A daily briefing of the archaeology and history of sites around the world.
On today's episode, Chris Webster tells you about his thesis research, a Late Woodland Napier Complicated Stamp pottery site in Georgia, USA. It's one of the only sites in the area with this much of this rare type of pottery and it's worth hearing about.
On today's episode Kenneth Feder continues the series based on his most recent book, "Ancient America: 50 Archaeological Sites You Should See For Yourself", with the Three Rivers Petroglyph Site in New Mexico. It's a little off the beaten path but well worth the visit.
I am a huge fan of talking about the past being created in the present, especially in the way examine objects that have travelled through time to reach us right now. Although, this focuses mainly on how we think about these items and their place with our framework of theory; however we often neglect how these items leave our thoughts and the present.
Tollund Man was discovered in May 1950. He is one of several so-called 'bog bodies' from Denmark and other places in Europe, deposited mainly in the Iron Age. He caused quite a stir, mainly because his head was so well preserved you can almost imagine he is merely asleep. He famously inspired the poet Seamus Heaney.
On today's episode we talk about pioneering National Park Service Underwater Archaeologist George R. Fischer.
On today's show Dr. Kenneth Feder talks about Cemetery Mound - just one of the 50 sites in his book "Ancient America: 50 Archaeological Sites You Should See For Yourself" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016).
On today's episode Kim Biddulph, host of Prehis/Stories, brings you a few books that you can use to excite your kids about archaeology.
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In this episode archaeologist and James Bond expert Edward Biddulph explores Ian Fleming's forays into amateur archaeology in Norfolk, England. It wasn't his first experience of archaeology, having also dived with Jacques Cousteau near Marseilles in France to see some underwater archaeology, but at Creake Abbey in Norfolk he worked with army sappers on an early form of metal-detecting.
The text of this podcast appeared in British Archaeology magazine in 2012. Biddulph, E, Adventure at Creake Abbey, British Archaeology Sept/Oct 2012, 22-7.
On today's episode we feature the first real episode of the Ancient America series with Kenneth Feder. Today features Site 23 Montezuma Castle from his book Ancient America - Fifty Archaeological Sites You Should See For Yourself (Rowman and Littlefield 2016).
On today's show we kick off a series based on Kenneth Feder's new book. Today, Ken talks about his motivation for the book, how it's structured, and what you can expect.
In today’s episode, Tristan, the Anarchaeologist talks about how people respond to learning that he studied a hard science jointly with archaeology; pointing out that many people think it’s a strange mix. Tristan breaks down this idea by explaining the way in which chemistry and archaeology work very well together.
