A daily briefing of the archaeology and history of sites around the world.
On today's show we celebrate the life of one of archaeology's greats - Dr. James Deetz. He is widely considered one of the fathers of historical archaeology and was a pioneer in many ways.
The discussion of ideas and theoreis is integral to developing and generating new ideas - most of the time this is done in conferences and by reviewing journals. However occasionally some papers are written about the same topic but take completely different angles to the same problem. There was a mass exticntion event at the end of the Late Pleistocene in modern day America - where a number of large mammals died off rather rapidly. The three papers examine to what extent, humans, climate change and an impact from outer space may have caused this event to happen.
Mary Leakey was born on 6th February 1913 and went on to be a paleoanthropologist famously working at Olduvai Gorge with her husband and discovering 3.6mya fossilised footprints at Laetoli in Tanzania. This episode is based on two articles on the Trowelblazers website.
On today's episode we talk about the mighty trowel - the most trusted and prized possession in most archaeologist's tool kits.
On today's episode Andrew Reinhard talks about video games and archaeology. Can video games be archaeological sites?
Keet Seel is an amazingly well-preserved cliff dwelling at Navajo National Monument. Emily Long provides a description and the prehistory of this beautiful Ancestral Puebloan site.
On today we play the lecture portion of Episode 8 from the Archaeology Show where Dr. John Whittaker talks about his research with Atlatls - the ancient dart throwing device. For the rest of the interview check out Episode 8 of the Archaeology Show.
On today's episode we honor the life and birthday of Dr. William Fitzhugh, director of the Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian.
