real Archaeology)

• Antikythera Shipwreck (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

• Ancient Skeleton Discovered on Antikythera Shipwreck (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

• Antikythera Shipwreck Yields New Cache of Treasures, Hints More May Be Buried at Site (Smithsonian)

• The Mary Rose: The Excavation and Raising of Henry VIII's Flagship

• Hatch, the Mary Rose dog

• Conservation of Cultural Materials from Underwater Sites (Archives and Museum Informatics)

• Conservation for Underwater Archaeology (tDAR)

Contact

• Email the Dirt Podcast

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Bose Sunglasses and Locked Down Archaeology - TAS 88

This is a mostly un-edited recording of the You Call This Archaeology Show featuring Richie Cruz and Chris Webster. We recorded it on April 12, 2020. If you’d like to be notifed of future recordings head over to the FB page and like it!

Links

• Bose Frames

• Roadster Adventures

• Lumafusion

• Happy Archaeology Fun Time

Contact

• Chris Webster

  • chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• Digital Marketing Course

• TeePublic

• Timeular

Modeling Concentrations of Maritime Activity In The Past with Dr. Matthew Harpster - ArchaeoTech 126

Today we talk to Dr. Matthew Harpster about his recent collaborative paper in the Journal of Archaeological Science about modeling concentrations of maritime activity in the past using the submerged archaeological record.

Here is the article abstract:

With a goal of understanding and visualizing the shifting concentrations of movement across the Mediterranean Sea on a centennial basis, the MISAMS (Modeling Inhabited Spaces of the Ancient Mediterranean Sea) Project developed a new GIS-based interpretive methodology that collates and superimposes a series of polygons to model densities of maritime activity in the Mediterranean Sea from the 7th century BC to the 7th century AD. After discussing the project's use of place, space, and maritime landscapes as a theoretical background, this paper explains this new methodology then demonstrates and tests results representing activity in the 1st-century BC western-Mediterranean basin. These results, apparently manifesting distinct socially-constructed places, suggest that this new approach creates new opportunities to understand the movement of people and goods across the Mediterranean in the past, and the varying uses and perceptions of maritime space in antiquity. As this method requires a dense and well-studied corpora of archaeological data, it is theoretically applicable to other maritime regions that have (or will have) the appropriate dataset, and may represent a new research agenda in maritime archaeology.

Links

• Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2019.104997

• Dr. Harpster on Academia: https://ku.academia.edu/MatthewHarpster

• Research Center Website: https://kudar.ku.edu.tr/research-amd/

Contact

• Chris Webster

  • Twitter: @archeowebby

  • Email: chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

• Paul Zimmerman

  • Twitter: @lugal

  • Email: paul@lugal.com

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

Green Sahara: The African Humid Period - Dirt 85

The grass is always greener on the other side (of the Holocene). What is today a vast and inhospitable home to many people and creatures was, between ten and five thousand years ago, a lush environment replete with lakes, forests, and grasses. We examine the first clues that suggested a Green Sahara to researchers, explore the technologies and societies that lived there, and contemplate what the Sahara’s past might suggest about its future.

Links

• Megalakes in the Sahara? A Review (Quaternary Research)

• Saharan Dust Blows Across the Atlantic (NOAA)

• The emergence of pottery in Africa during the tenth millennium cal BC : new evidence from Ounjougou (Mali) (Antiquity)

• Ounjougou

• Technological and Cultural Change Among the Last Hunter-Gatherers of the Maghreb: The Capsian (10,000–6000 B.P.) (Journal of World Prehistory)

• Capsian (Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology)

• The 8,000-year-old dugout canoe from Dufuna (NE Nigeria)

• Africa’s oldest boat set for exhibit in Nigeria (Africa Times)

• First dairying in green Saharan Africa in the fifth millennium BC (Nature)

• History of the Domestication of Cows and Yaks (ThoughtCo)

• Chad Genetic Diversity Reveals an African History Marked by Multiple Holocene Eurasian Migrations (American Journal of Human Genetics)

• End of the African Humid Period (NOAA)

• End of the African Humid Period (Nature)

• Climate Change in North Africa: The Past is Not the Future (Climatic Change)

Contact

• Email the Dirt Podcast

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• TeePublic

• Timeular

Of Bows and Hoes: A Conversation about Prehistoric Technology with Devin Pettigrew - Ruins 19

In this episode, our cohosts chat with Devin Pettigrew about his research on prehistoric lithic technologies. Carlton nearly throws-up from having flashbacks of butchering a goat with Devin that had been sitting out for days in an unventilated trash bag.

Guest Contact

• Devin Pettigrew

  • Email: devin.pettigrew@colorado.edu

  • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ARatlatl

  • Website: http://basketmakeratlatl.com/

  • Instagram: @ar.atlatl

Contact

• Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com

• Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast

• Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast

• Twitter: @alifeinruinspod

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

Surviving the 2020 Recession - CRMArch 187

When we pull out of the Coronavirus situation, if we do this year, we’re still going to be in a recession. How will businesses cope? How will field technicians and Shovelbums cope? It’s a complicated question and we try to provide some answers on this episode.

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

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

Ancient goddesses, eggs and bunny rabbits: The Zooarchaeology of Lagomorphs - Animals 21

It is ‘the season’ so this month’s episode of ArchaeoAnimals is all about rabbits and hares! Join us to find out more about self-explanatory taxonomy, medieval rabbit hutches and what does all this have to do with Easter.

Bibliography

• Hillson, S (2005) Teeth, 2nd ed. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology Cambridge University Press

• Toynbee, J.M.C. (2013) Animals in Roman Life & Art, Barnsley: Pen & Sword

• https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/roman-rabbit-discovered-at-fishbourne.htm

• http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-02-14-history-domestication-rabbit’s-tale

• https://www.easter-origins.org/about

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology

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

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

Book Club Bonanza - Dirt 84

Settle into your comfiest chair for Book Club with Anna and Amber this week. We talk about our favorite books, movies, and TV shows with archaeological or anthropological themes! We've also got some tips for listeners on how to get your literary fix while you're sheltering in place.

Links

• 8 Home Library Apps to Keep Your Book Collection Organized (Book Riot)

• Thanks to Bookshop, There Is No Reason to Buy Books on Amazon Anymore (InsideHook)

• An Update From Emily Powell (Powell’s Books)

• National Emergency Library (Archive.gov)

• Crocodile on the Sandbank

• Lest Darkness Fall

• Motel of the Mysteries

• Compass

• The Last Neanderthal

• The English Patient

• Anil’s Ghost

• The Golden Goblet

Contact

• Email the Dirt Podcast

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• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

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.

Links

• Check out the cool interactive maps of the site here.

• Documentary about the American Flat Mill

Contact

• Chris Webster

  • chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• Digital Marketing Course

• TeePublic

• Timeular

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.

Links

• Episode 93: Disaster Preparedness for Archaeology Sites

• Finding the Positive in the Negative - Article from SAA Advances

Contact

• Chris Webster

  • Twitter: @archeowebby

  • Email: chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

• Paul Zimmerman

  • Twitter: @lugal

  • Email: paul@lugal.com

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

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)

• “Flashpoints & Giants” (Coast to Coast AM)

• Steve Quayle (RationalWiki)

• Giants and Bonus Potatoes (Knowledge Fight)

• Was 19th Century apewoman a yeti? 6ft 6in Russian serf who could outrun a horse was 'not human', according to DNA tests (Daily Mail)

• Scholars debunk myth of prehistoric giants in West Virginia (West Virginia Explorer)

• Giant Amerindians: Fact or Fantasy? (Southeastern Archaeology)

Contact

• Email the Dirt Podcast

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• TeePublic

• Timeular

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

• Madelynn von Baeyer Bio

• Early Lives: The Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age at Çadır Höyük (Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies)

• Three Ancient Egyptian Coffins at Harvard University (Sketchfab)

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Contact

• Email the Dirt Podcast

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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?

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

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

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.

Contact for Guests

• Websites

  • www.donnydust.com

  • www.paleotrackssurvival.com

  • Email: donny.dust1@gmail.com

  • Instagram: @donnydust

  • Twitter: @DonnyDust

Contact

• Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com

• Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast

• Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

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.

Links

• Briana Pobiner (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)

• Briana Pobiner (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)

• Acknowledging students’ concerns about evolution: a proactive teaching strategy (Evolution: Education and Outreach)

• Accepting, understanding, teaching, and learning (human) evolution: Obstacles and opportunities (American Journal of Physical Anthropology)

• Dietary Detective: Smithsonian Scientist Briana Pobiner (Smithsonian Institution Youtube)

Contact

• Email the Dirt Podcast

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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!

Contact

• Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com

• Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast

• Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast

• Twitter: @alifeinruinspod

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

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.

Links

• Zoom

• Skype

• Microsoft Teams

• Google Meet

App of the Day

• Webby: Stash Invest

• Paul: Visual Studio

Contact

• Chris Webster

  • Twitter: @archeowebby

  • Email: chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

• Paul Zimmerman

  • Twitter: @lugal

  • Email: paul@lugal.com

Affiliates

• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular

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.

Links

• What is Speech? What is Language? (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)

• The Neanderthal Throat—Did Neanderthals Speak? (Sapiens)

• Introduction to Linguistics (UCLA Linguistics)

• Glottolog

• Map of Indo-European Languages (Wikimedia)

• The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (via Google Books)

• The Origins of Proto-Indo-European: The Caucasian Substrate Hypothesis (Journal of Indo European Studies)

• 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)

• Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European (Archaeology Magazine)

• Language Isolates and Their History, or, What’s Weird, Anyway?

Contact

• Email the Dirt Podcast

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