The Archaeology Podcast Network Feed

Latest Episodes:

Feeling it Out: Phenomenology - Dirt 145 Jul 12, 2021

Show notes

How do we capture a sense of the experience of living in a landscape of the past? What did the past smell like? What did it feel like? How can we understand ancient people's mindsets, perceptions, intentions, and emotions? Will Anna end up deeply confused? Tune in to find out!

Links

A History of Archaeological Thought (via WorldCat)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
How Can Phenomenological Methodologies help us understand past Landscapes? (The Post Hole)
A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments (via WorldCat)
Archaeological Theory: An Introduction (via WorldCat)
Phenomenology in Practice: Towards a Methodology for a 'Subjective' Approach (European Journal of Archaeology, via ResearchGate)
Experiencing the past? The development of a phenomenological archaeology in British prehistory (Archaeological Dialogues)
Investigating Neolithization of Cultural Landscapes in East Asia: The NEOMAP Project (Journal of World Prehistory)
Performance Space, Political Theater, and Audibility in Downtown Chaco (Acoustics)
Mystery of 'chirping' pyramid decoded (Nature)
Mapping an archaeology of the present: Counter-mapping at the Gummingurru stone arrangement site, southeast Queensland, Australia (Journal of Social Archaeology)
Mapping an archaeology of the present: Counter-mapping at the Gummingurru stone arrangement site, southeast Queensland, Australia (via Academia.edu)
Counter mapping at the Gummingurru stone arrangement site (via Academia.edu)
Gummingurru in the Landscape (Prezi)
A Phenomenological Approach to the Kom El-Shuqafa Catacombs (Cornell eCommons)

Contact

Email the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com

ArchPodNet

APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com
APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet
APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet
APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet
Tee Public Store

Affiliates

Wildnote

Folsom Game Drive Blues with Kelton Meyer - Ruins 64 Jul 12, 2021

Show notes

In this episode, we delve back into the Paleoindian period. We interview Kelton Meyer, a graduate student in anthropology at Colorado State University about his research on game drives in the Rocky Mountains and the techniques he utilizes to analyze spatial relationships. The three hosts also chat with Kelton about his recent publications and research awards.

Literature Recommendations

David Meltzer: Folsom: New Archaeological Investigations of a Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill
Edwin Wilmsen and Frank Robert Jr.: Lindemeir Investigations
James Benedict: Arapaho Pass: Glacial geology and archeology at the crest of the Colorado Front Range

Guest Contact Info

Kelton's Instagram: @meanderthal13 and @Reddin_folsom
FB - Reddin project

Contact

Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com
Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast
Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast
Twitter: @alifeinruinspod
Website: www.alifeinruins.com

ArchPodNet

APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com
APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet
APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet
APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet
Tee Public Store

Affiliates

Wildnote with CRO Jeff Erramouspe - ArchaeoTech 158 Jul 08, 2021

Show notes

We’ve talked about Wildnote a lot on this podcast. We even had the founder on a while back. Well, now Wildnote is growing and moving a some awesome directions. We talk to Chief Revenue Officer, Jeff Erramouspe, about what Wildnote is doing now and where it’s going in the future.

Links

Wildnote Website
Lunch and Learn on July 13, 2021
Pushing the Past Forward: Archaeologists Make Surprise Discovery!
Clean Up The Lake

Contact

Chris Webster
Twitter: @archeowebby
Email: chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com
Paul Zimmerman
Twitter: @lugal
Email: paul@lugal.com

ArchPodNet

APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com
APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet
APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet
APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet
Tee Public Store

Affiliates

Time Warped! Part Two: The Zooarchaeology of the Later Prehistoric - Animals 36 Jul 06, 2021

Show notes

This is episode part 2 of our ‘Time Warped’ miniseries, covering the zooarchaeology of Britain across time. The instalment covers what is known as the Later Prehistoric Period, which spans from the Late Bronze Age to the Roman conquest. This episode’s case studies are Flag Fen and Carn Euny.

Links

Must Farm
Carn Euny Ancient Village
Iron Age to Roman settlement with incorporated fogou and adjacent post-medieval cottage at Carn Euny
Albarella, U. (2007) ‘The End of the Sheep Age: People and Animals in the Late Iron Age’, in Haselgrove, C. and Moore, T. (eds) The Later Iron Age in Britain and Beyond. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 389–402.
Dobney, K. and Ervynyck, A. (2007) ‘To Fish or Not to Fish? Evidence for the Possible Avoidance of Fish Consumption During the Iron Age Around the North Sea’, in Moore, C. H. and Tom (eds) The Later Iron Age in Britain and Beyond.
Grant, A. (1989) ‘Economic or Symbolic? Animals and Ritual Behaviour’, in Garwood, P. et al. (eds) Sacred and Profane: Proceedings of a Conference on Archaeology, Ritual and Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology.
Maltby, M. et al. (2018) ‘Counting Roman Chickens: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Human-Chicken Interactions in Roman Britain’, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 19, pp. 1003–1015.
Serjeantson, D. (2007) ‘Intensification of Animal Husbandry in the Late Iron Age? The Contribution of Sheep and Pigs’, in Haselgrove, C. and Pope, R. (eds) The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 80–93.

Contact

Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz
Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady
Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology
Music "Coconut - (dyalla remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY

Affiliates

Nazca, Outside the Lines - Dirt 144 Jul 05, 2021

Show notes

On this sponsored episode, Anna and Amber talk about the Nazca culture of coastal Peru. There's SO much more to talk about than the famous Nazca Lines. There's gorgeous ceramics, ingenious irrigation, trophy heads, cactus tripping, and much more!

Links

Contact

Email the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com

ArchPodNet

APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com
APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet
APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet
APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet
Tee Public Store

Affiliates

Fantastic Domesticates and Where to Find Them - Dogs - Ruins 63 Jul 05, 2021

Show notes

For this episode of Just the Boyz, we kick off our series on animal domesticates, starting with the oldest known domesticated animal: the dog. We are fortunate to have David as a one of the hosts as he is one of the leading public scholars when it comes to the relationship between dogs and humans throughout human history. We chat about the earliest evidence for dog domestication, the leading theories behind Howe and why dogs were domesticated, and delve into a discussion about the Siberian Fox Domestication experiment and animal research ethics.

Literature recommendations

1) "Dogs": Darcey Morey

2) "The Social Dog: Behavior and Cognition" Kominski and Marshall-Pescini

3) “Dogs: Archaeology Beyond Domestication" Bethke and Burtt

4) "Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know" Alexandra Horowitz

Contact

Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com
Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast
Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast
Twitter: @alifeinruinspod
Website: www.alifeinruins.com

ArchPodNet

APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com
APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet
APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet
APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet
Tee Public Store

Affiliates

New Humans, Buried Time Capsule, and a Shaman's Snake Stick - TAS 129 Jul 05, 2021

Show notes

This week we discuss three recent news articles about archaeology. First, potential new additions to the hominin evolutionary tree. Then, a CRM firm in South Carolina opens a time capsule from the mid 1800s. And finally, a carved wood staff is found in Finland and it may have belonged to a Shaman.

Links

Contact

Chris Webster
chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

ArchPodNet

APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com
APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet
APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet
APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet
Tee Public Store

Affiliates

Statue Wars, UNCHARTED: Golden Abyss, Age of Samurai: Media Picks - WB 2nd July 2021 Jul 02, 2021

Show notes

Welcome to Watching Brief. As the name implies, each week Marc (Mr Soup) & Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what they find.

0:00 Introduction

01:42 Statue Wars: One Summer in Britain

19:23 UNCHARTED: Golden Abyss

25:04 Ghost of Tsushima PS4

27:42 Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan

***

Links:

Statue Wars: One Summer in Bristol:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000wvzx

Statue Wars: One Summer in Bristol, review - So, the BBC does give a voice to the white working-class:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2021/06/10/statue-wars-one-summer-bristol-review-bbc-does-give-voice

Statue Wars: BBC viewers 'admire' mayor for his handling of Bristol's 'deep levels of inequality':

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/statue-wars-bbc-viewers-admire-5515315

Uncharted: Golden Abyss:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncharted:_Golden_Abyss

Ghost of Tsushima:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_of_Tsushima

Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10551256/

Discovering Ancient Egypt in Minecraft with Charley - Dig It 33 Jul 02, 2021

Show notes

In this episode, we talk about Egypt in Minecraft with a Minecraft connoisseur, Charley! Tune in as we talk about Egyptology, Minecraft, and even Avatar the Last Airbender.

Links

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/egypt_in_minecraft/

Contact

Show
Twitter: @idigitpodcast
Email: idigitpodcast@gmail.com
Alyssa
Instagram: aal.archaeology
Twitter: Lyssakemi
Michaela
Instagram: mm_digitalized
Twitter: m_mauriello

ArchPodNet

APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com
APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet
APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet
APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet
Tee Public Store

Affiliates

Back in Black: Primate Microbiomes with Carson Black - Ruins 62 Jun 28, 2021

Show notes

In this episode, we are pleased to have Carson Black return to the show. Carson joined us way back on Episode 17 to talk about Primatology and the beginnings of her Master’s thesis research. We are excited to announce that Carson recently graduated with her Master’s degree and are happy to have her back on to talk about her thesis research. We discuss her finishing her degree amid a pandemic, missing out on fieldwork and passing COVID-19 to primates. We then do a deep dive into her thesis research on microbiomes in chimps. We finish up our conversation talking about her experience in graduate school and Carson gives out some tips on how to make it through!

Literature Recommendations

Guest Contact Info