Eric Lawton is a world class fine art photographer and has been around the word with his camera. Eric has been fascinated with rock art for his entire life and has a deep interest in how we relate to photographs and art forms of people throughout history.
Dr. Alan Garfinkel
In this episode, we talk to Audrey Scardina (future Dr.) about her journey through life from her undergrad in theater to finishing up a Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh in Archaeology.
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Twitter: @idigitpodcast
Email: idigitpodcast@gmail.com
Alyssa
Instagram: aal.archaeology
Twitter: Lyssakemi
Michaela
Instagram: mm_digitalized
Twitter: m_mauriello
Following from a popular Facebook post about the RPA talk about about what it is, what it’s doing, what it’s supposed to do, and what it should do. The RPA is a big organization in the field of CRM and has a long history. What can we do with that?
Bill @succinctbill; Doug @openaccessarch; Stephen @processarch; Bill A. @archaeothoughts; Chris W @Archeowebby, @DIGTECHLLC, and @ArchPodNet
Bill White: Succinct Research
Doug Rocks-MacQueen: Doug’s Archaeology
Stephen Wagner: Process - Opinions on Doing Archaeology
Chris Webster: Random Acts of Science
On this month’s podcast we have Dr. Ashley Spivey, Executive Director of Kenah Consulting and enrolled member of the Pamukey Indian Tribe. We start out talking about Ashley continuing her family legacy of maintaining her community’s heritage through material culture. Dr. Spivey also talks about the recent recognition of 7 Virginia tribes despite Virginia’s *paper genocide* and their historic erasure. While normally only recognized related to the first English settlements in America as the Powhatan Chiefdom, she discusses Virginia tidewater Indigenous communities’ long and vibrant role throughout American history. Finally we discuss her current work through Kenah Consulting to build tribal capacity in Virginia and across the US to support sovereignty and self-determination. They assist in building lasting capacity through federal acknowledgement, land claims, natural resource rights, cultural resource management planning, program development, and grant writing.
Photos include a photo of Dr. Spivey, a photo of the front façade of the Pamunkey Indian Museum and Cultural Center, and two photos from archaeological excavations at the Raymond Bush Site on the Reservation. This research was funded through the Society for American Archaeology Native America Graduate Student Scholarship and formed the foundation of her dissertation research. The two photos from this excavation include one of Dr. Spivey and her grandfather, Warren Cook, and one of the excavation team comprised of Pamunkey and Mattaponi tribal members and a William and Mary colleague.
Mashantucket Pequot - Episode 12- https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/heritagevoices/12
Nation-Building After Federal Recognition - Episode 14- https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/heritagevoices/14
Jessica
Lyle
This week, Amber and Anna bring you three of the best-known archaeological sites from Ancient Egypt. These sites tell us a whole lot about life in the past--not just for the pharaohs and the elites, but the workers who built them. We also dip our toes into Ancient Egyptian cosmology and zip through the dynastic timeline!
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
On this episode we talk to Dr. Tirtha Mukhopadhyay about his career in rock art. From his homeland of Calcutta, India, to continued graduate studies in Texas, and his current research working out of Guanajuato University in Mexico. They take a deep dive into the mysteries surrounding the relationships of science and religion. Our guest scholar provides up to date thinking on how our minds process images and create emotions relating to our understanding of deities. We delve into just what rock art images mean and how they affect the emotional states of its viewers. Finally, we provide some working hypotheses on what those animal-human figures depicted in prehistoric rock art communicate in terms of their compound metaphors as shamans, ancestors, and deities.
Chris Webster
Dr. Alan Garfinkel
On today’s quick show Chris talks to Rachel Roden, his wife, an archaeologist and crew member on the DIGTECH team working northeastern Nevada. Rachel talks about running fieldwork fully digital for the first time. What went right? What went wrong? Where can we improve?
Chris Webster
Twitter: @archeowebby
Paul Zimmerman
Twitter: @lugal
Email: paul@lugal.com
Anna and Amber finally get some much-needed linguistics help from Dr. Chris Donlay. We talk about his unconventional academic path and his work recording and studying endangered languages! Plus, he schools us on how language shapes our perception of the world, how old spoken language *might* be, and what to do with a linguistics degree.
On this episode of A Life In Ruins Podcast, we summon another member of the Archaeology Avengers, Natasha Billson! Many of you may already know of Natasha by her social media handle Tash_Archaeo or her YouTube channel Behind the Trowel.
We delve into cultural resources management archaeology in the UK and its differences with American CRM archaeology. The Archaeology Avengers is brought up, we chat about science communication, Natasha's Archaeologists in Quarantine YouTube interview series, and a discussion on race in archaeology.
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Twitter: @Tash_Archaeo
YouTube: Behind the Trowel
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Website: www.alifeinruins.com
A very important announcement from the A Life In Ruins Hosts.
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This announcement pertains to the death of George Carr Frison.
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@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com
We've talked about unionizing archaeologists a number of times on this podcast. Today, though, we talk to two people that actually did it. They are the organizers of an archaeology union in Ontario, Canada and it's been very successful so far. We find out what their experience was, and is, and how the union has been received by archaeologists in Ontario.
Bill @succinctbill; Doug @openaccessarch; Stephen @processarch; Bill A. @archaeothoughts; Chris W @Archeowebby, @DIGTECHLLC, and @ArchPodNet
Bill White: Succinct Research
Doug Rocks-MacQueen: Doug’s Archaeology
Stephen Wagner: Process - Opinions on Doing Archaeology
Chris Webster: Random Acts of Science
In this episode, Alyssa and Michaela give updates on both of their major life changes occurring in the month of August while discussing future plans and life aspirations.
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Twitter: @idigitpodcast
Email: idigitpodcast@gmail.com
Alyssa
Instagram: aal.archaeology
Twitter: Lyssakemi
Michaela
Instagram: mm_digitalized
Twitter: m_mauriello
The second half of Anna and Amber's conversation with librarian and research guru Tasha Bergson-Michelson. This week, we chat about the value of critical thinking, combatting misinformation in our social circles, and how to hack Wikipedia for the greater good. Plus, some unexpected facts about ice cream parlors and fog!
Don Liponi is a best selling author on La Rumorosa rock art and he's working on a third volume focusing on the study of shamanism as it relates to Rock Art.
Chris Webster
Dr. Alan Garfinkel
Rick Coleman shares is journey in anthropology and his recent research documenting the giant ground figures that exist in California and Arizona. These are known as “geoglyphs” and can be small rock rings to massive human, animal, and geometric shapes.
Chris Webster
Dr. Alan Garfinkel
Eric Olson is a full time lecturer at Cuyahoga Community College, Presient of the Stewards of Historical Preservation, and president-elect of the Ohio Archaeological Council. He talks to us today about the challenges of teaching archaeology online.
For the Ohio Archaeological Council: https://ohioarchaeology.org/
For the article about the 1901 lagoon discovered at Stan Hywet: https://ohioarchaeology.org/140-resources/research/articles-and-abstracts-2017/514-no-shovel-required-an-archaeological-inventory-of-greater-akron-ohio
Genghis Khan Nat Geo crowdsourcing: https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2011/07/12/return-to-the-valley-of-the-khans/
For the Tri-C Anthropology twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/tricanthropology
They also have a youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeqtT8ULkCfkbwaOl1sSfbA/featured
The video game Eric briefly mentioned creating for students: https://anthropology.itch.io/b-horizon
Chris Webster
Twitter: @archeowebby
Paul Zimmerman
Twitter: @lugal
Email: paul@lugal.com
Alex and Simona go back into archaeogaming with a new episode focusing on bioarchaeology in the popular video game franchise The Witcher (originally a book series and now also a tv show). They will follow the story’s protagonist, Geralt of Rivia, and his ability to carry out osteological analyses of skeletal remains in his monster hunting quests.
https://animalarchaeology.com/2020/02/08/the-witcher-is-a-bioarchaeologist-okay-let-me-explain/
CD Projekt (2015) The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt.
Lyman, R.L. (1994) Vertebrate Taphonomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
If you want to hear more on the skeletal anatomy of video game creatures, why not head over to Episode 13, which presents an overview of the morphology of creatures from several famous video game franchises (among which Skyrim)
Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz
Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady
Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology
Music "Coconut - (dyalla remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY
