The Dirt Podcast

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  • Join Anna and Amber; friends, archaeologists, and big nerds, for an exploration of the lives of people in the past.
    Copyright 2024 The Dirt Podcast
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  • It Didn't Come From No Monkey: The Taung Child

    It Didn't Come From No Monkey: The Taung Child
    Jul 7 2024

    After a curious coincidence in 1924, the world's weirdest paperweight was revealed to be the fossilized remains of one of our earliest ancestors.

    To learn more about today's topic, check out:

    Lee R. Berger, & Ronald J. Clarke. (1996). The load of the Taung child. Nature, 379(6568), 778-779.

    Berger, L.R., Clarke, R.J., 1995. Eagle involvement of the Taung child fauna. Journal of Human Evolution 29, 275-299.


    Dart, Raymond A. (1925), "Australopithecus africanus: The Man-Ape of South Africa", Nature, 115: 195–199, doi:10.1038/115195a0.


    ——— (1929), Australopithecus africanus: And His Place in Human Nature, Unpublished manuscript in the University of Witwatersrand archives.

    SA fossil murder mystery solved (BBC)

    Taung Child (Smithsonian)

    Australopithecus africanus (Smithsonian)
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    18 mins
  • Welcome to The Dirt!

    Welcome to The Dirt!
    Jul 7 2024

    In our first episode, we introduce ourselves and talk a little bit about archaeology, anthropology, and how we definitely do not study dinosaurs. Also, hot takes on some of pop culture's most important "archaeologists."
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    22 mins
  • Get to Work!

    Get to Work!
    May 8 2024

    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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    59 mins

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Always Interesting

I really enjoy this podcast and look forward to every new episode. Life took me in a different direction but if I could start over, I'd probably be an anthropologist. This wonderfully informative and very interesting podcast helps me learn so much about anthropology and archeology. I can't become an anthropologist but listening to these two delightful people speak, I feel happy enough to just learn new information on an immense variety of subjects that I probably otherwise would be completely in the dark about.

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informative funny

This is informative and funny, listen to them for hrs. Love their spoctober episodes. Hugh backlog catalog.

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I've discovered a new hobby

Listening to this podcast is my new favorite thing. I came to this series when i searched for "analytics and archeology" and found an episode about data collecting. I tried another episode and another, then started as far back as I could go to listen in order. I don't want to miss anything! Many of the topics hold relevance to either things I've been curious about or has come up in conversation with a friend. The hosts and guests are fun and feel like they could be friends I would hang out with! I listen while commuting, doing chores, and going for a walk

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