View to a Kilwa - The Medieval Swahili Coast (CLASSIC) - Ep 182

In this re-release of an EARLY classic, take a whirlwind tour of the Swahili coast and the economic and cultural exchanges over land and sea it has enjoyed for more than a thousand years, before zooming in on the very powerful, and very cool, medieval sultanate of Kilwa Kisawani.

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Links

• Making History: An archaeologist unearths the history of the Swahili States (Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin)

• East Africa: Five Million Years of History (The Public Medievalist)

• Early African History: fire, farming, Egypt, and the Bantu (Quatr.us)

• Collins & Pisarevsky (2004). "Amalgamating eastern Gondwana: The evolution of the Circum-Indian Orogens". Earth-Science Reviews.

• Richard Pankhurst, An Introduction to the Economic History of Ethiopia, (Lalibela House: 1961)

• Recipe for ambergris and eggs

• Early Global Connections: East Africa between Asia, and Mediterranean Europe (Global Middle Ages)

• Kilwa Kisiwani: Medieval Trade Center of Eastern Africa (Thought.Co)

• A lost city reveals the grandeur of medieval African civilization (Gizmodo)

• Chami FA. 2009. Kilwa and the Swahili Towns: Reflections from an archaeological perspective. In: Larsen K, editor. Knowledge, Renewal and Religion: Repositioning and changing ideological and material circumstances among the Swahili on the East African coast. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitututet.

• Fleisher J, Wynne-Jones S, Steele C, and Welham K. 2012. Geophysical Survey at Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania. Journal of African Archaeology 10(2):207-220.

• Pollard E. 2011. Safeguarding Swahili trade in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: a unique navigational complex in south-east Tanzania. World Archaeology 43(3):458-477.

• Pollard E, Fleisher J, and Wynne-Jones S. 2012. Beyond the Stone Town: Maritime Architecture at Fourteenth–Fifteenth Century Songo Mnara, Tanzania. Journal of Maritime Archaeology 7(1):43-62

• Wynne-Jones S. 2007. Creating urban communities at Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania, AD 800-1300. Antiquity 81:368-380.

• Wynne-Jones S. 2013. The public life of the Swahili stonehouse, 14th–15th centuries AD. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 32(4):759-773.

• Wynne-Jones S, and Fleisher J. 2012. Coins in Context: Local Economy, Value and Practice on the East African Swahili Coast. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 22(1):19-36.

• Zhao B. 2012. Global Trade and Swahili Cosmopolitan Material Culture: Chinese-Style Ceramic Shards from Sanje ya Kati and Songo Mnara (Kilwa, Tanzania). Journal of World History 23(1):41-85.

• Stone Towns of the Swahili Coast (Archaeology)

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CLASSIC: Dogtectives! - Ep 178

Amber's traveling for work this week, so we bring you a perfectly dry-aged episode from years past. We bring you a fascinating, poignant, and thoroughly delightful interview with Very Special Guest Lynne Engelbert, a handler with the Institute for Canine Forensics. Learn what the talented pups at the ICF do for a living and prepare to be amazed!

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You Are What You Eat (LIVE!) - Ep 177

How do we know what people ate in the past? How did they make their food? How did food fit into the social aspect of life in the past? We discuss old old recipes, spicy Sichuanese history, an herbal mystery, how food changed our faces, and more!

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• Stone Age spices (NPR)

• Garlic Mustard Phytoliths (PLOS One)

• Oldest Noodles Found in China (BBC)

• Decoding Ancient Recipes (BBC)

• Roman food blogger Apicius (Wikipedia)

• History of Spice in Sichuan (University of Illinois)

• Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food (Nautilus)

• Cooking Before Ceramics (The Atlantic)

• Monte Testaccio (Archaeology Magazine)

• Oyster Middens (Atlas Obscura)

• Oyster Midden Exhibit (University of Maine)

• Silphium, an Herbal Mystery (BBC)

• What is Silphium?

• Early Dilmun Diet (Journal of Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy)

• Facial Changes due to Diet (PLOS One)

• Changes in Skull Features (PNAS)

• How Forks Gave us Overbites (The Atlantic)

• Lynne Olver’s Food Timeline (Eater.com)

• Virginia Tech Saves the Food Timeline (Eater.com)

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Studying Salvage Anthropology w/ Samuel Redman - Ep 176

We dive into Dr. Samuel Redman’s latest book, Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Amber and Anna (mostly Amber) have lots of questions about the seemingly paradoxical 19th- and 20th- century urge by American scholars to “rescue” objects and even human remains from “disappearing” Indigenous groups. It’s a fascinating window into anthropology viewed as a moral and academic obligation, and the social underpinnings of the development of the discipline in the US. And! You can enter to win your very own copy of Ghosts and Prophets! Harvard University Press generously hooked us up with three copies to give away. The promotion is running via Twitter and Instagram, so keep an eye out for those posts for the extremely low-effort rules for entering.

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• Prophets and Ghosts (via WorldCat)

• Samuel J. Redman (UMass Amherst)

• Wendy Red Star’s 1880 Crow Peace Delegation (Birmingham Museum of Art)

• Wendy Red Star’s Children of the Large-Beaked Bird (MASS MoCA)

• Blanket Stories: Transportation Object, Generous Ones, Trek (Marie Watt Studio)

• Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Smithsonian Institution)

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It's Jennauary! - Ep 173

We’re finally introducing our producer, Jenna Hendrick, in an episode! Jenna has been working with us behind the scenes on our social media posts and some of the nuts and bolts of episode organization for several months now. We chat about popular media portrayals of human life in the Paleolithic, and how those affected popular perception of the human past.

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