The Archaeology Show

With the definitive dating of the “human” footprints at White Sands pushing back the earliest human occupation of North America to 21,000 to 23,000 years BP, we decided to take a look at several well known pre-Clovis sites. These sites are often controversial and heavily debated amongst archaeologists. We’ll discuss the findings from each site, why they are controversial, and what we think.Links Stunning footprints push back human arrival in Americas by thousands of years (Nat Geo) Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum (Science) 130k-Year-Old Arch Site with Dr. Steven Holen - Special Episode - The Archaeology Show Radioactive Science and a 130,000-Year-Old Mastodon - ArchaeoTech 52 Settlers of Cerutti: Evaluating Claims About the Cerutti Mastodon Site - Ruins 37 Reclaiming Indigenous Histories and the Indigenous Paleolithic - HeVo 31 Getting "in tune" with the Paleoindian with Dr. Jesse Tune - Ruins 50 Ancient America - Meadowcroft Rockshelter - Arch365 140 Surprise discoveries in Mexico Cave may double time of peopling of the Americas Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum Were humans living in a Mexican cave during the last ice age? (Science) Contact Chris Webster [email protected] ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

With the definitive dating of the “human” footprints at White Sands pushing back the earliest human occupation of North America to 21,000 to 23,000 years BP, we decided to take a look at several well known pre-Clovis sites. These sites are often controversial and heavily debated amongst archaeologists. We’ll discuss the findings from each site, why they are controversial, and what we think. In Part 1 we cover four of the youngest pre-Clovis Sites including, Paisley Cave in Oregon, Monte Verde in Chile, Gault in Texas and Topper in South Carolina.Links Explore Pre-Clovis Sites (Old, but holds up!) Pre-Clovis Sites A Life in Ruins Episode 77 Paisley Caves Monte Verde (Wiki) New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile Gault, TX Evidence of an early projectile point technology in North America at the Gault Site, Texas, USA Topper Site Contact Chris Webster [email protected] ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Released on Hulu in 2020, Ammonite is a fictionalized movie that portrays a few years at the end of Mary Anning's life. She was an amateur paleontologist and with her family discovered the first ichthyosaur fossils in England. We talk about the movie, what it got right and what it didn't, and about the real Mary Anning and her life, work, and discoveries.Links Ammonite IMDB Entry Ammonite movie review and summary by Roger Ebert Mary Anning (Wikipedia) Mary Anning: the unsung hero of fossil discovery Ammonite: Who was the real Mary Anning? Mary Anning (Lyme Regis Museum) The forgotten fossil hunter who transformed Britain’s Jurassic Coast Contact Chris Webster [email protected] ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode we interview Dr. Randy Daniel of East Carolina University about his new book: Time, Typology, and Point Traditions in North Carolina Archaeology. His research interests include the archaeology of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the Southeastern United States, particularly hunter-gatherer adaptations at the end of the last Ice Age. Dr. Daniel recognized the need to update, revise and add to the previous point typology definitions in North Carolina, which lead to the book published earlier this year. We chat with Dr. Daniel about why the update was needed, as well as his methodology and approach towards working with private land owners and amateur collectors.LinksTime, Typology, and Point Traditions in North Carolina Archaeology (Daniel 2021)Contact Chris Webster [email protected] ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

We’ve got three completely different news stories for you this week. We start with a site that was found in Croatia by basically looking at satellite maps and looking for interesting shapes in the water. We then go to Michigan in the USA and look at a Clovis site that was found by a self-taught researcher. Finally, we head to Poland where a farmer found, and reported, a unique hoard of metal artifacts.Links Archaeologist discovers 6,000 year-old island settlement off Croatian Coast Clovis Camp Site Discovered in Michigan Farm Field find rewrites archaeological history in Michigan The Belson Site: A paleoindian campsite on the outwash plains of the Central Great Lakes Farmer finds rare treasures from Unetice Culture Contact Chris Webster [email protected] ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week we interview Jason Cooper, an archaeologist with the Washington DOT, the current president of the Association for Washington Archaeology, and former archaeologist with the environmental firm, AMEC. In 2008 we were lucky enough to work on an Olcott excavation with Jason, and now he has co-written a book about those findings. We discuss the significance of the Olcott tradition in Washington, as well as how our findings on the CRM project in 2008 contributed to our knowledge of the Olcott people.Links Hunters of the Mid-Holocene Forest Association for Washington Archaeology Contact Chris Webster [email protected] ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Timelines is back, and this time we take a look at a time that is extremely significant to the United States: 1776, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. We explore the events leading up the the Revolutionary war in America, as well as what was happening at the same time in other parts of the world: China and Africa.Links Timeline of the Declaration of Independence Declaration of Independence China and America in 1776: A Comparison Qing Dynasty Ten Great Campaigns Imamate of Futa Toro The Islamic Revolution of Futa Toro The History Search Imamate of Futo Toro Contact Chris Webster [email protected] ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Your news for the week includes a Roman basilica, the largest found in Israel, uncovered in the city of Ashkelon. Next is a preserved, mummified, body of a freed Greek slave that lived in Pompeii. Finally, we go to England to find the remains of an Abbey that fell into disuse in the 1500s.Links 2000 Year Old Basilica Unearthed in Ashkelon Archaeologists find mummy, evidence of Greek in Pompeii Archaeologists find skeleton, evidence of Greek in Pompeii Stunningly preserved mummy of slave found in Pompeii graveyard Archaeologists recover lost part of St. Mary's Abbey Contact Chris Webster [email protected] ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this week’s episode of The Archaeology Show, we take a look at 3 recent archaeology news articles. First, a Roman graveyard containing an unusually high number of decapitated burials, indicating they may have been executed criminals. Second, lava tubes in Saudi Arabia with thousands of bones deposited by hyenas representing many different animals, including humans. Finally, we discuss spade shaped coins made in a 2500 year old Chinese mint.Links 'Exceptionally high' number of decapitated bodies found at Roman burial site https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/world/europe/roman-burials-decapitated.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/31/europe/decapitated-roman-remains-scn-scli-intl/index.html Thousands of Human and Animal Bones Hoarded by Hyenas in Lava Tube System https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/thousands-of-human-and-animal-bones-hoarded-by-hyenas-in-lava-tube-system/139869 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-021-01365-6 Ancient Coin Mint Discovered in China from Over 2500 Years Ago https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/ancient-coin-mint-discovered-in-china-from-over-2500-years-ago/139852 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/radiocarbondating-an-early-minting-site-the-emergence-of-standardised-coinage-in-china/178ECC2B245A017BF684BE1EFC732BD1 Contact Chris Webster [email protected] ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On today’s show we start with an article that claims to “debunk” the Paleo Diet. However, what it really does is just talk about a lot of really cool food-related things in history. Next we go to Turkey and learn about a headless statue that was recently discovered. Finally, we end in an Iranian salt mine where naturally mummified sheep were found.Links The real Paleo diet: Scientists debunk ancient food myths Headless Statue of Ancient Woman Discovered in Turkey’s ‘Mother Goddess City’ 1600 Year Old Mummified Sheep Found in Iranian Salt Mine News Article Paper Contact Chris Webster [email protected] ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On this weeks episode we have 3 interesting archaeology news articles. First up is the discovery of a Roman Pomerium marker defining the boundary of city of Rome 2000 years ago. Second, a 4000 year old city in Iraq has been discovered. And finally, a reanalysis of skeletons from a Pleistocene era graveyard in Sudan provide new insight into how the people buried there died.Links Ancient Rome's city borders were discovered in a rare stone 4,000-year-old city discovered in Iraq Scientific Reports: New insights on interpersonal violence in the Late Pleistocene based on the Nile valley cemetery of Jebel Sahaba Nature Daily Mail Contact Chris Webster [email protected] ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Paul Zimmerman from the ArchaeoTech podcast joins Chris and Rachel on their archaeological project in the high desert of Nevada. We talk about a dubious piece of Neanderthal art - I mean, art is art, right? We also look at a Nubian cathedral that was recently excavated. Finally, Paul helps us understand the Temple of the Winged Lions at Petra. He's actually worked there!Links A 51,000-year-old carved bone is one of the world’s oldest works of art, researchers say NBC Article Nature Archaeologists find ruins of vast Medieval Nubian cathedral in Sudan The Art Newspaper University of Warsaw Article A Journey from the Excavation Archive Back to the Site: The Architectural Decoration of the Temple of the Winged Lions Article Michael Press on Palmyra Contact Chris Webster [email protected] ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

We have three great news stories for you this week. First, we talk about an article from Smithsonian about ancient tombs in Egypt. Check out the documentary coming out in 2021! Next we look at an experimental archaeology article looking at three different cave lighting systems and their effectiveness. Finally, we look at the oldest tattooing tools ever found in North America.Links Inside the Tombs of Saqqara Scientists reconstruct cave lighting systems used by early humans Tennessee site yields oldest known American tattoo tools https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/oldest-tattoo-tools-tennessee-native-american Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X21002145?via%3Dihub Contact Chris Webster [email protected] ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week we discuss three recent news articles about archaeology. First, potential new additions to the hominin evolutionary tree. Then, a CRM firm in South Carolina opens a time capsule from the mid 1800s. And finally, a carved wood staff is found in Finland and it may have belonged to a Shaman.Links Mysterious skull fossils expand human family tree — but questions remain Contents of long-buried time capsule surprise archaeologists Possible shaman's snake stick from 4,400 years ago discovered in a Finnish lake Contact Chris Webster [email protected] ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

There are a lot of interesting archaeology articles in the world this week. On today’s episode we cover just three. We start with an uncracked 1000 year old chicken egg. Then we talk about a unique child burial in Poland. Finally, we talk about fancy viking clothes and the cost to make them.Links Archaeologists Discover - and Crack - an Intact 1,000 year old chicken egg Girl buried with finch in her mouth puzzles archaeologists Original German Article: The girl with finches: a unique post-medieval burial in Tunel Wielki Cave, southern Poland Unique Viking textiles found in woman’s grave Contact Chris Webster [email protected] ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A recent article discussing the discover of over 200 child burials in Canada has brought the Canadian Residential School system back into the light. The schools were for First Nations children to be indoctrinated into white society. They striped children of languangen and identity and forced them into gender-typical labor. it was a horrifying time in Canada that came to an end, in once case, in just 1996.Links Why Canada is mourning the deaths of 215 children The Residential School System https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_school_system/ http://summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/12440/etd7411_SDielissen.pdf Finding Cleo Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report https://ehprnh2mwo3.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AAA-Hamilton-cemetery-FInal.pdf https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kamloops-residential-school-remains-update-1.6053467 Contact Chris Webster [email protected] ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week we have 3 stories of Archaeology in the news. First, the oldest petroglyphs in Scotland, and also the only animal shapes, were discovered by an amateur archaeologist. Second, we discuss new developments in lithic dating using OSL. And finally, a large scale environmental survey on an Air Force base is announced in Wyoming.Links 'An incredible discovery': Prehistoric animal carvings found in Scotland for first time Oldest human traces from the southern Tibetan Plateau in a new light Direct dating of lithic surface artifacts using luminescence F.E. Warren AFB to conduct field surveys June 14 to Oct. 22 Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

We have three articles for you today. The first is about current climate models and how they don't take archaeological information into consideration. For example, how many acres of food were grown per person in 1500 Europe verses China? Next we look at why pig and fish remains were in abundance in some ancient Judean settlements? Weren't they supposed to be Kosher? Finally, a paper that's still just an abstract suggests that coin makers in ancient Greece and Rome found it hard to make bronze dies.Links Archeologists Are Making a Push to Improve Climate Modeling What Archaeology Tells Us About the Ancient History of Eating Kosher - Smithsonian Magazine Link to paper in the Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Model for ancient Greek and Roman coinage production - ScienceDirect Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Please Visit Our Sponsors!Archaeology Southwest Cafe: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/things-to-do/cafe/ Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week on The Archaeology Show, we discuss three exciting Archaeology Articles and News stories. First, two obsidian flakes from central Oregon have been found in an early Holocene settlement in Lake Huron. Second, an extensive cemetery in Poland gives the Wielbark civilization its name. And finally, researchers in Arizona have programmed a computer to sort pottery sherds faster and more consistently than humans can.Links Central Oregon obsidian from a submerged early Holocene archaeological site beneath Lake Huron The Goths, the Wielbark Culture and over 100 years of research on the eponymous site Archaeologists teach computers to sort ancient pottery Applications of deep learning to decorated ceramic typology and classification: A case study using Tusayan White Ware from Northeast Arizona Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Please Visit Our Sponsors!Archaeology Southwest Cafe: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/things-to-do/cafe/ Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week on The Archaeology show, we discuss 3 recently published Archaeology Articles and stories in the news. First, Neanderthals are back in the news, again! It seems like there is something new about Neanderthals, and this time it is the discovery of 9 individuals with gnawed bones found in an Italian cave. Second, new research uses chemistry to identify beer and wine residue in ancient Sicilian jars. And finally, new research looking at the diet composition of ancient humans, as compared with modern humans.Links Gnawed bones of 9 Neanderthals found in Italian cave How Scientists and Archeologists Trace Beer and Wine through Antiquity Chemical evidence for the persistence of wine production and trade in Early Medieval Islamic Sicily A global carbon and nitrogen isotope perspective on modern and ancient human diet ContactChris Webster [email protected] Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week we discuss three interesting archaeology stories in the news. First, new dating techniques are used to date Laos' field of jars. Then, we discuss the oldest known homo sapien burial found in Africa. Finally, excavations of mustatils in Saudi Arabia shed some light on what these structures were used for.Links Archaeologists finally uncovered some of the mystery behind Laos’s Plain of Jars Dating the megalithic culture of laos: Radiocarbon, optically stimulated luminescence and U/Pb zircon results Africa's Oldest Human Burial Site These mysterious stone structures in Saudi Arabia are older than the pyramids The mustatils: cult and monumentality in Neolithic north-western Arabia Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Please Visit Our Sponsors!Archaeology Southwest Cafe: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/things-to-do/cafe/ Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On today’s episode Chris and Rachel discuss a recent visit to the historical monuments in Philadelphia, PA and Gettysburg. In the last segment they talk about the recent discovery of a grind stone in Orkney, Scotland and what it means for our understanding of the Neolithic in that area.Links Archaeological Investigation of the Carriage House, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Archaeological Investigations at the Tower Stairhall, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Archaeological Monitoring of A Structural Engineering Study of the Retaining Walls at Independence Square Archaeological Report on the Investigation of a Brick Vault Catchment "Cistern Number 2," Beneath the Cement Floor Basement of Old City Hall Archaeological Survey Report, Area F, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dock Creek Archaeology Archaeological Project 13 Recommendations Neolithic grind stone ploughed up in Orkney Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week, on the archaeology show, we take a look at a couple new(ish) discoveries that have been in the news this week. First, an extremely well preserved city in Luxor Egypt has been discovered and dated to the reign of Amenhotep III. Next, LiDAR helps researchers discover a new monument in Tikal that appears to be influenced by the people of Teotihuacan, the future conquerers of Tikal. And finally, archaeologists in Maryland believe they have found the home of Ben Ross, Harriet Tubman's father.Links 'Lost golden city of Luxor' discovered by archaeologists in Egypt Archaeologists discover mysterious monument hidden in plain sight Harriet Tubman’s father’s home discovered by archaeologists in Maryland Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Please Visit Our Sponsors!Archaeology Southwest Cafe: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/things-to-do/cafe/ Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This is a special episode of The Archaeology Show hosted by Tristan Boyle.Recently it was announced that a Benin Bronze, a statue head of an "Oba" or king, would be returned from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland to Nigeria.Head of Special Collections, Neil Curtis describes the process of repatriating the item as well as what that means for other items in the collection.Recently a number of books have been published that talk about the punitive expedition of 1897, where the British razed the city of Benin (modern day Nigeria) and looted various items from the people of Benin. Over the years, these cultural items were bought or taken into many museums, including the British Museum, National Museum of Scotland and Berlin Museum. Dan Hicks' recent book The Brutish Museums (Interviewed on Modern Myth) and Barnaby Philip's Loot both describe the violent removal of the Benin Bronzes by the British and where they are held today.Neil, however, makes the point that repatriating items back to communities is not a reactive process, and that this item in question had been in discussion for a while.Links The University of Aberdeen's Museums News Article about repatriation Neil Curtis Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Please Visit Our Sponsors!Archaeology Southwest Cafe: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/things-to-do/cafe/ Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

We recently had the opportunity to visit Chichen Itza in Yucatán, Mexico. It was an incredible experience, but, being archaeologists, we of course came away with more questions than were answered! In this episode we give a brief overview Mayan civilization, including Chichen Itza, and then talk about our experience on an incredibly touristy tour! The take away is, do a little research ahead of time (like listening to this podcast!) to help prepare yourself before visiting the site!Links Chichen Itza (Park website) Chichen Itza The Sunlight Effect of Kukulcan or the History of a line Pre-Hispanic city of Chichen Itza (UNESCO) Chichen Itza (Britannica) Roadster Adventures Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Please Visit Our Sponsors!Archaeology Southwest Cafe: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/things-to-do/cafe/ Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this week’s archaeology news, we discuss three articles that captured our attention! The first is all about the ancient Dahka fabric, how it was produced, and how that knowledge has been lost to time. The second is an article about a Bohemian grave in the Czech Republic with unique grave goods. And the final story is about an ancient bone tool found in Australia.Links The Legendary Fabric that No One Knows How to Make (BBC) Gold and precious gems unearthed in a 5th-century grave in Bohemia (Live Science) Statement from the East Bohemian Museum in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic Rare bone tool artefact revealed (Cosmos) Videohttps://youtu.be/pDADDkLoDScContact Chris Webster [email protected] Please Visit Our Sponsors!Archaeology Southwest Cafe: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/things-to-do/cafe/ Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week in archaeology news we discuss three archaeology stories int he news. First up is an ancient hazelnut shell found in Scotland that has been radiocarbon dated to more than 10,000 years ago. Second, we discuss the growing evidence for Neandertal, Denisovan and early Homo Sapien collaborations and sharing of ideas that contributed to an explosion of creativity and art. Finally, Pompeii is back in the news! This time an intact ceremonial chariot was discovered, and we discuss this contribution to what we know about Pompeiian society in 79 CE.Links Hazelnut Shell Sheds Light on Life in Scotland More Than 10,000 Years Ago (Smithsonian Magazine) Neanderthals helped create early human art, researcher says (The Guardian) A Lamborghini of Chariots is Discovered at Pompeii (NPR) ‘Miraculously’ Well-Preserved Ceremonial Chariot Found at Villa Outside of Pompeii (Smithsonian Magazine) Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Please Visit Our Sponsors!Archaeology Southwest Cafe: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/things-to-do/cafe/ Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week was packed full of interesting archaeology news stories, so join us for a discussion about the 3 that caught our eye! First up is a story about using x-ray microtomography to virtually unfold historical letters. Then, in segment 2 we cover a story about a burial site in Spain that indicates that the social and political rulers of the culture may have been women. Finally, we discuss an innovative new approach to studying Bogota's prehistoric irrigation system.Links Unlocking history through automated virtual unfolding of sealed documents imaged by X-ray microtomography Emblems and spaces of power during the Argaric Bronze Age at La Almoloya, Murcia Ancient woman may have been powerful European leader, 4,000-year-old treasure suggests El Argar Aerial Photographs Uncover Bogotá’s Indigenous Hydraulic System Roadster Adventures Contact Chris Webster [email protected] @archpodnet (Instagram and Twitter) Please Visit Our Sponsors!Archaeology Southwest Cafe: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/things-to-do/cafe/ Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

For the last few months we’ve been talking about a new type of episode and here’s the first one: welcome to Timelines. This idea is all about taking an anchor event or time period that pretty much everyone has heard about and then looking at what was happening in other parts of the world at the same time. The idea is that sometimes these big anchor events can overshadow other really important things. Our first episode has the building of the pyramids at Giza in Egypt as the anchor. We also talk about what’s happening in Peru and China at the same time.Links Egypt “Pyramids at Giza” from National Geographic “Pyramids of Giza” Britannica Estimating Population in Ancient Egypt Ancient Egyptian Agriculture Caral in Peru Sacred City of Caral-Supe Caral First City in the New World? Quipu: South America's Ancient Writing System Norte Chico civilization China: Majiayao Culture Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Majiayao Culture Pottery Production, Mortuary Practice, and Social Complexity in the Majiayao Culture, NW China (ca. 5300-4000 BP) A Discussion on Early Metals and the Origins of Bronze Casting in China Yellow River and Yangtze River: Centers of Chinese Civilization? https://www.britannica.com/place/China/4th-and-3rd-millennia-bce#ref589720 Majiayao Culture from Gotheburg.com Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Please Visit Our Sponsors!Archaeology Southwest Cafe: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/things-to-do/cafe/ Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to another archaeology news episode! We have three stories to discuss this week. We start with what’s basically an ancient beer factory in Egypt. Then we travel to Stonehenge in England to talk about the origin of the inside circle of stones called the Bluestones. Finally, we look at an ancient Chinese City that archaeologists have spent many years excavation.We discuss these articles from the perspective of an archaeologist to show how a skeptical and scientific perspective can clear up what journalists think is important about recent discoveries.Links Archaeologists Discover Ancient Beer Factory in Egype - CNN Ancient beer factory unearthed by archaeologists in Egypt - NBC News The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales - Cambridge University Press Online, 12 Feb 21 Stonehenge may be a rebuilt stone circle from Wales, new research suggests - CNN Dig at ancient site uncovers capital of first unified state - China Daily Chinese Find Ancient Xianyang, Lost Capital of the Qin Dynasty - Ancient Origins Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Please Visit Our Sponsors!Archaeology Southwest Cafe: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/things-to-do/cafe/ Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

AnthroDay is a celebration of Anthropology that the American Anthropological Association hosts every year. On today's episode we talk to the Archaeology Chair of the AAA, Dr. Katie Sampek about what you can expect to see at the AnthroDay page on the AAA website and what the mission of AnthroDay is. We also talk about Dr. Sampek's research regarding historical archaeology, landscape archaeology, and her work at Harvard.Links American Anthropological Association Heritage, Tourism, and Race - Heritage Voices Episode 48 Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Please Visit Our Sponsors!Archaeology Southwest Cafe: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/things-to-do/cafe/ Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

With the recent release of The Dig, a Netflix film focused on the excavation of the incredible Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo, we decided it was the perfect opportunity to take a closer look at this site! Sutton Hoo is extremely important and interesting for many reasons and we dive into those as well as review the movie. Did we like it? Join us and find out!We had so much to talk about that we couldn’t fit it all into the episode. Become an APN member to get access to the rest of the conversation!Links UK National Trust - Sutton Hoo The British Museum Edith Pretty Mercie Lack and Barbara Wagstaff The Dig Trailer Sutton Hoo burials: reconstructing the sequence of events Current Archaeology Sutton Hoo Roadster Adventures Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Please Visit Our Sponsors!Archaeology Southwest Cafe: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/things-to-do/cafe/ Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

We’ve got three great articles to discuss on this week’s news episode. Check out the links below for more information.Links Royal Purple Dyed Textile https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/purple-dye-israel-bible-solomon-david-b1795242.html http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/royal-purple-textile-09301.html Neanderthal/Homo Sapien Teeth https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/02/01/europe/neanderthal-interbreeding-teeth-scn/index.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248420302001?via%3Dihub https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/science-environment-55882130 Chumash Beads as Currency https://apple.news/AHSQ1veR0QuaiHHQUv1_-Bg https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278416520302105?via%3Dihub Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Please Visit Our Sponsors!Archaeology Southwest Cafe: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/things-to-do/cafe/ Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Join us as we have a discussion about the Harry Potter Universe from an Anthropological and Archaeological perspective. The readers and watchers of Harry Potter are expected to believe that a magical world exists both completely separately but in the same space as the "real" world. Naturally, for these two nerds this brings up so many questions about how the two intersect, both currently, historically, and even prehistorically!LinksFind your Hogwarts House!Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Please Visit Our Sponsors!Archaeology Southwest Cafe: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/things-to-do/cafe/ Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This podcast was mentioned in a CNN article! Check out the link below. On this news episode we also talk about a 3000 year old city of the dead in Egypt, the takeover of the oldest city in the Americas in Peru, and how to identify historical beer cans.Links CNN: 'The Dig' and five other culture recommendations if you love ancient discoveries Ancient coffins, burial sites and a funeral temple discovered in Saqqara necropolis will 'rewrite history' https://www.livescience.com/queen-temple-book-of-dead-found-egypt.html The Oldest City in The Americas Is an Archeological Wonder, And It's Under Invasion Wikipedia: Caral An Archeologist’s Guide to Beer Cans Rodster Adventures Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Rachel Roden joins Chris to discuss some recent archaeological sites in the news. From the much-discussed pictographs in the Amazonian Rain Forest to a Pompeii Lunch counter and ALL the trash that people leave on sites, we talk about it all.Links New Photos from the ‘Sistine Chapel of the Ancients’ Reveal Details About Prehistoric Amazonian Life - Like a Fondness for Bungee Jumping” - From This Is Colossal Here is the journal article: Colonisation and early peopling of the Colombian Amazon during the Late Pleistocene and the Early Holocene: New evidence from La Serranía La Lindosa “What’s On The Menu In Ancient Pompeii? Duck, Goat, Snail, Researchers Say” from NPR “Archaeologists find 2,000 pieces of plastic at Iron Age site” from CNN Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On January 8th, 2021 on CBC a documentary called “Searching for Cleopatra: The Woman Behind the Myth” premiers. Dr. Kelly Olson, a professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Western Ontario lectures on Cleopatra and contributed to this documentary. Chris talks to her about Cleopatra: what was she like, what sort of ruler was she, what happened to her descendants, and more.Links Searching for Cleopatra on the CBC Dr. Kelly Olson’s University Site SupportArchaeology SouthwestContact Chris Webster [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Dr. Jonathan Marks has written numerous books on anthropology, genetics, and has begun to write about racism and similar topics in science. Chris talks to him about his last book on scientific racism and his upcoming book about creationism. This is a great discussion about things that we don't talk about much in anthropology and the sciences, but should.Jonathan Marks is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he has taught since the beginning of the present millennium, after brief stretches at Yale and Berkeley. His primary training is in biological anthropology and genetics, but his interests are broad, and he has published on the topics of human origins and human diversity across the sciences and humanities from American Anthropologist to Zygon. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2012 he was awarded the First Citizen’s Bank Scholar’s Medal from UNC Charlotte. In recent years he has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the ESRC Genomics Forum in Edinburgh, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and a Templeton Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Notre Dame. His work has received the W. W. Howells Book Prize and the General Anthropology Division Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship from the American Anthropological Association, and the J. I. Staley Prize from the School for Advanced Research. His most recent book is called Is Science Racist? (Polity Press), and next one is called Why Are There Still Creationists?. And although he has written books called What it Means to be 98% Chimpanzee and Why I am Not a Scientist, he is somewhat paradoxically about 98% scientist, and not a chimpanzee.Links Is Science Racist? Why are there still creationists? SupportArchaeology SouthwestContact Chris Webster [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Simon Young from Australian-based LithodomosVR joins us on his third interview for the Archaeology Podcast Network! He talks about the latest in VR technology and how things like Web VR are changing the way we look at the ancient world.SPECIAL OFFER!Get 50% off Ancient World until Jan 1st, 2021 at midnight UTC with code APN50Links ArchaeoTech Ep 45 ArchaeoTech Ep 108 LithodomosVR Ancient World SupportArchaeology SouthwestContact Chris Webster [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Recently, new evidence for Neolithic fabric was found impressed on a sherd in the Orkney Islands. In an area where the environment is not conducive to preservation of textile, archaeologists must look for evidence in unconventional ways. Recently, a team from The University of the Highlands and the Islands in Scotland used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to identify the impression of woven fabric on a sherd. Chris and Rachel discuss the fabric impression, how it could have been made, and what the broader implication are of this discovery.Links “Rare evidence for Neolithic Textiles identified on Orkney”, Science Notes, Current Archaeology, July 17, 2020 Textiles and Animal Skins from ScARF Flint Howe, Luce Sands SupportArchaeology SouthwestContact Chris Webster [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Find this show on the educational podcast app, Lyceum.fm! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This time it’s just Chris and Richie. They talk about fire survey during all the west coast fires in 2020, cast iron pans, and how out of shape Chris is!Links Roadster Adventures Happy Archaeology Fun Time SupportArchaeology SouthwestContact Chris Webster [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Find this show on the educational podcast app, Lyceum.fm! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to another episode of You Call This Archaeology?!?! Richie and Chris couldn’t get online and go live so they roped in Rachel, the other crew member, and sat down in front of Rachel and Chris’ RV to talk about archaeology, fieldwork, and of course, totally random things.Enjoy this episode from the windswept plains of northeastern Nevada!Links Rodster Adventures Happy Archaeology Fun Time SupportArchaeology [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A half-a-million-year-old internationally significant archaeological site in Sussex, England, offers unprecedented insights into the life of a poorly understood extinct human species, according to new UCL research. The findings of a meticulous study led by UCL Institute of Archaeology are detailed in a ground-breaking new book ‘The Horse Butchery Site’, published by UCL Archaeology South-East’s ‘Spoilheap Publications’. The study pieces together the activities and movements of a group of early humans as they made tools, including the oldest bone tools documented in Europe, and extensively butchered a large horse 480,000 years ago. Project lead, Dr Matthew Pope (UCL Institute of Archaeology) is our guest today.LinksThe Horse Butchery Site: a high resolution record of Lower Palaeolithic hominin behaviour at Boxgrove, UK. SpoilHeap Monograph 23. Authored by Matt Pope, Simon Parfitt and Mark Roberts.Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Find this show on the educational podcast app, Lyceum.fm! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Dr. Griffin's research focuses on analyzing archaeological deposits to answer questions on production of goods and fuel use. Dr. Griffin has excavated all over the world from Neolithic settlements in the North Atlantic to Second World War battlefields in the Pacific. On today's show we talk about the different types of fuel that people used in the past. It's not all poop - but most of it is.Links Ness of Brodgar Swandro-Orkney Coastal Archaeology Trust EXARC Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Find this show on the educational podcast app, Lyceum.fm! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This is a crossover episode with Rachel Roden and Historical Yarns!Recently, evidence of twisted cord was discovered on a Neanderthal archaeological site. While the exact use of this cord is unknown, we discuss our theories for how Neanderthals could have applied this technology to everyday life. Most importantly, this discovery contributes to breaking down the myth that Neanderthals were technologically inferior to their human contemporaries.Links Direct evidence of Neanderthal fibre technology and its cognitive and behavioral implications Neanderthal Cord Weaver Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Rachel Ravelry Instagram Twitter Facebook Website Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Find this show on the educational podcast app, Lyceum.fm! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Rebecca Lambert studies those places in our world that we don't either think about or even like to think about. Shadows, hidden areas, underpasses. These places are sometimes scary, sometimes strange, and sometimes make you feel different on the other side. What can we learn about places on the edge, or, liminal places? We explore these spaces on today's episode.LinksRebecca's Twitter: @LadyLiminal1Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Find this show on the educational podcast app, Lyceum.fm! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to another re-broadcast of the live You Call This Archaeology show with Richie Cruz and Chris Webster. On today's episode we talk a lot about camping, RVs, and summer fieldwork.Links Roadster Adventures Happy Archaeology Fun Time Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Find this show on the educational podcast app, Lyceum.fm! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Join Chris Webster and Richie Cruz on You Call This Archaeology!?!? It's a live show that they do most Sundays on the APN Facebook page and Richie's Happy Archaeology Fun Time channel on YouTube and Twitch. This week they talk about everything from RVs to Truck camping and more.Links Roadster Adventures Happy Archaeology Fun Time Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Find this show on the educational podcast app, Lyceum.fm! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On today's show Chris interviews Drs. Ivan Vasilev and Vassil Tenekedjiev about there work with the Balkan Heritage Foundation in Bulgaria. Dr. Vasilev is the co-founder of the Foundation and an instructor at the Balkan Heritage Field School. Dr. Tenekedjiev is the branch manager of the Foundation and also an instructor at the Balkan Heritage Field School. Together they share an interest in medieval Balkan archaeology and history, late antiquity, and early Christian archaeology and history.Links Roadster Adventures Happy Archaeology Fun Time Balkan Heritage Foundation Balkan Heritage Field School: An educational program of Balkan Heritage Foundation that aims to provide hands on and theoretical education for archaeology and conservation students/ enthusiasts. Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Find this show on the educational podcast app, Lyceum.fm! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Join Chris Webster and Richie Cruz for an episode of You Call This Archaeology?!?! It's a live show about nothing, but sometimes about archaeology, that they do on the APN Facebook page. Head over and "like" the page to get notified when they go live so you can join in the conversation. On this episode they talk about RVs, camping, mine sites, and more.Links Roadster Adventures Happy Archaeology Fun Time Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Find this show on the educational podcast app, Lyceum.fm! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.