Episode 60

Listener Questions - Ep 60

This week, Anna and Amber tackle some questions submitted from you, the listener! It's a lightning round of stories about ghost puppers, citizen archaeology, glimpses of what happens behind closed doors, Stone Age musicians, and much more!

LinksArchaeology, folklore, and the skeletal remains of a hellhound (Strange Remains)Leiston: Are these the bones of devil dog, Black Shuck? (East Anglia Daily Times)What To Do If You Find A Site (Archaeological Society of Virginia)Moundville Archaeological ParkSwimming in the Sahara (Discover Magazine)How Climate Change May Have Shaped Human Evolution (Smithsonian Magazine)Earliest music instruments found (BBC News)A Vest Pocket Guide to Brothels in 19th-Century New York for Gentlemen on the Go (New York Times)A Guide to Houses No Gentleman Would Dare to Frequent (New York Times)Pre-Incan Civilizations in Peru (Kuoda)ContactEmail the Dirt Podcast

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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.