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Of Mammoths and Hand Sprays with Dr. Madeline Mackie - Ruins 71

Of Mammoths and Hand Sprays with Dr. Madeline Mackie - Ruins 71
APN - Carlton, David, and Connor
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On this episode of ALiRP, we interview our friend and colleague, Dr. Madeline Mackie. Dr. Mackie just began her position as an assistant professor at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah.

Dr. Mackie studies Paleoindian lifeways and big game hunting, as well as ochre hand sprays. We met Dr. Mackie at the University of Wyoming, where she dealt with our numerous shenanigans.

We start off by talking about her experiences growing up in Southern California and then delve into her MA research on hand sprays in Wyoming. Dr. Mackie then talks about the La Prele Mammoth site and we kind of nerd out about the finds. She then talks about post-doc life and the jobs market.

Literature Recommendations:

  • Anything by Dr. George Frison

  • The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us About Our Future by Dr. Robert L. Kelly

  • The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers: The Foraging Spectrum by Dr. Robert L. Kelly

  • The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. Into A Job by Karen Kelsky

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We Stan a King: Nabonidus - Dirt 152

We Stan a King: Nabonidus - Dirt 152
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This week, Amber tells Anna the story of Nabonidus, King of Babylon, who, mid-kinging, tootled off to the Arabian desert for a decade to worship the moon god, Sin. But is that the whole story? Of course not. Tune in to learn what Nabonidus was maybe really doing out there.

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TIMELINES: The World During the Signing of the Declaration of Independence - Ep 136

TIMELINES: The World During the Signing of the Declaration of Independence - Ep 136
APN - Chris and Rachel
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Timelines is back, and this time we take a look at a time that is extremely significant to the United States: 1776, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. We explore the events leading up the the Revolutionary war in America, as well as what was happening at the same time in other parts of the world: China and Africa.

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Recovering WWI and WWII soldiers in Latvia with Legenda Military Archaeology - CRMArch 221

Recovering WWI and WWII soldiers in Latvia with Legenda Military Archaeology - Ep 221
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Legenda Military Archaeology is a non-profit organization, built up from volunteers from around the world with a goal to find, recover and identify missing soldiers from the First and Second World Wars in Latvia. To date Legenda has found and identified thousands of formerly missing soldiers from all over Europe, the majority being mainly German, Latvian and from the former USSR. The Legenda's aim to continue what was started over 20 years ago, and believe there is plenty more work to do. On this episode we interview Victoria Brikmann from Legenda and a film maker producing the new documentary, "Keep Smiling."

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  • Legenda Military Archaeology: http://bkkomiteja.lv/

  • Keep Smiling: https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/e6d18465-59b2-46c5-bffb-b387d3ed8ac2/keep-smiling?fbclid=IwAR1IblSw2Y9t2IbQiYheaXOwJ7D4Y5HKN_5alD43ADqohIdbYRDukoYY0nk

  • Minelab: https://www.minelab.com/

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Romans in Israel, Greeks in Pompeii and an Abby in England - TAS 135

Romans in Israel, Greeks in Pompeii and an Abbey in England - TAS 135
APN - Chris, Rachel, and Paul
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Your news for the week includes a Roman basilica, the largest found in Israel, uncovered in the city of Ashkelon. Next is a preserved, mummified, body of a freed Greek slave that lived in Pompeii. Finally, we go to England to find the remains of an Abbey that fell into disuse in the 1500s.

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Kwatsáan Voices, Kwatsáan Views - HeVo 54

Kwatsáan Voices, Kwatsáan Views - HeVo 54
APN - Jessica and Lyle
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On today’s podcast Jessica interviews Zion White, Charles Arrow, and Aaron Wright from Archaeology Southwest, a 501c3 based in Tucson, Arizona. Archaeology Southwest is working with several Tribes in southern Arizona to establish permanent protection for the Great Bend of the Gila, a rich cultural landscape nestled between Yuma and Phoenix. Today’s guests have been documenting the Great Bend of the Gila landscape together over the past several years. They talk about the significance of this landscape both culturally and archaeologically, how they’d like to see the place treated, and what it means to them to be working collaboratively on documenting this cultural landscape.

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Ancient Civ - Indus Valley with Stefan Milo - Ruins 70

Ancient Civ - Indus Valley with Stefan Milo - Ruins 70
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On this episode of A Life in Ruins, we continue our series on ancient civilization and discuss Indus Valley Civilizations and their precursors. We have Stefan Milo join us to discuss this region. Stefan Milo is a popular Youtuber who has appeared on episodes 20 and 43. He made a video on an Indus Valley Civilization where he discusses the interesting lack of social hierarchy found in this civilization (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxP1zornb-w). We struggle with geography, time periods, and basically everything in this episode but also discuss social hierarchy/structure.

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Shh! We're in the Library Episode - Dirt 151

Shh! We're in the Library Episode - Dirt 151
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This week, Anna and Amber take a tour of some of the libraries of the ancient world. We visit Mesopotamia for the origins of writing and the heartland of administrative paperwork, hit up Africa for the oral traditions of the Griots, browse the stacks of oracle bones in China, and...yes, talk about the Library of Alexandria.

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Hmong Ethnic Identity with Pakou Yang - Ep 50

Hmong Ethnic Identity with Pakou Yang - Rock Art 50
APN - Alan Garfinkel
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The Hmong are a people spread across the world with a rich culture. Today, Alan talks to Pakou Yang and her Hmong family and ancestry. They discuss culture, religion, and celebrations.

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Teaching and Training in Archaeology: a historical perspective with John Collis - Ep 41

Teaching and Training in Archaeology - Arch and Ale 41
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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 John R. Collis from the University of Sheffield speaking on "Teaching and Training in Archaeology: a Historical Perspective with John Collis." This talk took place on Wednesday, June 30th, 2021, online via Google Meets.

John Collis, the University of Sheffield

John Collis studied archaeology in Cambridge in the 1960s, but also briefly in Prague, Tübingen and Frankfurt. He was an advisor at the research centre in Mont Beuvray in Burgundy for 17 years, and led excavations and field work in the Auvergne and in central Spain as well as England. He lectured in Sheffield from 1972 to 2005 and was one of the founding members of the department in 1975. He lectured on the European and the British Iron Age, and is mainly known for his writings on the Iron Age, urbanisation and the problems of the Celts. He also lectured on excavation techniques, and wrote Digging up the Past based on his lectures. However he was also writing about the training of archaeologists, and was chair of the Teaching and Training Committee of the Chartered Institute of Archaeologists (of which he was as a founding member), and helped introduce Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for archaeologists. He also set up the Teaching Committee of the European Association of Archaeologists to discuss the impact of the ‘Bologna’ structure on university degree courses and its impact on archaeology. He was advisor to the first European ‘Profiling the Profession’ led by Kenny Aitchison. He has written several articles on the ways in which training is given and different European traditions of teaching, digging and defining archaeologists.

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Ethics and remote sensing in archaeology - Ep 161

Ethics and remote sensing in archaeology - ArchaeoTech 161
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When you fly your drone over a landscape or use satellite images in your research, do you ever thing about the people that live on and use the land that you're studying? Because of the scale of the images you might not be able to see actual people, but they're there. In a recent paper, Dylan Davis and Tanambelo Rasolondrainy, two of the authors and our guests today, explore the ethics of remote sensing and collaboration with stakeholders.

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58th Anniversary US, UK, Soviet Union Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - Flipside 3

58th Anniversary US, UK, Soviet Union Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - Flipside 3
APN - Leia Tilley
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This discussion which occurred this episode is sure to keep anyone thinking for quite some time, inspired by the 58th Anniversary of the US, UK and Soviet Union Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, when any nuclear testing with the exception of that underground was by agreement ceased. This episode discusses nuclear archaeology... which includes everything from nuclear techniques to commentary on the ethics of nuclear to the rather intriguing notion of a 'curated nuclear archaeological site'. Perhaps most importantly this episode we find out that all archaeologists are essentially experts on past societies, wait for it... waste products! And it always sounded so glamorous too. All of this is discussed with Prof. R. Joyce, whose book certainly inspired the direction of this discussion. In advance, thanks for listening!

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Intro/Outro Music - Creative Commons - "Fantasia Fantasia" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Back to School: Stratigraphy - Dirt 150

Back to School: Stratigraphy - Dirt 150
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It's our 150th episode! Wow! This week we're starting our Back To School series with a short primer on stratigraphy. How do archaeologists divide a site into time periods? How did people first figure out that layers of sediment accumulate over time through different processes? How many dirt/soil/sediment puns is Anna capable of making in roughly forty minutes? We’ll find out.

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Ancient Civ: South America - Ruins 69

Ancient Civ: South America - Ruins 69
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We celebrate our 69th episode by investigating the rise of early state civilizations in South America. The four early states that we cover are Norte Chico, Chavin, Nazca, and of course, Moche. This episode is a wild ride of pyramids, ceremonial complexes, severed heads, and Moche sex pots.

Sprinkled throughout the episode are references to Star Wars, Civilization, SAA conferences, South Park, Rick and Morty, and a shoutout to The Dirt Podcast.

Literature recommendations:

1) Ancient Civilizations by Chris Scarre & Brian M. Fagan, 4th edition

2) Archaeology by Robert L. Kelly & David Hurst Thomas, 7th Edition

3) Archaeology and Human History by Deborah I. Olszewski

4) Skeleton Sex Pots by Steve Nash. Sapiens Anthropology Magazine.

5) Dirt Podcast on the Nazca

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Decapitated burials, lava tubes filled with bones, and an ancient mint - TAS 134

Decapitated burials, lava tubes filled with bones, and an ancient mint - TAS 134
APN - Chris and Rachel
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In this week’s episode of The Archaeology Show, we take a look at 3 recent archaeology news articles. First, a Roman graveyard containing an unusually high number of decapitated burials, indicating they may have been executed criminals. Second, lava tubes in Saudi Arabia with thousands of bones deposited by hyenas representing many different animals, including humans. Finally, we discuss spade shaped coins made in a 2500 year old Chinese mint.

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The Ridgecrest, CA Petroglyph Festival - Rock Art 49

The Ridgecrest, CA Petroglyph Festival - Rock Art 49
APN - Alan Garfinkel
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On today’s episode we interview Kari Crutcher executive director of the Ridgecrest Convention and Visitors Bureau. They are the developers and hosts of the worlds only petroglyph festival. The festival brings between 5000 and 15,000 people for a weekend of celebration. This is a remarkable gathering and one that pays homage to the Native American heritage of the area. Tune in and find out all about it.

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Teaching CRM with Dr. Andrew Kinkella - CRMArch 220

Teaching CRM with Dr. Andrew Kinkella - CRMArch 220
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Moorpark College anthropology professor and Mayan archaeologist, Dr. Andrew Kinkella is our special guest. Heather's first college professor and THE professor she references often as being an excellent example of one that prepares his students well to enter the world of CRM.

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Ancient Civ: Origins - Ruins 68

Ancient Civ: Origins - Ruins 68
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Buckle up for an episode on the theory of the rise of early states and ancient civilizations. Episode 68 sets the stage for a series investigating early civilizations across the globe. We break down Elman Service and Lewis Henry Morgan's theories on cultural complexity and go through a couple of definitions for "civilization". Think that's going to be boring? Well just wait, we even talk about primary vs secondary civilizations and the four classic theories on how early complex civilizations rise.

Of course, any episode involving the great mistake of neothilization wouldn't be complete without poking fun of our friend Stefan Milo.

Literature Recommendations

  • Ancient Civilizations by Chris Scarre & Brian M. Fagan, 4th edition

  • Archaeology by Robert L. Kelly & David Hurst Thomas, 7th Edition

  • Archaeology and Human History by Deborah I. Olszewski

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I Gotta Go: Archaeology of Abandonment - Dirt 149

I Gotta Go: Archaeology of Abandonment - Dirt 149
APN - Anna and Amber
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This week, we’ve got an episode that started off as a funny title and became a topic. There are many possible reasons for abandoning a site, and there are plenty of examples from the archaeological record. We’ll look into evidence for climate change, conflict, natural disaster, and other reasons for abandonment (not all at once; that sounds like a really bad place to live). Plus, Anna and Amber do Dickens.

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Time Warped! Part Three: The Zooarchaeology of Roman Britain - Animals 37

Time Warped! Part Three: The Zooarchaeology of Roman Britain - Animals 37
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In this third instalment of the ‘Time Warped’ miniseries, Alex and Simona discuss all things Roman: follow us on a journey into the highly varied Romano-British period.

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