Shooting a Documentary at Skinwalker Ranch - Rock Art 43

Dr. Garfinkel was invited by the History Channel to fly out to Skinwalker Ranch in northeastern Utah to talk about the features there. On this episode we get a behind-the-scenes look at filming a TV show and we learn something about the area.

Links

• Skinwalker Ranch Episode: Carved in Stone

• California Rock Art Foundation

Contact

• Chris Webster

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• Dr. Alan Garfinkel

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From Corporate Management to CRM, Use those life skills! - CRMArch 217

After a great career in another field with a major corporation, including many years in upper management, Amy Fortney Wolpert switched careers, got un undergrad and master's degree, and started doing CRM archaeology in California. On today's show she tells her story. Amy is a driven person and her story and drive can be an inspiration for anyone in this field.

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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University of Sheffield Shutdown of the Archaeology Department - Ep 60

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In this special episode, we discuss the potential closing of the Archaeology Department at Sheffield University with Dr. Umberto Albarella and Helen Thompson. Dr. Albarella is faculty in the Archaeology Department and Helen is a Ph.D. student in the program. They fill us in on what's going at the University of Sheffield, the events leading up to this current controversy, and what we can do to help.

Please sign the petition in the description below. Let's do what we can to support our colleagues in the field of archaeology.

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• Helen's Instagram: @_helenthompson

• Helen's Twitter: @HelenThompson42

• Dr. Albarella's Sheffield Department Page: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/archaeology/our-people/academic-staff/umberto-albarella

• Dr. Albarella's Twitter: @UAlbarella

• Dr. Albarella's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umberto.albarella.1

Save Sheffield

• Save Sheffield Archaeology Instagram: @savesheffieldarchaeology

• Save Sheffield Archaeology Petition: https://tinyurl.com/eanznsw

• Save Sheffield Archaeology Website: https://sites.google.com/view/save-sheffield-archaeology/home

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• Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com

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Medieval Fish Bones, Belgium, and Salmonids with Liz Quinlan - Dig It 32

In today's episode, we chat Liz Quinlan. Liz is currently a Marie Sklodowska Curie early stage researcher completing a Ph.D. in archaeology at the University of York. She is a zooarchaeologist who has worked with material from a wide variety of contexts and time periods. Tune in as we dive into her current work involving medieval fishing in the North Sea basin area!

Links

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archaeoliz/

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/archaeoliz

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• Show

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  • Email: idigitpodcast@gmail.com

• Alyssa

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• Michaela

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  • Twitter: m_mauriello

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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.

Links

• Yvette Marks, the Uni of Sheffield

  • https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/archaeology/our-people/technical-staff/yvette-marks

• Save Sheffield Archaeology

• Please sign our Petition!

For more information about Archaeology in the City’s events and opportunities to get involved, please email archaeologyinthecity@sheffield.ac.uk or visit our website at archinthecity.wordpress.com. You can also find us on Twitter (@archinthecity), Instagram (@archaeointhecity), or Facebook (@archinthecity).

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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.

Links

• Why Canada is mourning the deaths of 215 children

• The Residential School System

  • https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_school_system/

  • http://summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/12440/etd7411_SDielissen.pdf

• Finding Cleo

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report

  • https://ehprnh2mwo3.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AAA-Hamilton-cemetery-FInal.pdf

  • https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kamloops-residential-school-remains-update-1.6053467

Contact

• Chris Webster

  • chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

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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.

Links

• MINA | Map Indian Archaeology

  • http://dngupta.github.io/mina.github.io/

  • https://mapindianarch.wordpress.com/.

• Website and Blog

• Archaeology Survey of India

• Dr. Gupta @archaeomap (twitter)

Contact

• Jessica

  • Jessica@livingheritageanthropology.org

  • @livingheritageA

  • @LivingHeritageResearchCouncil

• Lyle

  • Lyle.Balenquah@gmail.com

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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

• Peopling time, spatial occupation and demography of Late Pleistocene–Holocene human population from Patagonia (Quaternary International, via ResearchGate)

• The initial peopling of Central Western Patagonia (southernmost South America): Late Pleistocene through Holocene site context and archaeological assemblages from Cueva de la Vieja site (Quaternary International)

• New Light on the Ancient Human Populations of Patagonia (Popular Archaeology)

• Patagonia (Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian)

• 500 years after Ferdinand Magellan landed in Patagonia, there’s nothing to celebrate for its indigenous peoples (The Conversation)

• Junius Bird (Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology)

• 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)

• La Cueva de las Manos (Cave of Hands) (Atlas Obscura)

• Scientists in Chile have found a 15,000-year-old footprint, the earliest sign of humans' presence in the Americas (CNN)

• Macrauchenia (Wikipedia)

• Oldest Human Footprint in Americas May Be This 15,600-Year-Old Mark in Chile (LiveScience)

• A late Pleistocene human footprint from the Pilauco archaeological site, northern Patagonia, Chile (PLOSOne)

• Characterizing seasonal fishing patterns and growth dynamics during the Middle and Late Holocene in the Strait of Magellan (Chilean Patagonia): Sclerochronological analysis of tadpole codling (Salilota australis) vertebrae (The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, via ResearchGate)

• Ancient Peoples in Patagonia Who Adapted to Changing Climate Offer Insights for Today (Columbia Climate School’s GlacierHub)

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• Email the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com

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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.

Links

• California Rock Art Foundation

Contact

• Chris Webster

  • chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

  • Twitter: @archeowebby

• Dr. Alan Garfinkel

  • avram1952@yahoo.com

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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.

Contact

• Chris Webster

  • Twitter: @archeowebby

  • Email: chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

• 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.

Literature Recommendations

• Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology

• The official podcast of SEM, Ethnomusicology Today

• The journal of the International Council for Traditional Music (the European Ethnomusicology professional organization)

• Film by ethnomusicologist Anna Stirr and filmmaker Bhakta Syangtan--Singing A Great Dream: The Revolutionary Songs and Life of Khusiram Pakhrin

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXkM11kp_tg

Guest Contact

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mason.brown.90/

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqe2uJD26i7-4kjVbUvC7KA

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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.

Links

• Dame Kathleen Kenyon’s Excavations (msu.edu)

• Biography of Dame Kathleen Kenyon (Archaeology Magazine)

• The John Garstang Excavations (University of Liverpool)

• Jericho (worldhistory.org)

• The Jericho Skull (National Geographic)

• The Jericho Skull reconstruction (The British Museum)

• Early History of Jericho (Auja Ecological Center)

• Why Walls? (Time Magazine)

• Canaanite and Lebanese DNA (The New Scientist)

• DNA study at Jericho (American Journal of Human Genetics)

Contact

• Email the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com

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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

• F.E. Warren AFB to conduct field surveys June 14 to Oct. 22

Contact

• Chris Webster

  • chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

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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.

Links

• California Rock Art Foundation

Contact

• Chris Webster

  • chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

  • Twitter: @archeowebby

• Dr. Alan Garfinkel

  • avram1952@yahoo.com

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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.

Links

• Shubhangni’s Instagram: @shubhangnigupta

• Indian Cow Abduction

Contact

• Show

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  • Email: idigitpodcast@gmail.com

• Alyssa

  • Instagram: aal.archaeology

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• Michaela

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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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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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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

• Archeologists Are Making a Push to Improve Climate Modeling

• What Archaeology Tells Us About the Ancient History of Eating Kosher - Smithsonian Magazine

  • Link to paper in the Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University

• Model for ancient Greek and Roman coinage production - ScienceDirect

Contact

• Chris Webster

  • chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

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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

• http://www.starcarr.com/

• https://coveseacavesproject.wordpress.com

• 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

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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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

Guest Contact

• Instagram and Twitter: @l_historienne

• Website: jamiegoodall.com

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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)

• A new interpretation of Madagascar's megafaunal decline: The “Subsistence Shift Hypothesis” (Journal of Human Evolution)

• The Aye-Aye and the Finger of Death (Pacific Standard)

• Scientists Discover New Species of Mouse Lemur (SciNews)

• Lemur Missing, Possibly Stolen, From San Francisco Zoo (NPR)

• ‘There’s a lemur!’ 5-year-old helps crack SF Zoo theft case (AP)

Contact

• Email the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com

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