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"Seeing Red" Episode 14 Review with Emily Van Alst and Lana Ruck - Ep 79

In this episode of A Life in Ruins (originally recorded in the summer of 2020), Carlton chats with Rock Art Specialist Emily Van Alst and Lana Ruck, who teaches a course in Pseudoarchaeology. The three take a deep dive into Episode 14 - Our Ruined Lives with Bernie Taylor, to deconstruct Mr. Taylor's arguments and claims he made on the show. We review the individuals whom Mr. Taylor "name-drops" throughout his interview to sus-out their expertise and contextualize how they're being used in Mr. Taylor's arguments.

Lana illustrates the pseudoscience techniques and tactics that he employs, such as appeals to authority, inciting skepticism of the scientific process, and deflection of topics. Emily brings her expertise on Rock Art research to provide background and contemporary thought and method to the topic. The broad point that Carlton, Emily, and Lana make is that CONTEXT is important, and the purpose of this conversation is to respectfully provide context to Episode 14 and the claims that were made.

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  • Lana's Twitter: @LanaRuck

  • Lana's Instagram: @LanaLately

  • ScIU's Instagram: @sciublog

  • Emily Twitter: @emilyvanawesome

  • Emily Instagram: @emilyvanawesome

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The Current State of Indigenous Archaeologies with Emily Van Alst - Ep 39

In this episode, Emily Van Alst, Ph.D. candidate at the Indiana University Bloomington, has returned to deliver some exciting news and to fill us in on the current state of Indigenous Archaeologies in the field. Emily was one of our first guests on the podcast, appearing in Episode 3: Rock Artin’ and Rollin’ with Emily Van Alst. Carlton originally wanted to title that episode: Painting with all the colors of the Rock Art. Emily fills us in on what she has been up to since she was last on the show, how pandemic life has been for her, her feedback on the podcast, and some helpful tips and advice for anyone wishing to collaborate with Indigenous folks in academia as well as on social media. Finally, Carlton and Emily talk about their upcoming edited volume on Indigenous Archaeology Methodologies that is scheduled for release in the Spring of 2022. So please join us in welcoming Emily back to our show.

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10,000-year-old Rock Art in the Desert: A Conversation with Dr. Marissa Molinar - Ep 33

On this episode of A Life in Ruins podcast, we interview Dr. Marissa Molinar. She studies the practices, and products of prehistoric art, through an evolutionary, social, and aesthetic lens. She gave an excellent talk at the APN Educational Expo (APN AEX 2020) about her work and she also had a pretty sweet zoom background. We get deep into her research on rock art and her methods of comparing different rock art panels. She details the complicated process of getting permission to survey on military lands and also how she got into anthropology and archaeology. We also have a discussion about representation in archaeology and the effects of colonialism in public education.

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Our Ruined Lives: Seeing Red with Bernie Taylor - Ep 14

On this episode of A Life in Ruins Podcast, we chat with Bernie Taylor. Bernie is an independent author who explores what he describes as “the mythological connections and biological knowledge among prehistoric peoples”. We have a spirited and civil conversation about some of Bernie’s theories.

Resources from Bernie Taylor

  • Skoglund, Pontus et al. 2015 Ancient Wolf Genome Reveals an Early Divergence of Domestic Dog Ancestors and Admixture into High-Latitude Breeds. In Current Biology (25), 1-5

  • Wang, G., Zhai, W., Yang, H. et al.

    2013 The genomics of selection in dogs and the parallel evolution between dogs and humans. Nat Commun 4, 1860. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2814

  • Bernie Taylor’s video on dogs.

A Life in Ruins Resources

  • Introduction to Archaeology (like seriously, basic level what it is we do) Kelly, Robert L., Thomas, Davis H. 2016 Archaeology. 7th Edition. Cengage Learning. https://www.amazon.com/Archaeology-Robert-L-Kelly/dp/130567040X

  • Dog Domestication Savolainen, Peter, Ya-ping Zhang, Jing Luo, Joakim Lundeberg and Thomas Leitner 2002, Genetic Evidence for an East Asian Origin of Domestic Dogs. Science 298(5598):1610-1613.

  • David’s Paper

  • David’s TedEd Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_KWmzLObQ4&t=123s

  • Domestication Syndrome Video

  • Native American Religions Gill, Sam 2004 Native American Religions: An Introduction (Religious Life in History) 2nd Edition. Cengage Learning.

  • Michael, Nicky

    • 2019 Turtle Island: An Introduction to Indigenous Studies. Cognella Academic Publishing.

  • Interpreting Rock Art Blundell, Geoffrey, Christopher Chippindale, and Benjamin Smith (editors) 2011 Seeing and knowing: understanding rock art with and without ethnography. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, CA.

  • Brady, Liam M (editor)

    • 2016 Relating to rock art in the contemporary world: navigating symbolism, meaning, and significance. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.

  • Conkey, Margaret W. (editor)

    • 1997 Beyond Art: Pleistocene Image and Symbol. California Academy of Science, San Francisco, CA.

  • McDonald, Jo and Peter Veth (editors)

    • 2012 A Companion to Rock Art. Wiley-Blackwell, West Sussex UK.

  • Schaafsma, Polly

    • 2013 Images and Power: Rock Art and Ethics. Anthropology and Ethics. Springer-Verlag, New York.

  • Smith, Benjamin (editor)

    • 2012 Working with rock art: recording, presenting and understanding rock art using indigenous knowledge. Wits University Press, Johannesburg.

  • Tomaskova, Silvia

    • 2013 Wayward Shamans: The Prehistory of an Idea. University of California Press, Berkley.

  • Sundstrom, Linea

    • 2004 Storied Stone: Indian Rock Art in the Black Hills Country. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.

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Rock Artin' and Rollin' with Emily Van Alst - Ep 03

Tonight’s guest, Emily Van Alst, is a Descendant of the Lakota Sioux Nation and works avidly in public outreach.. Although the Lakota and Pawnee are historical enemies; Carlton and Emily have chosen to put aside their tribal differences to deliver our listeners an awesome episode.

Emily Van Alst got started in anthropology at Yale University and she is currently a PhD student at Indiana University Bloomington

Her research interests include Rock Art, Gender, Indigenous Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Indigenous Feminism, and Ethnography

As a goal of this podcast is to provide our listeners with multi-faceted approaches to archaeology, we are super excited to talk with her tonight. So let’s count some coup and get this episode started.

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