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An archaeology podcast and book club where archaeologists Barbara and Tristan read and discuss archaeology books that make the ancient past approachable and fun.
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They Had to Trespass to See the Moon Rise | Where the Moon Stands Still, Part 3 | Newark Earthworks, UNESCO World Heritage, & NAGPRA (opens the original)
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Why did a hundred people have to sneak onto a golf course to watch the moon rise over a two-thousand-year-old observatory? In this series finale of Archaeology Books for Fun, archaeologists Barbara and Tristan close out Where the Moon Stands Still: Revealing the Cosmic Genius of Ohio's Indigenous Earthworks by James W. Graham with the long fight over who gets to access the Newark Earthworks. This is a fight that ran through a private country club's lease, an arrest, the Ohio Supreme Court, and f
The Moon Alignment No One Wanted to Believe | Where the Moon Stands Still, Part 2 | Newark Earthworks, Archaeoastronomy & Lunar Standstill (opens the original)
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What if a two-thousand-year-old earthwork in Ohio tracked the moon more precisely than anyone thought possible, and nobody believed it? In this episode of Archaeology Books for Fun, archaeologists Barbara and Tristan continue Where the Moon Stands Still: Revealing the Cosmic Genius of Ohio's Indigenous Earthworks by James W. Graham, as a philosopher and an astronomer discover that the Newark Earthworks don't line up with the sun at all, they line up with the moon, across an 18.6-year cycle, to w
Two Skeptics Tested an Ohio Earthwork to Debunk Stonehenge | Where the Moon Stands Still, Part 1 | Newark Earthworks, Archaeoastronomy & Hopewell (opens the original)
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Could a two-thousand-year-old earthwork in Ohio really be built to follow the moon and what happens when two skeptics set out to prove it couldn't? In this episode of Archaeology Books for Fun, archaeologists Barbara and Tristan begin a brand-new book, "Where the Moon Stands Still: Revealing the Cosmic Genius of Ohio's Indigenous Earthworks" by James W. Graham, following a philosopher and an astronomer who tested the massive Newark Earthworks expecting to expose archaeoastronomy as wishful think
Volunteers Helped Uncover 50 New Nazca Lines | Archaeology from Space, Part 5 | Looting, the Antiquities Black Market, Satellites, & Citizen Science (opens the original)
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How did online volunteers help uncover 50 previously unrecorded Nazca lines? In this series finale of Archaeology Books for Fun, archaeologists Barbara and Tristan close out Archaeology from Space by Sarah Parcak with its most hopeful idea: that anyone can join the search. Through crowdsourcing projects like her own GlobalXplorer°, volunteers scanning satellite imagery helped record 14,000 new sites in Peru, including 50 Nazca lines nobody had documented before. The finale also turns to the dark
Will Robots Take Over Archaeology? | Archaeology from Space (Part 4 of 5) (opens the original)
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Will robots and drones replace archaeologists? In this episode of Archaeology Books for Fun, archaeologists Barbara and Tristan dig into "Archaeology from Space" by Sarah Parcak and her vision of the field's high-tech future, from "dig bots" and machine learning to thermal imaging and portable chemical scanners. They also follow her satellite hunt for a lost Egyptian capital, where space-shuttle elevation data revealed a forgotten channel of the Nile before rampant looting shut the dig down. A m
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