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ADHD BCE
Introducing the ADHD-BCE Podcast
Welcome to ADHD-BCE, the podcast scouring the ages in search of neurodiversity! Join late diagnosed ADHDer and archaeology enthusiast George Lomas in this quest to find and celebrate some of the most interesting and significant people in the human story (so far)…From our earliest ancestors who created ways to survive and thrive in Jumani-esque environments to the builders of pyramids, cities and empires, neurodiversity has helped create the world as we know it, and it’s high time we started to celebrate this fact.This podcast is all about pride, compassion and understanding. If you’...
2024-10-08
03 min
Ethnocynology with David Ian Howe
Introducing the Ethnocynology Podcast with David Ian Howe - Ep 0
Ethnocynology is the study of dogs in human cultural contexts. This podcast, hosted by anthropologist and comedian David Ian Howe, explores the history and archaeology of dogs, the roles of dogs in modern media, and the latest findings from archaeology in general.Links: Links: davidianhowe.comArchPodNet 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: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/archaeology-podcast-network?ref_id=5724
2024-09-27
04 min
The Past Macabre
Introducing The Past Macabre Podcast - Ep 0
Join Egyptologist Stephanie Rice as she delves into topics such as the elaborate tombs built to immortalize the dead, ancient guardians of the afterlife, and the tales of heroes who defied and often triumphed over deities of death. The Past Macabre explores the diverse ways in which cultures throughout history have sought to understand, confront, and transcend death.Links: Follow The Past Macabre on InstagramArchPodNet 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...
2024-09-23
03 min
The Walls Have Ears Podcast
“WORST EVER GUEST!” FT The Uncut Podcast | EP24
Send us a textThank you for watching our new episode with The Uncut podcast! Please subscribe and get us to 1K subscribers.We waffle a lot but topics include:Time codes: 00:00 unpopular opinions 23:20 intro 24:00 How we met37:32 no cap quiz 1:05:00 The internet is crazy Thank you so much for your support please follow us on all of our socials! Now sit back and enjoy us talking in your eardrums! Edited by @Prashanleigh Follow us...
2024-08-26
1h 20
The Walls Have Ears Podcast
“Grown Men shouldn’t have podcasts!” FT BYC PODCAST | EP 23
Send us a textThank you for watching our new episode.Please subscribe and get us to 1K subscribers.We waffle a lot but topics include:Time codes: Thank you so much for your support please follow us on all of our socials! Now sit back and enjoy us talking in your eardrums! Edited by @Prashanleigh Follow us on: Instagram: whe_podcast TikTok: whe_podcastYouTube: The Walls Have Ears PodcastTwitter: whe_podcastFacebook: The Walls Have E...
2024-08-01
1h 10
The Archaeology Podcast Network Feed
Microwear Analysis with APN Host Dr. Matilda Siebrecht - Teabreak 26
Meet Tilly, the amazing host of Tea-Break Time Travel, and co-host of the And My Trowel podcasts. She is also the woman behind the @the_archaeologists_teacup Instagram account, and all the APN social media! Today we chat with her about her all podcasts, as well as her areas of expertise: microwear analysis and experimental archaeology. Finally, she lends her expert opinion on a recent news article that used some cutting edge microwear analysis techniques to draw some pretty big conclusions.Links The Archaeology Show (Podcast Page) And My Trowel Podcast @the_archaeologists_teacup (Instagram) Microscopes and...
2024-07-23
52 min
Tea-Break Time Travel
Microwear Analysis with APN Host Dr. Matilda Siebrecht - Ep 26
Meet Tilly, the amazing host of Tea-Break Time Travel, and co-host of the And My Trowel podcasts. She is also the woman behind the @the_archaeologists_teacup Instagram account, and all the APN social media! Today we chat with her about her all podcasts, as well as her areas of expertise: microwear analysis and experimental archaeology. Finally, she lends her expert opinion on a recent news article that used some cutting edge microwear analysis techniques to draw some pretty big conclusions.Links The Archaeology Show (Podcast Page) And My Trowel Podcast @the_archaeologists_teacup (Instagram) Microscopes and...
2024-07-23
52 min
The Archaeology Podcast Network Feed
Sámi Land Protection - HeVo 88
On today’s episode, Jessica talks with Tuula Sharma Vassvik (Sámi activist, land protector, musician, podcast host, and freelance contractor in Heritage and Indigenous Methodologies) about their journey through archaeology to Indigenous methodologies and land protection in Sápmi. Tuula’s work focuses on solidarity across cultures and class, as well as community building and future building within Indigenous ways of life. We talk about their time at Standing Rock and how that shaped not only their Masters thesis, but their life trajectory. We also discuss their involvement in protests against wind turbines on reindeer herding areas, the destru...
2024-07-16
53 min
Heritage Voices
Sámi Land Protection - Ep 88
On today’s episode, Jessica talks with Tuula Sharma Vassvik (Sámi activist, land protector, musician, podcast host, and freelance contractor in Heritage and Indigenous Methodologies) about their journey through archaeology to Indigenous methodologies and land protection in Sápmi. Tuula’s work focuses on solidarity across cultures and class, as well as community building and future building within Indigenous ways of life. We talk about their time at Standing Rock and how that shaped not only their Masters thesis, but their life trajectory. We also discuss their involvement in protests against wind turbines on reindeer herding areas, the destru...
2024-07-16
53 min
The Archaeology Show
Microwear Analysis with APN Host Dr. Matilda Siebrecht - Ep 265
Meet Tilly, the amazing host of Tea-Break Time Travel, and co-host of the And My Trowel podcasts. She is also the woman behind the @the_archaeologists_teacup Instagram account, and all the APN social media! Today we chat with her about her all podcasts, as well as her areas of expertise: microwear analysis and experimental archaeology. Finally, she lends her expert opinion on a recent news article that used some cutting edge microwear analysis techniques to draw some pretty big conclusions.Links Tea-Break Time Travel Podcast And My Trowel Podcast @the_archaeologists_teacup (Instagram) Microscopes and Magn...
2024-05-27
50 min
The Archaeology Podcast Network Feed
Microwear Analysis with APN Host Dr. Matilda Siebrecht - TAS 265
Meet Tilly, the amazing host of Tea-Break Time Travel, and co-host of the And My Trowel podcasts. She is also the woman behind the @the_archaeologists_teacup Instagram account, and all the APN social media! Today we chat with her about her all podcasts, as well as her areas of expertise: microwear analysis and experimental archaeology. Finally, she lends her expert opinion on a recent news article that used some cutting edge microwear analysis techniques to draw some pretty big conclusions.Links Tea-Break Time Travel Podcast And My Trowel Podcast @the_archaeologists_teacup (Instagram) Microscopes and Magn...
2024-05-27
50 min
Suits Podcast
[ EP.#01 ] COMO MUDAR SEU NEGÓCIO ASSISTINDO PODCASTS OU SÉRIES [ APN OFICIAL SUITSPODCAST ]
#suitspodcast #empreender #vender + 📢Anuncie marca no Suits Podcast: comercial@suitspodcast.com SOBRE O EPISÓDIO: Neste episódio você vai descobrir sobre esse podcast, vai descobrir um pouco das histórias dos HOST's e como a ideia surgiu, vai entender nosso nome e também nossa "logomarca" por fim o nosso propósito e como vamos te ajudar com nossos episódios, convidados, dicas e ideias para melhorar sua vida como empreendedor. 🎙️Host's: Kennedy tomé e Alif Henrique 🎙️ Episódio de apresentação; EP: 0 📢Anuncie marca no Suits Podcast: comercial@suitspodcast.com 📲 Siga-nos no Instagram: / @suitspodcast - https://www.instagram.com/suitspodcast/ ...
2024-05-13
1h 10
The Walls Have Ears Podcast
“Women friendships are more intense but don’t last!” EP10 | WHE PODCAST
Send us a textThank you for listening this episode of ‘The Walls Have Ears Podcast’! Please follow and get us to 1K followers We waffle a lot but topics include:Time codes: 0:00 unpopular opinions 27:05 Intro 27:50 Life update40:00 Internet is crazy 59:00 Outro Thank you so much for your support please follow us on all of our socials! Now sit back and enjoy us talking in your eardrums! Edited by @Prashanleigh Follow us on: Instagram: whe_podcast
2023-12-18
1h 02
The Walls Have Ears Podcast
“DID YOU EVER FANCY ONE OF YOUR EX’S FRIENDS?” | EP9 | WHE PODCAST
Send us a textWe have our first ever guest!Thank you for listening to this episode of ‘The Walls Have Ears Podcast’! Please follow and get us to 1K followers.We waffle a lot but topics include:Time codes: 0:00 Unpopular opinions 22:50 Intro 25:42 No cap Quiz53:58 OutroThank you so much for your support please follow us on all of our socials! Now sit back and enjoy us talking in your eardrums! Edited by @Prashanleigh Fo...
2023-12-11
55 min
The Walls Have Ears Podcast
“Is American slang BETTER than British slang?”| EP8 | WHE PODCAST
Send us a textThank you for listening to this episode of ‘The Walls Have Ears Podcast’! Please subscribe and get us to 1K followers.We waffle a lot but topics include:Time codes: 0:00 Intro2:18 Unpopular opinions 32:04 internet is crazy 37:32 American slang vs British slang 46:05 Outro Thank you so much for your support please follow us on all of our socials! Now sit back and enjoy us talking in your eardrums! Edited by @Prashanleigh...
2023-12-03
46 min
The Archaeology Show
Gender and Sex in Rock Art from the Rock Art Podcast - Ep 243
Gender and sex today are fluid concepts. Is that because it’s a new idea or because it’s finally something that can come out of the shadows? On today’s episode we look at gender and sex in rock art. We challenge preconceived notions that male shamans are the only ones that created rock art. We also talk about gender representation in rock art.TranscriptsFor rough transcripts of this podcast head over to: https://www.archpodnet.com/archaeology/243Rock Art Podcast Contact Dr. Alan Garfinkelavram1952@yahoo.comDr. Al...
2023-12-03
38 min
The Archaeology Podcast Network Feed
Gender and Sex in Rock Art from the Rock Art Podcast - TAS 243
Gender and sex today are fluid concepts. Is that because it’s a new idea or because it’s finally something that can come out of the shadows? On today’s episode we look at gender and sex in rock art. We challenge preconceived notions that male shamans are the only ones that created rock art. We also talk about gender representation in rock art.TranscriptsFor rough transcripts of this podcast head over to: https://www.archpodnet.com/archaeology/243Rock Art Podcast Contact Dr. Alan Garfinkel avram1952@yahoo.com Dr. Alan Garfin...
2023-12-03
38 min
The Walls Have Ears Podcast
The Toe Sucking Chronicles 🦶 | EP7 | WHE PODCAST
Send us a textThank you for watching this episode of ‘The Walls Have Ears Podcast’! Please subscribe and get us to 1K followers.We waffle a lot but topics include:Time codes: 0:00 Unpopular opinions 16:40 Intro 18:00 Have you ever had toes sucked 27:50 The internet is crazy 40:00 How long should a Talking stage last?51:40 Outro Thank you so much for your support please follow us on all of our socials! Now seat back and enjoy us talking in y...
2023-11-19
52 min
The Walls Have Ears Podcast
“ I Ate Sand Everyday For 4 Years!” | EP6 | WHE PODCAST
Send us a textThank you for watching this episode of ‘The Walls Have Ears Podcast’! Please subscribe and get us to 1K followers.We waffle a lot but topics include:Time codes: 0:00 Unpopular opinions 20:00 Model gets caught with 3kg of cocaine in Peru 23:00 Our favourite movie recommendations 38:00 the internet is crazy 49:50 I ate sand everyday for 4 years55:10 How many dates should you go on in a month?1:00:00 OutroThank you so much for your suppo...
2023-11-05
1h 00
The Walls Have Ears Podcast
"Mature men sign Prenups" | EP5 | WHE PODCAST
Send us a textThank you for watching this episode of ‘The Walls Have Ears Podcast’! Please subscribe and get us to 1K followers.We waffle a lot but topics include:Time codes: 0:00 Unpopular opinions10:02 Greenwood at Getafe 15:21 Mia khalifa at Fashion week27:12 Intro30:00 Getting released from football academy 39:12 OutroThank you so much for your support please follow us on all of our socials! Now seat back and enjoy us talking in your eardrums! Edited...
2023-10-22
41 min
The Walls Have Ears Podcast
Can You Love Two People At Once? | EP4 | WHE PODCAST
Send us a textThank you for watching this episode of ‘The Walls Have Ears Podcast’! Please subscribe and get us to 1K followers.We waffle a lot but topics include:Time codes: 0:00 Unpopular opinions26:05 Dilemmas32:35 Life update45:23 Night club analysis48:50 Can you love two people at once?52:11 Is fighting for your partner an ick1:02:30 Outro Thank you so much for your support please follow us on all of our socials.Now seat back and enjoy us talking in your ea...
2023-10-15
1h 04
The Walls Have Ears Podcast
“AM I A SIMP FOR SPENDING £500 on First Date? | EP3 | WHE PODCAST
Send us a textThank you for watching this episode of ‘The Walls Have Ears Podcast’! Please follow and get us to 1K followers We waffle a lot but topics include:Time codes: 0:00 Life update 5:30 Office romance 7:10 First dates 13:00 Intro20:00 Private heath care experience 30:40 Unpopular opinions 42:20 Most you spent on a date 50:30 OutroThank you so much for your support please follow us on all of our socials! Now seat back and enjoy us t...
2023-10-01
52 min
The Walls Have Ears Podcast
“Could Your GIRLFIREND Be Your MANAGER” | EP2 | WHE PODCAST
Send us a textThank you for listening to this episode of ‘The Walls Have Ears Podcast’! Please subscribe and get us to 1K followersWe waffle a lot but topics include:Time codes: 0:00 New studio1:20 Are Day parties boring now?4:00 Life update 12:00 EA SPORTS FC REVIEW 17:36 Taking my girl to Nando’s in Tesco 23:27 Intro 24:00 Reading your CRAZY Unpopular opinions 49:00 Could your girlfriend be your manager?55:45 OutroThank you so much for y...
2023-09-24
57 min
Perspectives
Arrête de consommer du développement personnel !
Comment savoir si ta démarche de développement personnel est juste pour toi ? Dans quelle énergie utilises-tu les outils qu'il propose ? Est-ce que consommer des livres de développement personnel ou des formations suffit pour cheminer ? C’est ce que nous mettons en perspective dans l’épisode d’aujourd’hui. Et si le podcast te plaît, tu peux nous laisser un avis 5 étoiles ou un commentaire sur Apple podcast , ça nous aidera beaucoup ! Pour nous rejo...
2023-04-27
28 min
Perspectives
Stop, j’arrête tout !!
L'envie de tout arrêter peut se manifester en tant qu'entrepreneur quand on vit la fameuse traversée du désert. Cette période de remou se manifeste à tout niveau de l'entrepreneuriat et fait pleinement parti du jeu, alors il faut savoir se remettre en mouvement. Dans cet épisode nous te partageons notre perspective sur le sujet pour t'aider à de nouveau aller de l'avant quand l'adversité se présente. Et si le podcast te plaît, tu peux nous laisser un avis 5 étoiles ou un commenta...
2023-04-20
34 min
Perspectives
Ça te fait culpabiliser ? C'est TON problème.
La culpabilité est un sentiment qui peut être ressenti en tant qu’entrepreneur lorsque d’autres acteurs du marché semblent réussir davantage ou tiennent un propos ou une opinion challengeant à entendre. Il est aussi facile de tomber dans l’autoflagellation envers soi-même en se rendant coupable de ce qu’on a dit ou fait (ou pas dit ou pas fait) lorsqu’une situation ne nous convient pas. Alors, que faire de ce sentiment de culpabilité ? Comment y réagir pour adopter un mindset qui permet de continuer d’ava...
2023-04-13
32 min
Perspectives
Libère toi du regard de l'autre !
Bienvenue dans ce 4ème épisode de Perspectives où nous abordons sûrement un des poids les plus pesants pour les entrepreneurs : le regard de l’autre. Que ce soit celui de la famille, de proches ou de concurrents, il est essentiel de t’en libérer pour te concentrer sur tes propres objectifs et de ne pas être entravé par les opinions ou les jugements des autres. Alors pourquoi il nous impacte autant en tant qu’entrepreneur ? Quelles sont ses racines et comment t’en libérer ?
2023-04-06
36 min
Perspectives
La vision en tant qu'entrepreneur
Bienvenue dans ce 3ème épisode de Perspectives où cette fois-ci nous abordons le fameux sujet de la vision en tant qu’entrepreneur. La vision permet de donner une direction et une finalité à son entreprise. Mais faut-il forcément nourrir une vision long terme pour avancer et réussir ? Avancer étape par étape est-il viable pour un entrepreneur ? Comment avancer lorsqu’on se sent dans le flou ? C’est ce que nous mettons en perspective aujourd’hui. Et si le podcas...
2023-03-30
40 min
Perspectives
Le pouvoir et le contrôle
Bienvenue dans ce deuxième épisode de Perspectives où nous te partageons notre point de vue sur deux concepts qui font écho aux entrepreneurs : le contrôle et le pouvoir. Ils peuvent être des aspirations pour de nombreuses personnes, mais cela ne signifie pas nécessairement qu'ils apportent le bonheur dans le quotidien et dans la vie professionnelle. En excès, le contrôle et le pouvoir conduisent à des sentiments de frustration, d’anxiété et même de stress. Une clé pour y remédier : le lâ...
2023-03-23
44 min
The Archaeology Show
The Archaeology of the APN - Ep 198
It’s a solo show with Chris Webster today. They APN recently celebrated it’s eight birthday and Chris wanted to tell you a little bit about how the APN came about. It’s origin story, if you will. Also, he talks about the other shows in the “APN Encyclopedia” and what’s coming up in the future.Links Succinct Research Kulturo MediaContact Chris Websterchris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com Rachel Rodenrachel@unraveleddesigns.comRachelUnraveled (Instagram)ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodn...
2022-12-18
39 min
The Archaeology Podcast Network Feed
The Archaeology of the APN - Ep 198
It’s a solo show with Chris Webster today. They APN recently celebrated it’s eight birthday and Chris wanted to tell you a little bit about how the APN came about. It’s origin story, if you will. Also, he talks about the other shows in the “APN Encyclopedia” and what’s coming up in the future.Links Succinct Research Kulturo MediaContact Chris Websterchris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com Rachel Rodenrachel@unraveleddesigns.comRachelUnraveled (Instagram)ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodn...
2022-12-18
40 min
The Dirt Podcast
The Dirt Is Moving! Goodbye APN :(
We’re moving! The Dirt is changing hosts and leaving the APN. However, you shouldn’t experience an interruption in your shows when they return. The feed should update automatically.From Chris Webster: I’ve really appreciated having the quality content from Anna and Amber on the APN! You’re a class act and put on an interesting and informative show. We’ll miss you for sure!ContactEmail the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.comArchPodNetAPN Website: https://www.archpodnet.comAPN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpo...
2022-11-09
01 min
The Archaeology Podcast Network Feed
The Dirt Is Moving! Goodbye APN :(
We’re moving! The Dirt is changing hosts and leaving the APN. However, you shouldn’t experience an interruption in your shows when they return. The feed should update automatically.From Chris Webster: I’ve really appreciated having the quality content from Anna and Amber on the APN! You’re a class act and put on an interesting and informative show. We’ll miss you for sure!ContactEmail the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.comArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: h...
2022-11-09
02 min
The Dirt Podcast
PROMO - Spines in Peru, Decapitated Romans and Egyptian Notepads - The Archaeology Show
The Archaeology Podcast Network is taking a bit of a break for October, 2022. In the mean time, we’re introducing you to some of the other fantastic shows that we produce. Here’s an episode from Tea Break Time Travel about Scottish prehistory and the Pictish Beastie.This month Matilda focuses on the prehistory of Scotland, and specifically that enigmatic carved stone symbol known as the Pictish Beastie. Is it a dolphin? Is it an elephant? Is it a unicorn? To help uncover the mystery of this symbol and provide some background context about Pictish society is gues...
2022-10-19
55 min
The Dirt Podcast
PROMO - Spines in Peru, Decapitated Romans and Egyptian Notepads - The Archaeology Show
The Archaeology Podcast Network is taking a bit of a break for October, 2022. In the mean time, we’re introducing you to some of the other fantastic shows that we produce. Here’s an episode from The Archaeology Show with three news articles from February 2022.This week we have three interesting archaeology news articles. First, spines excavated in the Chincha valley of Peru are threaded on reeds posthumously. Archaeologist speculate this may have been done by the family members of the data after looting by the Spanish occurred. In segment 2 we take a look at a cemetery in t...
2022-10-13
40 min
The Dirt Podcast
The Dirt Dries Out
There have been an awful lot of news stories lately featuring “lost” sites or structures “revealed” by the effects of drought and climate change. Way to look on the positive side, I guess! We’ll take a look at some of these sites and more broadly, the effects of climate change on current archaeology. Both of your tired hosts were a bit punchy during recording, so this episode is ever so slightly goofy despite the gravity of the topic. But we hope you enjoy it!Interested in sponsoring this show or podcast ads for your business? Zencastr makes it r...
2022-09-14
37 min
The Dirt Podcast
What's Benin Going On?
We meant to tackle this question before, but we can’t wait any longer! The Benin Bronzes have received media attention lately in a series of newsworthy announcements to repatriate them from various museums in North America and Europe to Nigeria. What are these alliterative artifacts, and how did thousands of them disappear from the Kingdom of Benin only to appear by the hundreds in museums overseas?Interested in sponsoring this show or podcast ads for your business? Zencastr makes it really easy! Click this message for more info.Links The Brutish Museums: The Be...
2022-09-07
1h 05
The Dirt Podcast
Hopping Over to Himyar
For the first half of the first millennium CE, Himyar was based in what is today Yemen and flourished thanks to its role in inter-regional trade. We’ll discuss the political landscape of ancient southern Arabia, the conversion of the Himyarite dynasty from polytheism to Judaism, and recently published research on environmental factors that contributed to the Himyarite state’s decline and eventual conquest.Interested in sponsoring this show or podcast ads for your business? Zencastr makes it really easy! Click this message for more info.Links Zafar/Yemen - a Brief Summary (via Heid...
2022-08-24
1h 11
The Dirt Podcast
An Under-the-Weather Special
Anna is sick this week, so we've been unable to record new episodes. But rather than leave you hanging, we're releasing a lightly trimmed version of the latest episode of Old News. We've got human bone jewelry, the first Black Baptist church in colonial America, alleged art crimes, some seriously inclement weather, and more!Old News is one of our monthly bonus episodes that comes with the Absolute Dirtbag tier over at Patreon.com/thedirtpodcast, so head over there if you want to support the show and get access to FOUR YEARS' WORTH of bonus content.
2022-08-17
56 min
The Dirt Podcast
The Dirt Goes Site-Seeing
This week, Anna and Amber debut a new (occasional) series: Site-Seeing! There are so many archaeological sites out there, and some of them tend to overshadow others. In order to learn about and showcase some lesser-known sites, your hosts will each present a brief exploration of a site previously unknown to either of them. This time, we feature Djenné, an ancient city in what is today Mali, and Ban Chiang, in what is today Thailand.Interested in sponsoring this show or podcast ads for your business? Zencastr makes it really easy! Click this message for more info.
2022-08-10
1h 07
The Dirt Podcast
The Past Smells
We've asked this on the show before, but..what did the past smell like? In this episode, we talk about some of the ways that researchers are finding and recreating some ancient aromas. We also get speculative about smellscapes and honk the Clown Horn of Orientalism at some perfumes. Get your sniffers ready, this one's fun!Interested in sponsoring this show or podcast ads for your business? Zencastr makes it really easy! Click this message for more info.Links How our sense of smell evolved (ScienceDaily) Does Archaeology Stink? Detecting Smell in the Past...
2022-08-03
1h 12
The Dirt Podcast
Summer Blockbuster 3: Avatar
To wrap up our inaugural Summer Blockbuster series, Amber leads us on a mission to Pandora with Avatar (2009). Rather than exploration of the culture of the indigenous Na’vi population (or maybe in addition to), we’ll examine some of the philosophical underpinnings of the franchise and discuss the book that completely changed Amber's intellectual trajectory.Interested in sponsoring this show or podcast ads for your business? Zencastr makes it really easy! Click this message for more info.Links “Avatar” Advertising Invades “Bones” Episode “The Gamer in the Grease” (Wall Street Journal) Do You Speak Na'vi? Giv...
2022-07-27
1h 03
The Dirt Podcast
Summer Blockbusters: Apocalypto
Amber guides Anna through the jungle of the 2006 film Apocalypto...but hopefully a little less racistly than director Mel Gibson did! We’ll talk about human sacrifice, what was (and was not) going on in Maya culture in the 15th century CE, and the movie’s ending that couldn’t be more on the nose if it went “boop!”Interested in sponsoring this show or podcast ads for your business? Zencastr makes it really easy! Click this message for more info.Links The Story of Civilization (via Wikipedia) With help from a friend, Mel cut to the...
2022-07-20
1h 10
The Dirt Podcast
Summer Blockbusters: The Dig
Welcome to a month of Summer Blockbusters, where we talk about the archaeology in movies that aren't Indiana Jones! This week, it's the 2021 film The Dig, starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan. We'll talk a bit about the film, but mostly about the real site portrayed in it--the Anglo Saxon burial at Sutton Hoo. This site was key to rewriting the understanding of post-Roman Britain, and was especially meaningful as a symbol of English national identity during WWII.Interested in sponsoring this show or podcast ads for your business? Zencastr makes it really easy! Click this message...
2022-07-13
1h 08
The Dirt Podcast
Sea Peoples
“The Sea Peoples” is a term that refers to a seafaring culture of unclear origin that bopped around the eastern Mediterranean and adjoining areas around 1200-900 BCE. There are ancient Egyptian murals and reliefs that depict battles against these unnamed adversaries, but no definitive labels or helpful texts. So who were the Sea Peoples? We’ll discuss some theories, and probably not reach any conclusions apart from “wow people really care a lot about this, huh?”Interested in sponsoring this show or podcast ads for your business? Zencastr makes it really easy! Click this message for more info.
2022-07-06
1h 16
The Dirt Podcast
The Dirt Gets Wrecked
Y'all, it has been a TOUGH WEEK. You can tell because Anna somehow manages to get the episode intro WRONG after doing it correctly nearly 200 times. But we're just gonna keep swimming! We couldn’t do a month-at-sea theme without talking about shipwrecks. And it’s not just pirate ships and the Titanic, either. We’ll discuss all kinds of underwater assemblages and the ways in which shipwreck archaeology helps us understand travel, life, commerce, connectivity, and more.Interested in sponsoring this show or podcast ads for your business? Zencastr makes it really easy! Click this message for mo...
2022-06-29
1h 02
The Dirt Podcast
CLAMoring for Data with Christine Bassett
Ahoy! We’re still at sea, the ocean is still None of Our Business, and yet we’re learning so much about it! This week, we’ve got a special guest to guide us. Christine Bassett is currently a program coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Weather Program Office (NOAA). Christine collects data from ancient Arctic shell middens to reconstruct climate and sea ice levels for archaeological sites in the Aleutian islands. Tune in to learn how she’s turning thousand-year-old clams into a climate thermometer!Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and simila...
2022-06-22
1h 08
The Dirt Podcast
Terra Nullius
Terra nullius is a Latin phrase meaning “nobody’s land,” but historically it has tended to mean something closer to *grabby hands.* What does it mean when a place is considered no one’s? Are there still places where people aren’t? Are there places where we've never been? The answers may surprise you.Members, check out an extended edition of this episode here.Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from James Elliot!Connect with James on Twitter: @paleoimagingInterest...
2022-06-15
1h 13
The Dirt Podcast
Video Game Archaeology with Dr. Bill Farley
There are surprising intersections between video game creation and archaeology, and that, of course, comes along with the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of mining ancient history for content creation. Neither Anna nor Amber really grew up playing video games, so we are extremely lucky to have a guest expert, Dr. Bill Farley, Associate Professor of Anthropology at South Connecticut State University. Bill will be our guide on the subject. The Toad to our Mario Party. Right? That’s a thing, right?Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Ch...
2022-06-02
1h 22
The Dirt Podcast
Cargo Cults: Actually a Thing?
First used to describe religious movements that emerged in Melanesia following contact with Allied military personnel in World War II, cargo cults are sects and ritualized behaviors intended to summon outsiders (and their stuff) back and bring about a new age. We’ll explore theories for why they come about, discuss some examples of cargo cults in the traditional definition, and consider what parallels might exist in other cultures.Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from James Elliot!Connect with James on Tw...
2022-05-25
1h 20
The Archaeology Podcast Network Feed
The Dirt Podcast with Dr. Anna Goldfield
In this episode, Carlton interviews Dr. Anna Goldfield from The Dirt Podcast to talk about Dr. Goldfield's inspiration in becoming a zooarchaeologist, how the The Dirt Podcast started, and the importance of experimental archaeology. This a fun and interested one on one conversation between two seasoned podcast hosts. Definitely check out The Dirt Podcast if you haven't already!If you have left a review of the podcast on iTunes or Spotify, please email us at alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com so we can get shipping information to send you a sticker.If you are listening to this...
2022-05-23
1h 04
A Life In Ruins
The Dirt Podcast with Dr. Anna Goldfield - Ep 109
In this episode, Carlton interviews Dr. Anna Goldfield from The Dirt Podcast to talk about Dr. Goldfield's inspiration in becoming a zooarchaeologist, how the The Dirt Podcast started, and the importance of experimental archaeology. This a fun and interested one on one conversation between two seasoned podcast hosts. Definitely check out The Dirt Podcast if you haven't already!If you have left a review of the podcast on iTunes or Spotify, please email us at alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com so we can get shipping information to send you a sticker.If you are listening to this...
2022-05-23
58 min
The Archaeology Podcast Network Feed
Digging to the Other Side Podcast
On today’s podcast, Jessica hosts the crew of the Digging to the Other Side Podcast. We talk about what got them all interested in archaeology, how the podcast was created, what topics they cover, and why it is important to have a podcast on archaeology and related topics across the Americas through the perspectives of Asian hyphenated archaeologists.Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from James Elliot!Connect with James on Twitter: @paleoimagingInterested in sponsoring this show or po...
2022-05-17
1h 20
Heritage Voices
Digging to the Other Side Podcast - Ep 63
On today’s podcast, Jessica hosts the crew of the Digging to the Other Side Podcast. We talk about what got them all interested in archaeology, how the podcast was created, what topics they cover, and why it is important to have a podcast on archaeology and related topics across the Americas through the perspectives of Asian hyphenated archaeologists.Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from James Elliot!Connect with James on Twitter: @paleoimagingInterested in sponsoring this show or po...
2022-05-17
1h 17
The Dirt Podcast
Becoming Dr. Bonesaw with Naomi Martisius
This week, Amber's under the weather, so Anna goes solo with special guest Dr. Naomi Martisius. Naomi tells us how she deciphers clues about human behavior by looking at tiny tiny VERY tiny portions of animal bone surfaces under a microscope. We’ll get into her undergraduate discovery that re-wrote a part of prehistory (no, really), and her work on the extremely cool bone artifacts and ornaments from Bacho Kiro Cave, in what is today Bulgaria.Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from James El...
2022-05-11
1h 20
The Dirt Podcast
What have Anna and Amber been up to?
BONUSHello, friends! We’re moving our episode schedule slightly—episodes will now be coming out on Wednesdays!! But in the meantime—This is a shortened version of a much longer chat that's available to our Patreon members (link below to join and support the show)! Anna and Amber chat about some changes in their personal lives, plus some updates to The Dirt. We also FINALLY answer our own interview questions:1. What's the best thing about anthropology?2. What moment from human history/prehistory or the history of anthropology would you want to go back i...
2022-05-10
1h 18
The Dirt Podcast
Maroon Communities
On a listener-sponsored episode, Anna and Amber tackle the archaeology and historical context of maroon communities. These are societies formed by self-liberated Africans during the period when the slave trade was a huge part of the world economy. We discuss some archaeological case studies, and then really think long and hard about what it means to reconstruct these lives, and who has historically done so.Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from James Elliot!Connect with James on Twitter: @paleoimaging...
2022-04-25
1h 06
The Dirt Podcast
Science Fiction and Anthropology: Part 2!
We're back! And we're continuing our exploration of science fiction in archaeology AND anthropology in science fiction. Last time, we talked to author Pat Edwards about world-building and storytelling--this time, we tell the stories. Amber gets speculative, Anna spins some yarns, and we investigate the Thousand and One Nights. Show notes coming soon!Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from James Elliot!Connect with James on Twitter: @paleoimagingContactEmail the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.comArchPodNet
2022-04-11
1h 04
The Dirt Podcast
Anthropology and Science Fiction with Pat Edwards
Pat Edwards is an author, game builder, and creator of all kinds of sci-fi and fantasy content. We all sit down and puzzle through some questions about the boundaries between archaeological interpretation and fiction, the use of anthropological tropes in pop culture, and strategies for drawing from the archaeological record for fictional world-building. We had a blast with this unconventional topic, and we hope you enjoy listening!Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from James Elliot!LinksPat Edwards...
2022-03-21
1h 24
The Dirt Podcast
The Sweet Stuff
We're bouncing back from some bumps in the road this week, and bring you a short and sweet episode about some of the history and archaeology of two sweet substances--maple syrup and sugarcane.Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from James Elliot!ContactEmail the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.comArchPodNet 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...
2022-03-14
48 min
The Dirt Podcast
Them There Hills: Mounds and the Myth of the Moundbuilders
Hello, lovely listeners--a whole bunch of life stuff has smacked us right in the face recently. Thank you so much for your patience and continued support--we really love you. This week's classic episode is all about mounds and the people that built (and absolutely did not build) them.Links Cahokia: The Great Native American Metropolis (via WorldCat) Cahokia Mounds Watson Brake, a Middle Archaic Mound Complex in Northeast Louisiana (American Antiquity) 12th-Century Cahokia Was a “Melting Pot” (Archaeology) Cahokia and the Excavation of Mound 72 (Lithics Casting Lab) The Ancient Mounds of Poverty Point: A Place of Ring...
2022-03-07
1h 01
The Archaeology Podcast Network Feed
Bonus: Redrawing Boundaries episode from the Sapiens Podcast
On today’s podcast, we have a special bonus episode for you all courtesy of the creators of Sapiens: A Podcast for Everything Human. In season four of Sapiens: A Podcast for Everything Human, hosts Yoli Ngandali and Dr. Ora Marek-Martinez interview Black and Indigenous Archaeologists to uncover our shared histories. Sapiens has agreed to let us share their episode, Redrawing Boundaries, which features Dr. Ayana Flewellan, who was our guest on the last episode of Heritage Voices. If you liked that episode, this is a quick really beautifully done and super interesting podcast episode with Dr. Flewellan, Dr. Ju...
2022-03-01
32 min
Heritage Voices
Bonus: Redrawing Boundaries episode from the Sapiens Podcast - Ep 60.1
On today’s podcast, we have a special bonus episode for you all courtesy of the creators of Sapiens: A Podcast for Everything Human. In season four of Sapiens: A Podcast for Everything Human, hosts Yoli Ngandali and Dr. Ora Marek-Martinez interview Black and Indigenous Archaeologists to uncover our shared histories. Sapiens has agreed to let us share their episode, Redrawing Boundaries, which features Dr. Ayana Flewellan, who was our guest on the last episode of Heritage Voices. If you liked that episode, this is a quick really beautifully done and super interesting podcast episode with Dr. Flewellan, Dr. Ju...
2022-03-01
30 min
The Dirt Podcast
CLASSIC: Dogtectives!
Amber's traveling for work this week, so we bring you a perfectly dry-aged episode from years past. We bring you a fascinating, poignant, and thoroughly delightful interview with Very Special Guest Lynne Engelbert, a handler with the Institute for Canine Forensics. Learn what the talented pups at the ICF do for a living and prepare to be amazed!Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from James Elliot!Start your own podcast with Zencastr and get 30% off your first three months with code...
2022-02-28
43 min
The Dirt Podcast
You Are What You Eat (LIVE!)
How do we know what people ate in the past? How did they make their food? How did food fit into the social aspect of life in the past? We discuss old old recipes, spicy Sichuanese history, an herbal mystery, how food changed our faces, and more!Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from James Elliot!Start your own podcast with Zencastr and get 30% off your first three months with code DIRT. Click this message for more information.Links ...
2022-02-21
56 min
The Dirt Podcast
Studying Salvage Anthropology w/ Samuel Redman
We dive into Dr. Samuel Redman’s latest book, Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Amber and Anna (mostly Amber) have lots of questions about the seemingly paradoxical 19th- and 20th- century urge by American scholars to “rescue” objects and even human remains from “disappearing” Indigenous groups. It’s a fascinating window into anthropology viewed as a moral and academic obligation, and the social underpinnings of the development of the discipline in the US. And! You can enter to win your very own copy of Ghosts and Prophets! Harvard University Press generously hooked us up with three copies to gi...
2022-02-14
1h 09
The Dirt Podcast
Sanxingdui and the Shu State
This week, we explore yet another place that’s not a backwater or influenced by aliens! In 1986, two pits were excavated at the site of Sanxingdui (Three Stars Mound) in what is today China’s Sichuan province. These two pits, and six more uncovered in 2021, were full of bronze, jade, gold, and ivory objects that appear to have been “sacrificed” (burned or broken) before burial. The artifacts were made in a style never before seen in Chinese material culture. What was going on at Sanxingdui, and why was the site abruptly abandoned thousands of years ago? We can tell you righ...
2022-02-07
53 min
The Archaeology Podcast Network Feed
A Podcast Donnybrook with Tristan Boyle
On this episode of A Life in Ruins Podcast, we talk to our arch-nemesis, co-founder of the Archaeology Podcast Network, and host of the Modern Myth Podcast Tristan Boyle. We start out talking about our terrible impersonations of him and talk about where he is from and where he currently lives in the UK. We then delve into his formative years and how he got into archaeology. Tristan then nerds out about heavy metals in hair samples. We then ask him to recall the APN origin story. Tristan then talks about Unarchaeology as a response to inaccessibility within archaeology...
2022-02-07
1h 06
A Life In Ruins
A Podcast Donnybrook with Tristan Boyle - Ep 94
On this episode of A Life in Ruins Podcast, we talk to our arch-nemesis, co-founder of the Archaeology Podcast Network, and host of the Modern Myth Podcast Tristan Boyle. We start out talking about our terrible impersonations of him and talk about where he is from and where he currently lives in the UK. We then delve into his formative years and how he got into archaeology. Tristan then nerds out about heavy metals in hair samples. We then ask him to recall the APN origin story. Tristan then talks about Unarchaeology as a response to inaccessibility within archaeology...
2022-02-07
1h 00
The Dirt Podcast
JANUARY HIATUS CLASSIC - Where Do Babies Come From?
This week, we bring you the MIRACLE OF BIRTH. Join Amber and Anna for a brief frolic through some ancient birthing wisdom and evidence of pregnancy and childbirth in the archaeological record. We're also joined by the brilliant Dr. Natalie Laudicina, who takes us on a fascinating and slightly terrifying journey through the surprisingly complicated landscape of the primate birth canal. Content warning: some of the subject material in this episode may be upsetting, but we try to give listeners a heads up.Start your own podcast with Zencastr and get 30% off your first three months with...
2022-01-31
1h 03
The Dirt Podcast
It's Jennauary!
We’re finally introducing our producer, Jenna Hendrick, in an episode! Jenna has been working with us behind the scenes on our social media posts and some of the nuts and bolts of episode organization for several months now. We chat about popular media portrayals of human life in the Paleolithic, and how those affected popular perception of the human past.Tune in to the full episode on Patreon for our best/worst Pop-Paleo Awards show!Start your own podcast with Zencastr and get 30% off your first three months with code DIRT. Click this message fo...
2022-01-24
36 min
The Dirt Podcast
The Queen of Sheba
It's another January Hiatus episode--this time a cleaned-up excerpt from Dirt After Dark. Amber drags Anna back to Arabia, where we discuss possibly its most famous inhabitant of all time: the Queen of Sheba. We look at the source material and the archaeology before really getting into it to discuss racism, misogyny, and--of course--camels.Start your own podcast with Zencastr and get 30% off your first three months with code DIRT. Click this message for more information.Links 1 Kings 10: The Queen of Sheba Visits Solomon 2 Chronicles 9: The Queen of Sheba Visits Solomon Surah an-Nami The...
2022-01-17
42 min
The Dirt Podcast
Race and Biological Anthropology with Dr. Rachel Watkins (131)
Recently, Anna and Amber sat down with Rachel Watkins, a biological anthropologist and scholar-activist whose research centers on social and biological histories of Black Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries. Learn about the social history of biological anthropology, the exemplary case studies with which Dr. Watkins has worked, why you shouldn't discount the creepy things small children sometimes do, and so much more!Start your own podcast with Zencastr and get 30% off your first three months with code DIRT. Click this message for more information.Links Rachel Watkins Faculty Profile (American University) Rachel...
2022-01-10
53 min
The Dirt Podcast
Neanderthalk with "Kindred" Author Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes (113)
We hope you enjoy this great interview from the archives. If you're doing cool research, and want to talk about it on the show, drop us a note at thedirtpodcast@gmail.com!Anna and Amber sit down with Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Paleolithic archaeologist and author of the book "Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art." We talk about Rebecca's education and her love for all things ancient, and she resolves some common misconceptions about our Neanderthal cousins. "Kindred" just came out in the States, so pick up a copy of your very own for an amazing...
2022-01-03
1h 08
The Dirt Podcast
Oh, Nice
We're closing out the year with a cozy episode about heartwarming things in the archaeological record. That’s right, we’re just going to find examples of nice things that people did and made in the past and tell you all about them. It’s a little year’s-end treat for us all. There's some discussion of Dads Being Dads, some loud opinions from Anna's neighbor's dog, and an all around good time.Start your own podcast with 30% off Zencastr for the first 3 months with The Dirt! Click anywhere on this paragraph.Links Stone-age toddlers...
2021-12-27
1h 10
The Dirt Podcast
How Long Ago Was the Past?
When does “The Past” start, and how far back does it go? How long did it take people to get places in the past? How do we attempt to hold the vastness of time and geography in our minds? Not well, especially in an audio medium, but we’re excited to blow your minds.Links The Greatest Animal War (Nautilus) The last slave ship survivor and her descendants identified (National Geographic) How Far Can A Horse Travel In A Day? (8 Facts) (Deep Hollow Ranch) RGS-IBG Expedition Handbook (Royal Geographical Society) Speed Under Sail of Ancient Ships (Transa...
2021-12-20
1h 37
The Dirt Podcast
From The Vault: Portrait of a Podcaster on Fire
This week, we bring you another episode from behind the Patreon paywall. Sure, the title is a stretch, but it's hard coming up with a topical joke about portraiture! This month we dive into some early examples of representing individuals in ancient art from several times and places. Amber inexplicably takes umbrage with the entirety of Byzantine art, and both hosts question what is a face and what is a couple of lines that sorta look like a face.Links The oldest known portrait of a human—usually interpreted as a woman—sculpted from mammoth ivory (via...
2021-12-13
55 min
The Dirt Podcast
From the Vault: "Ancient" "Astronomy"
This week, Amber is finishing grad school applications and Anna had some vaccine booster side effects, so we bring you an excerpt from an episode of Dirt After Dark! Amber brings Anna (kicking and screaming) along on an exploration of some space weirdos who interpreted various bits and pieces of archaeology and ethnography to show that there's another mystery planet out there, and it's out to get us. And also bring us civilization? Anyway, it gets really weird, and we hope you enjoy the ride.ContactEmail the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.comArchPodNet
2021-11-29
52 min
The Dirt Podcast
Thanksglyphing
We’re shaking things up this year, and instead of doing a ThanksViking episode, we’re peeking into the world of Maya and Aztec art and writing. The Maya wrote using a system of around 800 glyphs--the Aztecs used as many as 2,000. We won’t get to ALL of these, but we’ll talk about how these writing systems developed, how they were used, and the role they played in the lives of the Aztec and Maya people.ContactEmail the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.comArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Faceb...
2021-11-22
42 min
The Dirt Podcast
Yes We Cant: Anti-Languages and Argots
Come along for an exploration of anti-languages and the qualities that make them successful in building community and maintaining safety among the people that develop them. From occupational jargon to survival as a marginalized group to being hip with the kids, we tour a few of these languages, and subject everyone to a 16th century dialogue with translation.Links O latín dos canteiros en Cabana de Bergantiños (Madrygal, in Galician) Anti-Languages (American Anthropologist) The Language of the Underworld and its Sociolinguistic Significance (Contributions to the Study of Language, Literature and Culture) The secret “anti-languages” you’re...
2021-11-15
48 min
The Dirt Podcast
Kyle Jordan
Anna and Amber are joined by wonderful Special Guest, Kyle Jordan! Kyle is a disabled Egyptologist interested in themes of religion, magic and identity in the Egyptian world, with a specific focus on the appearance and interpretation of disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology as a discipline. We had a wonderful-- and long-- conversation with Kyle about how Egyptians viewed the embodiment of disability, how perception of disability in archaeology has changed (and how it still needs to change), and more.Listener note, we mistakenly discuss the dialogue of a man and his ka, which was in...
2021-11-08
1h 40
The Dirt Podcast
Let's Call It a Ritual Object
Thanks to everyone who came out to our virtual live show! This is the edited audio of that event. We talk about the role of ritual in daily life, how our big round human brains have evolved the ability to think about abstract meaning and ritual significance, and the theory underpinning all of this. We also take a trip to two incredible archaeological sites to think about how the people living there might have thought about the unknown and unseen in their lives. Whoa.Links Emile Durkheim: religion – the very idea, part 3: ritual, ancient and modern (Th...
2021-11-01
1h 00
The Dirt Podcast
Spooktober: Fear Itself
We explore the evolutionary roots of fear, and the science of how it works. Why do some people love thrills and chills, while others don't? Why does fear make us stinky? And how can we think about something as personal and ephemeral as fear in the archaeological record?Links Why We Physically Feel Fear (University of West Alabama) The biology of fear- and anxiety-related behaviors (Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience) What Happens in the Brain When We Feel Fear (Smithsonian) Humans can smell fear - and it's contagious (NBC News) Humans Respond to Scent of Fear (LiveScience) ...
2021-10-25
42 min
The Dirt Podcast
Spooktober: Homo lepidopteris
This week, we're taking a turn for the cryptid and spooking local with the legend of West Virginia native son, the Mothman. For a little over a year leading up to December 1967, sightings of a winged humanoid with glowing eyes were reported in and around Point Pleasant, WV. Since then, Mothman has evolved from evil omen to legend to meme. In this episode, we’ll explore the legend, collective memory, and the power of portents.Links Paranormal Activity in West Virginia (Marshall University) Mothman: The Facts Behind the Legend (West Virginia Book Company) Mothman myth rooted in...
2021-10-11
1h 13
The Dirt Podcast
Spooktober: Feral Children
SPOOKTOBER HAS BEGUN! This week, we discuss the trope in myth, legend, horror, and adjacent genres of feral children. We won't be directly discussing actual cases of trauma, neglect, or child abuse, but rather the place of the bestial feral child in the mythology of different ancient cultures all the way up to a more recent timeline. Why do these stories interest us, spook us, and who's the real monster here?Links Register for our International Archaeology Day Live Show on October 16! Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Languages of Barbarians (Center for Hellenic Studies) How...
2021-10-04
1h 09
The Dirt Podcast
Disability in the Ancient World With Andrew Gurza
This week, Anna and Amber are joined by Andrew Gurza, disabled content creator and fellow podcaster, to talk about disability and care in the ancient world. We talk with Andrew about the need for disabled voices in archaeology, his path to podcasting, and some archaeological case studies that show that humans have always taken care of one another.Links Andrew Gurza's website Ancient Bones That Tell a Story of Compassion (NY Times) Ancient Bones Offer Clues to How Long Ago Humans Cared for the Vulnerable (NPR Goats and Soda) Follow Andrew on Twitter: @AndrewGurza_ ...
2021-09-27
1h 02
The Dirt Podcast
School of Rocks with Dr. Danielle Macdonald
Dr. Danielle Macdonald specializes in the prehistory of Western Asia and the stone tools that people made and used in their everyday lives. That’s right, three years in, we’re finally doing an episode on lithics! We’ll also talk about Danielle’s path to anthropology and her ongoing work at the site of Kharaneh IV in what's today Jordan.Links Follow Danielle on Twitter! Danielle Macdonald (University of Tulsa) Kharaneh IV Website Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology (MIT Press) Eccentric flint (Wikipedia) Flint Knapping a spear head from English Flint with Will Lord (YouTube) Knapping...
2021-09-20
1h 03
The Dirt Podcast
ÖMG: Ötzi the Iceman
It’s the episode title that’s been making us giggle for months! We’re FINALLY examining the famous Chalcolithic ice-mummy just in time for the 30th anniversary of hikers stumbling upon his body. We’ll explore the archaeological methods and evidence that tell us about who Ötzi was, what his life was like, and how he died. Umlauts will, no doubt, abound.Links Chalcolithic Europe (Wikipedia) Scientists Reconstruct the Glacial Conditions During Ötzi the Iceman’s Lifetime (Columbia Climate School) Chalcolithic Period: The Beginnings of Copper Metallurgy (ThoughtCo) Ötzi, the Iceman (ThoughtCo) What We Can Learn From Öt...
2021-09-13
50 min
The Dirt Podcast
We Stan a King: Nabonidus
This week, Amber tells Anna the story of Nabonidus, King of Babylon, who, mid-kinging, tootled off to the Arabian desert for a decade to worship the moon god, Sin. But is that the whole story? Of course not. Tune in to learn what Nabonidus was maybe really doing out there.Links Cuneiform inscription from last king of Babylon discovered in Saudi Arabia (LiveScience) Mesopotamia (World History Encyclopedia) Video: The rise and fall of the Assyrian Empire - Marian H Feldman (TED-Ed via YouTube) A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC (via WorldCat) The...
2021-08-30
1h 05
The Dirt Podcast
Back to School: Stratigraphy
It's our 150th episode! Wow! This week we're starting our Back To School series with a short primer on stratigraphy. How do archaeologists divide a site into time periods? How did people first figure out that layers of sediment accumulate over time through different processes? How many dirt/soil/sediment puns is Anna capable of making in roughly forty minutes? We’ll find out.Links Stratigraphy: Earth's Geological, Archaeological Layers (ThoughtCo) Charles Lyell: Principles of Geology (WGBH) About Sir Charles Lyell (University of Edinburgh) Charles Lyell (Encyclopedia Britannica) The Blasphemous Geologist Who Rocked Our Understanding of Ea...
2021-08-16
41 min
The Dirt Podcast
I Gotta Go: Archaeology of Abandonment
This week, we’ve got an episode that started off as a funny title and became a topic. There are many possible reasons for abandoning a site, and there are plenty of examples from the archaeological record. We’ll look into evidence for climate change, conflict, natural disaster, and other reasons for abandonment (not all at once; that sounds like a really bad place to live). Plus, Anna and Amber do Dickens.Links What does panarchy even mean? (Foresight Design Initiative) A Canaanite palace was abandoned 3,700 years ago. Archaeologists finally know why. (National Geographic) Study: Scant evid...
2021-08-09
48 min
The Dirt Podcast
Field Season with Carlton Gover
This week, Anna and Amber sit down with archaeologist, podcaster, and member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, Carlton Shield Chief Gover. We talk about his path to archaeology, an Indigenous perspective on archaeology as history and heritage, how to prank your site supervisor, and more!ContactEmail the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.comArchPodNet 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 ...
2021-08-02
58 min
The Dirt Podcast
Field Season: The Indiana Jones Episode
In this installment of Field Season, Amber and Anna take a trip to the semi-mythical world of cinematic archaeology. Who inspired the character of Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr.? Did the Indiana Jones franchise leave a lasting impression on archaeology? Plus--we've got a whole roundup of fellas that likely influenced the American public's perception of what an explorer should look like.Links How Indiana Jones Actually Changed Archaeology (National Geographic) The Casual Colonialism of Lara Croft and Indiana Jones (Hyperallergic) 2 Archaeologists, Robert Braidwood, 95, And His Wife, Linda Braidwood, 93, Die (New York Times) Linda Braidwood (TrowelBlazers) ...
2021-07-26
1h 02
The Dirt Podcast
Field Season with Allyson Blanck
Anna and Amber are joined this week by Allyson Blanck, a Classical archaeologist and advocate for accessibility and inclusivity in the field. Learn about best practices for accommodating archaeologists with disabilities in the field, the changes that are already underway in the discipline, and how much farther we need to go. Plus, some excellent dog content and a discussion of ancient cranial surgery!Links Allyson on Twitter: @ablanck_page https://classics.arizona.edu/people/ablanck ContactEmail the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.comArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com ...
2021-07-19
1h 17
The Dirt Podcast
Feeling it Out: Phenomenology
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...
2021-07-12
58 min
The Dirt Podcast
Nazca, Outside the Lines
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 The Puquios of Nasca (Latin American Antiquity) Cahuachi: New Evidence for an Early Nasca Ceremonial Role (Current Anthropology, via ResearchGate) Ritual Uses of Trophy Heads in Ancient Nasca Society (Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru,) Traditional Medicinal Plant Use in Northern Peru: Tracking Two Thousand Years of Healing Culture (Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine) Nasca Ceramics: Ancient...
2021-07-05
57 min
The Dirt Podcast
Shaking Hands With Ella al-Shamahi
Ella al-Shamahi is a paleoanthropologist, National Geographic Explorer, evolutionary biologist, stand-up comic, and author of the new book The Handshake: A Gripping History. And NOW, she's a guest on The Dirt Podcast! We chat about how she came to anthropology, learn about the biological and cultural roots of the handshake, about science's Geography Problem, and what it's like to be a capital-E Explorer.ContactEmail the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.comArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com...
2021-06-28
54 min
Modern Myth
The Archaeology and Anthropology Podcast with Dr Michael Rivera
To welcome in the new year, Tristan speaks to Dr. Michael Rivera, who is the creator of the Archaeology and Anthropology Podcast. We discuss the process leading up to the podcast’s creation, how to think about and plan ahead and be ready to release episodes. Michael explains the purpose of his podcast as well as the benefit of getting a diverse set of voices broadcast to a wide audience. The Arch and Anth podcast releases 3 times a week, featuring guests from all areas exploring humanity’s history and development. Check out the social media and if you would like to su...
2020-01-08
50 min
AdultSh1t
KATES LEAVING THE PODCAST & WHY CHANGE IS SCARY // ADULT SH1T // EPISODE
It’s true, friends. I’m leaving the podcast for the foreseeable future. I’m preparing to go to Mars with Lance Bass and Clay Aiken to form the first ever platinum space band, free from all the unavoidable industry hoops of this tinsel town. Will it be dangerous? Yes, space always is. Will it rock? Let me answer this with another question: DO meteors fall? (Yes, it will rock. Our space band will ROCK). Of course I’m “kidding” about “Mars.” Unfortunately, I’m not kidding about leaving the pod. This was one of the best projects I’ve been a part of and I...
2018-05-03
1h 13
Archaeology Conferences
0039 - GBAC 2016 - Chris Webster - APN
Podcasts have been around for over 10 years now and only in the last couple years, since the release of the popular This American Life spin-off, Serial, has the American public been interested. Until Serial, it seemed that you were either a podcast listener or you weren’t. Now, people are incorporating them into their lives as trusted sources of information and entertainment. The Archaeology Podcast Network was founded as the first season of Serial came to a close and our downloads quickly hit 20,000 a month. Podcasts on the APN range from niche shows about specific topics related to professional archaeologists to...
2016-10-07
14 min