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ENCORE Settlers of Cerutti: Evaluating Claims About the Cerutti Mastodon Site - Ep 123

ENCORE: To kick off the new year, the boys invite Dr. Shane Miller (Mississippi State University; Ep. #21) and his friend Dr. Jesse Tune (Fort Lewis College) to investigate the controversy surrounding the Cerutti Mastodon Site.

The conversation is a holistic discussion from different perspectives about evidence, ethics, Indigenous Sovereignty, and good science.

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aDNA and Stone Tools with Beth Potter - Ep 122

On this episode, we are back with new content! We talk with Beth Potter, who is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. We talk about Beth first's archaeological conference at age 13 and her experience there. Beth then describes her experience going to a small state-school called Harvard University. We delve into her experience in French Canada and what brought her there. She then deep dives into her scientific research and how one gets aDNA from stone tools.

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Literature Recommendations

  • Lithic Analysis by George Odell

  • Ancient DNA analysis by Orlando et. al in Nature Reviews Methods Primers

  • The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us By Robert L. Kelly

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  • Instagram: @blpotter13

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ENCORE Tips, Tricks, and Dance Moves for Anthropology Undergrad and Grad Programs - Ep 121

In this episode of A Life in Ruins, we provide information about undergraduate and graduate school. We start off joking about our favorite episodes (all of them are our favorite) and then dive into things to consider when applying to undergraduate and graduate programs. We talk about our differing experiences in undergrad and the positives and negatives of each of our experiences. Importantly, we dive into how to research graduate programs, and factors surrounding how to choose a school are then discussed. We then wrap it up with other ridiculous conversations.

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ENCORE: Down Unda’ the Sea with Dr. Maddy McAllister - Ep 120

On this episode of A Life in Ruins Podcast, we interview Dr. Maddy McAllister, a maritime archaeologist with the Museum of Tropical Queensland. Dr. McAllister is known for her educational Instagram account, @shipwreckmermaid. As Dr. McAllister is an Aussie, we naturally first have a conversation about the differences between our endemic wildlife and the hazards of working in the wild. This is followed by a discussion of how Dr. McAllister, and other underwater archaeologists, plan out their projects, record data, and conduct their research. We also have some salty discussions of sailing stories, shipwrecks, and other things that blow Connors and Carlton's minds. David was literally born on an island -he gets it.

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Book Recommendations:

• 2005 ‘Beneath the Seven Seas’ (edited by George Bass)

• 1980 Archaeology underwater – Keith Muckleroy

• 2004 Maritime Archaeology: a technical handbook, Jeremy Green

• 1986 Maritime Archaeology in Australia – Graeme Henderson

• 2008 Unfinished Voyages – Graeme Henderson

• 2007 Shipwreck Archaeology in Australia – Mike Nash

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Dr. McAllister's Instagram: @shipwreckmermaid

Dr. McAllister's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maddy.mcallister.10 and https://www.facebook.com/shipwreckmermaid/

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ENCORE Something A-foot in White Sands National Monument with Dr. Shane Miller and Dr. Jesse Tune - Ep 119

ENCORE: Something's afoot. There is, yet again, another controversial preclovis find. This time, away from the West Coast and in New Mexico. The controversy surrounds human footprints found in White Sands National Park that are dated between 23 and 21 kya.

To discuss these possible pre-Clovis footprints, we invited Dr. Jesse Tune and Dr. Shane Miller on the show to contextualize the data. We begin with an open discussion about the recent published report and try to understand what the researches found at the site. We then chat about their controversy, how it’s hit the mainstream media, and what the ramifications of the repaint are for archaeology.

The conversation then turns into a open dialogue about scientific biases, as well as the role of Indigenous oral traditions and their incorporation into scientific theories.

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Literature recommendations

  • 2020, Bennett et al., Walking in mud: Remarkable Pleistocene human trackways from White Sands National Park (New Mexico), Quaternary Science Reviews

  • 2018 Bustos et al., Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America, Supplmentary Materials, Science Advances

  • 2021 Rachal et al., Lake levels and trackways: An alternative model to explain the timing of human-megafauna trackway intersections, Tularosa Basin, New Mexico, Quaternary Science Advances

  • 2021 Bennett et al., Evidence of humans in North Americaduring the Last Glacial Maximum, Science

  • 2020 Ardelean et al., Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum, Nature

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