This week we cover three archaeology news stories. First, we look at “sun stones” that may have been buried as a ritual to bring back the sun after a volcanic eruption. Then, researchers in Peru think they have found an underground network of Incan tunnels in Cuzcos. Finally, women are found to have more power than previously thought in a Celtic group in Britain.

• Neolithic Farmers May Have Buried These Mysterious Stones to Bring Back the Sun After a Volcanic Eruption (Smithsonian)
• Sun stones and the darkened sun: Neolithic miniature art from the island of Bornholm, Denmark (Antiquity)
• Archaeologists Discovered An Underground Inca Labyrinth, Confirming a Centuries-Old Rumor (Popular Mechanics)
• Huge Ancient Inca Underground Labyrinth Discovered Beneath Cusco, Starting At Sun Temple(IFL Science)
• Celtic tribe's DNA points to female empowerment in pre-Roman Britain (New Scientist)
• Celtic tribe's DNA points to female empowerment in pre-Roman Britain (New Scientist - Apple News)

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This is the second half of our conversation about Season 2 of Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix. If you haven’t heard the first part, you will want to listen to that first. In this episode we cover the rest of the episodes and give our final thoughts on Graham Hancocks “theories.”

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Well, we finally did it. On today’s episode we cover Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse Season 2 with Graham Hancock. We actually have so much to talk about that it takes two episodes. This is episode one where we make it to talking about Rapa Nui.

• London Bridge episode of TAS
• Heritage Voices Episode about Rapa Nui

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The Archaeology Podcast Network is taking a break for the holiday season. In the meantime, please enjoy this encore episode. It’s a favorite of ours! Happy holidays!

A few weeks ago, archaeologist Flint Dibble was invited on to the Joe Rogan Experience to have a dialogue with Graham Hancock. Over the course of the 4 hour show, Flint did a fantastic job engaging and attempting to educate Graham and Joe. This week, APN co-founder Tristan Boyle had an opportunity to interview Flint about how he prepared for the show, and what the reaction has been on the interwebs.

• Joe Rogan Experience #2136 - Graham Hancock & Flint Dibble
• Archaeology with Flint Dibble (YouTube)

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The Archaeology Podcast Network is taking a break for the holiday season. In the meantime, please enjoy this encore episode. It’s a favorite of ours! Happy holidays!

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 tackle one of our favorite topics - controversy! Last summer, the team working on the Rising Star Cave site in South Africa released a series of pre-prints making some incredible claims about the pre-human species, Homo Naledi. They were closely followed by the Netflix documentary, Cave of Bones which captured the attention of the public. However, other researchers are pushing back, claiming lack of solid evidence and published peer reviewed research. Join us while we look at both sides of the debate, and let us know where you land!

• Controversial Claims About Homo Naledi Are Stirring Up Evolution
• Enigmatic Hominin Seemingly Buried Dead and Carved Symbols 100,000 Years Before Modern Humans
• Unknown: Cave of Bones - Netflix Documentary
• No scientific evidence that Homo Naledi buried their dead and produced rock art
• Cave of Bones Explorer’s Club Talk with Dr. Lee Berger
• 241,000 to 335,000 Years Old Rock Engravings Made by Homo naledi in the Rising Star Cave system, South Africa

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The Archaeology Podcast Network is taking a break for the holiday season. In the meantime, please enjoy this encore episode. It’s a favorite of ours! Happy holidays!

This week we have 3 fascinating archaeology news stories. First, experimental research has helped researchers determine the function of an ivory baton. Then, we take a look at a newly discovered Roman villa that may have belonged to Pliny the Elder. Finally, Amelia Earhart is back in the news with some new and potentially controversial findings!

• Experiments suggest ancient four-holed ivory baton was used to make rope (Phys.org)
• Rope making in the Aurignacian of Central Europe more than 35,000 years ago (Science Advances)
• 1st-century villa discovered near Mount Vesuvius may be where Pliny the Elder watched catastrophic eruption
• Amelia Earhart's plane may have crashed in the heart of the Pacific Ocean, explorer claims (Live Science)
• The Earhart Project in a Nutshell
• Scientists discover new possible clue in Amelia Earhart mystery

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Recently, we went to see the movie Moana 2 with our little nieces and we ended up enjoying it so much more than we expected! But, of course, we had to ask the question, how accurate is the story and characters behind the Moana franchise? In this episode we deep dive the history, archaeology, myths, and Polynesian culture on which these movies are based.

• The World Of Moana Explained
• The Long Pause

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We’ve got a partial theme today but we start with 9000 year old bread making in the near east! We then go to Maya country for a double header. We start with 4000 year old fishing canals build buy the predecessors to the Maya and then talk about a possible solution to the Maya long count calendar.

• Focaccia: A Neolithic culinary tradition dating back 9,000 years ago (Apple)
• Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old fishing canals used by predecessors of Mayans in breakthrough find (Apple)
• Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of How the Mayan Calendar Works (Apple) ‌

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We get back to the news this week! We start with a cool site from Sweden where…it’s all ritual! Next we go to the Iberian Peninsula and learn about a Neanderthal glue factory, sort of. Finally, we talk about what Hollywood gets wrong, and right, about gladiators after seeing Gladiator II.

• 5,000-year-old sacrificial site stuns archaeologists in Sweden. ‘Extremely unusual’
• 65,000-year-old hearth in Gibraltar may have been a Neanderthal 'glue factory,' study finds.
• What Hollywood gets wrong—and right—about Roman gladiatorsApple News Link: What Hollywood gets wrong—and right—about Roman gladiators
• The Real History Behind Ridley Scott's 'Gladiator II' and Life as a Fighter in the Ancient Roman Arena
• Man of Recaps: Gladiator Recap

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