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The Dirt Goes Site-Seeing - Ep 202
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08/10/22 • 67 min
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.
Links
- Djenne-Djenno (World History Encyclopedia)
- Old Towns of Djenné (UNESCO)
- Djenné, Mali (BlackPast)
- Djenné (Encyclopedia Britannica)
- A Tribute to Islam, Earthen but Transcendent (The New York Times)
- Initial Encounters: Seeking traces of ancient trade connections between West Africa and the wider world (Afriques)
- Great Mosque of Djenné (Khan Academy)
- Storage vessel from Northeastern Thailand (Asian Art Museum)
- The Ban Chiang Project - Background (Institute of Southeast Asian Archaeology)
- Carabel type pot (Institute of Southeast Asian Archaeology)
- Ban Chiang Pottery and Rice (Expedition)
- Ban Chiang National Museum
- The Ban Chiang Project - Metals Database (Institute of Southeast Asian Archaeology)
- South California Museum Raids (2008) (Trafficking Culture)
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Extremely Specific Hats
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03/06/24 • 46 min
We're back! Hi! Sorry for the unplanned hiatus--we missed you, too. This week, we've got a delightful sponsored episode featuring the most specific and niche topic we've ever covered. It's hats! 18th-century naval knit hats recovered from shipwrecks! See? Extremely specific. But FASCINATING! We get into the knitty gritty (HA) and also talk about fabric conservation, a smidge of underwater archaeology, and FOSSILIZED FABRIC! Tune in or miss out!
Audio note: Something funky happened with this recording, and there was a lot of unpleasant buzzing in a few spots. Anna fixed it as much as possible, but it does mean the audio quality is a little different on this one.
SHOW NOTES:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/toboggan-tuque-knit-hat-regionalism
https://www.heddels.com/start-here/
https://www.curiousfrau.com/2009/08/16/knitted-mans-hat-from-the-ship-qgagianaq/
https://www.qaronline.org/blackbeard-sails-again-conservation-textiles-queen-annes-revenge-shipwreck/open
https://www.abc.se/~pa//mar/wrak32.htm
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It's Time to Talk About the Future - Ep 100
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07/27/20 • 59 min
This week, for our ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE, Anna and Amber bend their brains around the archaeology of the future and the future of archaeology. What will excavation look like in 100, 1,000, or 5,000 years? What about human evolution? Human culture? Language? We come up with more questions than answers, and have a great time doing it. THANK YOU for getting us to Episode 100!
Links
- Chicken Bones May Be the Legacy of Our Time (Smithsonian)
- The broiler chicken as a signal of a human reconfigured biosphere (Royal Society Open Science)
- Changes in the lead isotopic composition of blood, diet and air in Australia over a decade: Globalization and implications for future isotopic studies (Environmental Research)
- Dietary Heterogeneity among Western Industrialized Countries Reflected in the Stable Isotope Ratios of Human Hair (PLoS One)
- The Future of Archaeology Is 'Spacejunk' (The Atlantic)
- The Future of Archeology Is Plastic (Medium)
- The past, present and future of human evolution (Nature)
- What May Become of Homo sapiens (Scientific American)
- Edible Insects and Human Evolution (via Project MUSE)
- Dougal Dixon - After Man (A Zoology of the Future) 1981 (Monster Brains blog)
- Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future (via WorldCat)
- How Afrofuturism Can Help the World Mend (Wired)
- The Long Now Foundation
- What will English language look like in the future? (Oxford Academic on YouTube)
- What will the English language be like in 100 years? (The Conversation)
- Esperanto (Encyclopedia Britannica)
- Incubus (1966) on YouTube
- Hello (Adele Cover) - Esperanto version (YouTube)
- Pleistocenese: A Language of 40,000 Years Ago (Justin B. Rye)
- Futurese: The American Language in 3000 AD (Justin B. Rye)
- Beyond Biohazard: Why Danger Symbols Can’t Last Forever (99% Invisible)
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Mark My Words: Linguistics! - Ep 81
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03/16/20 • 52 min
In this episode, Amber and Anna talk about talking. It’s finally an episode on linguistics! We think about Neanderthal speech, wrestle with syntax and semantics, and have a whole language family reunion.
Links
- What is Speech? What is Language? (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
- The Neanderthal Throat—Did Neanderthals Speak? (Sapiens)
- Introduction to Linguistics (UCLA Linguistics)
- Glottolog
- Map of Indo-European Languages (Wikimedia)
- The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (via Google Books)
- The Origins of Proto-Indo-European: The Caucasian Substrate Hypothesis (Journal of Indo European Studies)
- Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe (Nature)
- Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia (Science)
- Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European (Archaeology Magazine)
- Language Isolates and Their History, or, What’s Weird, Anyway?
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Eat Locally: The Archaeology of Indigenous American Food - Ep 80
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03/09/20 • 46 min
This week, Anna and Amber take a look at foodways in the archaeological record of North America. What does archaeological evidence say about what was cooked, who was cooking, and what vessels were used to prepare and store food? What evidence is there for recreating ancient and pre-contact diets? How does this fit in with contemporary food sovereignty movements among Indigenous people? How great are potatoes? All this and more!
Links- Archaeological Studies of Cooking and Food Preparation (Journal of Archaeological Research)
- Reconstructing sexual divisions of labor from fingerprints on Ancestral Puebloan pottery (PNAS)
- Traditional Foods in Native America (CDC)
- Countryman: Foraging California's Wild Side
- What is mak-’amham? (Cafe Ohlone)
- Investigating the function of prehistoric stone bowls and griddle stones in the Aleutian Islands by lipid residue analysis (Quaternary Research)
- One of the Oldest Spuds In the World Is Poised For a Comeback (Heated by Medium)
- North American Indian Recipes – Acorn Recipes & Facts! (The People’s Paths)
- Native American Food (Arkansas Archaeological Survey)
- The Mitsitam Cafe Cookbook: Recipes from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (via WorldCat)
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Hasanlu: An Iron Age Whodunnit - Ep 78
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02/24/20 • 52 min
In the early first millennium BCE, the city of Hasanlu was destroyed in a single, terrible day. Excavations reveal murdered civilians and a citadel engulfed in fire, but who was responsible for destroying this town on the road to everywhere in Iron Age Western Asia? This week, Anna and Amber tell Hasanlu's story, and of the academic drama that followed its excavation (and continues to this day).
Links
- Ḥasanlu Teppe (Encyclopedia Iranica)
- Tell (mound) (Encyclopedia Britannica)
- Hasanlu Publication Project
- Hasanlu in the Iron Age (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
- Rediscovering Hasanlu (Expedition)
- Special Issue: East of Assyria--The Highland Settlement of Hasanlu (Expedition)
- The Excavation of Hasanlu: An Archaeological Evaluation (Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research)
- Last Day at Hasanlu (Expedition)
- Iran's Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia (New Scientist)
- The Hasanlu Lovers (Penn Museum)
- Lovers, Friends, or Strangers? New Thoughts on a Museum Icon (Penn Museum)
- East of Assyria? Hasanlu and the Problem of Assyrianization (in Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period)
- Warfare at Hasanlu in the Late 9th Century B.C. (Expedition)
- Urartu (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
- Who Destroyed Hasanlu IV? (Iran)
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Spooktober: South American Horror Story - Ep65
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10/21/19 • 50 min
This week, head south to the misty, mysterious island of Chiloé, Chile, where Amber tells Anna a story of a powerful cult of warlocks that held the island in their grip in the late 19th century CE. But, as in all good horror stories, the true villain is possibly something else entirely. Sit down for a hearty meal of the spookiest spaghetti and explore indigenous Mapuche governance, colonization, and whether the ghost stories of Chiloé might be more meaningful than they seem.
Content warning: there is a brief scene describing graphic violence, but we’ll warn you when it’s time for sensitive ears to skip ahead.
Links
- Into the Cave of Chile’s Witches (Smithsonian)
- The Myths and Mythologies of Chiloe, Chile's Most Haunted Island (Culture Trip)
- Myth and Magic Infuse Chilean Island (NPR)
- Invunche (Chiloé Mitologico)
- The Cave of Quicaví (VoiceMap Tours)
- La Enfermadad de todos en El Cuerpo Propia: Brujeria y performatividad del Tribual de la Raza Indigena en Chiloé (Universum)
- Rhetorical Imperialism (Digital Commons @DU)
- Shamans' Pragmatic Gendered Negotiations with Mapuche Resistance Movements and Chilean Political Authorities (Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power)
- Imbunches and Other Monsters: Enemy Legends and Underground Histories in José Donoso and Catalina Parra (Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies)
- Reyes Sobre La Tierra: Brujería Y Chamanismo En Una Cultura Insular. Chiloé Entre Los Siglos XVIII y XY
- Pueblos Originarios - Indigenous Populations of Chile Map
- The Cinematic Spell in an Island of Uncertainty (Anthrovision)
- Lore Episode 25, “The Cave”
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11/04/19 • 35 min
Spooktober winds to a close once again, and we end with a mystery. Bundle up and join Anna and Amber at Roopkund Lake, where bones scatter the shore and speculation and science meet. Who were the people whose skeletal remains keep appearing in a remote lake in northern India? How did they get there? How might we find out?
Links
- Nanda Devi Raaj Jat Yatra (Uttarakhand Tourism)
- 10 Things You Should Know About Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra (eUttarakhand)
- Roopkund Lake (EcoIndia)
- There's A Frozen Lake In India That's Full Of Skeletons. What On Earth Happened Here? (IFL Science)
- Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India (Atlas Obscura)
- Mystery Solved - The Skeleton Lake of India (Science, Dummy) cw: human remains
- Inside Roopkund Lake, The Curious Indian Lake Where Skeletons Wash Ashore (All That’s Interesting)
- Tourists to Roopkund trek back with human skeletons (The Indian Express)
- The Mystery of ‘Skeleton Lake’ Gets Deeper (The Atlantic)
- Biomolecular analyses of Roopkund skeletons show Mediterranean migrants in Indian Himalaya (Phys.org)
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Listening to the Oldies - Ep 62
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09/30/19 • 46 min
This week, Anna and Amber sing you a little tune about musical instruments in the archaeological record, and the ways that we can access ancient music today. From the discoveries of the earliest known flutes, to jamming out with Homer, to some mind-blowing takes on sound and silence, consider it our first movement in this composition.
Links
Scales from Around the World (How Music Really Works)
A Biological Rationale for Musical Scales (PLOSOne)
A Voice from the Past (The New Yorker)
The European Music Archaeology Project Recreates Instruments of Old (New York Times)
Ice and Longboats: Ancient Music of Scandinavia (European Music Archaeology Project, Volume 2)
Ancient Greek music: now we finally know what it sounded like (The Conversation)
8 Oldest Musical Instruments in the World (Oldest.org)
Oldest Greek Fragment of Homer Discovered on Clay Tablet (Smithsonian)
Sing like you mean it! - the Linguistics of Tonal Languages
Listen to Sappho Read By Stephen G. Daitz (The New Yorker Podcast)
Hear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek (Open Culture)
We can tell where a whale has travelled from the themes in its song (New Scientist)
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Green Sahara: The African Humid Period - Ep 85
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04/13/20 • 64 min
The grass is always greener on the other side (of the Holocene). What is today a vast and inhospitable home to many people and creatures was, between ten and five thousand years ago, a lush environment replete with lakes, forests, and grasses. We examine the first clues that suggested a Green Sahara to researchers, explore the technologies and societies that lived there, and contemplate what the Sahara’s past might suggest about its future.
Links
- Megalakes in the Sahara? A Review (Quaternary Research)
- Saharan Dust Blows Across the Atlantic (NOAA)
- The emergence of pottery in Africa during the tenth millennium cal BC : new evidence from Ounjougou (Mali) (Antiquity)
- Ounjougou
- Technological and Cultural Change Among the Last Hunter-Gatherers of the Maghreb: The Capsian (10,000–6000 B.P.) (Journal of World Prehistory)
- Capsian (Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology)
- The 8,000-year-old dugout canoe from Dufuna (NE Nigeria)
- Africa’s oldest boat set for exhibit in Nigeria (Africa Times)
- First dairying in green Saharan Africa in the fifth millennium BC (Nature)
- History of the Domestication of Cows and Yaks (ThoughtCo)
- Chad Genetic Diversity Reveals an African History Marked by Multiple Holocene Eurasian Migrations (American Journal of Human Genetics)
- End of the African Humid Period (NOAA)
- End of the African Humid Period (Nature)
- Climate Change in North Africa: The Past is Not the Future (Climatic Change)
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The Dirt Podcast currently has 272 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Podcasts, Education, Social Sciences and Science.
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The episode title 'The Dirt Goes Site-Seeing - Ep 202' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on The Dirt Podcast is 56 minutes.
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Episodes of The Dirt Podcast are typically released every 7 days.
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The first episode of The Dirt Podcast was released on Mar 3, 2019.
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