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Hiatus Bonus: It's Jennauary!

The Dirt Podcast is proud to present our producer, Jenna Hendrick! We sit down for a chat about her educational trajectory, her research, and a hall of fame/hall of shame of representations of the Paleolithic in popular media!

An excerpt of this episode will drop in the main feed on Monday, but we hope you enjoy, friends! Dirts After Dark are coming soon, because I, Amber, am so so so so relieved and grateful to share that my Anna is making a full recovery.

Mentioned in this episode:

What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village (via WorldCat)

Also check out Jenna's cuuuuute Etsy shop, Hominin Clay! She did not ask us to post this, it's just very cute.

Anna's picks:

Neandertal Perfume

Eat Like a Human

Jenna's picks:

Clan of the Cave Bear (via WorldCat)

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (via duder's website)

Amber's picks:

The Last Neaderthal (via WorldCat)

Work like "The Link Between Neanderthal DNA and Depression Risk" (via The Atlantic)

Her high school anthropology class, watching Iceman - "Iceman, Frozen Neanderthal" (via The New York Times)

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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.