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What’s the difference between a small-town murder mystery and the study of archaeological musical instruments? As it turns out, not that much! Join Jess and Matilda as they chat with Dr Graeme Lawson all about the archaeology of music, and maybe you might even hear some sounds from the past…

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• Music & Politics in the Ancient World (Berlin: Edition Topoi 2019), explores with my co-researchers the relationship between ancient musicianship and power, and can be downloaded FREE in PDF from the Freie Universitaet Berlin Repository at
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This week we cover 3 recent archaeology news stories. First up we discuss the recent dissolution of one of the largest CRM firms in the country, and what that short and long term impacts of that closure could be. Then we head over to Egypt where a recently uncovered signet ring depicts the Lighthouse at Alexandria (or a Dalek?!?). And then finally new evidence at a sight in Spain shows that Neanderthals were making tools out of wood.

Segment 1

• The Nation’s Largest Archaeology Firm Abruptly Shut Down. The 600-Plus Layoffs Aren’t the Biggest Concern

Segment 2

• This One-of-a-Kind Bronze Ring Offers a Tantalizing Glimpse at the Lighthouse of Alexandria, a Lost Wonder of the Ancient World

Segment 3

• Archaeologists Uncover Unprecedented Evidence of Neanderthal Woodworking Skills

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We continue our Spooky Season Special with Ash and Tilly! In this episode, Tilly dives into the world of nautical spectres, haunted ships, and bumps in the… coral?

From the ghostly stories surrounding Pearl Harbor to other haunted wrecks from around the world, join the team as they explore some of history’s most spine-tingling maritime tales!

Books mentioned:

• Ghosts of the British Museum (Noah Angell)
• The Salvage (Anbara Salam)
• The Shadowy Horses (Susanne Kearsley)

• Is the British Museum Haunted? with Noah Angell
• Tuk Lagoon’s shipwreck
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• Digventures blog post
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• Previous episode on ghosts
• Article on nitrogen narcosis
• Acoustic regeneration of coral reefs

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Carlton and Chris reunite with Drs. Shawn Bubel and Kevin McGeough of the University of Lethbridge to continue their discussion of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump UNESCO World Heritage Site. If you missed Part 1, listen to it before turning to Part 2, in which Shawn and Kevin discuss their recent Plains Anthropologist article, “Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump: The Durative Power of Keystone Institutions and Embedded Knowledge.” In both the article and this episode, they move beyond archaeological and behavioral-ecological models that view buffalo jumps primarily as meat factories to explore the sites’ broader social and cultural significance. What are “keystone institutions” in hunter-gatherer archaeology, and how can archaeologists identify them? What is embedded knowledge, and how is it expressed at Head-Smashed-In? What happens to a cultural system when the institutions that sustain it are suddenly taken away? And how have the Blackfoot reclaimed some of this embedded knowledge in the recent past?

Article Citation:

Shawn Bubel and Kevin McGeough (04 Jun 2026) Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump: The Durative Power of Keystone Institutions and Embedded Knowledge. Plains Anthropologist, in press.

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• Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains by Jack Brink (2008)
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• The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains by Douglas B. Bamforth (2021)
• Archaeology on the Great Plains Edited by W. Raymond Wood (1998)
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Today, Heather and Andrew discuss the recent “Vanderbilt Report” which said that anthropology needed to be a bit less activist, a bit more approachable to normal humans, and use a bit less jargon.  The American Anthropological Association disagreed, and then Heather and Andrew disagreed with the AAA!

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It’s still spooky month, so we watched The Lair of the White Worm (1988), an unhinged Bram Stoker adaptation about a sexy immortal snake woman sacrificing virgins to a larger and more phallic snake, and an intrepid “Scotch” archaeologist who saves the day with a snakecharming bagpipe song and magic sporran. Excuse me: “Scots”. As usual we talk a little about archaeology, a lot about cryptids, and after five years still struggle to figure out this whole Zoom thing.

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• Joseph Barrell (1917) Rhythms and the measurements of geologic time
• Upper Palaeolithic art at Creswell Crags
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In this episode, David is joined by fellow APN hosts Ashleigh Airey and Tilly Siebrecht to discuss all things Tolkien, but mainly the dogs in the Tolkien Legendarium.

The first discusses how they got into Tolkien and the Peter Jackson trilogy as kids, and how it grew into a lifelong love of the stories, and the episode quickly details from there.

Once they return from a break, the 3 hosts then get on track about the dogs of the Tolkien universe, including Huan from The Silmarillion, the wargs of Isengard, and the various wolves controlled by Sauron, as well as the dogs owned by Farmer Maggot.

They then wrap up by discussing lots more about Tolkien and the 3 trilogies, plus the new Rings of Power show.

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In this episode, Alan speaks with Dr. David Bruner about the connections between cultural beliefs, symbolism, and the interpretation of the archaeological record. They explore the Bakongo cosmogram and its possible expression in African American burial traditions, including reversed writing on grave markers and pipes placed in graves. The conversation also draws parallels between street art in New Orleans and prehistoric petroglyphs at Little Petroglyph Canyon, considering how personal rivalries, cultural differences, and changing beliefs may influence the creation, alteration, and erasure of imagery. Highlighting the importance of cultural context and multiple perspectives in understanding and preserving the past.

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• Hidden Power: Burial Practices from an African-American Slave and Tenant Community by David Bruner
• BANKSY IN NEW-ORLEANS: AFTER THE FLOOD, AUGUST 2008

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Let’s go old school today and talk creationism! The idea that not only did god make the world, but that it should be taught in biology class alongside evolution! I know which doctor I would prefer…

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On this month’s episode, Jessica speaks with Pauline Knudsen (Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural and Social History at the Institute of Culture, Language and History at Ilisimatusarfik- the University of Greenland). The two discuss Pauline’s journey from being fascinated during a museum visit to working in museums as a curator to ultimately becoming an archaeologist. Pauline explains the context of doing archaeological work as a professional in Greenland and how climate change affects the archaeological features themselves. She also provides several examples of different ways her projects have centered the interests of local communities and incorporated local Indigenous knowledge into archaeological interpretation, including how oral history, archaeology, anthropology, and historical research came together to tell the story of a hunter from the eighteenth century who has been viewed as either a murderer or a hero depending on the storyteller and time period. Lastly, Jessica and Pauline discuss an Antiquity article that Pauline co-authored that showed the greater navigational sophistication and heavier integration of Early Paleo-Inuit people into the environment than previously understood in a region of Greenland that is still difficult to access today.    

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• Antiquity Article: Walls, Matthew & Kleist, Mari & Knudsen, Pauline. (2026). Voyage to Kitsissut: a new perspective on Early Paleo-Inuit watercraft and maritime lifeways at a High Arctic polynya. Antiquity. 100. 355-371. 10.15184/aqy.2026.10285.
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