The Magnified Axe (part 1) - Ep 15

It’s time for an axe-tremely axe-citing episode! Ash and Tilly have to deal with a tricky situation over at the Bazkardum Society of Dwarfish History, who want to know how to classify a recently donated polished stone axe. Luckily, they have help from special guest Dr Amber Roy - experimental archaeologist and microwear analyst who specialises in prehistoric axes. In this first of two episodes, the three questers discuss the role of axes in fantasy fiction, and what a microscope might be able to bring to the conversation.

Links

• Amber’s academia page

• Amber’s Stockholm University profile

• https://www.instagram.com/amber_archaeo?igsh=bGdidWF1N2Z6bm5y

Contact

• Email: andmytrowel@gmail.com

• Instagram: @‌and.my.trowel

Transcripts

• Segment 1

• Segment 2

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Dark Lord Walks into a Tavern... - Ep 14

Ouch! In episode 14, Tilly and Ash confront the Magisterium of Malintent, the Grand Council of Dark Lords to talk about their power dynamics and how the archaeological record isn’t always as clear cut when it comes to understanding hierarchy and power.

Links

• DNA Study of female warrior grave (Birka)

• Elven Quest

• "Dark Lord" in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (eds. John Clute & John Grant: First St. Martin's Griffin ed.: 1999), p. 262

• Edward James (1988) ‘The Franks Before Clovis’, in The Franks: Blackwell. pg. 58-64

• Madgwick R, Mulville J. (2015) Feasting on fore-limbs: conspicuous consumption and identity in later prehistoric Britain. Antiquity;89(345):629-644. doi:10.15184/aqy.2015.24)

Contact

• Email: andmytrowel@gmail.com

• Instagram: @‌and.my.trowel

Transcripts

• Segment 1

• Segment 2

ArchPodNet

• APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com

• APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet

• APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet

• APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet

• Tee Public Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/archaeology-podcast-network?ref_id=5724

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• Motion: https://www.archpodnet.com/motion

• Liquid I.V.

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