Written in the Waters: An interview with author Tara Roberts - Ep 296

Today, Chris interviews explorer and author Tara Roberts. She dove and worked with Diving with a Purpose, a non-profit organization that excavated underwater wrecks of slave ships. She tells the stories of the slave ships and the people doing the work. We talk about her career and her journey to writing the book.

Links

• Written In The Waters - Hardcover on Amazon

• Written In The Waters eBook on Amazon

• Diving with a Purpose

• Into the Depths Podcast (Apple)

• Tara Roberts website

• @‌tararoberts_explorer on Instagram

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Conclusive evidence that Vikings arrived well before Columbus - Ep 242

On this week’s news episode we start with two stories about slavery. The first comes from the discovery of a 2000 year old child’s show found in an Austrian mine. The second is from Ghana and the discovery of Britain’s first slave fort in Africa. Finally, we learn about conclusive evidence of Vikings arriving in the Americas well before Columbus.

Links

• 2,000-Year-Old Child's Shoe Found in Austrian Mine
  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/2000-year-old-childs-shoe-found-in-austria-180982946/

• 2000-year-old child’s leather shoe discovered in Austrian salt mine
  https://archaeologymag.com/2023/09/childs-leather-shoe-discovered-in-austria/

• Dig reveals the roots of Britain’s slave trade — and the bloody birth of our world
  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dig-reveals-the-roots-of-britains-slave-trade-and-the-bloody-birth-of-the-modern-world-ll5zzbmnn

• 'First English slave fort in Africa' uncovered on Ghana's coast

• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66359512

• A Stunning Discovery Proves That Vikings Reached the Americas Before Columbus

• https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a45823574/vikings-in-america-before-columbus-new-discovery/

• RodsterAdventures Instagram

  https://www.instagram.com/rodsteradventures

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A Teen with a Bracelet, Ancient Brazilians, and an Awful story about a Slave Ship - Ep 227

For some reason we have a Brazilian-themed show today…we start with the recovered skeletal remains of a teenager with a debilitating disease with an intricate bead bracelet. Then we look at an impossibly old site with jewelry made by very ancient Brazilians. Finally, we look at the discovery of a ship scuttled by a truly terrible person during the slave trade years.

Links

Segment 1:

• Skeleton of Disabled Teen With Bracelet Puzzles Archaeologists: https://www.newsweek.com/skeleton-disabled-teen-bracelet-puzzles-archaeologists-1813779

• FROM SEED TO BEAD – HOW OUR YAWA #TOGETHER COLLECTION IS MADE: https://togetherband.org/blogs/news/yawa-band

  Segment 2

• Early Humans Survived an American Ice Age, Archaeologists Say: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/early-humans-survived-an-american-ice-age-archaeologists-say

• Evidence of artefacts made of giant sloth bones in central Brazil around the last glacial maximum; Proceedings of the Royal Society B: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0316

  Segment 3:

• Archaeologists Discover Wreckage of Notorious Slave Ship Off Brazil: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/archaeologists-discover-wreckage-of-notorious-slave-ship-off-brazil-1234674088/

• US Ship Wreckage Carrying 500 Slaves Discovered by Archaeologists
  https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/44833/20230712/us-ship-wreckage-carrying-500-slaves-discovered-by-archaeologists.htm

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Ancient Inequality, A Slave Ship and Giant Statues - Ep 175

There's a lot in the archaeology news as field seasons around the world kick off into high gear! This week we've got stories about the quantifying inequality among past societies, the conservations efforts around the last ship to bring slaves to the United States, and giant statues in Sardinia. That's giant statues, not statues of giants!

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Links

• Why some ancient societies were more unequal than others (BBC)

• Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica (Nature)

• Unlocking the Secrets of the ‘Clotilda,’ the Last Known Slave Ship

• 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro

• Archaeologists Unearth 3,000-Year-Old Giant Statues in Sardinian Necropolis

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Pompeii Slave's Rooms, Homo Naledi, and ancient theater toilets - Ep 146

We've got three news stories for you again this week. The first is about a find at Pompeii, where they are always finding cool things, that's different from most. Archaeologists have found what they think are slave's quarters, an underrepresented group in the archaeological assemblage. Next we have some new thoughts after a recent reconstruction of the 300kyo Homo naledi. Finally, archaeologists get really excited about 2000 year old toilets in Turkey.

Links

• Segment 1

  • Slaves' room unearthed in Pompeii reveals lives of marginalized citizens.

• Segment 2

  • Homo Naledi Child Skull's Reconstructed

  • A child’s partial skull adds to the mystery of how Homo naledi treated the dead

  • Immature Hominin Craniodental Remains From a New Locality in the Rising Star Cave System, South Africa

  • Expanded Explorations of the Dinaledi Subsystem, Rising Star Cave System, South Africa

• Segment 3

  • Possible Actor's Toilet Uncovered in Theater at Smyrna

  • Dig in Turkey finds theater commode in ancient city of Smyrna

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