In this episode, we are joined by Matthew Ayre (PhD), a post-doctoral fellow with the Arctic Institute of North America. He has always been fascinated with the British Arctic whaling trade, and has made impressive jumps from geography, to historical climatology, with a dash of archaeology thrown in. Matthew's research, using the logs from the British Arctic whaling boats to reconstruct the past Arctic climate is fascinating. We hope you enjoy this interview as much as we did!

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We're back, baby! Gill, Lulu and Kelsey took some time off to finish up the school year, but we are back with a second season for all our lovely People! Since Kelsey is currently in the Yukon, and Gill also focuses on Arctic Archaeology, we thought our first episode back after our hiatus would be about the history of the resourceful, resilient people that inhabit the Circumpolar North, as well as how Arctic archaeology is conducted and some of the pros and cons of working up North (spoiler alert: one of the cons is polar bears).

With the heatwave we are currently in, we are also constantly reminded of climate disaster that we are experiencing globally. We briefly discuss the insights we can glean from the Arctic, and how it is affected.

Cool off with this *chill* episode during these hot summer months!

**Note: Kelsey had to record outside, surrounded by a bunch of people, so there are some background noises that we couldn't edit out.

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Intro/Outro Music

The Spaghetti Western Set by Brett Van Donsel Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=WizFTwM_J_8&feature=emb_logo

References

Appelt, M., Damkjar, E., & Friesen, M. (2016). “Late Dorset”. In The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic. Max Friesen and Owen Mason, eds. Oxford University Press.

Friesen, T. M. (2020). Radiocarbon Evidence for Fourteenth-Century Dorset Occupation in the Eastern North American Arctic. American Antiquity, 85(2), 222-240.

Hollesen, J., Callanan, M., Dawson, T., Fenger-Nielsen, R., Friesen, T. M., Jensen, A. M., Markham, A., Martens, V. V., Pitulko, V. V., & Rockman, M. (2018). Climate change and the deteriorating archaeological and environmental archives of the Arctic. Antiquity, 92(363), 573-586. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.8.

Jeppesen, E., Appelt, M., Hastrup, K., Grønnow, B., Mosbech, A., Smol, J. P., & Davidson, T. A. (2018). Living in an oasis: Rapid transformations, resilience, and resistance in the North Water Area societies and ecosystems. Ambio, 47(s2), 296–309.

Other Resources

National Film Board of Canada - Netsilik Inuit Videos -https://www.nfb.ca/search/?q=netsilik&cat=films&language=en&sortBy=relevance&orderBy=desc

@shinanova (throat singing) on Instagram and Tik Tok

Have you ever played a video game and thought: “How accurate is this?”? That is the essence of what we hoped to discuss in this episode, and to do it, we were joined by Gillian’s “gaming” boyfriend, Luke Smith. A more conversational episode than many others, Luke brings his experience with many video games, and especially the Assassin’s Creed series, and Kelsey, Lulu and Gill discuss the historical “correctness” of these games based on archaeological analyses.

This was a fun episode! It might even inspire you to spend some lockdown time gaming.

**Note: Gill and Luke had an issue with their mic, so the sound quality is not the best! Sorry about that.

Intro/Outro Music

The Spaghetti Western Set by Brett Van Donsel Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=WizFTwM_J_8&feature=emb_logo

References

Copplestone, T. J. (2017). Designing and developing a playful past in video games. The interactive past: Archaeology, heritage & video games, 85-98.

Livingstone, D., Louchart, S. J. J., & Jeffrey, S. (2016). Archaeological storytelling in games.

Meyers Emery, K., & Reinhard, A. (2015). Trading shovels for controllers: A brief exploration of the portrayal of archaeology in video games. Public Archaeology, 14(2), 137-149.

Reinhard, A. (2017). Video Games as Archaeological Sites. The Interactive Past: Archaeology, Heritage, and Video Games, 99-106.

Reinhard, A. (2018). Archaeogaming: An introduction to archaeology in and of video games. Berghahn Books.

Our sincerest apologies for the looooong unintended hiatus before the release of this episode. This semester really got the best of us (mostly Gillian) and I dropped the ball on this episode. Very sorry about that! “Peas” forgive us. Hope you still enjoy :)

Yes, we took a break, but we’re “bok” now. In this episode (recorded way back in October… and supposed to be released then), Kelsey, Lulu and Gill talk about all things agricultural. We wanted to do a fall-themed episode, and so “lettuce” tell you about different types of agricultural practices that one doesn’t always hear about. When you hear “harvest” do you only think of cornucopias overflowing and square patches of land? If so, come learn about some other practices that were used for millenia! And learn a fun fact about potatoes to tell your friends. There is also a mini interview included with the lovely Chelsea Klinke. This episode can’t be “beet.”

Intro/Outro Music

The Spaghetti Western Set by Brett Van Donsel Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=WizFTwM_J_8&feature=emb_logo

References

Cabanis, M.; Deberge, Y.; Bouby, L.; & Marià Hajnalovà & Philippe Marinval & Christine Mennesssier-Jouannet & Christine Vermeulen & Gérard Vernet. (2015). Changes in crop cultivation during the last five centuries before the Roman conquest: Archaeobotanical investigation in the Clermont-Ferrand basin, Massif Central, France.

Lightfoot, D. (1996). The Nature, History, and Distribution of Lithic Mulch Agriculture: An Ancient Technique of Dryland Agriculture. The Agricultural History Review, 44(2), 206-222. Retrieved January 3, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40275100

Mt.Pleasant, Jane. (2016) "Food Yields and Nutrient Analyses of the Three Sisters: A Haudenosaunee Cropping System." Ethnobiology Letters 7, no. 1: 87-98.

Chelsea Klinke:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/grow-calgary-franca-perri-chelsea-klinke-alberta-1.5599270

https://airdrielife.com/lifenow/canadas-largest-non-profit-urban-farm-moves-to-balzac/?fbclid=IwAR11l3S_tihMhcS2k0285GkbO7ZDO4zYT_PMDcMFi9qf6oXoXtBMl9sx3Zo

YYC Growers: https://yycgrowers.com/

Verge Permaculture: https://vergepermaculture.ca/

Permaculture Calgary Guild: https://www.facebook.com/permaculturecalgary/

Permeate: https://permeatecalgary.blogspot.com/

Foodscape Calgary: https://www.foodscaped.com/

Calgary Harvest: http://www.calgaryharvest.org/

Dirt Boys Urban Farming: https://www.dirtboys.ca/

Leaf and Lyre Urban Farms: http://www.leafandlyre.net/

In this episode of our “Careers in Archaeology” series we interview Kayleigh Speirs, the Curator and Manager of Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung (Manitou Mounds) Historical Centre owned and operated by Rainy River First Nation in Northwestern Ontario. In this episode Kayleigh shares with us her experiences and knowledge in museum curation, and advice on the benefits of volunteering. She discusses how she navigates the settler/colonial divide while working in Indigenized spaces to better promote reconciliation and decolonization in her work. 

Check out the Anishinaabemowin Phrase of the Day on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @manitoumounds and their website https://manitoumounds.com. The Centre is currently closed to the public to protect the community during the Covid-19 pandemic, but when it re-opens be sure to make a trip to the Place of the Long Rapids to experience the beauty that has captured Kayleigh’s heart!

Intro/Outro Music:

The Spaghetti Western Set by Brett Van Donsel Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=WizFTwM_J_8&feature=emb_logo

References

Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung Historical Centre - https://manitoumounds.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/manitoumounds/

Email: [email protected]

Rainy River First Nations: https://rainyriverfirstnations.com

Following up on our very fun and informative interview with Dr. Kimberly Williams, we thought we would explore the Wild West a bit. More specifically, sex work in the Wild West! We explored the archaeology of brothels and search for answers to some questions: What was it like for sex workers of the time? How did Madams (brothel managers) integrate sex work into the local economy and way of life? Were brothels accepted by everyday folk? Bonus: an interesting fact about the current president of the United States.

This brief delve into the lives of sex workers in the Wild West was very interesting for the three of us, and we hope you enjoy it just as much as we did!

Intro/Outro Music:

The Spaghetti Western Set by Brett Van Donsel Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=emb_logo&time_continue=10&v=WizFTwM_J_8

References

Lee Branstetter, Heather. 2016. A Mining Town Needs Brothels: Gossip and the Rhetoric of Sex Work in a Wild West Mining Community. Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 46(5). 

Morgan, Lael. 2011. Wanton West: Madams, Money, Murder and the Wild Women of Montana’s Frontier. Chicago Review Press.

Powell, Eric A.  2002, Shooting Up in the Old West. Newsbriefs. 55(3).

Spude, Catherine Holder. 2005. Brothels and Saloons: An Archaeology of Gender in the American West. Historical Archaeology. 39(1), 89-106.

https://archive.archaeology.org/0205/newsbriefs/syringe.html

https://getmaude.com/blogs/themaudern/sex-and-the-wild-west

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/trump-canada-yukon-1.3235254

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/explainers/understanding-sex-work-open-society

While we had hoped to continue our “Careers in Anthropology” series, this is a slight deviation from that, although no less interesting nor less informative! In this episode, we are joined by self-proclaimed Feminist Killjoy, Dr. Kimberly A. Williams, a feminist scholar, award-winning author and public speaker. She is an Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of Women & Gender Studies at Mount Royal University. She teaches courses that focus on theories surrounding feminism, men and masculinities, critical race, queer and global gender issues. She has also written an award-winning book titled Imagining Russia (2012), and just completed a book critically examining the Calgary Stampede. In her “spare time” (and non-Covid times), she also leads historical walking tours, called Booze, Broads & Brothels, in which she educates participants on Calgary’s consensual adult sex industry.

Kim shares insight about feminist scholarship, what it is (really) like to be a woman in academia, some advice for figuring out what you want to do and some ways that we can fight to be better feminists in our field. She discusses what we can learn about and from past Calgarian sex workers, and briefly sums up what is at the very core of being human, what is really pertaining to people.

**Note: there are expletives in this episode. We also apologize for the sound quality - there were some technological difficulties we overcame!

Intro/Outro Music:

The Spaghetti Western Set by Brett Van Donsel Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=WizFTwM_J_8&feature=emb_logo

Resources and Links

Dr. Kimberly A. Williams website: http://www.kawilliamsphd.com

Kim Williams Twitter: https://twitter.com/kwilliamsyyc?lang=en

For our second interview in our “Careers in Archaeology” series, we’re very excited to be joined by Stevie Sheppard, a Parks Canada Terrestrial Archaeologist.

In this episode, we discuss the rigorous application process for a coveted Parks archaeology job, her previous experiences in archaeology that landed her this position, as well as the differences between Terrestrial and Underwater archaeology (read: those awesome folks that discovered the Franklin expedition)! Listen and explore with us as Stevie shares her passion for the history of Canada and why Parks Canada has 450,000km² of Canadian memories for you to discover!

She shares some insightful wisdom and advice when it comes to “following your passions” or maybe.. getting stuck loving them.

References

Parks Canada Website https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/index

This is a special episode of our “Careers in Anthropology” series. In this episode, we interview Margarita de Guzman. Margarita is a female entrepreneur who started her own CRM (Cultural Resource Management) company in Calgary, Alberta. In this episode Marg describes her beginnings in archaeology, her tips for success, and provides candid advice for any budding archaeologist. Stay tuned for our upcoming episodes in this series as we meet people working in various areas of anthropology!

References

Circle CRM : https://circleconsulting.ca/

https://www.instagram.com/circledigs/

Join us this week as we talk about only a few of the many amazing womxn in anthropology! In this episode, we give a brief synopsis of the lives of Margaret Pattison Staples-Brown (or Makereti Papakura), Jane Goodall, and Dr. Alexandra Jones; an anthropologist in the past, one that really “changed the game,” so to speak, and one that is currently making her mark. There’s also a little bonus woman in anthropology for you to check out.

This is a “pre-episode” for a series of interviews of current womxn in anthropology that we will be releasing throughout August, while Kelsey is up north.

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_anthropologists

Makereti Papakura/ “Guide Maggie”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makereti_Papakura

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Arawa

Robinson R, Wattie N. (ed.) 2006. “Mākereti (Margaret Thom, 1872–1930)”. In The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Oxford University Press.

Werry M. 2011. The Class Act of Guide Maggie: Cosmopolitesse, Publics, and Participatory Anthropology. University of Minnesota Press; The Tourist State, 2011–11-24.

Dame Jane Morris Goodall

Dr. Alexandra Jones

http://www.archaeologyincommunity.com/

https://info.umkc.edu/unews/celebrating-women-in-stem-dr-alexandra-jones/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-jones-phd-rpa-79203162

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Jones_(archaeologist)

https://blerds.atlantablackstar.com/2015/07/09/6-black-archaeologists-anthropologists-know/3/

https://throomers.com/alexandra-jones-archaelogist/

https://www.pbs.org/time-team/meet-the-team/alexandra-jones/

https://trowelblazers.com/alexandra-jones-community-spirit/

Johnetta Cole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnetta_Cole