Encore: Ivory Baton, Pliny the Elder and Amelia Earhart - Ep 253

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The Archaeology Podcast Network is taking a break for the holiday season. In the meantime, please enjoy this encore episode. It’s a favorite of ours! Happy holidays!

This week we have 3 fascinating archaeology news stories. First, experimental research has helped researchers determine the function of an ivory baton. Then, we take a look at a newly discovered Roman villa that may have belonged to Pliny the Elder. Finally, Amelia Earhart is back in the news with some new and potentially controversial findings!

Links

• Experiments suggest ancient four-holed ivory baton was used to make rope (Phys.org)

• Rope making in the Aurignacian of Central Europe more than 35,000 years ago (Science Advances)

• 1st-century villa discovered near Mount Vesuvius may be where Pliny the Elder watched catastrophic eruption

• Amelia Earhart's plane may have crashed in the heart of the Pacific Ocean, explorer claims (Live Science)

• The Earhart Project in a Nutshell

• Scientists discover new possible clue in Amelia Earhart mystery

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Bulgarians Using a Coffin as a Table? - Ep 275

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This week we cover 3 recent archaeology news stories including an ancient Roman sarcophagus turned beach bar, the source of the altar stone at Stonehenge and more evidence refuting the claims about Homo Naledi “burial”practices made in the Cave of Bones documentary on Netflix.

Links

• Beach bar used a 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus as table — until a tourist noticed

• The voyage of the Altar Stone: A Stonehenge mystery solved (maybe)

• More Research Shuts Down Controversial Claims About Homo Naledi, Star Of Netflix Documentary

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"Baffling" Roman Artifact, an Unusual Burial, and Vegan Cavemen - Ep 263

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This week we have 3 interesting news articles! First, we look at a mysterious Roman artifact called a dodecahedron that literally has baffled archaeologists and historians. Then, we look an unusual burial in Vienna with 2 individuals in an embrace. Re-analysis with new techniques has corrected assumptions made in the past about who they were! And finally, we discuss new evidence that paleolithic humans ate a primarlily vegan diet.

Links

• Segment 1

  • An Unbelievable Relic From the Roman Empire Is Baffling Archaeologists (Popular Mechanics)

  • Why Did Ancient Romans Make this Baffling Metal Dodecahedron? (Scientific American)

• Segment 2

  • Two ancient women buried together in Austria in first of its kind find. ‘Remarkable’

• Segment 3

  • Scientists find that cavemen ate a mostly vegan diet in groundbreaking new study (Joe)

  • Isotopic evidence of high reliance on plant food among Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers at Taforalt, Morocco (Nature Ecology & Evolution)

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Art! - Ep 261

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This week we have 3 news stories about art in the ancient world. First up, 10 years of excavating a synagogue in Israel has revealed stunning floor mosaics. Then, we head to everyone’s favorited ancient city, Pompeii, where spectacular frescos were uncovered in a residence. And finally, rock carvings in Peru may depict people singing or dancing while hallucinating.

Links

• Surprising Scenes in Stone

• Pompeii: Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city (BBC)

• Archaeologists Reveal Rock Art May Depict People Singing While High (Newsweek)

• Dances with Zigzags in Toro Muerto, Peru: Geometric Petroglyphs as (Possible) Embodiments of Songs

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Roman Wine, Microplastics, and a Lynx Burial - Ep 259

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This week we have three fascinating Archaeology news stories! First up, Archaeologists have determined what Roman wine tastes like. Then, a new study looks at the impact of micro plastic contamination on archaeological sites. And finally a unique lynx burial puzzles, well, everyone!

Links

Segment 1

• Archaeologists Have Determined What Ancient Roman Wine Tasted Like

• Making wine in earthenware vessels: a comparative approach to Roman vinification

Segment 2

• Microplastics Are Contaminating Ancient Archaeological Sites

• The contamination of in situ archaeological remains: A pilot analysis of microplastics in sediment samples using μFTIR

Segment 3

• 1,500-year-old burial of lynx with 4 dogs stacked on it puzzles archaeologists

• A fifth- to sixth-century CE lynx (Lynx lynx L., 1758) skeleton from Hungary 2: Stature and archaeological interpretations

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