Encore: Follow the Pots
The holidays are coming to a close for the year. As a happy new year to all of you, Indy Fans, our final show for 2015 is related to the holy land where so many of our holidays are centered. Dr. Morag...
View ArticleEncore: The Count of the Sahara
Gather 'round Indy Fans. Today we go historical and fantastical with our guest and subject matter. The topic? Count Byron de Prorok, famous archaeologist in 1925 and disgraced scalawag just 6 months...
View ArticleInvestigating the Paranormal: Archaeology in Haunted Places
What do ghost hunters and archaeologists have in common? More than you might imagine! Archaeologists and ghost hunters are both interested in exploring long forgotten places in search of the people...
View ArticleDoing Archaeology in the 21st Century: Digital Approaches
Humans are obsessed with the future and the technology that comes with it. Whether it's finding out when the new iPhone will be released, wondering when our hoverboards will REALLY fly, or scanning the...
View ArticleEncore: Doing Archaeology in the 21st Century: Digital Approaches
Humans are obsessed with the future and the technology that comes with it. Whether it's finding out when the new iPhone will be released, wondering when our hoverboards will REALLY fly, or scanning the...
View ArticleEncore: Etzanoa: To Rival Cahokia?
Not many have heard of Etzanoa. Not yet that is. Researchers believe they have discovered the “great settlement,” described by the explorer Don Juan de Oñate. Etzanoa was said to stretch for 5 miles...
View ArticleThe Lost City of Chicago: Urban Archaeology and the Future of the Past
Picture it. Chicago. 1893. Twenty-six million people from all over the world flooded into the city to puzzle over the newest fashions trends including zippers, taste innovative new cuisines like...
View ArticleEncore: The Lost City of Chicago: Urban Archaeology and the Future of the Past
Picture it. Chicago. 1893. Twenty-six million people from all over the world flooded into the city to puzzle over the newest fashions trends including zippers, taste innovative new cuisines like...
View ArticlePreserving A Century of Adventure
Before the Enterprise boldly “went where no person had gone before” or Indiana Jones shouted “THAT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!” there was the National Geographic Society. For over 100 years it has embodied a...
View ArticleEncore: Preserving A Century of Adventure
Before the Enterprise boldly “went where no person had gone before” or Indiana Jones shouted “THAT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!” there was the National Geographic Society. For over 100 years it has embodied a...
View ArticleArchaeology in the Sunshine State
In just under 2 weeks, archaeologists from all over the world will be converging on Orlando, FL for the annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting. In anticipation of the meeting, tonight’s...
View ArticleEncore: Who Were the Aztec: Bridging the Gap between Myth and Reality
In a world of sensationalist headlines the Aztec would appear to be the ultimate players. But what do we really know and how do we reconcile contradictory trends and traditions? The archaeological...
View ArticleEncore: Archaeology in the Sunshine State
In just under 2 weeks, archaeologists from all over the world will be converging on Orlando, FL for the annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting. In anticipation of the meeting, tonight’s...
View ArticleIn the Pipeline: Archaeology and the Oil and Gas Industry
The largest budgets and advanced research technologies in today’s archaeology are furnished by pipeline construction. While the construction of pipelines has not been without controversy, the growth of...
View ArticleArchaeological Training in the 21st Century
Despite Indiana Jones' order to get out of the library, archaeological training involves a fair amount of school work. At school, archaeologists must both intensively train in a particular focus, but...
View ArticleClearing the Mists of Time: Archaeology at the Irish Royal Site of Dun Ailinne
Whether it is faerie circles, nighttime rituals, or pretty much Celtic ANY-thing, the public perception of Irish archaeology has a healthy dose of myth and mystery mixed in. In fact, the allure of...
View ArticleEncore: Clearing the Mists of Time: Archaeology at the Irish Royal Site of...
Whether it is faerie circles, nighttime rituals, or pretty much Celtic ANY-thing, the public perception of Irish archaeology has a healthy dose of myth and mystery mixed in. In fact, the allure of...
View ArticleEncore: Extreme Archaeology: Doing Archaeology above the Arctic Circle
Imagine that you are an archaeologist carrying your equipment to site only to meet a polar bear along the way! Once you’ve arrived at site, weather conditions may mean the ground is too frozen to dig...
View ArticleDigging a Pipeline to the Past
Although pipeline projects are often surrounded by controversy, archaeological survey and excavation is playing an increasingly vital role in project development. Federal regulations require that...
View ArticleEncore: Without a Trace? Rethinking the Place of the Dead in Historical...
In Madagascar today, and in the recent past, the dead are understood to inhabit the world alongside the living. Accounts of the 19th century tell of people possessed by the dead, of ghosts roaming...
View ArticleThe Bronze Age and the Bible: Archaeology as Middle Ground
Science and religion are often at ideological loggerheads concerning natural and human history. In this episode, Dr. Schuldenrein argues that archaeology is uniquely able to provide a bridge between...
View Article'How Old ARE You Now?': The Dating Game in Archaeology and Science
One of the key issues in the debate of Evolution vs. Creationism centers on antiquity of events and the ability to determine them without “reasonable doubt”. Over the past half century plus, and...
View ArticleDirty Politics: Archaeology and the 2016 Election
It’s an election year in the U.S. and many are anxiously wondering what November will bring. While the presidential race is in full swing (or sling—and you thought OUR jobs were dirty!) archaeologists,...
View ArticleEncore: Cedar Rapids' Beer Cave
About a year ago the Iowa Dept. of Transportation discovered a sinkhole near Interstate 380 in Cedar Rapids. They found the sinkhole was the site of a 150 year old beer cave. Back in the 1850s Cedar...
View ArticleCrypto-Science: Does Bigfoot Walk Among Us?
When asked to be a judge on 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty Dr. Todd Disotell said yes. Cryptozoology—the search for animals that may not exist, such as Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster—isn’t one of...
View ArticleSpecial Encore: Crypto-Science: Does Bigfoot Walk Among Us?
Special Encore: When asked to be a judge on 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty Dr. Todd Disotell said yes. Cryptozoology—the search for animals that may not exist, such as Bigfoot or the Loch Ness...
View ArticleEncore: 'X' Marks the Spot: Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico
While pirates have always been a source of public fascination, piracy has seen a recent surge in both news headlines and popular culture, including the newly-released film Captain Phillips, starring...
View ArticleApocrypha Archaeology: Decoding the walls of Huqoq
As excavators carefully brushed away the dirt, the eyes of Alexander the Great stared back at them unblinking. For many archaeologists it would have been the find of a lifetime, but by 2015 Dr. Jodi...
View ArticleEncore: Apocrypha Archaeology: Decoding the walls of Huqoq
As excavators carefully brushed away the dirt, the eyes of Alexander the Great stared back at them unblinking. For many archaeologists it would have been the find of a lifetime, but by 2015 Dr. Jodi...
View ArticleGirls Rule! Power, Gender, and Class at America's first Urban Center
Almost 900 hundred years ago, hundreds gathered at North America’s only city, Cahokia, to take part in a funeral. As the crowds gathered, two bodies were carefully prepared and laid to rest on top of a...
View ArticleEncore: Girls Rule! Power, Gender, and Class at America's first Urban Center
Almost 900 hundred years ago, hundreds gathered at North America’s only city, Cahokia, to take part in a funeral. As the crowds gathered, two bodies were carefully prepared and laid to rest on top of a...
View ArticleEncore: Birds of a feather: Chaco trade and Macaws
Researchers recently conducted radiocarbon tests on the bones of 30 scarlet macaws, originally excavated in 1897, stored at New York’s American Museum of Natural History. Their findings are causing the...
View ArticleEncore: A Transformative Force: The Environmental Impact of the Baltic Crusades
The crusaders who launched a bloody holy war against the pagan societies of the Eastern Baltic left a profound legacy – the construction of spectacular castles that still exist today as ruins or...
View ArticleEncore: X Marks the Spot: Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico
While pirates have always been a source of public fascination, piracy has seen a recent surge in both news headlines and popular culture, including the newly-released film Captain Phillips, starring...
View ArticleCrises in Archaeology: The 2016 Presidential Election and the DAPL
The 2016 presidential election and the Dakota Access Pipeline are two key issues facing American archaeology today. Join Dr Schuldenrein as he explores how the Trump administration and a republican...
View ArticleArchaeology and the DAPL
A special episode devoted to the Dakota Access Pipeline. The DAPL, Energy Transfer Partners 1,170 mile pipeline traversing parts of North and South Dakota, threatens water sources and culturally...
View ArticleEncore: Christmas Tree Ship
Happy end of the year holiday's Indy Fans! Tonight mere days away from Christmas we have a themed show to further the spirit of the holidays! We are joined by Dr. Tamara Thomsen, a maritime...
View ArticleThoroughly Modern Archaeologists: Building a Career in the 21st Century
The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 drastically changed archaeology by creating new and novel ways of building a career. Where once the blueprint of success was rooted in academia, now...
View ArticleFed Up: Archaeology and Federal Compliance and Legislation
In the lead up to the presidential inauguration on Jan 20, 2017, Dr. Joe Schuldenrein and special guest Dr. Kimball Banks explore the role the federal government plays in archaeological compliance and...
View ArticleThe Importance of Major Archaeological Organizations: The Society for...
The world’s largest organization dedicated to the archaeology of the modern world turns 50 in 2017. Join us as Dr. Schuldenrein talks with Society for Historical Archaeology President Dr. JW Joseph...
View ArticleThe Bourbon Archaeologist: Heritage and Community in Kentucky
In 2016, the Buffalo Trace Distillery hired Kentucky archaeologist Nicolas Laracuente to lead an excavation of the remains of a late-19th century production facility buried and long forgotten...
View ArticleRecent Advances in Southeastern Archaeology
Everything you have ever wanted to know about Southeastern archaeology, but were too afraid to ask. Dr. David G. Anderson, a practitioner and academic with decades of experience in the Southeastern US...
View ArticleCatastrophe and Collapse: The Mediterranean World in the Late Bronze Age
Joining Dr. Schuldenrein in this week's episode is award-winning author and George Washington University Classics and Anthropology professor Eric H. Cline. Specializing in biblical archaeology and the...
View ArticleEvaluating Significance: The NPS and New Philadelphia
The Town of New Philadelphia, Illinois was founded by ex-slave Frank McWorter in 1836, making it the first town legally registered by an African American in the US. Frank and his wife Lucy bought,...
View ArticleThe Fascinating Field of Industrial Archaeology
The prevalence of pipeline projects in CRM is bringing archaeologists into increasing contact with the material remains of industry and technology. However, as a field of inquiry, industrial...
View ArticleDr. Asma Ibrahim: Pakistan's First Female Archaeologist
Archaeologist and museologist Dr. Asma Ibrahim joins the program to discuss the state of archaeology and heritage preservation in Pakistan. As one of the only female archaeologists operating in...
View ArticleHaircombs and Vikings: The Archaeology of Everyday Life
What do we really know about the Vikings? In this episode, Dr. Steve Ashby, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, discusses his fascinating research into the...
View ArticleClimate Change and Archaeology
In this episode we explore the role of archaeology in climate science, examining contemporary and ancient climate change. Our guests, Assistant Professor Dr. John Marston at Boston University’s...
View ArticleEncore: Shipwrecks and Science: The Emergence of Underwater Archaeology
With over 70% of the earth’s surface covered in water, much of the world is inaccessible to archaeologists employing traditional, land-based archaeological techniques. Employing new procedures and...
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