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Deep Cuts: Proteomics

Branching off from our episode on DNA, Anna and Amber discuss two more methods of analysis for ancient materials--ZooMS and proteomics! Learn what surprising things you can learn with just an eraser or plastic bag. Plus, Amber learns about Anna’s favorite definitely-not-a-cryptid giant ape.

Proteomics and ZooMS (University of York)

Getting under the skin of a Medieval mystery (University of York)

The Proteome: Discovering the Structure and Function of Proteins (Nature Education)

Scientists Now Know Where the Largest Ape to Ever Exist Sits in Primate Family Tree (Smithsonian)

Exotic foods reveal contact between South Asia and the Near East during the second millennium BCE (PNAS)

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Archaeology, Anthropology, and our shared human past.

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As science communicators in anthropology and archaeology, we hosts of The Dirt acknowledge that we hold a position of considerable privilege and opportunity, and commit ourselves to continuous learning, unlearning and reflection. We recognize that our disciplines, as well as our own lives, are rooted in and propped up by settler colonialism, white supremacy, and dispossession.

We now reside on the stolen ancestral territory of the Shawnee and Haudenosaunee and on the lands of the Muscogee and Cherokee Nations, but over its lifetime, The Dirt has also been produced on the unceded traditional territory of the Piscataway Conoy and Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians, as well as that of the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, Patwin and Miwok peoples and all those dispossessed by Cession 296. We offer our show as a platform for Indigenous scholarship, history, and cultural expression, through citation and conversation, and we welcome the opportunity to host and compensate Indigenous scholars of archaeology and anthropology as interview guests.

Likewise, we encourage all listeners who reside in settler-colonial states to learn about on whose land they reside, their place in the ongoing process of colonization, and how to contribute materially to reparations and Indigenous sovereignty.