The Archaeology Podcast Network Feed

Latest Episodes:

Modeling Concentrations of Maritime Activity In The Past with Dr. Matthew Harpster - ArchaeoTech 126 Apr 16, 2020

Show notes

Today we talk to Dr. Matthew Harpster about his recent collaborative paper in the Journal of Archaeological Science about modeling concentrations of maritime activity in the past using the submerged archaeological record.

Here is the article abstract:

With a goal of understanding and visualizing the shifting concentrations of movement across the Mediterranean Sea on a centennial basis, the MISAMS (Modeling Inhabited Spaces of the Ancient Mediterranean Sea) Project developed a new GIS-based interpretive methodology that collates and superimposes a series of polygons to model densities of maritime activity in the Mediterranean Sea from the 7th century BC to the 7th century AD. After discussing the project's use of place, space, and maritime landscapes as a theoretical background, this paper explains this new methodology then demonstrates and tests results representing activity in the 1st-century BC western-Mediterranean basin. These results, apparently manifesting distinct socially-constructed places, suggest that this new approach creates new opportunities to understand the movement of people and goods across the Mediterranean in the past, and the varying uses and perceptions of maritime space in antiquity. As this method requires a dense and well-studied corpora of archaeological data, it is theoretically applicable to other maritime regions that have (or will have) the appropriate dataset, and may represent a new research agenda in maritime archaeology.Links

Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2019.104997
Dr. Harpster on Academia: https://ku.academia.edu/MatthewHarpster
Research Center Website: https://kudar.ku.edu.tr/research-amd/

Contact

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

Affiliates

Green Sahara: The African Humid Period - Dirt 85 Apr 13, 2020

Show notes

The grass is always greener on the other side (of the Holocene). What is today a vast and inhospitable home to many people and creatures was, between ten and five thousand years ago, a lush environment replete with lakes, forests, and grasses. We examine the first clues that suggested a Green Sahara to researchers, explore the technologies and societies that lived there, and contemplate what the Sahara’s past might suggest about its future.

Links

Contact

Email the Dirt Podcast

Affiliates

Of Bows and Hoes: A Conversation about Prehistoric Technology with Devin Pettigrew - Ruins 19 Apr 13, 2020

Show notes

In this episode, our cohosts chat with Devin Pettigrew about his research on prehistoric lithic technologies. Carlton nearly throws-up from having flashbacks of butchering a goat with Devin that had been sitting out for days in an unventilated trash bag.

Guest Contact

Devin Pettigrew
Email: devin.pettigrew@colorado.edu
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ARatlatl
Website: http://basketmakeratlatl.com/
Instagram: @ar.atlatl

Contact

Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com
Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast
Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast
Twitter: @alifeinruinspod

Affiliates

Surviving the 2020 Recession - CRMArch 187 Apr 08, 2020

Show notes

When we pull out of the Coronavirus situation, if we do this year, we’re still going to be in a recession. How will businesses cope? How will field technicians and Shovelbums cope? It’s a complicated question and we try to provide some answers on this episode.

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

Affiliates

Watching Brief - February 2020 Apr 08, 2020

Show notes

Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.

Link of the Month:

Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images to Public Domain:

https://tinyurl.com/r4mkxar

Links:

01:46 - Updates/ Breaking News:

Bovis Homes Follow Up: https://tinyurl.com/w7ubm5j

Italian Museums Shutter due to Coronavirus: https://tinyurl.com/sozyf53

CBA Announce Neil Redfern as new Executive Director: https://tinyurl.com/qsa2zjn

Heathrow Third Runway Legal Defeat on Legal Grounds:

Heathrow third runway decision: what happened and what does it mean?

https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/heathrow-third-runway-court-decision/?fbclid=IwAR15d-G8t7uIM7kxSbEQ8W3yrq1cnUzIVTjmTnmybAoOO4VvTLSTDGdeoD4

Heathrow expansion: What is the third runway plan?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-51646562?fbclid=IwAR2_GD1G43wd3j8DA5s-f04v-8C4ArLYoCcD3f3jwKHUuqg4wie41A55svs

Heathrow ruling prompts wildlife presenter to launch HS2 challenge:

https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/heathrow-ruling-prompts-wildlife-presenter-to-launch-hs2-challenge

HS2: Chris Packham launches legal challenge to rail link:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51722251?fbclid=IwAR0MBRVKseQZdWx5FzXlLixk5QpQOVOYphlajBX-42QWBbb96T6opIlhrzE

***

17:01 - Board-Game piece from period of first Viking raid found in Lindisfarne:

https://tinyurl.com/uvy4eb3

1,200 Year Old board-game piece from Lindisfarne:

https://tinyurl.com/vy8f3kg

***

Ancient goddesses, eggs and bunny rabbits: The Zooarchaeology of Lagomorphs - Animals 21 Apr 07, 2020

Show notes

It is ‘the season’ so this month’s episode of ArchaeoAnimals is all about rabbits and hares! Join us to find out more about self-explanatory taxonomy, medieval rabbit hutches and what does all this have to do with Easter.

Bibliography

Hillson, S (2005) Teeth, 2nd ed. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology Cambridge University Press
Toynbee, J.M.C. (2013) Animals in Roman Life & Art, Barnsley: Pen & Sword
https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/roman-rabbit-discovered-at-fishbourne.htm
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-02-14-history-domestication-rabbit’s-tale
https://www.easter-origins.org/about

Contact

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

Affiliates

Book Club Bonanza - Dirt 84 Apr 06, 2020

Show notes

Settle into your comfiest chair for Book Club with Anna and Amber this week. We talk about our favorite books, movies, and TV shows with archaeological or anthropological themes! We've also got some tips for listeners on how to get your literary fix while you're sheltering in place.

Links

Contact

Email the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com

Affiliates

The American Flat Mill near Virginia City, Nevada - TAS 87 Apr 04, 2020

Show notes

The American Flat Mill was built at great expense in 1922 and shut down just four years later. It was a marvel of architecture and has an amazing story associated with it. On this episode we talk to BLM archaeologist Alicia Jensen and the archaeologist that wrote the report on the site, Ron Reno, about the American Flat Mill and how and why the BLM did what they did with it.

Links

Contact

Chris Webster
chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

Affiliates

Prehistories Promo - Starting Soon on The APN Apr 02, 2020

Show notes

Prehistories is back and to celebrate its return, the show goes back to its roots. Kim sits down to talk to Michelle Paver, author of Wolf Brother, who has now relased another book called Viper's daughter.

Here is a snippet of their chat - stay tuned to the APN for the full episode!

Twitter:

@prehistpod

Links:

https://www.michellepaver.com/

Site Assessments After a Significant Weather Event with Dr. Tanya Peres - ArchaeoTech 125 Apr 02, 2020

Show notes

Way back on episode 93 Paul and Chris talked about the article linked below but couldn’t work out a schedule with the authors. Well, now we have Dr. Tanya Peres on to talk about that article and the challenges and successes experienced when assessing sites after a major rain storm in Tennessee.

Links

Contact