This week we have three interesting archaeology news stories. First up is the recent (re)discovery of a Roman era fortlet in Scotland. Then we head over to the Grand Canyon where the Glen Canyon dam is having an unanticipated effect on downstream cultural resources. And finally we discus how digesta, or the partially digested vegetation in a large mammal’s digestive tract may have been a food source to prehistoric groups.

• Archaeologists Discover Lost Roman Fort in Scotland
• Archaeologists found a lost Roman fortlet in Scotland
• Grand Canyon's Archaeological Sites Degrading Due To Glen Canyon Dam
• DID EARLY FORAGERS EAT PARTIALLY DIGESTED FOOD FROM LARGE ANIMALS?
• Human consumption of large herbivore digesta and its implications for foraging theory - Evolutionary Anthropology
• Book: Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes - Daniel Everett

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This week we are taking a deep dive into the origins, history and archaeology of wine. We’ll cover the surprising “birthplace” of wine with some of the oldest evidence of wine making we have so far. Then we look at ancient shipwrecks in the Mediterranean and how they contribute to our knowledge of wine trade routes in Rome and Greece. And then finally, the oldest known wine type that is still in production today!

• Discover the Secret Birthplace of Wine - National Geographic
• History of Wine
• Five Turning Points in the Evolution of Wine
• Ancient Roman Shipwreck Loaded With Wine Amphorae Found Off Sicilian Coast
• A Shipwreck Graveyard Has Been Found Off This Greek Archipelago
• To taste the oldest wine still in production, head to Cyprus - Atlas Obscura

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This week we cover three recent archaeology news stories. First up is a ball game carving found at Chichen Itza in Mexico. Then we head over to Egypt where mummy tags are used to reconstruct the ancient climate. And finally bridge construction in Ohio has prompted the excavation of a Hopewell Hamlet.

• Intact Ball Game Carving Discovered at Chichen Itza
• Play Ball! - About the game
• Reviving a 3,000-year-old Ancient Ballgame - YouTube
• An Ancient Ballgame Makes A Comeback In Mexico - NPR
• Facebook page for the modern Ulama league in Mexico
• Mummies provide the key to reconstruct the climate of the ancient Mediterranean
• Mummy Labels: A Witness to the Use and Processing of Wood in Roman Egypt
• Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old dwelling site of Hopewell Native Americans in Ohio

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On this news show we start with an update on the excavations and controversy surrounding the development of a new set of luxury high-rises in downtown Miami. We then see what the face of a 35,000 year old man from Egypt looks like. Finally, would it hurt to have gold wires woven in and around your teeth to keep them in place? A 17th-century Frenchwoman likely had some opinions about it.

• Battle Over Miami Development Site Where Ancient Artifacts Were Discovered
• The Tequesta of Biscayne Bay
• Desert Kites, Miami Pre-History, and Illicit Antiquities - Ep 165
• A New Maya Kingdom, What's an Anchoress? And paving over Miami's history - Ep 205
• Scientists Reveal the Real Face of a 35,000-Year-Old Egyptian Man
• Source Article: The Facial Approximation of the Skull of Nazlet Khater 2
• 17th-century Frenchwoman’s gold dental work was likely torturous to her teeth

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This week we have 3 archaeology news stories! First up, 2,000 ram skulls have been discovered in Egypt’s temple of Ramses II. Then we cover the rent Sapiens article about whether prehistoric humans actually carried and used clubs. Then finally, a new technology is used to create a surprising climate profile at Paleolithic sites in Alaska.

• Over 2,000 ram skulls discovered in Egypt's temple of Ramses II, a new mystery for archaeologists - CBS News
• Club-Wielding Ancestors: Myth or Reality? - Sapiens
• The Use of Wooden Clubs and Throwing Sticks among Recent Foragers - Springer
• New investigations at Kalambo Falls, Zambia: Luminescence chronology, site formation, and archaeological significance - Journal of Human Evolution
• Understanding blunt force trauma and violence in Neolithic Europe: the first experiments using a skin-skull-brain model and the Thames Beater - Antiquity
• A reconstruction of prehistoric temperatures for some of the oldest archaeological sites in North America
• BrGDGT temperature reconstruction from interior Alaska: Assessing 14,000 years of deglacial to Holocene temperature variability and potential effects on early human settlement

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This is our final episode in our overview of paleoanthropology and human evolution. It’s been a bumpy ride with a lot of species falling by the wayside, but, we’re down to the final few and we’ll see what happens to them! Don’t forget to check out the other episodes in this series and for members, there’s a special bonus segment for this episode in the Ad Free Downloads area on this episode’s page.

• Human Family Tree
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• Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens in Europe - TAS 160
• Ancient Hazelnuts, Artistic Neanderthals and a Pompeiian Chariot - TAS 116 (where we mention Denisovans)

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• Sima de los Huesos, the Pit of Bones
• The Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene hominin site (Burgos, Spain). Estimation of the number of individuals

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In this second episode of our Paleoanthropology series we focus on the Paranthropus family of fossils. The are descended from the Australopithicenes and lived next to our early hominid ancestors, but, they are not directly on the line to humans.

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In this second episode of our Paleoanthropology series we focus on the Australopithecus family of fossils.

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We talk a lot about human origins, so we thought this would be a good time time to do an overview of paleoanthropology, and the human evolutionary tree. In this first episode of the series we start with some of the oldest human ancestors including Sahelanthropus tchadensis and Ardipithecus ramidus.

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It’s a news episode again! This week we talk about a shipwreck from the 1800s that washed up on the shore in Massachusetts in the US. Then we head over to the other side of the world and see what was so important it had to be written on a comb. And finally, we look at some experimental archaeology that cracked some skulls with ancient stone tools.

• Wreck of ship lost to storm 139 years ago washes up on Massachusetts beach
• Scientists Translate the Oldest Sentence Written in the First Alphabet
• Scientists smash skulls with Stone Age weapons to solve ancient murders, video shows
• Unraveling Neolithic sharp-blunt cranial trauma: Experimental approach through synthetic analogues

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