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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.
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Chris Webster
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.
![The cord impression on the vessel is clearly visible, with the textile imprint to the right. [Image: UHI Archaeology Institute]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/544b30c0e4b0023e70482546/1605374126190-SM1JQA1TY0PYG5PJAUG9/Cord-impression-with-textile-to-the-right.jpg)
The cord impression on the vessel is clearly visible, with the textile imprint to the right. [Image: UHI Archaeology Institute]
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!
Chris Webster
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!
Chris Webster
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.
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