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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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    Eat Locally: The Archaeology of Indigenous American Food - Ep 80 Mar 09, 2020
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    This week, Anna and Amber take a look at foodways in the archaeological record of North America. What does archaeological evidence say about what was cooked, who was cooking, and what vessels were used to prepare and store food? What evidence is there for recreating ancient and pre-contact diets? How does this fit in with contemporary food sovereignty movements among Indigenous people? How great are potatoes? All this and more!

    Links
    • Archaeological Studies of Cooking and Food Preparation (Journal of Archaeological Research)
    • Reconstructing sexual divisions of labor from fingerprints on Ancestral Puebloan pottery (PNAS)
    • Traditional Foods in Native America (CDC)
    • Countryman: Foraging California's Wild Side
    • What is mak-’amham? (Cafe Ohlone)
    • Investigating the function of prehistoric stone bowls and griddle stones in the Aleutian Islands by lipid residue analysis (Quaternary Research)
    • One of the Oldest Spuds In the World Is Poised For a Comeback (Heated by Medium)
    • North American Indian Recipes – Acorn Recipes & Facts! (The People’s Paths)
    • Native American Food (Arkansas Archaeological Survey)
    • The Mitsitam Cafe Cookbook: Recipes from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (via WorldCat)

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    Not All Heroes Wear Capes: Countering Human Remains Trafficking - Ep 79 Mar 02, 2020
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    This week, Anna and Amber are joined by Dr. Damien Huffer, a bioarchaeologist and crime fighter. Dr. Huffer’s work was featured way, way back in Episode 36, “The Unsettling Business of Curating Human Remains,” and Anna and Amber are keen to learn more. How does one get into this line of work? What makes people want to own parts of other people? What’s being done to stop trafficking, and what lies ahead?

    Links

    • The Bonetrade Project
    • Alliance to Counter Crime Online
    • Bringing Them Home: The Repatriation of Priceless Human Remains and Artifacts to Cambodia (SAFE: Saving Antiquities for Everyone)
    • Fighting trade in human remains antiquities (Saturday Paper)
    • This Archaeologist Uses Instagram To Track The Human Skeleton Trade (Forbes)
    • The Insta-Dead: The rhetoric of the human remains trade on Instagram (Internet Archaeology)
    • The Dirt Episode 36: The Unsettling Business of Curating Human Remains

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    Hasanlu: An Iron Age Whodunnit - Ep 78 Feb 24, 2020
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    In the early first millennium BCE, the city of Hasanlu was destroyed in a single, terrible day. Excavations reveal murdered civilians and a citadel engulfed in fire, but who was responsible for destroying this town on the road to everywhere in Iron Age Western Asia? This week, Anna and Amber tell Hasanlu's story, and of the academic drama that followed its excavation (and continues to this day).

    Links

    • Ḥasanlu Teppe (Encyclopedia Iranica)
    • Tell (mound) (Encyclopedia Britannica)
    • Hasanlu Publication Project
    • Hasanlu in the Iron Age (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
    • Rediscovering Hasanlu (Expedition)
    • Special Issue: East of Assyria--The Highland Settlement of Hasanlu (Expedition)
    • The Excavation of Hasanlu: An Archaeological Evaluation (Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research)
    • Last Day at Hasanlu (Expedition)
    • Iran's Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia (New Scientist)
    • The Hasanlu Lovers (Penn Museum)
    • Lovers, Friends, or Strangers? New Thoughts on a Museum Icon (Penn Museum)
    • East of Assyria? Hasanlu and the Problem of Assyrianization (in Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period)
    • Warfare at Hasanlu in the Late 9th Century B.C. (Expedition)
    • Urartu (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
    • Who Destroyed Hasanlu IV? (Iran)

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    The Dirt Travel Club: Bulgaria Edition - Ep 77 Feb 17, 2020
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    This week, Anna gets out her box of slides from her recent trip to Bulgaria. We discuss some of the deep history (and prehistory) of Bulgaria, as well as some mythology and folk traditions. Then, we have a chat about some of our favorite ways to experience different communities and cultures when we travel. (Hot tip: EAT EVERYTHING)

    Links

    • Late Neandertals and Early Modern Humans in Western Europe (Max Planck Gesellschaft)
    • Levallois Technique - Middle Paleolithic Stone Tool Working (ThoughtCo)
    • Zagreus (GreekMythology.com)
    • Wine Traditions (BulWine)
    • Kukeri, Bulgaria's Bizarre Festival of Monsters (Culture Trip)
    • Surreal Pictures Show Bulgaria’s Masked Dancers Warding Off Evil Spirits (National Geographic)
    • Kukeri – An old and scary Bulgarian tradition (Free Sofia Tour)

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    Special Guest Kimberlee Moran and the Arch Street Project - Ep 76 Feb 10, 2020
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    Anna and Amber are joined by forensic archaeologist Kimberlee Moran to talk about the unique story of the First Baptist Church cemetery in Philadelphia, PA. Our story this week has twists, turns, and more information about preserved brains than you might think possible!

    Links

    • Kimberlee Moran (Rutgers University - Camden)
    • Arch Street Project
    • Old bones found - and nobody's in charge (Philadelphia Inquirer) (cn images of human skeletal remains)
    • A Colonial-Era Cemetery Resurfaces in Philadelphia (The New York Times) (cn images of human skeletal remains)
    • Dr. Moran discussing forensic archaeology on NPR’s You’re the Expert Contact
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    This Is Your Brain on Drums - Ep 75 Feb 03, 2020
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    We're back! Anna and Amber are marching to a very special beat this week, as we talk about sound-induced trances and other ways in which people achieved altered states in the past. Tune in, turn on, and join us!

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    Fieldwork Stories - Ep 74 Dec 23, 2019
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    This week is a little different! As we head into a brief holiday break, we want to show our fellow archaeologists some love. We took to Twitter, and in this episode we share some fieldwork stories from you, our listeners! Amber and Anna also share their own field experiences.

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    Our Most Metal Episode of All Time - Ep 73 Dec 16, 2019
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    Time to throw the devil horns and apply superfluous umlauts to vöwëls, because this week The Dirt is totally metal! Metallurgy, that is. How and when did humans first use metals, and what can we learn about them? Some come straight from the ground, others from far, far away, some from a combination of raw materials, and some? Some come FROM OUTER SPACE.

    Links

    • King Tut’s Dagger Was Made From a Meteorite (Smithsonian)
    • The meteoritic origin of Tutankhamun's iron dagger blade (Meteoritics and Planetary Science)
    • Greenland's Iron Age came from space (Science Nordic)
    • New Respect for Metal's Role in Ancient Arctic Cultures (Science)
    • Robert E. Peary and the Cape York Meteorites (Polar Geography)
    • The Dollop Episode 240: North Pole Madness
    • On the origins of extractive metallurgy: new evidence from Europe (Journal of Archaeological Science)
    • Prehistoric Balkans Were 'Faking' Gold 6,500 Years Ago (Ha’aretz)
    • Theorizing Bronze-Age Intercultural trade : the evidence of the weights (Paléorient)
    • Exchange Systems and Trade Networks in Anthropology and Archaeology (ThoughtCo)
    • Antikythera Shipwreck Yields New Cache of Treasures, Hints More May Be Buried at Site (Smithsonian)
    • High spatial dynamics-photoluminescence imaging reveals the metallurgy of the earliest lost-wax cast object (Nature Communications)
    • Lost Wax Casting Process (National Sculpture Society)
    • How Was Iron Smelted in Ancient Israel? Researchers Build Kilns to Find Out (Ha’aretz)

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    It's the (Moral) Circle of Life! - Ep 72 Dec 09, 2019
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    This week, Amber and Anna wade into the moral circle. When it comes to deserving help and care, who counts? What does that care look like, and how can we see evidence for it in the historical and archaeological record? We do our best to wrap our brains around all this and more.

    Links

    • Should animals, plants, and robots have the same rights as you? (Vox)
    • Lake Erie now has legal rights, just like you (Vox)
    • Expanding the moral circle: Inclusion and exclusion mindsets and the circle of moral regard (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology)
    • A Brief History of Charitable Giving (Visual.ly)
    • Ancient Bones That Tell a Story of Compassion (New York Times)
    • Calculated or caring? Neanderthal healthcare in social context (World Archaeology)
    • Brutal Brawls And Cranial Surgery Discovered On Ancient Skeletons From Lake Titicaca (Forbes)
    • How the poor became blessed (Aeon)

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    Aiding and A-vetting: The Archaeology of Animal Care - Ep 71 Dec 02, 2019
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    This week Anna and Amber told you we’re going to the park, but really it’s a trip to the v-e-t in an episode all about evidence for animal care and veterinary medicine in the archaeological record. Learn how archaeologists assess animal welfare from bone analysis, ancient Egyptian animal medicine, a snapshot of life on a medieval French farm, and more, including 2nd millennium BCE pro tips on how to get your horse absolutely jacked.

    Links

    • Prehistoric Puppy May Be Earliest Evidence of Pet-Human Bonding (National Geographic)
    • Excavating the history of ancient veterinary practices (Veterinary Record)
    • The Kikkuli Text. Hittite Training Instructions for Chariot Horses in the Second Half of the 2nd Millennium B.C. and Their Interdisciplinary Context (Peter Raulwing, via Academia.edu)
    • Kikkuli (International Museum of the Horse)
    • A Quick History of Veterinary History (Canidae)
    • Care or Neglect?: Evidence of Animal Disease in Archaeology
    • One and the same? An investigation into the connection between veterinary and medical practice in ancient Egypt (in Mummies, magic and medicine in ancient Egypt)
    • Lahun Veterinary Papyrus
    • Early Egyptians Revered Lowly Donkeys (New York Times)

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