Episode 234

New Olds : 5 Recent Archaeological Discoveries

Anna walks Amber through a sampler platter of recent archaeological news stories. We talk about inner ears and gibbon arms, chromosomes galore, Medieval dogs, the Ishtar gate of Babylon, ancient hunter-gatherer poop, and more!

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To learn more:

How did humans learn to walk? New evolutionary study offers an earful | ScienceDaily

To see some gibbons bopping around in the trees:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rdn26Hpdwo&ab_channel=SmithsonianChannel

Prehistoric person with Turner syndrome identified from ancient DNA | ScienceDaily

Dogs in the middle ages: What medieval writing tells us about our ancestors' pets

The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries | Unknown | V&A Explore The Collections

Archaeomagnetism Dates Construction of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate - Archaeology Magazine

Babylon's Ishtar Gate may have a totally different purpose than we thought, magnetic field measurements suggest | Live Science

DNA from preserved feces reveals ancient Japanese gut environment

Metagenomic analyses of 7000 to 5500 years old coprolites excavated from the Torihama shell-mound site in the Japanese archipelago | PLOS ONE

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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.