I today's show we talk to Dr. Jonathan Marks about his latest publication, "Is Science Racist?". If science is racist, what can we do as citizens and scientists to combat that ideology? What can we do to rid science of it's racism? It's a complicated problem and we hope this starts some conversations.
On today's show April and Chris interview the author of a staple in many anthropology classes, "Life in the Pueblo" by Kathryn Kamp. This is a foundational book for many people and we talk about her motivation behind writing it and what's changed over the years. We also talk about children in the archaeological record and about how they aren't thought about enough when doing analysis.
Today's show is a joint episode from the Archaeology Show and the CRM Archaeology Podcast. We talk to Dr. Steven Holen, the primary author on a letter in Nature at the end of April, 2017 detailing a site from San Diego, CA with an apparent 130,000 year old archaeological site. It's a controversial find and we try to get into the science and figure out what's going on and where we go from here.
APN presents the live podcast forum from the 82nd Annual Meeting of Society for American Archaeology. The APN hosts in attendance for the discussion included Michael Ashley, Jeb Card, Ken Feder, Kirsten Lopez, Chris Sims, Stephen Wagner, and Chris Webster. The audience also joins the panel for this first-of-its-kind session at the SAA.
Chris Webster sits down with Edward Harris and Cinzia Perlingieri at SAA2017 to talk about the Harris Matrix - a stratigraphic model that emphasizes artifacts deposited in sequences on surfaces over time. This model holds up in complicated stratigraphic contexts where palimpsests of human activity result in mixed deposits. Listen to this illuminating episode for more!
On today's episode Chris and April talk about the material culture of archaeologists. What do we treasure? What do we own? Why? Depending on the type of archaeologist you are you're going to have different tools and a different outlook on life. We cover it all here.
On today's episode Chris and April talk to Senior Staff Archaeologist at Jamestown Rediscovery, David Givens. David talks about the history of Jamestown, the archaeology, and where they're going from here.
Dr. Colleen Strawhacker, an archaeologist with the interdisciplinary research group, the National Snow and Ice Data Center, joins the podcast to talk about the archaeology of climate change. Strawhacker works closely with indigenous groups in the Arctic to study resilience and failure in the wake of drastic environmental change.
Stuart Rathbone joins the show to talk about signal towers on the Irish coast.
On today's show we try out a slightly different format. Dr. John Whittaker, professor and author of many books and papers on flintknapping and stone tool use, starts out the first segment with a lecture about the Atlatl - an ancient spear-throwing device. For the last two segments Chris and April ask Dr. Whittaker about the Atlatl, his experiences with the device, and the growing community of atlatl enthusiasts.
We talk with Dr. Colin Amundsen about his podcast, "Cooking With Archaeologists", the related cookbook, and the challenges of podcasting for archaeology.
On today's episode April and Chris talk about the most meaningful impacts to archaeology in 2016. It's not about the best finds or the greatest sites - it's about what had the most impact on story that we try to tell about the history of the planet. Below are some links that we talked about.
On today's show we talk to Swedish archaeologist and blogger, Dr. Martin Rundkvist, about his work in Sweden. Dr. Rundkvist has some interesting work on landscape archaeology and has worked on a number of Viking sites.Links Aardvarchaeology Blog Book: In the Landscape and Between Worlds Vikings - TV Show Contact chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com...
Guest, Carol Ellick, talks with Chris and April about public archaeology, and the challenges and opportunities for the field.
Bonnie Clark joins this episode to chat about her work at Amache, a Japanese-American Internment Camp that operated during WWII, and with descendants of internees.
On today's show, April and Chris interview Seth Kramer (Director) and Dr. Susan Crate (the Anthropologist) about their 2015 documentary about climate change, "The Anthropologist".
April and Chris start the first official episode of this new show by talking about, well, archaeology, We figured that we should start the show with some background and a little foundation in the field of archaeology.
This is Chris Webster and April Kamp-Whitaker. We're the hosts of the Archaeology Show. We started this show to bring you news, information, and insights to the world of archaeology and beyond.
