Introducing the Site Bites Podcast - SB 0
Introducing the Site Bites Podcast. In this episode, we will introduce the host of this podcast, Carlton Gover, and why he has decided to create this show.
The Site Bites Podcast will explore an archaeological landscape over multiple episodes through conversations with various experts. Joining him each season, will be a featured co-host that is more versed in the archaeological literature of the selected archaeological site to help guide conversation and promote more dynamic dialogue between the hosts and their guests.
Carlton Shield Chief Gover
instagram: @pawnee_archaeologist
Twitter: @PaniArchaeology
Website: https://www.colorado.edu/anthropology/carlton-gover
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Settlers of Cerutti: Evaluating Claims About the Cerutti Mastodon Site - Ruins 37
UPDATE!
ALiRP is now releasing 4 episodes a month!
To kick off the new year, the boys invite Dr. Shane Miller (Mississippi State University; Ep. #21) and his friend Dr. Jesse Tune (Fort Lewis College) to investigate the controversy surrounding the Cerutti Mastodon Site.
The conversation is a holistic discussion from different perspectives about evidence, ethics, Indigenous Sovereignty, and good science.
Guest Contacts
Dr. Shane Miller, Twitter: @TheDurtyTowel
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Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast
Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast
Twitter: @alifeinruinspod
Website: www.alifeinruins.com
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Completing a Master's Amidst a Pandemic feat. Megan Schlanker - Dig It 20
In this episode, we talk with Megan Schlanker who just finished her MSc in Bioarchaeology at the University of York. Join us as we chat about her work, research, and master's experience amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
*Content warning: Due to Megan's research there will be a discussion of domestic violence*
Links
Megan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/meg_sch
Contact
Show
Twitter: @idigitpodcast
Email: idigitpodcast@gmail.com
Alyssa
Instagram: aal.archaeology
Twitter: Lyssakemi
Michaela
Instagram: mm_digitalized
Twitter: m_mauriello
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Can You See My Screen? And Other Lessons from 2020 - CRMArch 205
The last year, 2020, has taught us a lot about ourselves, our families, and our work. But mostly it's taught is what to do and what not to do when video conferencing. On today's episode we give some conferencing pro tips and our lessons learned.
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
Jobs with Cox McClain
Our CRM group is one of the fastest growing in the US. We need temporary and salaried archeologists at every level, from technicians to PIs, in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Previous Oklahoma experience would be nice but is not required. Send your cover letter, resume, and references to: JOBS@COXMCLAIN.COM. Thanks!
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Searching for Cleopatra with Dr. Kelly Olson - TAS 106
On January 8th, 2021 on CBC a documentary called “Searching for Cleopatra: The Woman Behind the Myth” premiers. Dr. Kelly Olson, a professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Western Ontario lectures on Cleopatra and contributed to this documentary. Chris talks to her about Cleopatra: what was she like, what sort of ruler was she, what happened to her descendants, and more.
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Chris Webster
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Merry Hyksmas! With Dr. Chris Stantis - Dirt 121
Seasons greetings! And by that we mean we're wrapping up 2020 by sitting down with Dr. Chris Stantis, who uses stable isotope analyses to learn how people lived in the ancient past. We discuss the real story of the Hyksos Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period in Egypt. Were they the pushy invaders they've been made out to be? Or is there more to the story? (There's more to the story). Not only ALL THIS, but Dr. Stantis convinces Amber and Anna to love those pesky little atoms--stable isotopes!
Links
The Foreigner as Scapegoat: Lessons from Ancient Egypt and Today (Chris Naughton dot com)
Additionally, Dr. Stantis has the following recommendations for those interested in learning more about the Hyksos:
Contact
Email the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com
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Figurines from Pakistan and Rock Art with Shane Davis - Rock Art 27
Today we talk with archaeologist Shane Davis. Shane studied Belize, Pakistan, and now works with Alan in Cultural Resources Management in California. Alan asks him about his path to archaeology and the project he's worked on.
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Chris Webster
Dr. Alan Garfinkel
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What ArchaeoTech Gift Did You Get This Season? - ArchaeoTech 144
We want to know what you either got yourself or received as a gift this holiday season. Specifically, what did you get that can be used for archaeology. Whether it's an obvious gift like a GPS or something a bit more outside the box like a Raspberry Pi. What will you use your gift for? Was it intended for field or office work? Are you reinventing a purpose for something?
CONTEST
Comment on what you got and what you will use it for either on the show notes page for this episode, the APN Facebook Page and the post for this show, or the APN Twitter account and the tweet for THIS show. The links to those three are below. The winner will receive a lifetime membership to the Archaeology Podcast Network!
CONTEST LINKS
Show Notes Page https://www.archpodnet.com/archaeotech/144
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet
Contact
Chris Webster
Twitter: @archeowebby
Paul Zimmerman
Twitter: @lugal
Email: paul@lugal.com
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Christmas Books - Prehist 30
Join Kim as she talks to Professor Chris Gosden of Oxford University about the historical and prehistorical links to Christmas books we all know and, perhaps, love. We take in an ambitious collection of four books from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, to John Masefield’s Box of Delights, Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising and Terry Pratchett’s The Hogfather.
Links
Chris Gosden's profile on the University of Oxford's website
Stations of the Sun by Ronald Hutton on Oxford Scholarship Online
Contact
Twitter: @prehistpod, @kimbiddulph
Show and Tell Abraq - Dirt 120
This week, Amber takes Anna on a guided tour of her beloved Arabia. Learn about the varied mountains, deserts, and oases that are nowhere near as empty or inactive as Western explorers might have you believe. We examine the archaeology of Tell Abraq, get scammed by a guy named Ea-Nasir, solve the mystery of Magan (hint: not actually a mystery), and share insights from skeletal remains about community care and compassion thousands of years ago. Disappointingly, we still don't know what Dilmun onions are.
Links
The Seafaring Merchants of Ur (Journal of the American Oriental Society)
Ancient Magan: The Secrets of Tell Abraq (Ancient Ports - Ports Antiques)
Lesley of Tell Abraq (Bronze Age 2400 - 2000 BC) (Sketchfab)
Qal’at al-Bahrain – Ancient Harbour and Capital of Dilmun (UNESCO)
Contact
Email the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com
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Creationism and Scientific Racism with Dr. Jon Marks - TAS 105
Dr. Jonathan Marks has written numerous books on anthropology, genetics, and has begun to write about racism and similar topics in science. Chris talks to him about his last book on scientific racism and his upcoming book about creationism. This is a great discussion about things that we don't talk about much in anthropology and the sciences, but should.
Jonathan Marks is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he has taught since the beginning of the present millennium, after brief stretches at Yale and Berkeley. His primary training is in biological anthropology and genetics, but his interests are broad, and he has published on the topics of human origins and human diversity across the sciences and humanities from American Anthropologist to Zygon. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2012 he was awarded the First Citizen’s Bank Scholar’s Medal from UNC Charlotte. In recent years he has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the ESRC Genomics Forum in Edinburgh, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and a Templeton Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Notre Dame. His work has received the W. W. Howells Book Prize and the General Anthropology Division Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship from the American Anthropological Association, and the J. I. Staley Prize from the School for Advanced Research. His most recent book is called Is Science Racist? (Polity Press), and next one is called Why Are There Still Creationists?. And although he has written books called What it Means to be 98% Chimpanzee and Why I am Not a Scientist, he is somewhat paradoxically about 98% scientist, and not a chimpanzee.
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Chris Webster
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Mojave National Preserve Park Archaeologist David Nichols - Rock Art 26
On Episode 26 we are interviewing David Nichols, Park Archaeologist, for the National Mojave Preserve. David has a remarkable background doing fieldwork over 15 years on the Pacific Rim and in Australia but returning to his first love the Mojave Desert. This Master's thesis relates to research in the region and his job keeps him very busy managing the 1.6 million acres that is chock full of rock art of many types - paintings, drawings and related features. Much to talk about.
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Contact
Chris Webster
Dr. Alan Garfinkel
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Archaeology in the Levant feat. Idan - Dig It 19
In this episode, we talk with archaeology student Idan from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem about his studies, mom's homemade sourdough bread, work, and goals as an archaeologist!
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Contact
Show
Twitter: @idigitpodcast
Email: idigitpodcast@gmail.com
Alyssa
Instagram: aal.archaeology
Twitter: Lyssakemi
Michaela
Instagram: mm_digitalized
Twitter: m_mauriello
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Where and Why We Dig - CRMArch 204
You may have wondered when seeing an excavation on TV, or, an archaeological site in your home town how archaeologists decide “This is the place!”. Well, the short answer is: it’s complicated. On this episode we use a recent article to start the conversation and try to come up with some answers.
Links
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
Jobs with Cox McClain
Our CRM group is one of the fastest growing in the US. We need temporary and salaried archeologists at every level, from technicians to PIs, in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Previous Oklahoma experience would be nice but is not required. Send your cover letter, resume, and references to: JOBS@COXMCLAIN.COM. Thanks!
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Protecting the Honuukvetam [Ancestors] - HeVo 46
On this month’s podcast we have Desireé Martinez. Desireé is the President of Cogstone Resource Management and Tongva Tribal Archaeologist. During the conversation she takes us along through her journey to becoming an archaeologist. She also talks about what she’d like to change about California archaeology and the CRM industry. Throughout the conversation, she discusses how the journey towards respectful treatment and repatriation of the Honuukvetam [Ancestors] and sacred and cultural sites has shaped her entire career.
Links
Mapping indigenous La https://mila.ss.ucla.edu/
Carrying our Ancestors home http://www.coah-repat.com/
https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/heritagevoices/9 (Working with Museums Panel)
https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/heritagevoices/17 (SAA2018 wrap up)
https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/heritagevoices/30 (Cultural Landscapes Panel SAA2019 where Cogstone provided the recording space)
2017 Conserving the tataayiyam honuuka’ (Ancestors): A Case Study at the Autry Museum of the American West (with Ösge Gençay-Üstün, Lyliiam Posadas, Karimah Kennedy Richardson, and Cindi Alvitre). In Engaging Conservation: Collaboration across Disciplines. Eds. Nina Owczarek, Molly Gleeson, and Lynn A. Grant. London: Archetype Publications, Pp. 141-158.
2015 Ho'eexokre 'eyookuuka'ro “We're working with each other”: The Pimu Catalina Island Project (with Wendy G. Teeter and Karimah O. Kennedy Richardson). Society for American Archaeology Record 15(1): 25-28.
2014 Indigenous Archaeology. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Ed. Claire Smith. New York: Springer, Pp. 3772-3777.
2014 Returning the tataayiyam honuuka' (Ancestors) to the Correct Home: The Importance of Background Investigations for NAGPRA Claims (with Wendy G. Teeter and Karimah O. Kennedy Richardson). Curator 57(2):199-211.
2012 A Land of Many Archaeologists: Archaeology with Native Californians. California: Contemporary Issues in the Archaeology. Eds. Terry Jones and Jennifer Perry. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, Pp. 355-367.
2009 Native American Perspectives of California Archaeology (with Wendy Teeter). In Archaeology in America Encyclopedia. Ed. Frank McManamon, et al. Santa Barbara: Greenwood Publishing Group, Pp. 26-30.
2006 Overcoming Hindrances to Our Enduring Responsibility to the Ancestors: Protecting Traditional Cultural Places. Special Issue: Decolonizing Archaeology, American Indian Quarterly 30(3): 486-503.
Contact
Jessica
Lyle
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Mausoleum? I hardly know 'em! - Dirt 119
This week, Amber and Anna delve into the massive site of the first Chinese Emperor's burial complex. Were there flowing rivers of mercury? Maybe. Are there thousands of terra cotta soldiers? Definitely. Do we understand how metal detectors work? Kind of! Plus, some thumb-related Art Crime, and Anna finally apologizes for attributing Hey Ya to Snoop Dogg when it is absolutely by Outkast. How embarrassing. WARNING: Episode contains spoilers for Waiting for Godot.
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Who was the Chinese emperor behind the terra-cotta warriors? (National Geographic)
Making the Warrior: The Qin Terracotta Soldiers in Age of Empires (The Met)
Chinese terra cotta warriors had real, and very carefully made, weapons (Washington Post)
What You Need to Know About the Terra-Cotta Warrior's Stolen Thumb (National Geographic)
The Secret Tomb of China's 1st Emperor: Will We Ever See Inside? (LiveScience)
Archaeologists Excavate 200 More Chinese Terracotta Warriors (Smithsonian)
Contact
Email the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com
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Our Ruined Lives with Our Overlords - Ruins 36
Happy almost New Year listeners! We kick off the ending 2020 and beginning of 2021 with an interview of our overlord’s, Chris Webster and Rachel Roden. Chris is the co-founder of the Archaeology Podcast Network which started back in December of 2014, and Rachel is the lead editor of our Podcast. So please join us in welcoming the Cat Herders to the clowder we know as A Life in Ruins Podcast: Chris Webster and Rachel Roden!
Contact For Guests:
Chris Webster's Twitter: @archeowebby
Chris Webster's Instagram: @chris_archaeo_webster
Chris Webster Facebook: facebook.com/captainwebby
Archaeology Podcast Network Twitter: @archpodnet
Archaeology Podcast Network Instagram: @archpodnet
Archaeology Podcast Network Facebook: www.facebook.com/archpodnet
Archaeology Podcast Network Website: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/
Contact
Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast
Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast
Twitter: @alifeinruinspod
Website: www.alifeinruins.com
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Denizen of the World: A discussion with Megan Dennison - Ruins 35
On this episode of ALiRP, we interview a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Meagan Dennison. We talk about Meagan's academic journey and her research in Zooarchaeology. We then talk about Meagan's experience in moving to Greece with her family to pursue an academic research opportunity and then being stuck in Europe due to COVID.
Email: Meagan.E.Dennison@gmail.com
Contact
Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast
Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast
Twitter: @alifeinruinspod
Website: www.alifeinruins.com
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Visualizing the Ancient World with Simon Young and LithodomosVR - TAS 104
Simon Young from Australian-based LithodomosVR joins us on his third interview for the Archaeology Podcast Network! He talks about the latest in VR technology and how things like Web VR are changing the way we look at the ancient world.
SPECIAL OFFER!
Get 50% off Ancient World until Jan 1st, 2021 at midnight UTC with code APN50
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Chris Webster
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Rock Art Definitions and Techniques - Rock Art 25
Today Chris interviews Dr. Garfinkel about rock art. What types are there? How is it made? What about cupules? We talk about all this and more on today’s episode.
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Chris Webster
Dr. Alan Garfinkel