A Life In Ruins
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Carlton Gover, Connor Johnen, and David Howe are three friends that went to graduate school together and decided to start an archaeology podcast. Join them every week for witty conversation, amazing guests, and a bit of profanity - all in the name of archaeological science. Join them as they investigate the careers of those living a life in ruins.
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ENCORE Something A-foot in White Sands National Monument with Dr. Shane Miller and Dr. Jesse Tune - Ep 119
A Life In Ruins
08/01/22 • 77 min
ENCORE: Something's afoot. There is, yet again, another controversial preclovis find. This time, away from the West Coast and in New Mexico. The controversy surrounds human footprints found in White Sands National Park that are dated between 23 and 21 kya.
To discuss these possible pre-Clovis footprints, we invited Dr. Jesse Tune and Dr. Shane Miller on the show to contextualize the data. We begin with an open discussion about the recent published report and try to understand what the researches found at the site. We then chat about their controversy, how it’s hit the mainstream media, and what the ramifications of the repaint are for archaeology.
The conversation then turns into a open dialogue about scientific biases, as well as the role of Indigenous oral traditions and their incorporation into scientific theories.
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Literature recommendations
- 2020, Bennett et al., Walking in mud: Remarkable Pleistocene human trackways from White Sands National Park (New Mexico), Quaternary Science Reviews
- 2018 Bustos et al., Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America, Supplmentary Materials, Science Advances
- 2021 Rachal et al., Lake levels and trackways: An alternative model to explain the timing of human-megafauna trackway intersections, Tularosa Basin, New Mexico, Quaternary Science Advances
- 2021 Bennett et al., Evidence of humans in North Americaduring the Last Glacial Maximum, Science
- 2020 Ardelean et al., Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum, Nature
Links
- Earliest evidence of human activity in the Americas found at White Sands National Park
- Oldest human footprints in North America found
- The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
Contact
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast
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- Website: www.alifeinruins.com
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01/10/22 • 50 min
In this episode, Carlton does a solo interview with Rebekah Lamb. Rebekah is pursuing her Bachelor's degree in Cultural Anthropology and Developmental Sociology and minoring in Archaeology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam-Zuidoost. Rebekah belongs to the Abenaki Tribe of the Wabanaki Confederacy as well as being a descendant of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Carlton and Rebekah talk about her research on Abenaki tattoo practices through apprenticeship ethnography, studying both the historical and contemporary significance and the revival of traditional tattooing culture within New England Indigenous tribes. We also discuss the challenges facing New England Indigenous Nation's cultural practices and history, issues of blood-quantum, decolonizing academia.
Links
Rebekah Lamb on TEDxVUAmsterdam: Empowering Disabled Students in the University System
Literature Recommendations
- Drawing with Great Needles by Aaron Deter-Wolf and Carol Diaz-Granados
- Aaron Deter-Wolf's Instagram: @archaeologyink
Guest Contact
- Instagram: @appearingacademic
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Annual Performance Review with Chris Webster - Ep 88
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12/27/21 • 54 min
It's that time of the year again, Archaeology Podcast Network Director Chris Webster joins the lads for their annual "Performance Review". This episode doesn't cover much archaeology content but how the ongoing pandemic has affected the APN, what 2022 holds for the network, and how this podcast has been performing over the past year. Now, the annual review wouldn't be complete without Chris roasting Carlton, Connor, and David over their podcasting "ticks".
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07/31/23 • 54 min
On this Encore episode of A Life in Ruins podcast, we chat with Mackenzie Cory, a fellow University of Wyoming Graduate! Mac delves into his formative years, working in Wyoming and his inspiration to take the next step into graduate school. We also discuss his current PhD research and how we can identify and look at childhood in the archaeological record. We then end the episode with a discussion about problems found in field schools and the ramifications of those problems to Mac’s academic career.
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Something A-foot in White Sands National Monument with Dr. Shane Miller and Dr. Jesse Tune - Ep 76
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10/04/21 • 77 min
Something's afoot. There is, yet again, another controversial preclovis find. This time, away from the West Coast and in New Mexico. The controversy surrounds human footprints found in White Sands National Park that are dated between 23 and 21 kya.
To discuss these possible pre-Clovis footprints, we invited Dr. Jesse Tune and Dr. Shane Miller on the show to contextualize the data. We begin with an open discussion about the recent published report and try to understand what the researches found at the site. We then chat about their controversy, how it’s hit the mainstream media, and what the ramifications of the repaint are for archaeology.
The conversation then turns into a open dialogue about scientific biases, as well as the role of Indigenous oral traditions and their incorporation into scientific theories.
Literature recommendations
- 2020, Bennett et al., Walking in mud: Remarkable Pleistocene human trackways from White Sands National Park (New Mexico), Quaternary Science Reviews
- 2018 Bustos et al., Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America, Supplmentary Materials, Science Advances
- 2021 Rachal et al., Lake levels and trackways: An alternative model to explain the timing of human-megafauna trackway intersections, Tularosa Basin, New Mexico, Quaternary Science Advances
- 2021 Bennett et al., Evidence of humans in North Americaduring the Last Glacial Maximum, Science
- 2020 Ardelean et al., Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum, Nature
Links
- Earliest evidence of human activity in the Americas found at White Sands National Park
- Oldest human footprints in North America found
- The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
Contact
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast
- Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast
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04/05/21 • 50 min
In this episode, we are chatting with Dr. Jesse Tune, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Fort Lewis College. Now, this isn’t the first time Dr. Tune has been a guest on the Podcast, he first joined us on Episode 37 with Dr. Shane Miller where we talked about some recent updates on the Cerutti Mastodon Site. For this episode, Jesse tells us about his introduction to archaeology, his graduate school experiences (Carlton and Jesse talk about D.C. living), and his current research in Paleoindian archaeology.
Dr. Tune's Twitter: @jwtune
Hunter Gatherer Research Collaborative & Lab
Literature Reccomendations
- Jesse W. Tune 2020 Hunter-Gatherer Occupation of the Central Colorado Plateau during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition. American Antiquity. 85(3):573-590.
- Heather L. Smith and Jesse W. Tune (editors) 2019 Fluted Point Technologies: An Interregional Perspective. PaleoAmerica 5(2):105-108.
- Jesse W. Tune, Michael R. Waters, Kayla Schmalle, Larisa R. G. DeSantis, George D. Kamenov. 2018 Assessing the Proposed Pre-LGM Human Occupation of North America at Coats-Hines-Litchy, Tennessee, and Other Sites. Quaternary Science Reviews 186:47-59.
- D. Shane Miller and Jesse W. Tune. 2018 When the Levee Breaks: How an Ant Hill and a Deer on a Mound Made Us Re-Think the Effect of the Younger Dryas. In The Archaeology of Everyday Matters, edited by S. E. Price and P. J. Carr, pp. 14-23. University Press of Florida.
- Jesse W. Tune 2016 The Clovis-Cumberland-Dalton Succession: Settling into the Midsouth United States During the Pleistocene-to-Holocene Transition. PaleoAmerica 2(3):261-273.
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10/11/21 • 59 min
In this episode, we are chatting with Dr. Robert Lassen, a Principal Investigator for AmaTerra Environmental. Robert received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee where he specialized in lithic technology and studied Clovis and Folsom archaeological cultures. He has worked at a multitude of sites throughout the Republic of Texas, including Gault. He's also worked at the Topper site in South Carolina. Robert is an expert flintknapper and was also David’s Human origins TA at the University of Tennessee. We talk about his inspiration from the goonies and his early years digging in the playground. Robert tells us about his experience with Texas archaeology and his love of lithic technology. We then delve deeply into why Texas archaeology is so cool and underappreciated and then close out with his experiences at the Gault site.
Literature recommendations
1) 2013 The Prehistory of Texas By Timothy K. Perrtula
2) 2010 First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America by David J. Meltzer
3) Texas Beyond History Website
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Dipping Our Toes Into Underwater Archaeology - Ep 151
A Life In Ruins
04/10/23 • 55 min
On this episode of A Life in Ruins Podcast, we dive deep into underwater archaeology. Carlton starts out recounting his experience taking classes in underwater archaeology at Indiana University. He then details the methods and processes to actually record sites underwater. He then talks about where is going to work this upcoming week. We somehow end up talking about Christopher Columbus again.
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Transcripts
For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/ruins/151
Links
Literature Recommendations
- Hawley et al 2019 Living museums in the sea: the past, present
and future of underwater cultural heritage
preservation
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09/06/21 • 50 min
In this episode of we have the pleasure of hosting the most fan-requested crossover: The Shipwreck Mermaid and the Pirate Historian. Dr. Maddy McAllister, aka the Shipwreck Mermaid, is a Maritime archaeology Curator based out of Australia. Dr. Jamie Goodall is a staff historian with the US government. They are both popular social media personalities on Twitter and Instagram. We discuss their respective careers and how they use primary source data and archaeological reports. We discuss Black Jack Anderson and the lack of famous pirates near Australia. Dr. Goodall enlightens us with more information about Zheng Yi Sao and we chat about if it's possible to see evidence of piracy in shipwrecks. Dr. McAllister and Dr. Goodall end the episode with advice for students interested in maritime archaeology or maritime history.
Literature recommendations:
1) X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy edited by Russell K. Skowronek and Charles R. Ewen
2) Pieces of Eight: More Archaeology of Piracy edited by Russell K. Skowronek and Charles R. Ewen
3) Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever by Rebecca Simon
4) The Alliance of Pirates: Ireland and Atlantic piracy in the early seventeenth century by Connie Kelleher
5) Unfinished Voyages: Western Australian Shipwrecks 1622-1850 by Graeme Henderson
Guest Contact
Dr. Goodall's Instagram and Twitter: @l_historienne
Dr. Goodall's Website: jamiegoodall.com
Dr. McAllister's Instagram: @shipwreckmermaid
Dr. McAllister's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maddy.mcallister.10 and https://www.facebook.com/shipwreckmermaid/
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Eat, Dig, Love: A Summer in the Ukraine - Ep 6
A Life In Ruins
09/09/19 • 56 min
In this episode of A Life in Ruins Podcast, our three co-hosts reconvene after a summer of shenanigans while Carlton is fighting the effects of jet lag. Connor and David mention what they have been up to and Carlton talks about his trip gallivanting across Eastern Europe. Carlton has some tips for those wishing to travel with Juul pods (spoiler alert, do not travel with them unless you want them taken away from you) and questions the legitimacy of duck effigies mentioned by Connor. This episode is full of hate, laughter and ridiculousness.
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How many episodes does A Life In Ruins have?
A Life In Ruins currently has 178 episodes available.
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The episode title 'ENCORE Something A-foot in White Sands National Monument with Dr. Shane Miller and Dr. Jesse Tune - Ep 119' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on A Life In Ruins is 56 minutes.
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Episodes of A Life In Ruins are typically released every 7 days.
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The first episode of A Life In Ruins was released on Apr 21, 2019.
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