On this episode of ArchaeoAnimals, (a very hungry) Alex faces one of her many nemeses: pig teeth! Learn more about pig domestication, the wealth of information you may gather from archaeological pig remains and some exciting archaeological projects featuring pigs. Simona’s fascinating insight into Roman tax law is a bonus ;)

Sources:https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/08/taming-pig-took-some-wild-turnshttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/257607859_Distinguishing_Wild_Boar_from_Domestic_Pigs_in_Prehistory_A_Review_of_Approaches_and_Recent_ResultsKing (1978) A comparative analysis of bone assemblies from Roman sites in Britain. The Institute of Archeology, London. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/08/taming-pig-took-some-wild-turnshttp://www.rubiconheritage.com/2011/06/14/cooking-a-pig-bronze-age-style-part-1/ https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/neolithic-food-miles.htm https://www.naturkundemuseum.uni-halle.de/forschungsprojekte/sus_100/ContactAlex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitzSimona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLadyMusic"Coconut - (dyalla remix)"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY

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This week, Anna and Amber sing you a little tune about musical instruments in the archaeological record, and the ways that we can access ancient music today. From the discoveries of the earliest known flutes, to jamming out with Homer, to some mind-blowing takes on sound and silence, consider it our first movement in this composition.

Links

Scales from Around the World (How Music Really Works)

A Biological Rationale for Musical Scales (PLOSOne)

A Voice from the Past (The New Yorker)

The European Music Archaeology Project Recreates Instruments of Old (New York Times)

Ice and Longboats: Ancient Music of Scandinavia (European Music Archaeology Project, Volume 2)

Ancient Greek music: now we finally know what it sounded like (The Conversation)

8 Oldest Musical Instruments in the World (Oldest.org)

Brookhaven Lab Expert Helps Date Flute Thought to be Oldest Playable Musical Instrument (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Oldest Greek Fragment of Homer Discovered on Clay Tablet (Smithsonian)

Sing like you mean it! - the Linguistics of Tonal Languages

Listen to Sappho Read By Stephen G. Daitz (The New Yorker Podcast)

Hear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek (Open Culture)

Homer Multitext Project

We can tell where a whale has travelled from the themes in its song (New Scientist)

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Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.

Link of the Month: Pull Tab Archaeology:

https://youtu.be/-yHbcVw13D0

Links:

02:29 – HS2 Costs Spiral, Review Announced – What Does this Mean for Archaeology?

HS2 to be delayed by up to five years as cost spirals to up to £88bn:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/03/hs2-to-be-delayed-by-up-to-five-years

HS2 Railway to be Delayed by up to Five Years:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49563549

15:24 – Norwich Cathedral: Helter-Skelter Offers New Experience:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-49285829/norwich-cathedral-helter-skelter-offers-new-experience?fbclid=IwAR2A4iNIxrwgvpRpLDOJbi-D3YzJvxTxpBQ2QL7PHf8cO46AmlejFTErJHo

Here’s What You Can See from the Top of Norwich Cathedral’s New Helter Skelter:

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/norwich-cathedral-new-helter-skelter-nave-view-from-the-top-medieval-bosses-1-6215554?fbclid=IwAR2DWanpKflF1L4rAZjtDDjgqDC2sbMW-CY-P8GuAjRvoXidEs-hz2s85rM

23:44 - Ancient DNA and Nationalism, Netanyahu Weighs in:

Israel’s Rabbinical Courts Begin to Recognize DNA Tests, Potentially Opening Gateway to Proving Jewishness:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-will-dna-testing-become-the-gateway-to-proving-jewishness-1.7772764?fbclid=IwAR0T7nsSmkfER3amhelvEarn2WvJ3mzG7FM1OwFDLyBrq3ITjI6CZG48iuM

Netanyahu uses DNA to deny Palestinian Right to Homeland:

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190708-netanyahu-uses-dna-claim-to-deny-palestinian-right-to-homeland/

Twitter comment:

https://www.facebook.com/Archaeosoup/photos/a.509991202413865/2398730096873290/?type=3&theater

New Research Challenges the Origin of ‘The Egtved Girl’:

https://phys.org/news/2019-08-egtved-girl.amp?fbclid=IwAR2_4BvawAdtwxymRl5mKEXh3JlqXQYaKYv-C1AUhp8LbVVGx_HEAD1rvRE&__twitter_impression=true

Scotland’s Genetic Landscape Echoes Dark Ages:

https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2019/scotland-s-genetic-landscape-echoes-dark-age?fbclid=IwAR3XCgeB-OpW54fsduk7ZRXT0rTbwnCT7Ewvaa_F6fn_0Rm85eBNj7sJlr8

40:45 - Volunteers Polish Giant’s Erection By Hand!:

https://metro.co.uk/

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Masterminds - are they right for CRM? A mastermind group is a group of people that help each other learn and grow. The most beneficial groups have a cost because paying for it makes you attend. What Chris Webster proposes is an affordable mastermind series in four levels that will help advance anyone in the group.

Give us your thoughts at [email protected]

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Bill @succinctbill; Doug @openaccessarch; Stephen @processarch; Bill A. @archaeothoughts; Chris W @Archeowebby, @DIGTECHLLC, and @ArchPodNet

Blogs:Bill White: Succinct ResearchDoug Rocks-MacQueen: Doug’s ArchaeologyStephen Wagner: Process - Opinions on Doing ArchaeologyChris Webster: Random Acts of Science

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Snuggle on down in your jimjams with a mug of your favorite warm beverage, as Anna tells Amber a bedtime story about a great moment in archaeological discovery. This week, we travel back to 17th century Sweden, where a professor named Olof Rudbeck changed the world with his research. No spoilers, so check out thedirtpod.com for this week's show notes and recommended reading.

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Every September Apple releases at least the new iPhone for the year. Sometimes, like this year, they release a bit more. Today Chris gives you an update on the new Watch, iPhones, and iPad. This isn’t just an Apple fan-boy perspective but a look at what the new upgrades can do for archaeology and fieldwork.

LinksAppleZeroLemonPaperLike Screen ProtectorHuawei PhoneContactChris WebsterTwitter: @archeowebbyEmail: [email protected] ZimmermanTwitter: @lugalEmail: [email protected]

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Rauno Lauhakangus is the president of the Finnish Rock Art Society and a physicist. He’s on TAS to talk about northern European Rock Art and how we interpret that past through the rock carvings. Also, there’s no pictographs in Finland?

LinksFinnish Rock Art Association (in Finnish)ContactChris [email protected]

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Part 2!!

Have you ever looked at a piece of knitting and wondered, “How did they figure out how to DO that with just two needles and string?” Whether you’re a picker or a thrower, those techniques had to come from somewhere, and their origins may surprise you.

Rachel Roden and Heather Boyd look at knitting techniques with the eyes of designers, through the lens of archaeology: each episode travels the world to dig up and discuss a different technique, and then applies it to a clever pattern designed by Rachel.

LinksTo get your copy of the pattern, and knit-a-long head over to Rachel’s pattern store on Ravelry (https://www.ravelry.com/designers/rachel-roden)To get the yarn Rachel recommends, head over to Jimmy Beans Wool (https://www.jimmybeanswool.com/knitting/yarn/BichesetBuches/LePetitLambswool.asp?showLarge=true&specPCVID=91487)ContactRachelRavelryInstagramTwitterFacebookWebsiteHeatherInstagramRavelry

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Have you ever looked at a piece of knitting and wondered, “How did they figure out how to DO that with just two needles and string?” Whether you’re a picker or a thrower, those techniques had to come from somewhere, and their origins may surprise you.

Rachel Roden and Heather Boyd look at knitting techniques with the eyes of designers, through the lens of archaeology: each episode travels the world to dig up and discuss a different technique, and then applies it to a clever pattern designed by Rachel.

LinksTo get your copy of the pattern, and knit-a-long head over to Rachel’s pattern store on Ravelry (https://www.ravelry.com/designers/rachel-roden)To get the yarn Rachel recommends, head over to Jimmy Beans Wool (https://www.jimmybeanswool.com/knitting/yarn/BichesetBuches/LePetitLambswool.asp?showLarge=true&specPCVID=91487)ContactRachelRavelryInstagramTwitterFacebookWebsiteHeatherInstagramRavelry

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On today’s episode Jessica hosts Karen Rose Thomas, who is finishing up her Masters at the University of British Columbia. We talk about being a First Nations field representative, her experience as an Indigenous student, and the colonial nature of anthropology. We also talk about her experiences on Simon Fraser University’s Aboriginal Reconciliation Council and as the Tsleil-Waututh representative on the Board of Directors for the Museum of Vancouver. We close out with a fun members only section where we talk about her work for the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, experimental archaeology, public anthropology, museums, and where she would like to go in the future.

Linkshttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/a-voice-to-confront-one-woman-s-journey-to-decolonize-archeology-1.5137875https://www.cbc.ca/news/renew-stories-of-indigenous-innovation-1.5141155 [Radio Component of the Story]https://www.citr.ca/radio/unceded-airwaves/episode/20181205/SFU Aboriginal Reconciliation Council Updateshttp://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2019/06/charles-comfort-mural-removal-statement-aboriginal-recociliation.html [Karen: "About the SFU ARC, this was just in my newsfeed today, the university is acting on one of our recommendations!"]Photos (see www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/33)

Photos of Karen and her family are all taken at Cates Park / Whey-ah-Wichen which is an ancient village site on the Burrard Inlet, but it is now a park. PDF includes pictures of the stone tools she refers to in the podcast episode.

Contact[email protected]@livingheritageA@LivingHeritageResearchCouncil[email protected]

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