Experimental reconstruction of Roman Bread with Yvette Marks - ArchandAle 39
Archaeology & Ale is a monthly series of talks presented by Archaeology in the City, part of the University of Sheffield Archaeology Department’s outreach programme. This month we are proud to host Yvette Marks speaking on "Experimental reconstruction of Roman Bread." This talk took place on Thursday, May 27th, 2021, online via Google Meets.
Yvette is a material scientist with a focus on reconstructing ancient technologies and metallurgy. Yvette started her archaeological career with a degree in Classical Studies at the University of Liverpool before completing an MA in Archaeology at Liverpool and an MSc in Archaeological Materials at Sheffield.
In 2015 Yvette started working for Heritage Doncaster, initially as an Education Officer, then became their Assistant Curator of Archaeology. Yvette worked to enabled their collection to be more accessible; to the public, for teaching and outreach, by cataloguing and interpreting the collection. Since 2019 Yvette has worked at the University of Sheffield's Department of Archaeology as a Laboratory Manager and Teaching Technician (Archaeological Science).
Yvette is currently completing her PhD thesis, 'The inception and transmission of metallurgy: A regional approach' which focuses on the material evidence for the process of copper production in the Aegean and Balkans during the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age. This research aims to understand the material evidence from excavation and reconstruct the technological processes used to smelt and cast metal by combining experimental archaeology and analysis to test these hypotheses.
In this talk, Yvette tells us about a recent experiment she undertook with some students from Sheffield's Department of Archaeology. The experiment explored various methods used by Roman soldiers to bake bread.
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Yvette Marks, the Uni of Sheffield
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Canadian Residential Schools - TAS 127
A recent article discussing the discover of over 200 child burials in Canada has brought the Canadian Residential School system back into the light. The schools were for First Nations children to be indoctrinated into white society. They striped children of languangen and identity and forced them into gender-typical labor. it was a horrifying time in Canada that came to an end, in once case, in just 1996.
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The Residential School System
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report
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Chris Webster
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Anti-Colonial Digital Archaeology in Canada and India - HeVo 52
Today’s podcast features Dr. Neha Gupta, Assistant Professor in Anthropology at The University of British Columbia, Okanagan. We talk about how archaeology in both India and Canada is shaped by colonialism in different and similar ways. Dr. Gupta explains how she is perceived working in the two different settings as a South Asian woman and how she uses digital tools towards an anti-colonial archaeology in both India and Canada. This discussion focuses on varied topics ranging from the MINA | Map Indian Archaeology project and how to balance open research with the rights of Indigenous people.
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MINA | Map Indian Archaeology
Dr. Gupta @archaeomap (twitter)
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Jessica
Lyle
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The Archaeology of Patagonia - DIRT 141
This week, we talk about the first (known) human arrivals in this region, waaaay way down at the tip of South America, and the archaeological remains that tell us how they lived. We've got a cave of hands, commentary from Charles Darwin, old old feet, fish ears, and SO much more!
Links
New Light on the Ancient Human Populations of Patagonia (Popular Archaeology)
Patagonia (Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian)
Junius Bird Collections from Sites Rockshelter 1, 2 and 3 (Beagle Channel, Patagonia, Chile) (tDAR)
South American Archaeological Collection (American Museum of Natural History)
Antiquity and Migrations of the Early Inhabitants of Patagonia (Geographical Review)
Oldest Human Footprint in Americas May Be This 15,600-Year-Old Mark in Chile (LiveScience)
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Interview with David Hurst Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History - Rock Art 42
On today’s episode Dr. Garfinkel interviews an icon of North American archaeology, Dr. David Hurst Thomas. He has been a curator of prehistory at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City for nearly 50 years. Dr. Thomas discusses how he got into archaeology and some of the big discoveries that he is known for.
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Dr. Alan Garfinkel
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Remote Tech, Computer Takeover, and some Tech Tips - ArchaeoTech 156
Paul and Chris start the show talking about tech challenges when in remote areas. How do you get internet? What about charging your devices? In segment two we review the previous episode regarding convolutional neural networks and using programs like that to identify artifacts. Segment three has some great tech tips and some talk about the new iPad Pro 12.9 M1.
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Chris Webster
Twitter: @archeowebby
Paul Zimmerman
Twitter: @lugal
Email: paul@lugal.com
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Ethnomusciology and Archaeomusicology with Dr. Mason Brown - Ruins 59
In this episode, we chat with Dr. Mason Brown, a guest assistant professor for Kathmandu University Department of Music and Affiliate Scholar for the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Asian Studies.
We delve into his early interests in ethnomusciology / Tibetan culture and get into the details of what ethnomusicology is.
Dr. Brown talks about music theory, pentatonic scales, and all the instruments he plays. We also talk about some evidence for the earliest musical instruments in the past and finish up with a discussion about the history of fiddle music.
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The Plaster Skulls of Jericho - Dirt 140
In 1953, archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon and her team uncovered human skulls covered with plaster and decorated with shells to resemble human faces. These Neolithic artifacts may be one of the earliest known examples of human portraits. In this sponsored episode, we’ll dig into the discovery, the site of Jericho itself, and the lives of the people who buried the skulls in the first place.
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Scottish Petroglyphs, Lithic Dating, and CRM in Wyoming - TAS 126
This week we have 3 stories of Archaeology in the news. First, the oldest petroglyphs in Scotland, and also the only animal shapes, were discovered by an amateur archaeologist. Second, we discuss new developments in lithic dating using OSL. And finally, a large scale environmental survey on an Air Force base is announced in Wyoming.
Links
'An incredible discovery': Prehistoric animal carvings found in Scotland for first time
Oldest human traces from the southern Tibetan Plateau in a new light
Direct dating of lithic surface artifacts using luminescence
Contact
Chris Webster
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Linguistic Prehistory with Dr. Alan Garfinkel - Rock Art 41
On today’s episode we talk about the ideas behind Dr. Garfinkel’s dissertation. He used linguistics to determine some interesting things about the early peopling of the Americans.
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Chris Webster
Dr. Alan Garfinkel
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Real Talk with Shubhangni Gupta - Dig It 31
In this episode, we talk with Shubhangni Gupta, also known as Shubhi, who is a second-year Anthropology/Archaeology Ph.D. student at Stanford specializing in critical heritage studies in India. Tune in as we have a real chat about her experiences coming to the US, learning during a COVID world, and her life within these first two years of a Ph.D.
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Shubhangni’s Instagram: @shubhangnigupta
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An Interview With Tallulah Cloos, A First-Time CRM Archaeologist - CRMArch 216
Tallulah Cloos is between her junior and senior year at college and is working in CRM this summer (2021). She’s also a listener of the CRM Archaeology Podcast. As her and her friend were driving to a job they listened to the podcast for advice on what to expect. Why? Because you don’t get this in college - STILL. We give Tallulah and all new archaeologists some advice on how to start and what to expect.
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NEWS: Climate Models, Non-Kosher Ancient Judeans, and Coins - TAS 125
We have three articles for you today. The first is about current climate models and how they don't take archaeological information into consideration. For example, how many acres of food were grown per person in 1500 Europe verses China? Next we look at why pig and fish remains were in abundance in some ancient Judean settlements? Weren't they supposed to be Kosher? Finally, a paper that's still just an abstract suggests that coin makers in ancient Greece and Rome found it hard to make bronze dies.
Links
What Archaeology Tells Us About the Ancient History of Eating Kosher - Smithsonian Magazine
Model for ancient Greek and Roman coinage production - ScienceDirect
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Chris Webster
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Time Warped! Part One: The Zooarchaeology of the Early Prehistoric -Animals 35
This month we start a new 5 part mini series covering zooarchaeoogy through time. This episode focuses on the early prehistoric period (Palaeolithic - Early Bronze Age), where we’ll se the shift from hunting to farming and domestication. This episode’s case studies are Covesea Caves and Star Carr.
Links
https://archaeology.co.uk/articles/news/investigating-the-isotopes-of-the-blick-mead-dog.htm
Milner, N., Taylor, B., and Conneller, C. (2018) Star Carr Volume 1: A persistent place in a changing world. White Rose University Press.
Milner, N., Taylor, B., and Conneller, C. (2018) Star Carr Volume 2: Studies in technology, subsistence and environment. White Rose University Press.
Serjeantson, D. (2011) "Review of animal remains from the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Southern Britain."
Spikins, P. (2000) Mesolithic Northern England :Environment, Population and Settlement. British Archaeological Reports British Series. Archaeopress.
https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=80206&resourceID=19191
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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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Pirates of the World with Dr. Jamie Goodall - Ruins 58
In this episode, we are chatting with Dr. Jamie Goodall. Dr. Goodall is currently a staff historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History and has just released a book about pirates. Her new book is titled, Pirates of the Chesapeake: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars. We grapeshot her with questions about pirates and she enlightens us. So sharpen your sabers and load the muskets, and be prepared for this interview to be pirated across the internet.
Literature Recommendations
Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever by Rebecca Simon
Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570–1740 by Mark G. Hanna
National Geographic Pirates & Shipwrecks by Jamie L. Goodall
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Welcome to Lemurtown - Dirt 139
Listeners, once again, life has come at us like a poorly written simile, so we're releasing a previous Patreon episode. And once again, we are so deeply grateful for your patience and support. Thank you for sticking with us. As an extension of March Madagascarness, we head back to the island with our (ill-fitting) primatology hats on. Anna put together a fun script about giant extinct lemurs, tiny not-extinct lemurs, and even creepy aye-aye fingers, but somehow Amber managed to have a full on meltdown about a lemur named Maki.
Links
Graveyard of Giant Lemurs Discovered Underwater in Madagascar (National Geographic)
Human population boom led to Madagascar’s megafauna extinction: Study (Mongabay)
Lemur Missing, Possibly Stolen, From San Francisco Zoo (NPR)
‘There’s a lemur!’ 5-year-old helps crack SF Zoo theft case (AP)
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Migration Patterns and Habits of Big Horn Sheep with Carlos Gallinger - Rock Art 40
Carlos Gallinger joins the podcast again as a Big Horn Sheep expert. He talks about modern migration patterns of the animal and how that can help archaeologists find petroglyphs and understand better the prehistoric people that hunted and revered them.
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Chris Webster
Dr. Alan Garfinkel
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Teaching a Computer to Classify Ceramics with Dr. Leszek Pawlowicz - ArchaeoTech 155
We speak with Dr. Pawlowicz of Northern Arizona University about a recent paper he was involved in that used convolutional neural networks to classify ceramics in the American Southwest. There are a lot of applications to this technology and some people love it and some think it’s going to take the jobs of archaeologists.
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Chris Webster
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Paul Zimmerman
Twitter: @lugal
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Horror Part 3 - Prehistories 33
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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Language, Community, and Context - Ep 51
Today’s podcast features Dr. Jenny Davis, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and an Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbaana-Champaign. She is the director of the American Indian Studies Program and the 2019-2023 Chancellor's Fellow of Indigenous Research & Ethics. We get in depth on language revitalization, including the importance of context, resources for people interested in language revitalization, the challenge of evaluating results, and how the way we frame discussions of language revitalizations matters. Finally, we talk about how language intersects first with gender and sexuality and also with NAGPRA and repatriation.
Links
Talking Indian: Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance
Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality
Museums, Representation, and Intersectionality – Heritage Voices Episode 24
Meek, Barbra A. 2011. "Failing American Indian languages". American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 35 (2): 43-60.
Guest Contact
loksi@illinois.edu
@ChickashaJenny