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My Cousin Vinny: A Conversation about Genetics and Neanderthals with Dr. Vincent Battista - Ep 114

In this episode of A Life In Ruins podcast, Connor and David chat with Vincent Battista, a Postdoctoral Researcher specializing in genetics.

Vincent got his PhD at the University of Michigan where he studied under Milford Wolpoff, who is also the teacher of Dr. Jim Ahern, Connor and David‘s biological anthropology teacher.

Connor and David chat with Vincent about his Italian ancestry, and how that formulated his interest in culture and anthropology, and they later get into his early educational career in anthropology

Like most episodes with PhD‘s, the conversation gets heavy discussing the quagmire that is academia and whether it is right for some people or not.

We end with a discussion about Neanderthals, as Vincent is a wealth of knowledge the subject.

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Literature Recommendations

  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and The Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

  • Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture by Bruce Pascoe

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  • Dr. Battista's Instagram: @spaghettiwesternz

  • Dr. Battista's Twitter: @DrBaggadonuts

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Pirates and Privateers from Long Island Sound to Delaware Bay with Dr. Jamie L. H. Goodall - Ep 113

On this episode of A Life in Ruins Podcast, we get the best pirate scholar, Dr. Jamie L. H. Goodall, back on the show. We discuss how she has been since we last talked and discuss what she actually does at her current job. Carlton and Connor then pepper her with questions about her new book, "Pirates and Privateers from Long Island Sound to Delaware Bay" which was released in May 2022. She details the differences in pirating between the Chesapeake Bay and the more northern bays/sounds. She helps us understand pirates personal lives and tells us that they even got married. Carlton and Connor then keep asking her questions because they are nerds and love pirate history.

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Literature Recommendations

  • Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever by Rebecca Simon

  • The Life and Tryals of the Gentleman Pirate, Major Stede Bonnet by Jeremy R. Moss

  • Pirate Queens: The Lives of Anne Bonny & Mary Read by Rebecca Simon

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  • Dr. Goodall's Instagram and Twitter: @l_historienne

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Et tu, Clovis? On the Efficacy of the Clovis Point with Dr. Devin Pettigrew - Ep 112

On this episode we bring back Dr. Devin Pettigrew to discuss a paper that came out in 2021. The name of that paper is "On the efficacy of Clovis fluted points for hunting proboscideans" by Eren et. al.

Dr. Pettigrew is an experimental archaeologist and together we discuss the pitfalls/successes of this study. We really dive deep into the article and the data they are using to summarize their argument. Dr. Pettigrew also gives us a background in the ballistics of atlatls as well as information around the use of ballistics gel/ceramics to interpret penetration effectiveness. Dr. Pettigrew then tell us about some of his current research and things he is studying.

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The Past, Present and Future of Chichen Itza with Evan Albright - Ep 111

On this episode, we talk with Evan Albright about his book "The Man Who Owned a Wonder of the World". This book (published in 2015), tells the story of Edward H. Thompson, an American who once owned the property on which Chichen Itza sits. We go through the history of this property and talk about guides, hotels, trains and what the future looks like for Chichen Itza.

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Literature Recommendations

  • John Lloyd Stephens, Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (NYC: Harper & Bros., 1843)

  • Paul Sullivan, Unfinished Conversations: Mayas and Foreigners Between Two Wars (NYC: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989)

  • Walter W. Taylor, “A Study of Archaeology,” American Anthropologist, July 1948 (vol. 50, No. 3, Part 2)

  • R. Tripp Evans, Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination, 1820-1915 (Austin, University of Texas Press, 2010)

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  • Evan’s Twitter: @americanegypt

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