We’re in Lake Havasu City, AZ this week so naturally we’re talking about the London Bridge! Did you know that one of the three stone versions of the bridge to exist in the last 1500 years is here in Arizona? We talk about this history of the bridge and what led to this version being moved to an Arizona tourist town that was literally built around it.

• The London Bridge
• London Bridge History
• Remains of the Old London Bridge

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This week we have 3 interesting archaeology news stories! First up, after a 2 year hiatus, underwater excavations of the HMS Erebus have resumed with some amazing new findings. Next, we head over to Scandinavia where genetic studies of the ancient remains tell a new story about the movement of people in and out of the area in the Viking era. And finally, how Nazis 'whitewashed' a shaman's prehistoric remains.

• Archaeologists Recover 275 Artifacts From Mysterious Arctic Shipwreck
• HMS Erebus: journal saved from Arctic shipwreck after 180 years
• Ancient DNA Paints a New Picture of the Viking Age
• Ancient DNA Reveals a Genetic History of the Viking Age
• The genetic history of Scandinavia from the Roman Iron Age to the present
• How Nazis 'whitewashed' a shaman's prehistoric remains

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This week we happened across 3 different stories in the News about to looting and the collection of antiquities both by museums and individuals. There are many ways that looting happens, and it can have far reaching effects on both the looter(s) and the people from whom they stole.

• Oscar White Muscarella, archaeologist who exposed looted artifacts and fakes, dies at 91
• TAS Episode 165 - Desert Kites, Miami Pre-History, and Illicit Antiquities
• An Open Letter to Arrowhead Hunters
• Spanish police find hundreds of archaeological artefacts at two homes
• U.S. Returns Artifacts Taken from Iraq Museum in 2003 Invasion
• U.S. Returns Thousands of Artifacts, Including Hobby Lobby’s Gilgamesh Tablet, to Iraq
• National Museum, Baghdad: 10 Years Later
• World War II Looted Art: Turning History into Justice

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Have you ever wondered how we ended up with the calendar we have today? Where leap years come from, and why we need them? This week we take a look at our modern calendar and the ancient calendars that came before it.

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• Gregorian Calendar from WhatIs.com
• What years are leap years? From Government of Canada
• Leap Year
• Julian Calendar from Britannica
• Roman republican calendar from Britannica
• Greek Calendar overview from Oxford Reference
• The Sumerian Calendar from Projeda
• Mayan Calendar from Live Science)
• Mayan Calendar

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As some of you celebrate Christmas and we all look to the end of 2022 there are the inevitable articles talking about the "Best" whatever. We saw one article from ABC that stood out to us and on this holiday episode, we're going to talk about why. Plus, we'll talk about some of our favorite episodes and articles from this year that we talked about on the show.

• Some of the best archaeological discoveries of 2022 - ABC News (different title online!)
• Episode 191 - Powerful Viking Women
• Episode 189 - Lady Sapiens
• Episode 187 - A cultural History of Glacier National Park
• Episode 185 - If You Can See me weep - Drought Archaeology
• Episode 161 - The Oldest Pants

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It’s a solo show with Chris Webster today. They APN recently celebrated it’s eight birthday and Chris wanted to tell you a little bit about how the APN came about. It’s origin story, if you will. Also, he talks about the other shows in the “APN Encyclopedia” and what’s coming up in the future.

• Succinct Research
• Kulturo Media

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This week we happened to find 3 news stories about evidence for eating and cooking food in the ancient world. First up is the first evidence of Homo Erectus cooking fish 780,000 years ago. Then, we fast forward to 70,000 years ago and leftover evidence of a Neanderthal meal gives us insight into how they prepared food. And finally, in Rome new excavations under the coliseum reveal the kind of snacks that spectators would have enjoyed.

For our members, we have a bonus segment describing how one journalist attempted to recreate the Neanderthal meal that we discussed in segment 2!

• Evidence of cooking 780,000 years ago rewrites human history
• Oldest cooked leftovers ever found suggest Neanderthals were foodies.
• Archaeologists Find 1,900-Year-Old Snacks in Sewers Beneath the Colosseum

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This is just a short episode because it was a busy week for us. However, I had time to watch a few episodes of the catastrophe of historical inaccuracies known as “La Brea”. It’s a show on NBC and it’s really bad! Chris rants on it for one segment.

• NBC’s La Brea

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CORRECTION: Graham Hancock wrote Fingerprints of the Gods NOT Chariots of the Gods which was written by Erich von Däniken. Our apologies for mixing up the two titles! The latest archaeological injustice from Graham Hancock is in the form of a brand new, and popular, Netflix series called Ancient Apocalypse. We talk about the eight-episode series, what we liked and what we didn't. Is Graham Hancock right? Is there evidence of an ancient civilization that lived during the last ice age that some how didn't make it through the ice age but did have time to reboot civilization in the people that were left? We'll see.

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This week we get back to archaeology in the news and talk about 3 recent news stories. First, a high elevation, hard to reach archaeology site in Peru with llama rock art. Then, we head over to Italy where a cache of Etruscan bronzes has been discovered in a 2,300 year old spa. And finally, it’s the 100th anniversary of the discovery of King Tut’s tomb, so of course we had to look at a few recent articles about that discovery!

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