• Get to Work!

  • May 8 2024
  • Length: 59 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • Greetings, fellow workers! In observance of May Day, which in many parts of the world is a day for celebrating and acknowledging the struggles of workers in the labor movement. In that spirit, we bring you an episode about work.

    How do we define "jobs" in the archaeological record? What can skeletons tell us about what people did every day? What was it like to be a monument worker in ancient Egypt? Tune in for all this and more!

    Show Notes

    The Eloquent Bones of Abu Hureyra (Scientific American)


    Neandertal Humeri May Reflect Adaptation to Scraping Tasks, but Not Spear Thrusting - PMC


    https://phys.org/news/2012-07-unique-neandertal-arm-morphology-due.html



    EA5634 ostracon (British Museum)

    The Strikes in Ramses III's Twenty-Ninth Year (Journal of Near Eastern Studies)

    A letter of complaint to the Vizier To (Journal of Near Eastern Studies)

    Hard Work-Where Will It Get You? Labor Management in Ur III Mesopotamia (Journal of Near Eastern Studies)

    The Forgotten History of New York’s Bagel Famines (Gastro Obscura)

    SWCA Environmental Consultants in Salt Lake City Join Teamsters (International Brotherhood of Teamsters)

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