A Life In Ruins

In this episode, we are joined by Megan Kumorek who is a writer and creative partner for the Middle East, North Africa, and Mediterranean Archaeology Publication Group and Promotional and Academic Partner for the Save Cultural Heritage Group. We start off by talking with Megan about her educational background in Archaeology, beginning with her undergraduate in Anthropology at Northern Arizona University and then Megan's M.A. program in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool in the U.K. We then dive into Megan's experiences in working on graffiti in Egyptian archaeology and what the transition was like from researching North and South American archaeology to studying the Egyptian Archaeological Record. We tie up the episode with a very fun and entertaining conversation about depictions of archaeology in video games. Turns out, Megan is a huge gamer! We cover a gambit of video games and how they represent archaeology. The video games that we cover include Tomb Raider, the Assassin's Creed games, World of Warcraft, Sims 4, Zelda, Jedi Fallen Order, Dragon Age Origins, and more!

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Links

• A Life in Ruins Discord Server
• Assassin’s Creed Origins
• Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project 
• Archaeogaming website (not mentioned in the episode but a great resource)

Literature Recommendations

• An Introduction to the Archaeology of Egypt by Kathryn Bard
• Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization by Barry J. Kemp
• Reading Egyptian Art by Richard H. Wilkinson
• Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners by Bill Manley
• How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs by Mark Collier and Bill Manley
• Scribbling Through History: Graffiti, Places and People from Antiquity to 
• Modernity by Chloé Ragazzoli, Ömür Harmansah, Chiara Salvador, and Elizabeth Frood
• When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney

Guest Contact

• Personal Instagram: @Egyptian_Rose 
• Save Cultural Heritage Group Instagram: @schgpk 

In this episode, we are joined by Chris Johnston who is the Operations Director and Project Archaeologist for the Paleocultural Research Group. As always, we kick off the episode investigating Chris's introduction to archaeology and how he turned in his Buffalo horns for Ram horns. We delve into the Paleocultural Research Group (PCRG), what it does, how it operates, and what it is like to work for them. We tie up the episode talking about how archaeology can often focus on the "micro-scale" of that past on how we, as archaeologists, can better bring back the "people-ness" to older archaeological components in our research and in the literature.

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Literature Recommendations

• Imagining Head-Smashed-In by Jack W. Brink
• Origin Stories, Archaeological Evidence, and Postclovis Paleoindian Bison Hunting on the Great Plains by Douglas B. Bamforth
• Crafting History in the Northern Plains by Mark D. Mitchell

Guest Contact

• Paleocultural Research Group Facebook Page
• Paleocultural Research Group Instagram Page: @paleocultural
• Chris Johnston's Twitter: @cmjohnston8

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In this episode, Carlton does a solo interview with Rebekah Lamb. Rebekah is pursuing her Bachelor's degree in Cultural Anthropology and Developmental Sociology and minoring in Archaeology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam-Zuidoost. Rebekah belongs to the Abenaki Tribe of the Wabanaki Confederacy as well as being a descendant of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Carlton and Rebekah talk about her research on Abenaki tattoo practices through apprenticeship ethnography, studying both the historical and contemporary significance and the revival of traditional tattooing culture within New England Indigenous tribes. We also discuss the challenges facing New England Indigenous Nation's cultural practices and history, issues of blood-quantum, decolonizing academia.

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Links

Rebekah Lamb on TEDxVUAmsterdam: Empowering Disabled Students in the University System

Literature Recommendations

• Drawing with Great Needles by Aaron Deter-Wolf and Carol Diaz-Granados
• Aaron Deter-Wolf's Instagram: @archaeologyink

Guest Contact

• Instagram: @appearingacademic

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In this special four-part episode we are joined by Zach Rice and Taylor to talk about how they are working on the reawakening of the Pawnee language. Both Zach and Taylor are citizens of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and grew up in Pawnee, Oklahoma. We talk about growing up in Pawnee, where they went to school, what inspired them to pursue M.A.'s in Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. We dive into their M.A. Theses research, the relationships between Northern Caddoan Languages, working with the Pawnee Nation on the Pawnee Language Program, the challenges they face, and their goals for Pawnee language.

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Links

• Pâripakûru’ Facebook Page
• AISRI Online Pawnee Dictionary
• Pawnee Nation College
• Pawnee Nation Website

Literature Recommendations

• "A Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee" by Douglas R. Parks & Lula Nora Pratt
• "We Still Live Here" a film by Anne Makepeace
• "Bringing Our Languages Home: Langauge Revitalization for Families" by Leanne Hinton
• "The languages of native North America" by Marianne Mithun
• Volume 13 of the Handbook of North American Indians: Plains by Smithsonian Press
• Volume 17 of the Handbook of North American Indians: Languages by Smithsonian Press
• "When Languages Die" by K. David Harrison
• "The Language Warrior's Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds" by Anton Treuer

Guest Contact

• Paari Pakuuru' email address: [email protected]

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It's that time of the year again, Archaeology Podcast Network Director Chris Webster joins the lads for their annual "Performance Review". This episode doesn't cover much archaeology content but how the ongoing pandemic has affected the APN, what 2022 holds for the network, and how this podcast has been performing over the past year. Now, the annual review wouldn't be complete without Chris roasting Carlton, Connor, and David over their podcasting "ticks".

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Links

• DIGTECH LLC
• About Chris Webster
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• email

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In this episode we are joined by Ray Sumner, a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at Colorado State University. Ray was a career U.S. Army officer prior to pursuing his Ph.D. in Anthropology, he reflects on his military experience and how it has shaped his research on Plains Indian Warfare during the late 19th century. Ray and Carlton find out they share a collegiate organization, we discuss the significance of Ray, and we conclude the episode with a conversation about Ray's continuing work for the Department of Defense's POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

Links

@The Julesburg Project on Facebook

@CampRankin1865 on Facebook

CSU Department of Anthropology and Geography and the Center for Mountain and Plains Archaeology (CMPA) Facebook sites

Literature Recommendations

• Battlespace 1865: Archaeology of the Landscapes, Strategies, and Tactics of the North Platte Campaign, Nebraska (American Landscapes) by Doug Scott, Peter Bleed, and Amanda Renner.
• Archaeological Insights into the Custer Battle: An Assessment of the 1984 Field Season by Doug Scott and Richard Fox, Jr.
• A Sacred People: Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation” and “A Sovereign People: Indigenous Nationhood, Traditional Law and the Covenants of the Cheyenne Nation by Leo Killsback.

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In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Heather Rockwell, who is an Assistant Professor at Salve Regina University. Big surprise, she is another fellow University of Wyoming alum. We begin by asking about her developing years in archaeology and then delve into her choice of undergraduate and graduate programs. She explains how having a diverse committee for her Ph.D. at UW was ultimately helpful for her. We then ask Dr. Rockwell to do a deep dive into Northeastern Paleoindian Archaeology. We finish off talking about the academic job market and her upcoming paper with Dr. Madeline Mackie.

Literature Recommendations

• 2005 The Organization of Male and Female Labor in Foraging Societies: Implications for Early Paleoindian Archaeology by Nicole M. Waguespack
• 2021 A Deep Presence: 13,000 years of Native American History, by Robert G. Goodby

Guest Contact

• Instagram for Regina Salve Department of Cultural and Historical Preservation
• @SalveUnivCHP
• Facebook for Regina Salve Department of Cultural and Historical Preservation

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On this episode of A Life in Ruins Podcast, we interview Matt Reed. Matt is the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, We talk about how his families military service factored into his fascination with history and ultimately pushing him to study history as an undergraduate. We then talk about his academic career and how he got started at the Oklahoma Historical Society and what the goal of the society is. We talk about his change of careers and what he does as the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer. Matt and Carlton then detail their experience at the 2021 Plains Conference in Boulder, Colorado.

Links

• Pawnee Nation Historic Preservation Office Website

Literature Recommendations

• The Lost Universe by Gene Weltfish
• Indian Sketches by John Treat Irving
• An Unspeakable Sadness-The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians by David Wishart
• Some Things Are Not Forgotten by Martha Royce Blaine
• Pawnee Passage by Martha Royce Blaine
• 1491 by Charles C. Mann
• 1493 by Charles C. Mann
• Interpreting Our Heritage by Freeman Tilden
• Pox Americana by Elizabeth Fenn
• Encounters at the Heart of the World by Elizabeth Fenn

Guest Contact

• Matt Reed's Twitter: @chauiboy

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In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Kathryn Reusch, who is a Conservation Technician in the Museum Conservation Department at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. We talk about her experiences in school in the UK, her graduate research, and then we take a deep dive into the painful topic of castration (and yes we mean human castration). Connor and Carlton pepper Dr. Reusch with questions about castration and learn more than they ever needed to know.

Literature Recommendations

• 1999 Eunuchs and Castrati: A Cultural History by Piotr O. Scholz
• 2005 The Human Bone Manual by Tim D. White and Pieter Arend Folkens
• 2007 The Archaeology of Disease by Charlotte Roberts and Keith Manchester
• 2008 The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society by Shaun Together
• 2013 "That which was missing": The Archaeology of Castration by Dr. Kathryn Reusch

Guest Contact

• Dr. Reusch's Twitter: @klreusch
• Denver Museum of Nature and Science

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In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Gillian Wong, who is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City, Missouri, and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tuebingen. Dr. Wong chats with us about her early outdoor days, experiences at UC Davis, and how learning French has been useful for her in archaeology. We then delve into her thesis/dissertation work at the University of Utah and then in Germany. She pronounces the name of the site she worked on and Connor/Carlton fails to replicate her pronunciation. Dr. Wong then talks about her experiences being a military spouse and also some advice for those who are military spouses.

Literature Recommendations

• 2008 The Archaeology of Animal Bones by Terry O'Connor
• 2017 Human Subsistence and Environment during the Magdalenian at Langmahdhalde: Evidence from a new Rock Shelter in the Lone Valley, Southwest Germany by Wong, Gillian L., Starkovich, B. M., Conard, N. J.
• 2018 An Introduction to Zooarchaeology by Diane Gifford-Gonzalez
• 2016 Taphonomy for Taxonomists: Implications of predation in small mammal studies by Fernández-Jalvo, Y., Andrews, P., Denys, C., Sesé, C., Stoetzel, E., Marin-Monfort, D., Pesquero, D.
• 2019 Mothering from the Field: The Impact of Motherhood on Site-Based Research edited by Bahiyyah M. Muhammad and Melanie-Angela Neuilly
• 2020 New perspectives on human subsistence during the Magdalenian in the Swabian Jura, Germany by Wong, Gillian L., Starkovich, B. M., Drucker, D. G., Conard
• 2020 Latest Pleistocene paleoenvironmental reconstructions from the Swabian Jura, southwestern Germany: evidence from stable isotope analysis and micromammal remains by Wong, Gillian L., Drucker, D. G., Starkovich, B. M., Conard, N. J.
• Dr. Wong's Recorded lecture on her work at Langmahdhalde
• Holding down the Fort Podcast

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