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The Dirt Podcast

The Dirt Podcast

Join Anna and Amber; friends, archaeologists, and big nerds, for an exploration of the lives of people in the past.

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22:19

Welcome to The Dirt!

The Dirt Podcast ·

2022/12/04

Meet your hosts, Anna and Amber, talk a little bit about archaeology, anthropology, and how we definitely do not study dinosaurs. Also, we air some hot takes on some of pop culture's most important "archaeologists."To learn more about today's topic, check out:Why Archaeologists Hate Indiana JonesStepping Through The Stargate: Science, Archaeology And The Military InStargate SG1Archaeologists love Space and Aliens: TheStargateSeriesThe LibrarianFranchise (Wikipedia)

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35:37

Thanksviking: Second Helpings

The Dirt Podcast ·

2022/12/04

Anna and Amber rummage in the history fridge and pile up a Dagwood sandwich of tasty leftover Viking morsels. Learn about Viking games and sports, Norse trade systems, mythology and more! To learn more, check out:Games and Sports in the Viking Age (Hurstwic)Towns and Trading in the Viking Age (Hurstwic)And get your hnefatafl on with this printable board!

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54:01

Happy Chrono-kah!

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2022/12/04

This week, Anna and Amber are in the holiday spirit and ready to celebrate Chrono-kah! A holiday that we just made up where we try to fathom the immensity of time! What's the difference between the Stone Age and the Paleolithic? When is North America finally going to enter the Bronze Age? Why do we call this year 2018? Were the early Middle Ages faked? Some of these questions are easier to answer than others. To learn more about what we discuss this week, check out these readings:It’s about time:

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51:30

(Flu) Season's Greetings

The Dirt Podcast ·

2022/12/04

Anna and Amber can’t help you with your real medical complaints, but they’re here with a whole batch of knowledge* about what people used to do for their sniffles (and worse). So grab your tea, lozenges, and a mouthful of miscellaneous herbs and shuffle along with us as we explore ways in which diseases have been diagnosed and treated over the millennia. *Not medical knowledge! Go see a doctor!To learn even more, check out: Neanderthal healthcare practices crucial to survival (AAAS)Prehistoric

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52:45

It's Made of People!

The Dirt Podcast ·

2022/12/04

Never heard of anthropodermic bibliopegy? That's about to change, friends! This week, Anna and Amber look at some unexpected objects made out of people, and discuss the effect of such objects on the living. Content note: We discuss modification of human remains, so please exercise discretion in listening.Our content warning goes double for this week’s show notes! As your editor (Amber) realized herself, discussing these places and objects is one thing, but looking at images of them is another

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37:45

Merry Mithras!

The Dirt Podcast ·

2022/12/04

Grab a cup of cocoa (or something stronger) and join Anna and Amber as they don their coziest jammies and tell the story of Mithras, the lesser-known Reason For The Season from the ancient world. Learn how religions shift through time and place, and why you might want to feast on bull meat in a cave with some Romans this holiday season.To learn more, check out: The Roman Cult of Mithras (The Tertullian Project)Is Jesus Simply a Retelling of the Mithras Mythology? (Cold Case Christianity)Jerome: The

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01:00:29

A Wine and Cheese Pairing

The Dirt Podcast ·

2022/12/04

Anna and Amber are keeping the festive mood alive this week with a wine and cheese platter for your ears, and boy howdy, is it a silly one... and we weren't even drinking! Learn about the world's oldest wine gunk and the many (many!) sizes of wine bottles, and then we'll discuss the difference between wine and "wine," and nibble on some stories about very, very aged cheese.Old Wine: An ancient timeline for great old wine (Snooth)Guide to Wine Bottle Sizes (Wine Folly)You Can (Probably) Still Drink

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46:44

New Year, Old Stuff: Our Most-Anticipated Archaeology...

The Dirt Podcast ·

2022/12/03

In a very special mid-week release, Anna and Amber take a look at the handful of rad archaeological discoveries that happened in 2018 that they're resolving to learn more about in 2019. From that juicy sarcophagus in Alexandria, to the bajillion newly detected Maya structures in Guatemala, to the itty bitty bones of the newest addition to our hominin family tree, there's so much research coming our way!To learn more about what we want to learn more about, check out: The 10 Biggest Archaeology

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36:08

The Human Family Shrub: Part 1

The Dirt Podcast ·

2022/12/03

Anna and Amber work their way up the trunk of our shared evolutionary tree, tackling the thorny issues of identifying our earliest mammal, primate, and hominin ancestors. We learn about the early development of bipedal walking, and really struggle (as usual) with the question of deep time, but this week it escalates to wondering how anybody knows anything. All we know is, we didn’t come from no monkey.To learn more about what we discuss this week, check out: These Rodent-Like Creatures Are the

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45:46

The Human Family Shrub: Part 2

The Dirt Podcast ·

2022/12/03

Anna heads further up the family tree (as Amber lags behind, gasping), and introduces us to our Australopith and Paranthropus relatives. You can always rely on us for our australo-pithiness: Anna gives us the scoop on Lucy's new neighbor Selam and tells us about why babies have such grabby little hands, while Amber grapples with the prospect of a world before people and realizes she might have met an extinct hominin at a party once.To learn (and see!) more, check out:Human Evolution Timeline

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57:01

The Human Family Shrub: Part 3

The Dirt Podcast ·

2022/12/03

In this episode, we conclude our journey along the human timeline with a look at the genus Homo, of which we are all card-carrying members. Amber also contributes a brief study of human butts-- what's up with them?To learn more about our closest relatives, and ourselves:Human Evolution Timeline Interactive (Smithsonian Institution)Human Fossils (Smithsonian Institution)Exploring the fossil record: Homo habilis (Bradshaw Foundation)Homo erectus (Smithsonian Institution)Homo erectus (Bradshaw

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51:21

[Poop Joke Here]: Fossil Feces in Archaeology

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2022/12/03

We all do it. We've done it for millions of years. It's the Poopisode, a Very Special Sponsor pick! Anna and Amber discuss coprolites (archaeological poo), and some of the surprising things we've learned from it. Anna's pun game has rarely been stronger, and Amber...well, Amber survived this episode.If you want to learn more (and admit it, you do), check out: To Truly Know an Ancient Society, One Must Analyze Its Feces (Atlas Obscura)Paleoscatologists dig up stools 'as precious as the crown jewels'

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26:55

The Big Game!

The Dirt Podcast ·

2022/12/03

Every year, the American football season ends with the Big Game, but this week, Anna and Amber are superfans of a much bigger game: the 3500-year-old Mesoamerican ballgame. From its Olmec origins to the athletes keeping it alive today, learn all about how to play, why you might not want to (ouch), and what makes it so significant to past and present communities. To learn more about this week’s topic, check out: Scarborough, V. L., & Wilcox, D. R. (1991). The Mesoamerican ballgame. Tucson:

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55:02

A Dating Show

The Dirt Podcast ·

2022/12/03

Valentine's Day is upon us, and love is in the air-- love for relative and absolute dating methods, that is! Anna brings the science with C14 dating and its gang of radiometric friends, boggles minds with flipped magnetic poles and the last time archaeological material saw the sun, and finds some hot tree-ring takes in California. Meanwhile, Amber goes on a bit of a jag about ancient imperialism, makes a lot of jokes that even she hates, embraces the nihilism of climate change, and attempts to

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42:57

Beyond Avocados: Megafauna Fruit

The Dirt Podcast ·

2022/12/03

It's another sponsored episode! This week, we bring you the fascinating (and sometimes delicious) topic of evolutionary anachronisms. What happens when two species co-evolve to support one another, but one goes extinct? What's up with that obscure, hipster fruit, the paw-paw, and why is Amber mad at NPR? What can blue jays tell us about human impulsivity? All this and more! Gallery of Megafauna FruitsForgotten fruits: Or, megafaunal dispersal syndrome and the case of the missing herbivores

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51:31

The Unsettling Business of Curating Human Remains

The Dirt Podcast ·

2022/12/03

Here at The Dirt, we talk a lot about the things that people leave behind, but we’ve not spent much time talking about what’s left behind of the people themselves. That changes this week, when Anna and Amber discuss excavating, storing, studying, and selling archaeological human remains, and take a look at some of the legal and ethical challenges involved. Content note: this episode contains descriptions of violence done to deceased people and discussion of trafficked human remains. To learn more

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53:02

Lady Statues and Prehistoric Matriarchy

The Dirt Podcast ·

2022/12/03

Kick off Women's History Month with a show all about some of the earliest representations of women in art! Anna introduces us to the Venus of Willendorf and her curvy comrades, and shares a research study with very modern take on ancient art. Meanwhile Amber bursts our bubble about the matriarchy and goddess religions in Old Europe, and discusses goddess worshippers of past and present at Çatalhöyük in present-day Turkey. Or, as Amber would insist we call it this month, Her-key.The Time of the

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01:01:26

What Spake Zarathustra?

The Dirt Podcast ·

2022/12/03

It's almost officially springtime in the Northern Hemisphere, and the vernal equinox brings with it another reason to celebrate: Nowruz! Commonly known as Persian New Year, Nowruz has its roots in a millennia-old religion founded by a man named Zartosht whose ideas had a profound impact on the world. Anna introduces fire temples and what ancient writers had to say about Zoroastrianism, while Amber hypes the Bronze Age in Central Asia and suggests some ways in which Zoroastrian ideas have affected

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32:02

Made For Walkin': A Very Brief History of Footwear

The Dirt Podcast ·

2022/12/03

Anna and Amber rummage around on the floor of history's closet to bring you a brief history of shoes from around the world! Learn why caves in the southwestern USA are full of shoes. Find a shoe museum near you for some sole-searching. Enjoy a description of Anna's favorite goofy historical fashion statement. All this and more! To learn more about this week’s topic, check out:First Shoes Worn 40,000 Years Ago (LiveScience)Why Are Some Caves Full of Shoes? (Sapiens)King Den's sandal label (Google

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01:07:44

Ur Never Going to Believe This

The Dirt Podcast ·

2022/12/03

Join Anna and Amber on a tour of third millennium BCE Mesopotamia, where they explore the Royal Tombs of Ur. It has everything: musical instruments, very extra jewelry looks, a Great Death Pit (!), a famous excavator with a flair for the dramatic, even a surprise find nearly a century later in a museum basement. Who was buried there? What makes these tombs so special? What did Sumerian music sound like? How great was that death pit?To learn (and see!) more, check out:Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia

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