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Join Laurie and Ben this week as they discuss the things people have been finding in their garden during  the UK lockdown, new research showing what the Mayans use to smoke and the discovery of the worlds oldest animal cave paintings in Indonesia. Enjoy! 

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stay up to date on the past, with new episodes out every monday!

Links to stories

Tudors in the Garden 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/09/tudor-coins-dedicated-to-three-of-henry-viiis-wives-found-in-family-garden 

Mayan Marigold https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210115110339.htm 

Worlds Oldest Animal Paintings https://www.newscientist.com/article/2264793-worlds-oldest-painting-of-animals-discovered-in-an-indonesian-cave/#:~:text=Stunning%20cave%20paintings%20discovered%20in,the%20Indonesian%20island%20of%20Sulawesi.

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In this weeks show Laurie and Ben chat through the discovery of thousands of cave paintings recently found in the Amazon, new evidence from Spain suggesting early hominids could have hibernated. And, a new hypothesis suggesting wolves were domesticated due to the excess meat from human hunting activities. Enjoy! 

Hungry for more? 

Don’t forget Stay up to date on the past, with new episodes out every other Monday!

In this weeks show Laurie and Ben chat through the discovery of thousands of cave paintings recently found in the Amazon, new evidence from Spain suggesting early hominids could have hibernated. And, a new hypothesis suggesting wolves were domesticated due to the excess meat from human hunting activities. Enjoy! 

Hungry for more? 

Don’t forget Stay up to date on the past, with new episodes out every other Monday!

Join Laurie and Ben this week as they talk through how researchers managed to show how snails weren’t used to make the colour purple in Roman Egypt (who knew you could make the colour purple from snails if the first place) and the first ever water powered industrial complex from 2nd Century AD France. Enjoy! 

Links

Roman Purple

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201121104311.htm

Roman Watermills

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-74900-5 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201113141812.htm

Join Laurie and Ben this week as they look at how Ancestral Puebloans survived by melting ice from lava flumes, the first evidence of an association between the use of Psychedelics and ancient cave art and how a 9,000 year old female skeleton is revolutionizing theories on who did the hunting. Enjoy!

Links

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/woman-hunter-ancient-andean-remains-challenge-old-ideas-who-speared-big-game

 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201118080741.htm

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/11/18/2014529117#ref-4

https://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2020/11/19/2014529117.DCSupplemental

It’s anthropology week this week, and Ben and Laurie are joined by George Brill, an adventure athlete, wilderness explorer and practical anthropologist. In this episode, George talks about his time living with a small village of Batek hunter-gatherers on the borders of the Malaysian jungle. One of Peninsular Malaysia’s Orang Asli—‘original peoples’, the Batek are famed anthropologically for their peaceful society and gender egalitarianism. They’re also famous climbers which allows George to speak about his other passion, human locomotion, understanding the how and why humans move the way they do. Don't listen if you're afraid of heights!

Interesting in learning more about George?

check out this link - https://www.georgebrill.co.uk/batek-lastoftheforestpeople

Join Laurie and Ben this week as they chat through the earliest example of dairy production in south-central Asia, new evidence revealing how Mayans made their water safe to drink, and an introduction to the Harappans; an ancient society with no emperor, no army but a population bigger than ancient China. Enjoy! 

Links

Indus valley dairy production

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72963-y

https://www.archaeology.org/news/9151-201020-indus-valley-dairy

Mayan Water Purification

Introduction to the Harrapans

Join Ben and Laurie this week for another voyage into the past. We discuss the oldest Eurasian balls, how to reconstruct the Mediaeval gut microbiome, and how the discovery of an Anglo-Saxon warlord has shaken up our understanding of post-Roman Britain. Enjoy!

Links

Ancient Leather Balls

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201012103140.htm

Gut Microbiome

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201005005927.htm

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.0576

Anglo-Saxon Warlord

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201005005929.htm

In a different format for this episode, Laurie and Ben are joined by Nik Hochstein Cox. Nik is an archaeological adventurer who’s discussing his latest research at the forgotten WW2 Japanese fortress on the island of Kolombangara in the Solomon islands. Enjoy! 

If you want to find out more about Nik's research at Kolombangara check out his site - https://forgottenfortress.com/

This week Laurie and Ben chat through discoveries from the Mediterranean shedding new light on dog domestication, the latest genetic research into the Viking world, and the mysterious bronze age battle of Tollense valley, the largest prehistoric battle in northern Europe. Enjoy!

Links

Dog Domestication

https://www.archaeology.org/news/9021-200911-italy-paleolithic-dogs

http://jacksonvillefreepress.com/but-what-is-that-in-human-years-20000-year-old-remains-of-a-dog-may-be-the-worlds-oldest-pet/

Viking Genetics

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200916113544.htm

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2020/september/viking-dna.html

Battle of Tollense Valley

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/slaughter-bridge-uncovering-colossal-bronze-age-battle

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2019/10/puzzling-artifact-found-tollense-europe-oldest-battlefield/