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    The Dirt Podcast

    Join Anna and Amber; friends, archaeologists, and big nerds, for an exploration of the lives of people in the past.

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    A Very Brief Intro to Ancient Egyptian Archaeology - Ep 107 Sep 21, 2020
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    This week, Amber and Anna bring you three of the best-known archaeological sites from Ancient Egypt. These sites tell us a whole lot about life in the past--not just for the pharaohs and the elites, but the workers who built them. We also dip our toes into Ancient Egyptian cosmology and zip through the dynastic timeline!

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    Find this show on the educational podcast app, Lyceum.fm!

    Linguistics and Endangered Languages with Dr. Chris Donlay - Ep 106 Sep 14, 2020
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    Anna and Amber finally get some much-needed linguistics help from Dr. Chris Donlay. We talk about his unconventional academic path and his work recording and studying endangered languages! Plus, he schools us on how language shapes our perception of the world, how old spoken language *might* be, and what to do with a linguistics degree.

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    Find this show on the educational podcast app, Lyceum.fm!

    Building a Better Researcher, Part 2, with Tasha Bergson-Michelson - Ep 105b Sep 07, 2020
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    The second half of Anna and Amber's conversation with librarian and research guru Tasha Bergson-Michelson. This week, we chat about the value of critical thinking, combatting misinformation in our social circles, and how to hack Wikipedia for the greater good. Plus, some unexpected facts about ice cream parlors and fog!

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    Building a Better Researcher, Part 1, with Tasha Bergson-Michelson - Ep 105 Aug 31, 2020
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    Amber and Anna sit down to chat with the incomparable Tasha Bergson-Michelson, a librarian and educator. Research is a skill that is learned, and Tasha teaches us how to up our game. We learn about the process of good research, how to avoid sketchy sources, and the best ways to get started on any research project. We enjoyed talking with Tasha so much that we did it a whole bunch! Next week, we'll bring you the second half of our conversation.

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    Queryin' the Illyrians - Ep 104 Aug 24, 2020
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    This week, on a sponsored episode, Anna and Amber examine the traces left by the various ancient cultures called "Illyrians." We've got some architecture, coin-nerdery, a smattering of religion, and a complicated political legacy. It all makes for an excellent entry in our collection of supporting characters from the Classical world!

    Links

    • The Illyrians on WorldCat
    • Discovery of ‘Lost City’ in Albania Thrills Archaeologists (Balkan Insight)
    • Image of a Liburnian Ship on Wikimedia Commons
    • Nadin-Gradina Archaeological Project Gallery
    • A Liburnian Necropolis from Nadin, Croatia (Institute for Study of the Ancient World)
    • Illyrian Temples Found At Ancient Doclea In Montenegro (Archaeology News Network)
    • Who are the Illyrians? The Use and Abuse of Archaeology in the Construction of National and Trans-National Identities in the Southwestern Balkans (via ResearchGate)
    • Ancient Illyria : An Archaeological Exploration on WorldCat

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    Illustrating Archaeology - Ep 103 Aug 17, 2020
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    This week, Anna and Amber take on archaeological illustration. That's right-it's an audio episode about an entirely visual topic! This'll go well. We cover the merits of hand drawing vs. photography, reveal some stories from our own...mixed experiences, and investigate the very cool technique of photogrammetry.

    Links

    • Pencils and Pixels: Drawing and Digital Media in Archaeological Field Recording (Journal of Field Archaeology)
    • Why Archaeological drawing is still so important (New Archaeology)
    • A Simple Photogrammetry Rig for the Reliable Creation of 3D Artifact Models in the Field: Lithic Examples from the Early Upper Paleolithic Sequence of Les Cottés (France) (Advances in Archaeological Practice)
    • A Simple Method for Reliable Creation of 3D Artifact Models in the Field (Leakey Foundation)
    • @SamScansStuff on Twitter
    • IF/THEN Collection
    • ‘Visual competence’ in archaeology: a problem hiding in plain sight (Antiquity)
    • The Profession (Graphic Archaeology Group)
    • Science and Art in Archaeological Illustration (Columbia College)
    • Scientific Illustration | Time Team America (PBS)
    • Resources (Graphic Archaeology Group)
    • Approaches to Archaeological Illustration, A Handbook by Mélanie Steiner (via Digital Epigraphy)

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    Chalk it Up to Science - Ep 102 Aug 10, 2020
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    This week, on a short but fun episode, Anna and Amber investigate some of the massive figures cut into the chalk landscape of the Southern UK. Who made them? How old are they? Why are there so many horses?

    Links

    • Cerne Abbas Giant is NOT prehistoric and may have been created just a few hundred years ago before becoming a propaganda tool for William of Orange, snail shells reveal (Daily Mail)
    • England’s 7 most intriguing chalk figures and the stories behind them (Wanderlust)
    • Chalk Hill Figures (Historic UK)
    • Southern England Chalk Formation (Wikipedia)
    • An Introduction to Prehistoric England (Before 43 BC) (English Heritage)
    • Bronze Age discovery reveals surprising extent of Britain’s trade with Europe 3,600 years ago (The Conversation)
    • Bronze Age Britain (BBC)
    • Footprints, Size 10, From Britain’s Bronze Age (The New Yorker)
    • The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe (Nature)
    • Boom and bust in Bronze Age Britain: major copper production from the Great Orme mine and European trade, c. 1600–1400 BC (Antiquity)
    • Against All Odds, England’s Massive Chalk Horse Has Survived 3,000 Years (Smithsonian)
    • England’s Enormous Chalk Figures (Atlas Obscura via Google Earth)
    • Britain's Spectacular (and Sometimes Mysterious) Hill Figures (Gizmodo UK)
    • Why Is the Kiwi’s Egg So Big? (Audubon)

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    Mythteries and Mythnomers - Ep 101 Aug 03, 2020
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    Since back-to-school season is rolling around again, let's return to our annual tradition of busting myths and righting wrongs! This time, we cover pyramid construction (and curses), the Genghis Khan family reunion, the end of James Cook, Stonehenge, the Dark Ages, and more. This episode is not to be myth-ed.

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    • This 4,500-Year-Old Ramp Contraption May Have Been Used to Build Egypt's Great Pyramid (LiveScience)
    • How Were the Egyptian Pyramids Built? (LiveScience)
    • Was It Really a Mummy’s Curse? (JSTOR Daily)
    • Tomb of Pennut - Amada (Osirisnet)
    • 'Bent' pyramid: Egypt opens ancient oddity for tourism (The Guardian)
    • Ancient Egyptian tomb warnings, curses and ghosts (National Museums Scotland)
    • Whence Came Stonehenge’s Stones? Now We Know (The New York Times)
    • We owe it all to superstud Genghis (The Guardian)
    • Did Genghis Khan really kill 1,748,000 people in one hour? (How Stuff Works)
    • 1 in 200 Men Are Direct Descendants of Genghis Khan (Discover)
    • Genghis Khan's Genetic Legacy Has Competition (Scientific American)
    • 1.5m Chinese 'descendants of one man' (BBC News)
    • The genetic imprint of Niall of the Nine Hostages (Irish Times)
    • A Y-Chromosome Signature of Hegemony in Gaelic Ireland (American Journal of Human Genetics)
    • Mythbusting Cook: Fact fiction and total fallacy (Australian National Maritime Museum)
    • Cooktown's Indigenous people help commemorate 250 years since Captain Cook's landing with re-enactment (ABC)
    • How the foolish rumour that Hawaiians ate Cook began (National Indigenous Television)
    • The ‘Dark Ages’ Weren’t As Dark As We Thought (LitHub)

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    It's Time to Talk About the Future - Ep 100 Jul 27, 2020
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    This week, for our ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE, Anna and Amber bend their brains around the archaeology of the future and the future of archaeology. What will excavation look like in 100, 1,000, or 5,000 years? What about human evolution? Human culture? Language? We come up with more questions than answers, and have a great time doing it. THANK YOU for getting us to Episode 100!

    Links

    • Chicken Bones May Be the Legacy of Our Time (Smithsonian)
    • The broiler chicken as a signal of a human reconfigured biosphere (Royal Society Open Science)
    • Changes in the lead isotopic composition of blood, diet and air in Australia over a decade: Globalization and implications for future isotopic studies (Environmental Research)
    • Dietary Heterogeneity among Western Industrialized Countries Reflected in the Stable Isotope Ratios of Human Hair (PLoS One)
    • The Future of Archaeology Is 'Spacejunk' (The Atlantic)
    • The Future of Archeology Is Plastic (Medium)
    • The past, present and future of human evolution (Nature)
    • What May Become of Homo sapiens (Scientific American)
    • Edible Insects and Human Evolution (via Project MUSE)
    • Dougal Dixon - After Man (A Zoology of the Future) 1981 (Monster Brains blog)
    • Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future (via WorldCat)
    • How Afrofuturism Can Help the World Mend (Wired)
    • The Long Now Foundation
    • What will English language look like in the future? (Oxford Academic on YouTube)
    • What will the English language be like in 100 years? (The Conversation)
    • Esperanto (Encyclopedia Britannica)
    • Incubus (1966) on YouTube
    • Hello (Adele Cover) - Esperanto version (YouTube)
    • Pleistocenese: A Language of 40,000 Years Ago (Justin B. Rye)
    • Futurese: The American Language in 3000 AD (Justin B. Rye)
    • Beyond Biohazard: Why Danger Symbols Can’t Last Forever (99% Invisible)

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    People of Size - Ep 99 Jul 20, 2020
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    Amber and Anna explore perceptions of human body shape in different times and places. What’s the difference between fatness and obesity? Why should we look askance at BMI? What is UP with Peter Paul Rubens and his damp, shiny nudes? And more!

    Links

    • The Bizarre and Racist History of the BMI (Medium’s Elemental)
    • A History of Obesity, or How What Was Good Became Ugly and Then Bad (Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease)
    • The evolution of human fatness and susceptibility to obesity: an ethological approach (Biological Reviews)
    • A Brief History of Obesity: Truths and Illusions (Clinical Oncology News)
    • Obesity in the paleolithic era (Hormones)
    • Obesity in the Neolithic Era: A Greek Female Figurine (Obesity Surgery)
    • The significance of Sarah Baartman (BBC)
    • Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (via Worldcat)
    • Socio-cultural norms of body size in Westerners and Polynesians affect heart rate variability and emotion during social interactions (Culture and Brain)
    • How paradise became the fattest place in the world (CNN)
    • How a Powerful Obesity Gene Helped Samoans Conquer the South Pacific (Gizmodo)
    • A thrifty variant in CREBRF strongly influences body mass index in Samoans (Nature Genetics)
    • “Un-Hottentoting the Queen of Punt” (via Academia.edu)
    • The Expedition to Punt (Nova)
    • Queen of Punt (Clinical Infectious Diseases)
    • When Fat Was in Fashion (New York Times)

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