Other People of Size - Dirt 132
A follow-up and expansion to episode 99, People of Size, Anna and Amber explore other categories of largeness and how they’re represented in the archaeological record. We discuss fat bodies that are coded male, the strength and bulk of sumo wrestlers, and cultural and historical shifts in the aesthetic of the male body.
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Late Pleistocene swimmers compared to modern athletes (Journal of Human Evolution)
Using X Men to teach about hominin speciation (Great Lakes Ethnohistorian)
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Two archaeologists visit Chichen Itza - TAS 118
We recently had the opportunity to visit Chichen Itza in Yucatán, Mexico. It was an incredible experience, but, being archaeologists, we of course came away with more questions than were answered! In this episode we give a brief overview Mayan civilization, including Chichen Itza, and then talk about our experience on an incredibly touristy tour! The take away is, do a little research ahead of time (like listening to this podcast!) to help prepare yourself before visiting the site!
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Are PhDs for CRM professionals worth it? - CRM Arch 212
Is it necessary or beneficial to get a phD? A masters degree is often required to advance your career in CRM, but is it necessary to go all the way to a PhD? On this episode, the crew discusses PhD programs for CRM professionals; their shortcomings, as well as the beneficial skills that can be learned. Join Masters Heather and Stephen as they discuss this topic with Doctors Bill and Doug.
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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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Eagle Eyed Zooarchaeology - Looking at the Digital Animals in Assassin's Creed - Animals 33
This month’s episode focuses on the creatures of the Assassins’ Creed franchise. Unlike our previous video game episodes, where we reconstruct the morphology of fantasy creatures, we will explore the depiction of extant and extinct fauna in the historical reconstructions which form the basis of this video game franchise.
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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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Getting "in tune" with the Paleoindian with Dr. Jesse Tune - Ruins 50
In this episode, we are chatting with Dr. Jesse Tune, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Fort Lewis College. Now, this isn’t the first time Dr. Tune has been a guest on the Podcast, he first joined us on Episode 37 with Dr. Shane Miller where we talked about some recent updates on the Cerutti Mastodon Site. For this episode, Jesse tells us about his introduction to archaeology, his graduate school experiences (Carlton and Jesse talk about D.C. living), and his current research in Paleoindian archaeology.
Dr. Tune's Twitter: @jwtune
Hunter Gatherer Research Collaborative & Lab
Literature Reccomendations
Jesse W. Tune 2020 Hunter-Gatherer Occupation of the Central Colorado Plateau during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition. American Antiquity. 85(3):573-590.
Heather L. Smith and Jesse W. Tune (editors) 2019 Fluted Point Technologies: An Interregional Perspective. PaleoAmerica 5(2):105-108.
Jesse W. Tune, Michael R. Waters, Kayla Schmalle, Larisa R. G. DeSantis, George D. Kamenov. 2018 Assessing the Proposed Pre-LGM Human Occupation of North America at Coats-Hines-Litchy, Tennessee, and Other Sites. Quaternary Science Reviews 186:47-59.
D. Shane Miller and Jesse W. Tune. 2018 When the Levee Breaks: How an Ant Hill and a Deer on a Mound Made Us Re-Think the Effect of the Younger Dryas. In The Archaeology of Everyday Matters, edited by S. E. Price and P. J. Carr, pp. 14-23. University Press of Florida.
Jesse W. Tune 2016 The Clovis-Cumberland-Dalton Succession: Settling into the Midsouth United States During the Pleistocene-to-Holocene Transition. PaleoAmerica 2(3):261-273.
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Race and Biological Anthropology with Dr. Rachel Watkins - Ruins 131
Recently, Anna and Amber sat down with Rachel Watkins, a biological anthropologist and scholar-activist whose research centers on social and biological histories of Black Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries. Learn about the social history of biological anthropology, the exemplary case studies with which Dr. Watkins has worked, why you shouldn't discount the creepy things small children sometimes do, and so much more!
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Risk Management with Bill White - Archaeotech 151
Risk Management is something you don't hear a lot about in smaller CRM firms. However, no matter the size, all companies should manage and record hazards and trend on incidents. Dr. Bill White of the CRM Archaeology Podcast and the University of California at Berkeley joins us to talk about his paper on risk management, just published in the March 2021 issue of SAA Advances.
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Paul Zimmerman
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April Fool's: Cursèd Objects - Bonus Episode
Anna and Amber bring you some bonus April foolery in the form of spooky cursed objects and haunted places. What's up with the Victorians and their creepy parlor displays? Can physics explain a haunted statue? Who asked Alexander Graham Bell about any of this? Apologies if the sound quality is different for this one, friends--Anna's laptop might've had an April Fools' curse of its own going on!
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Just the Boyz: Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and WWII Aircraft - Ruins 49
In this episode, David, Connor, and Carlton each take a segment to talk about a topic in the past that interests them. David takes the first segment to discuss Alexander The Great and explains his greatness. Connor talks about some of Genghis Khan's policies and his brilliance (although he was still a very bad person). Carlton nerds out about WWII-era aircraft, the "Blitz", and their relationship to sampling bias.
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Public Archaeology in Utah feat. Erin Haycock - Dig It 27
In this episode, we chat with public archaeologists, Erin Haycock! We virtually sit down and chat about her research interests, venture into her Masters program in Utah, and what we can do to utilize and bring awareness to public and community archaeology.
Recorded: 03/15/2021
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http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS4I6_qDgnsDFbehcnkCYiQ/videos
CD-ROM game Alyssa mentions: https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-cluefinders-4th-grade-adventures-the-puzzle-of-the-pyramid
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It's A Pod Mitzvah - Dirt 130
Amber and Anna discuss some of the different rituals, ceremonies, and traditions associated with coming of age in cultures around the world and throughout time. From tossing baby teeth up to the roof to tying a vine to your ankles and jumping off a wooden tower, it's all fascinating.
Links
Young People's Conceptions of the Transition to Adulthood (Youth & Society)
Right–left and the scrotum in Greek sculpture (Laterality, via ResearchGate)
13 Amazing Coming of Age Traditions From Around the World (Global Citizen)
The Excruciating Bullet Ant Glove Test Of The Mawé People (All That’s Interesting)
What It's Like to Get Stung by the World's Most Painful Insect (Esquire)
Seijin No Hi: Celebrating Japanese Youth’s Rite of Passage (Savvy Tokyo)
Meet Vanuatu's land-diving daredevils, who inspired bungee jumping (CNN Travel)
Coming of Age Rituals (Hudson County Community Colleges Libraries)
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Dhaka Muslin, Bohemian Graves, and a Bone Tool - TAS 117
In this week’s archaeology news, we discuss three articles that captured our attention! The first is all about the ancient Dahka fabric, how it was produced, and how that knowledge has been lost to time. The second is an article about a Bohemian grave in the Czech Republic with unique grave goods. And the final story is about an ancient bone tool found in Australia.
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Gold and precious gems unearthed in a 5th-century grave in Bohemia (Live Science)
Statement from the East Bohemian Museum in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
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La Rumarosa and the Kumeyaay with Dr. Don Liponi - Rock Art 33
Dr. Don Liponi joins the Rock Art podcast again to talk about his ongoing work and publications regarding La Rumarosa rock art and the Kumeyaay people. His publications are bringing light to this fantastic rock art and the people that created it, and, is helping the Kumeyaay people directly.
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Dr. Alan Garfinkel
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Horror Part 1 - Prehist 31
The long arm of the prehistoric past reaches through the millennia to grab our attention, and, in this episode, to grab us by the throat. Yes, we’re talking folk horror in this episode, and trying not to shiver as we discuss how the past intrudes in uncanny ways on the present in films, plays and books. We have a full cast of characters in this spine-tingler, including Dr Lauren McIntyre, Rebecca Lambert (or Lady Liminal), David Southwell of the Hookland Guide, Dr Simon Underwood and Drone Lord.
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The Black Trowel Collective with Aris Poliopoulos and Colleen Morgan - Modern Myth 19
Today's epsiode is all about mutual aid, anarchism and archaeology. I sat down recently with Aris Politopolis and Colleen Morgan, both of whom are members of The Black Trowel Collective. We discuss what the BTC does and in particular the function of its microgrants, which provide $5-$300 in grants to students of archaeology, with no questions asked.
We also talk about the ways in which anarchism has influenced this kind of work and what "anarchaeology" may mean in terms of working with others.
You can find out more about Black Trowel Collective by visiting the website https://blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/ or their Twitter http://twitter.com/blacktrowel
Dr. Aris Politopoulos - Twitter
Dr. Colleen Morgan - Twitter
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Discord: ArchaeoWave
tristan@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com
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Risk Management in CRM Archaeology - CRMArch 211
We start the episode by addressing the recent horrific violence against Asian-Americans in Atlanta in March of 2021. What does violence against Asian-Americans mean for archaeology and how will we respond? Next we discuss Dr. Bill White's recent paper in SAA Advances about risk management in archaeology.
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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
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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Our Ruined Lives with Gino Caspari - Ruins 48
In this episode, we are chatting with Dr. Gino Caspari, a Postdoc in Archaeology at the University of Sydney and the University College London. Dr. Caspari also runs a very popular archaeology Instagram account @ginocaspari that currently has over 123K followers and we discuss the importance of science communication and his experiences on Instagram. We cover his wild and interesting academic career, with many changes in majors and degrees. We also discuss Dr. Caspari's ongoing research in Siberia and his collaborative work with Indigenous Siberians and the issues of language barriers in publications.
Dr. Caspari’s Literature Recommendations:
Frozen Tombs of Siberia: The Pazyryk Burials of Iron-Age Horsemen by S. I Rudenko
Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich
Kon-Tiki: Across The Pacific By Raft by Thor Heyerdahl
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Instagram: @ginocaspari
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The Dig (2021) Reaction | Sutton Who?
In this episode, we give a big welcome to our new Project Assistant, Izzie, and discuss the new Netflix movie, The Dig! Just a warning this episode contains spoilers for The Dig. Tune in as we introduce Izzie, initial reactions/thoughts of The Dig, and chats on the accuracy of the film in contrast with the actual site and archaeology!
Recorded: 03/07/2021
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Email: idigitpodcast@gmail.com
Alyssa
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Twitter: Lyssakemi
Michaela
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Twitter: m_mauriello
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Ancient Hazelnuts, Artistic Neanderthals and a Pompeiian Chariot - TAS 116
This week in archaeology news we discuss three archaeology stories int he news. First up is an ancient hazelnut shell found in Scotland that has been radiocarbon dated to more than 10,000 years ago. Second, we discuss the growing evidence for Neandertal, Denisovan and early Homo Sapien collaborations and sharing of ideas that contributed to an explosion of creativity and art. Finally, Pompeii is back in the news! This time an intact ceremonial chariot was discovered, and we discuss this contribution to what we know about Pompeiian society in 79 CE.
Links
Hazelnut Shell Sheds Light on Life in Scotland More Than 10,000 Years Ago (Smithsonian Magazine)
Neanderthals helped create early human art, researcher says (The Guardian)
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Archaeology of Childhood - Dirt 129
Amber and Anna examine how different ancient cultures viewed children and childhood. We’ll also discuss how the archaeological interpretation of the lives of children in the ancient past has shifted as we’ve gained more and more evidence.
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Why babies in medieval paintings look like ugly old men (Vox)
Role and Importance of Children in the Middle Ages (ThoughtCo.)
Childbirth, Childhood and Adolescence in the Middle Ages (ThoughtCo.)
Neanderthal children's footprints offer rare snapshot of Stone Age family life (ABC News
Neanderthal children shivered and suffered in ancient Europe (Science)
Neanderthal children grew and were weaned similar to us (EurekAlert)
Prehistoric children as young as eight worked as brickmakers and miners (Nature)
400,000-year-old 'School of Rock' Found in Prehistoric Cave in Israel (Ha’aretz)
These Miniature Tools Taught Ancient Children How to Hunt and Fight (Smithsonian)
What prehistoric toys can tell us about human evolution (ABC News)
Animation in Palaeolithic art: a pre-echo of cinema (Antiquity)
Make your own version of a Palaeolithic Toy and a Thaumatrope (Beanie and J's Creative Adventures)
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