In this episode, Heather, Andrew, and Bill share the moments—both as students and professionals—when they realized they were truly archaeologists. Through personal stories from field school, CRM work, and teaching, they explore how confidence, passion, and identity develop over time. The discussion highlights that archaeology is more than excavation, emphasizing problem-solving, people skills, and the many paths a career in CRM can take.

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On this month’s episode, Jessica checks back in with Aaron Brien (Apsáalooke), who you may remember from Episode 23 on Salish-Kootenai College’s Tribal Historic Preservation Program, Episode 25 on Technology, and episode 41 on Collecting Oral Histories in Indian Country. In the more than 5 years since our last recording, Aaron has moved from being Tribal Historic Preservation Program faculty at Salish-Kootenai College to being the Crow Tribal Historic Preservation Officer. We talk about how that transition happened, the process of reinventing the Crow THPO program, and how the SKC program prepared him for being a THPO. On that note, the podcast Aaron and Dr. Shandin Pete started right before we recorded episode 41 is now called the Tribal Research Specialist podcast and is still going strong! Finally, the third segment focuses on the work the Crow THPO is doing and ongoing challenges as a THPO. We close out by discussing how the second Trump administration affects the work of a THPO and what we should all be doing to support THPOs and the resources they fight for.

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In this continuation of The Past Macabre’s exploration of fossils and myth, host Stephanie Rice examines how ancient cultures interpreted fossil discoveries and connected them to tales of monsters, heroes, and gods.

Through oral traditions, archaeological finds, and texts from the Mexica (Aztecs) and Maya of Mesoamerica, the Hopi, Zuni, and Dine (Navajo) of the American Southwest, pre-Christian Ireland, and Classical Greece, this episode explores what these stories tell us about humanity’s enduring curiosity about the natural world.

Offline Sources Cited:

• Bierhorst, John. 1992. History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca. University of Arizona Press.
• Mayor, Adrienne. 2000. The First Fossil Hunters. Princeton University Press.
• Newman, Sarah E. 2016. Sharks in the Jungle: Real and Imagined Sea Monsters of theMaya. Antiquity 90(354):1522–1536.
• Romano, M., 2024. Fossils as a source of myths, legends and folklore. Rend. Online Soc. Geol. It, 62, pp.103-117.
• Solounias, Nikos and Adrienne Mayor. 2004. ANCIENT REFERENCES TO THE FOSSILS FROM THE LAND OF PYTHAGORAS. Earth Sciences History 23(2):283–296.

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• Website | Paleontology of ancestral lands of the Hopi, Zuni, and Dine - Petrified Forest NP
• Website | One woolly mammoth's journey at the end of the Ice Age (NPR's coverage of Élmayųujey’eh, a very well preserved wooly mammoth found near one of the oldest sites of human habitation in Alaska)
• Open Access Article | A Kachina by Any Other Name: Linguistically Contextualizing Native American Collections
• Open Access Article | Pleistocene record of mammals and pollen from Mexico (Las Tazas, Valsequillo, Puebla) and their paleoenvironmental interpretation
• Open Access Book | The Popol Vuh: The Mythic and Heroic Sagas of the Kichés of Central America
• Open Access Book | The Codex Borgia (Pre-European text of the Aztec deities, rituals, and calendar)
• Open Access Book | The Eskimo about Bering strait (19th century ethnography documenting Yup'ik and Inuit culture)
• Open Access Book | Traces of the Elder Faiths in Ireland (19th century ethnography of pre-Christian beliefs in Ireland)
• Video | Megaloceros the Giant Deer ~ with Dr Roman Croitor (information about Irish elk from Evolution Soup)

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Today we’re reviewing Korg 70,000 B.C. (1974), a children’s TV series about a Neanderthal family from Hanna-Barbera, creators of The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, and more. Unlike those series, however, this one is live-action! Who knew? Anyway, we talk about a lot of academic papers about Neanderthals, because nothing happens in the episode we watched.

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• Shanidar 1
• Trinkaus et al. (2019) External auditory exostoses among western Eurasian late Middle and Late Pleistocene humans
• Buzi et al. (2025) The first preserved nasal cavity in the human fossil record: The Neanderthal from Altamura
• Márquez (2008) The paranasal sinuses: The last frontier in craniofacial biology
• The Invention of Prehistory (2024) by Stefanos Geroulanos

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What if one of the most important technologies in human history wasn’t a spear, a stone tool, or writing, but a bone needle?

In this episode of Ethnocynology, David sits down with Dr. McKenna Litynski, an interdisciplinary anthropologist, to explore how sewing needles, clothing, and thermoregulation fundamentally reshaped human survival during the Ice Age. And helped Homo sapiens expand across the globe.

This conversation is both a deep dive into Ice Age archaeology and a clear, behind-the-scenes walkthrough of how you actually earn a PhD in anthropology, from preliminary exams to dissertation defense. This episode acts as both a spiritual successor to the viral “Why a Clovis Bone Needle Is the Most Important Artifact in North America” video and a practical guide for students curious about graduate school.

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In this episode, Alan is joined by Dr. Maria Guagnin (Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology) and Dr. Ceri Shipton (Australian National University) to explore how human societies adapted to environmental change during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition. Maria and Ceri examine prehistoric settlement, mobility, and monumental rock art in northern Arabia, showing how symbolic expression and landscape use offer insight into survival, innovation, and cultural continuity. Their research demonstrates the resilience and creativity of early human societies.

For a rough transcript head over to: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/rockart/157

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• Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition
• 12,000-year-old rock art marked ancient water sources in Arabia’s desert

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Let’s start the new year off with a little bit of magic! In January, the book club theme is “Magical Pasts”, and so this episode our three hosts discuss the role of magic - or related themes - in the deep and recent past. Tune in to hear all about entanglements, shamanism, and charms for bees.

Monthly Book: The History of Magic (Chris Gosden)

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• Hodder entanglement article
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It’s time for my annual end of the year review! Let’s remember the good times, the bad times, and the mostly-kinda-sorta-okay times. Thank you all for listening! I hope you have a most excellent 2026.

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To kick off the New Year, we’re reviewing The Rap Guide to Evolution, a music album by Baba Brinkman which is... pretty self-explanatory, really. So here’s an hour and 15 minutes of us explaining it! We get into evolutionary psychology, 2000s-era edgelord atheism, postmodernism, genital evolution, and much more!

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• Ambulocetus
• Gol’din and Radović (2018) A Middle Miocene baleen whale from Bele Vode in Belgrade, Serbia
• Marković et al. (2025) First dinosaur remains from Serbia: Sauropod and theropod material from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Osmakovo
• Recapitulation theory
• Out of Africa
• Jebel Irhoud
• Apidima
• Social constructivism
• Tim Minchin - Storm
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• Grizzly bear attacks school children in Canada
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• James Watson dead at 97

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Happy Longnight! Today is the December Solstice, and to celebrate we’re reviewing a very special holiday episode of 2007 sitcom Cavemen, based on the popular Geico insurance commercials. Everyone is invited, whether we like them or not, so grab a slice of forager’s pie and a glass of Beef Fizz and settle in to listen to your favourite palaeo researchers trying to explain basic astronomy. To the cow!

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• Neanderthal diet
• Weyrich et al. (2017). Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus
• Richards and Trinkaus (2009). Isotopic evidence for the diets of European Neanderthals and early modern humans
• Beasley et al. (2025). Neanderthals, hypercarnivores, and maggots: Insights from stable nitrogen isotopes
• Fellows Yates et al. (2021). The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome
• Adler et al. (2017). Evolution of the Oral Microbiome and Dental Caries
• Phytoliths
• Chinique de Armas et al. (2015). Starch analysis and isotopic evidence of consumption of cultigens among fisher–gatherers in Cuba: the archaeological site of Canímar Abajo, Matanzas
• Solstice
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• Crazy Ancient Greek planet math
• The Antikythera Mechanism – Pseudoarchaeology Podcast
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