Archaeo Mad Libs With The Dirt - BONUS

We took paragraphs from two very out-of-date archaeology papers and took out lots of key words. Then, listeners sent in their own word lists, with which we filled in those paragraphs! The results were very silly, and we had a lot of fun!

Stay tuned for upcoming live events, and come hang out with us on our stream!

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• twitch.tv/thedirtpodcast

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The Dirt Stays Home - Dirt 89

Like most of you, we've been staying at home for the past several weeks, so we thought--what better way to distract our listeners from THEIR households than a look at OTHER people's households! Anna and Amber talk about how archaeologists' concept of "house" and "home" and "living space" has shifted over the years, and take a look at some ancient examples of home life.

Links

• The Archaeology of Household: An Introduction (via ResearchGate)

• Processual Archaeology (ThoughtCo)

• Post-Processual Archaeology (ThoughtCo)

• Archaeological houses, households, housework and the home (via ResearchGate)

• Syllabus - ARCH 2320 Household Archaeology in the Ancient Near East and Beyond

• Household Studies in Complex Societies (Oriental Institute Seminars)

• A Child's House: Social Memory, Identity, and the Construction of Childhood in Early Postclassic Mexican Households (American Anthropologist)

• Gender, Social Networks, and Labor Disputes: Household Archaeology at the Industrial Mine Camp (DU Digital Commons)

• Colorado Coal Field War Project (University of Denver)

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Of Padawans and Paleoindians: A Conversation with Dr. Shane Miller - Ruins 21

Dr. D. Shane Miller is not your average southern boy. Rather, he is one of the more accomplished archaeologists in the country for his age, and currently is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Middled Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University.

Shane started his career at the University of Tennessee where he got his undergraduate and his master’s degree conducting his thesis at the Topper Site.

He later completed his PhD at the University of Arizona, and unfortunately, helped direct a field school in Nashville, Tennessee in which David was a young student. There is always a Sith and his master.

We talk about Shane‘s career, some fun field stories, and have an interesting discussion about the field of anthropology in general. It was a blast.

Links

• Dr. Shane Miller

  • Twitter: @TheDurtyTowel

  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005146334910

Contact

• Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com

• Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast

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CRM in 2030 - CRMArch 189

For this episode, host Doug Rocks-Macqueen proposed a hypothetical scenario:

It is 2030, a cataclysmic event has destroy most of the country and now we are rebuilding our society. As one of the few remaining archaeologists the new government has tasked you with rebuilding CRM – new laws, new methods, anything goes, how would you do?

We all do our best to understand and interpret this scenario.

LinksCRM in 2030 - Ep 189

• Book: Lovecraft Country

• 1964 Tokyo

• Book: The Peripheral

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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Sick to Death? Pathologies and Animal Bones - Animals 22

In this episode, Simona and Alex tackle palaeopathology. Listen on for how to identify signs of injury and disease in archaeological skeletal remains and what these can tell us about human-animal interactions in the past. Also Roman Pugs.

Links

• Bartosiewicz, L. and Gal, E. (2013) "Shuffling Nags and Lame Ducks: The Archaeology of Animal Disease". Oxbow Books.

• Gaastra, J.S., Greenfield, H.J., and Linden, M.V. (2018) "Gaining Traction on Cattle Exploitation: Zooarchaeological Evidence from the Neolithic Western Balkans". Antiquity.

• MacKinnon, M. (2010) "'Sick as a Dog': Zooarchaeological Evidence for Pet Dog Health and Welfare in the Roman World". World Archaeology. pp. 290-309.

Contact

• Alex Fitzpatrick: Twitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona Falanga: Twitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology

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

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Art Crimes - Dirt 88

Cue the tense cinematic score. We’re talking about art crimes, both solved and unsolved! Heists, forgeries, and criminal masterminds abound, as we discuss the “value” of art, and why the black market for art and antiquities continues to thrive.

Links

• 8 of the Most Notorious Art Forgeries in History (Mental Floss)

• Museum's Collection Of Purported Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Are Fakes, Experts Say (NPR)

• All of the Museum of the Bible’s Dead Sea Scrolls Are Fake, Report Finds (Smithsonian)

• The Ten Most Notorious Art Forgers Of All Time (Sleek)

• Family of forgers fooled art world with array of finely crafted fakes (The Independent)

• Fälschermuseum

• Diary of the Hitler Diary Hoax (New Yorker)

• Schtonk! (Wikipedia)

• The Global Fight Against Black Market Antiquities Intensifies (The Medialine)

• Networks can stop the black-market antiquities trade (ShareAmerica.gov)

• Are amazon and ebay the new black market? Archaeologists warn against ancient artifacts sold online (Newsweek)

• Illegal trade in antiquities: a scourge that has gone on for millennia too long (The Conversation)

• The Archaeologist as Titan (New York Times)

Contact

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YCTA FB LIVE with Stuart Rathbone and the Archaeology of the Donner Pass Route - TAS 90

Welcome to another replay of You Call This Archaeology, this time with a special guest. Stuart Rathbone joins us to talk about his research on the Donner Pass Route between Reno, Nevada and Sacramento, California.

Links

• PDF: “Over the Hill”. A Stratified approach to the archaeology of the Donner Pass Route through the Sierra Nevada

• Roadster Adventures

• Happy Archaeology Fun Time

Contact

• Chris Webster

  • chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

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Web Mapping and Active Learning With LIDAR Data - ArchaeoTech 127

The phrase, “archaeologists aren’t taught to do that” is prevalent in archaeology. What are archaeologist’s taught? Well, this paper attempts to use alternative methods and crowdsourcing to analyze LIDAR data and overcome some of the shortfalls of academic education.

Links

• 2020 Marion Forest, et. al., “Testing Web Mapping and Active Learning to Approach Lidar Data”. Advances in Archaeological Practice 8(1), 2020, pp 25-39:

  • DOI: 10.1017/aap.2019.42

  • PDF of the Article

• Bose Frames

App of the Day

• Webby: Microsoft Soundscape

Contact

• Chris Webster

  • Twitter: @archeowebby

  • Email: chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

• Paul Zimmerman

  • Twitter: @lugal

  • Email: paul@lugal.com

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• Wildnote

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• Timeular

Here There Be Dragons: Etiologies - Dirt 87

This week, Anna and Amber talk about those pesky Big Questions: How are we here? Why are we here? Where do dragons come from? Turns out, people have been coming up with explanations, myths, and stories for questions like this since prehistory.

Links

• Here There Be Dragons: Etiologies

• Creation Stories from around the World: Encapsulations of some traditional stories explaining the origin of the Earth, its life, and its peoples

• The Origin of Dragons (Anthropos)

• Dragons: A Brief History of the Mythical, Fire-Breathing Beasts (LiveScience)

• Cyclops Myth Spurred by 'One-Eyed' Fossils? (National Geographic)

• 10 Mythological Perspectives On Menstruation (Listverse)

• Religion and Women (via Google Books)

• Menstruation (Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961)

• Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars (via Google Books)

• Ancient mantis-man petroglyph discovered in Iran (Phys.org)

• Iconography of the Indus Unicorn: Origins and Legacy (Harappa.com)

• Now we know the reason for the narwhal's tusk (Mother Nature Network)

• The Travels of Marco Polo (Wikisource)

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Our Ruined Lives with Stefan Milo - Ep 20

Description: Our guest on this episode of Our Ruined Lives is Stefan Milo, the creator and producer of the popular YouTube Channel of the same name. We have a conversation about the limits of experimental archaeology, producing YouTube content and why the heck he uses a spoon as a microphone holder.

Links

• Stefan Milo Email: hello@stefanmilo.com

• Stefan Milo Instagram: @historysmilo

• Stefan Milo Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/stefanmilo

• Stefan Milo Website: https://www.stefanmilo.com/

• Stefan Milo Twitter: @Historysmilo

Contact

• Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com

• Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast

• Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast

• Twitter: @alifeinruinspod

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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

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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

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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)

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• 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

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• Wildnote

• Digital Marketing Course

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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• 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

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• 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

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