Life in a Multicultural Society: The Jewish Community at Elephantine
Last week you learned about the ancient Egyptian police force under the Ptolemies. This week,...
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Life in a Multicultural Society: The Jewish Community at Elephantine
Last week you learned about the ancient Egyptian police force under the Ptolemies. This week,...
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Crime in Antiquity: Law Enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt
Throughout the years of Ptolemaic rule, victims of crime in all areas of the Egyptian countryside...
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Did you ever wonder what happens to the finds that are retrieved in archaeological excavations?...
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Special Encore Presentation: The Good Witches of Cornwall, UK: The Saveock Water Archaeology Project
A Mesolithic site in Cornwall provided evidence of human habitation along a marshy streambed in...
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Revitalizing Communities: The Sinop Region Archaeological Project
Sinope was the most important pre-modern port on the south coast of the Black Sea, located at the...
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Archaeologists often confront the paradox of reconciling seminal events and larger than life...
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Archaeological Legacy Institute: Telling the Human Story through Media
Many of you are interested in the way archaeology is presented in the media to the general public...
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Archaeological Non-Profits: The Maya Research Program
You've heard from some of our guests about the Mayan calendar and the civilization's rise and...
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Tracking Human Response to Climate Change through the Ages
Global warming on your mind this summer? It turns out we're not the first society forced to deal...
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Smoking and Ritual in Prehistoric North America
European travelers from as early as the time of Columbus have remarked upon the central role...
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Time Team America: Making Real Reality TV
If you’re concerned with the way that archeology is presented in the media,, then “reality” shows...
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Our series on Archaeology and Relevance has unique applications to the very real issues of...
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Cultural Entanglements: Early Globalization in the Americas
When Spain, the 16th century European superpower, spread into the Americas it created a plethora...
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Space Archaeology: Preserving our Cultural Heritage Beyond Earth’s Atmosphere
“Space Archaeology” may sound like the stuff of science fiction – an archaeologist’s attention is...
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Special Encore Presentation: Reconfiguring Archaeology in the Age of Sustainability
Two trends in contemporary archaeology will forever change the direction of the field. First, the...
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Our Ailing Ancestors: Uncovering Misconceptions in Paleopathology
How do archaeologists know what they do about life thousands of years ago? One way is by...
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The Role of Historical Artifacts in Forging National Identities
This Friday, Americans celebrate the independence of their nation and what it means to be...
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Special Encore Presentation: The State of Mexican Archaeology in 2013
In our series on ancient civilizations we have highlighted the sophisticated methodologies and...
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Making a Difference with Archaeologists for Autism
As an archaeologist and father to Becky, a teenager who was diagnosed with autism as a child, Tom...
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Our Dumb Ancestors: The Flawed Assumptions Behind Pseudoarchaeology
In this episode, Dr. Schuldenrein and special guest Dr. Kenneth Feder deal with an assumption...
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