Story of Woman Podcast

By Lindsay Hansen Park

History with more HER. This podcast weaves histories of women, through the lens of women, with the latest research and experts in the field. Broad and expansive, this series starts with the genesis of... more

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The podcast currently has 9 episodes available.

Story of Woman Podcast episodes:

January 07, 2016Episode Eleven: The Birth of Inequality
Join Lindsay as she talks about how social stratification and inequality develop with a single seed. Featuring Dr. Winifred Creamer speaking on her work with the Norte Chico civilization.
Links and texts mentioned and read in this podcast:
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
America’s Earliest Civilization
Agriculture and the Development of Complex Societies: An Archaeobotanical Agenda
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Incredible Effects of Farming
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1h 11min
October 05, 2015Episode Ten: Underground Astronauts, Part Two
Photo by Christo Saayman. The “underground astronauts,” from left: Becca Peixotto, Alia Gurtov, Elen Feuerriegel, Marina Elliott, K. Lindsay (Eaves) Hunter, and Hannah Morris.

Join Lindsay as she interviews three of the “Underground Astronauts,” Elen Feuerriegel, Becca Peixotto, and Marina Elliott about their experiences on the Rising Star Expedition.

Links and text mentioned and read in this episode:
TrowelBlazers
Sterkfontein Caves
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49min
September 15, 2015Episode Nine: Underground Astronauts, Part One
Hannah Morris in the Rising Star Cave, Photo Credit: fb3
Join Lindsay as she interview one of the Underground Astronauts, Hannah Morris, a new PhD student at the University of Georgia who helped discover the Naledi Fossils.
Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast:
National Geographic: Homo Naledi
Who are the Underground Astronauts?
New York Times on Homo Naledi
The Atlantic article with pictures
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33min
September 03, 2015Episode Eight: Make a Man Out of You
Photo Credit: http://tracyjthomas.me/2012/07/

Join Lindsay as she discuss the death of an ancient Paleoindian girl. Featuring anthropologist Megan Ackerman.
Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast:
Prehistoric boats
Yale: Early Migrations
It Does Take a Village by Sarah Hrdy
Joan Gero’s Genderlithics
Women in History by Karen O. Bruhns and Karen E. Stothert
...more
49min
August 24, 2015Episode Seven: Gossip Girls
Join Lindsay as she talks about the importance of gossip and stories and how as sapiens became more “female” we became more civilized. Featuring Dr. Elise Boxer on the importance of oral tradition.
Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast:
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language by Robin Dunbar
Unique social structure of hunter-gatherers explained
Gayatri Mantra in Sanskrit
Craniofacial Feminization, Social Tolerance, and the Origins of Behavioral Modernity Author(s): Robert L. Cieri, Steven E. Churchill, Robert G. Franciscus, Jingzhi Tan, and Brian Hare
Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory (Theoretical Archaeology Group)
Neocortex Size, Group Size, and the Evolution of Language by Leslie C. Aiello; R. I. M. Dunbar
Mormonad Gossip Poster
Waziyatawin Angela Wilson‘s “Genocide in Your Back Yard”
Decolonizing the 1862 Death Marches
In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: The Dakota Commemorative Marches of the 21st Century
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1h
August 18, 2015Episode Six: Granny Glutton
Join Lindsay as she talks about one of the earliest women discovered, “Flo,” the mysterious “Hobbit” of the Homo floresiensis.
Featuring an interview with evolutionary anthropologist Dean Falk.

Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast:
The Cannibal In the Jungle: When Cultural Memories Meet Science
The Nage people of Indonesia
Ghostly Muscles, Wrinkled Brains, Heresies and Hobbits : A Leverhulme Public Lecture Series
by Charles Oxnard and Charles Oxnard
Beneath the Volcano : Religion, cosmology and spirit classification among the Nage of Eastern Indonesia
Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Perspective 1st Edition
Villagers speak of the small, hairy Ebu Gogo
Photos of Homo floresiensis
Scientists on “The Hobbit Team”
Books by Dr. Dean Falk: Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language
Books by Dr. Dean Falk: The Fossil Chronicles: How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution
Books by Dr. Dean Falk: Primate Diversity
Smithsonian: Why Fire Makes Us Human
Slate: Who Invented Fire
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43min
August 08, 2015Episode Five: Taung Child, The Red Lady of Paviland, and Other Early Humans
Join Lindsay as she discusses some of the earliest known “women.” Featuring an interview about Paleolithic art with Dr. Nancy Ross.

Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast:
Early hominid evolution
Eagle Ancestors Hunted Early Humans, Skull Study Suggests
Makapansgat pebble
Ardi, Oldest Living Human
PBS: Meet Lucy, the fossil
Paleolithic Art
Bones and Ochre: The Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland
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30min
August 05, 2015Episode Four: The Curse of Eve
Join Lindsay as she discusses the biases that evolutionary biology has had to work against, including sexism, racism, Cis-Het classicism and more. Featuring anthropologist Chelsea Shields discussing bipedalism.

Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast:
Darwin’s Teaching of Women’s Inferiority by J. Bergman, Ph.D.
Women In Human Evolution by Lori Hager
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES DARWIN 1809-1882 With Original Omissions Restored edited by Nora Barlow
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Great Ape Distribution Map
THE DESCENT OF WOMAN by Elaine Morgan
Woman’s Creation: Sexual Evolution and the Shaping of Society by Elizabeth Fisher
Bipedal animals, and their differences from humans
Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind
Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
Elaine Morgan’s Aquatic Ape TED Talk
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1h 1min
August 05, 2015Episode Three: Woman Evolving
Join Lindsay as she discusses how life grew from nothing and turned into us. Featuring anthropologist Chelsea Shields.
Links and text mentioned and read in this podcast:
Definition of Epigentics
Mary Leakey’s bio
An intro to Homohabilis
PBS’ intro to humankind
Becoming human
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Evolutionary psychology and feminism
Female Intrasexual Competition: Toward an Evolutionary Feminist Theory
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1h 44min

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