People Stumbling Into Archaeology - Ep 277

If you pay attention to your surrounding you just might find a bit of history. Our new stories this week are all about people paying attention and looking around and ultimately finding something worthy of the history books.

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Big Animals and the Humans That Love (to eat) Them - Ep 276

Today’s episode is all about mega-fauna and human interactions. Our first story takes us to a creek in Iowa where the first complete mastodon for that state has been found. Next we go to UC Berkeley where researchers think they’ve figured out, through research and experimental archaeology, how early humans took down those big animals. Finally we move over to Spain where new research is suggesting that Neanderthals didn’t ONLY eat big, slow, animals but adapted to take down smaller game. They were smarter than we think they were, of course!

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Bulgarians Using a Coffin as a Table? - Ep 275

This week we cover 3 recent archaeology news stories including an ancient Roman sarcophagus turned beach bar, the source of the altar stone at Stonehenge and more evidence refuting the claims about Homo Naledi “burial”practices made in the Cave of Bones documentary on Netflix.

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The Plymouth Rock Hoax - Ep 274

Spoiler alert, we love the story of Plymouth Rock even if it isn’t exactly true history! This week we look at some important historical places on the coast of Massachusetts including Plymouth, the Mayflower and New Bedford.

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The Shot Heard Round the World - TAS 273

This week we talk about our recent visit to Minute Man National Historical Park. We also discuss a recent archaeological find at that park which is likely related to the first shots fired in the American Revolution. And finally, we talk all the famous authors that also happened to live and write in that same area!

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