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On January 8th, 2021 on CBC a documentary called “Searching for Cleopatra: The Woman Behind the Myth” premiers. Dr. Kelly Olson, a professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Western Ontario lectures on Cleopatra and contributed to this documentary. Chris talks to her about Cleopatra: what was she like, what sort of ruler was she, what happened to her descendants, and more.
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Dr. Jonathan Marks has written numerous books on anthropology, genetics, and has begun to write about racism and similar topics in science. Chris talks to him about his last book on scientific racism and his upcoming book about creationism. This is a great discussion about things that we don't talk about much in anthropology and the sciences, but should.
Jonathan Marks is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he has taught since the beginning of the present millennium, after brief stretches at Yale and Berkeley. His primary training is in biological anthropology and genetics, but his interests are broad, and he has published on the topics of human origins and human diversity across the sciences and humanities from American Anthropologist to Zygon. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2012 he was awarded the First Citizen’s Bank Scholar’s Medal from UNC Charlotte. In recent years he has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the ESRC Genomics Forum in Edinburgh, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and a Templeton Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Notre Dame. His work has received the W. W. Howells Book Prize and the General Anthropology Division Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship from the American Anthropological Association, and the J. I. Staley Prize from the School for Advanced Research. His most recent book is called Is Science Racist? (Polity Press), and next one is called Why Are There Still Creationists?. And although he has written books called What it Means to be 98% Chimpanzee and Why I am Not a Scientist, he is somewhat paradoxically about 98% scientist, and not a chimpanzee.
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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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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!
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