11 December, 2019 – Episode 750 – How Fish Bones Tell Stories

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Interview w/ Dr. Virgina Butler on Digging Fish Bones, Pig-Monkey Mix, Lice Go Way Back, Extinction Complexity, Greenlandic Thaw, Baboon Sex, SF Sea Otters, Faking It, Little Drummer Brains, Fungus Trees, Lit Nets, And Much More…

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According to reports that are coming in from around the world…

People are everywhere.

Even where you are right now, there is at least one person.

In fact, chances are you have never been anywhere at any time where at least one person wasn’t present.

And, even less of a chance that you have ever been anywhere where people haven’t been before.

But there have been times on our planet when people could go places where other people had never been.

Going where no one has gone before has been a thing people have liked doing

since the first overcrowded hunting ground…

Amazingly, when people then went looking for a place where there would be no people…

They often found more people.

Occasionally, however, they did manage to find a place where no people had been before…

And when they did find such brave new worlds to explore,

the one thing they wished they had brought with them?

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Let’s start with an interview!

Interview with Dr. Virginia Butler!

Dr. Butler is a professor of anthropology at Portland State University. Her focus is zooarchaeology, which is why she is very interested in what fish bones can tell us about human history.