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Join us for your weekly dive into the latest archaeological discoveries! This week, we explore how ancient South African rock art is offering new insights into early human cognition and symbolism. Then, we'll journey to Turkey to examine a recently unearthed Mesolithic/Neolithic stone figurine and discuss what it reveals about the shift to settled agriculture. Finally, we'll explore how cutting-edge AI technology is helping to solve some of archaeology's greatest puzzles, including the mysteries of the Nazca Lines.

Segment 1

Archaeologists Uncovered a Painting That May Prove the Existence of a Mysterious Creature

The San Tribe: 5 Interesting Facts About Southern Africa's Indigenous People

Segment 2

Scientists Found an 8,000-Year-Old Figurine in a Cave. Its Engravings Tell the Story of an Ancient Culture.

Human figurines in the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition of the South Caucasus: New evidence from the Damjili cave, Azerbaijan

Segment 3

How we're about to solve the world’s greatest archaeological puzzle

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On this week’s episode we explore the Roman Baths at Bath, UK! In our first segment, we delve into the history of the iconic Roman Baths, a marvel of engineering and a social hub in antiquity. Next, we share impressions from our recent site tour and museum visit and share our pro-tips and experiences at the site. Finally, we read some funny 1-star reviews of the Roman Baths. Tune in for a blend of history, personal anecdotes, and laughter about visitor experiences in this remarkable city!

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This week we found several news stories claiming that they had new evidence for an artifact or site being “the oldest…” Join us for a discussion on whether we think these claims are accurate!

• 11,000-year-old indigenous site — one of oldest on continent — found in Canada
• Great Plains Archaeology Podcast
• The oldest shoes in the world are on display in Oregon

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In this second episode of our Paleoanthropology series we focus on the Australopithecus family of fossils.

• Human Family Tree
• Human Evolution Interactive Timeline

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We talk a lot about human origins, so we thought this would be a good time time to do an overview of paleoanthropology, and the human evolutionary tree. In this first episode of the series we start with some of the oldest human ancestors including Sahelanthropus tchadensis and Ardipithecus ramidus.

• Human Family Tree
• Human Evolution Interactive Timeline

• Chris Webster
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It’s a news episode again! This week we talk about a shipwreck from the 1800s that washed up on the shore in Massachusetts in the US. Then we head over to the other side of the world and see what was so important it had to be written on a comb. And finally, we look at some experimental archaeology that cracked some skulls with ancient stone tools.

• Wreck of ship lost to storm 139 years ago washes up on Massachusetts beach
• Scientists Translate the Oldest Sentence Written in the First Alphabet
• Scientists smash skulls with Stone Age weapons to solve ancient murders, video shows
• Unraveling Neolithic sharp-blunt cranial trauma: Experimental approach through synthetic analogues

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Chris is sick this week and needs to let his voice rest so we are playing a really awesome episode of Archaeotech with Chris and his co-host Paul Zimmerman. Recently an article came out in CNN featuring the work that the team Paul is part of is doing in Iraq, so it was the perfect opportunity to talk about that article and play the episode that they recorded a couple months ago about how they use Magnetometry at Lagash.

• Archaeologists find 5,000-year-old tavern -- including food remains -- in Iraq
• Magnetometry on the Lagash Project - Archaeotech 191
• Geophysics in the Middle East with Marco Wolf - ArchaeoTech 192
• In the Field with the Lagash Archaeological Project, Iraq - TAS

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On today’s news episode we start with another Maya Kingdom found just sitting under some bushes in the jungle. OK, it’s a LOT of bushes. Then we move over to the UK and learn more about a skeleton that’s been in the University of Sheffield’s collection since the early 2000’s. Finally we talk about why the people of Miami keep letting developers dig up and pave over their most important cultural resources.

• Vast Maya Kingdom Is Revealed in Guatemalan Jungle (Wall Street Journal)
• LiDAR analyses in the contiguous Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin, Guatemala: an introduction to new perspectives on regional early Maya socioeconomic and political organization (Cambridge open access)
• Mysterious skeleton revealed to be that of unusual lady anchoress of York Barbican (University of Sheffield)
• The All Saints Anchoress? An Osteobiography (Medieval Archaeology, abstract only)
• Is Miami really going to keep letting developers pave over our most ancient sites?

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There's some "mind-blowing" news in archaeology this week! We start with early hominids in Ethiopia using tools 500,000 years earlier than anything thought. Then we move to a possible 20,000 year old writing system in rock art. Finally, the oldest mummy ever found in Egypt was covered in gold! What else will they find there?

• Archaeologists Discover 1.2 Million-Year-Old 'Workshop' in Mind-Blowing Find
• A surge in obsidian exploitation more than 1.2 million years ago at Simbiro III (Melka Kunture, Upper Awash, Ethiopia) (Abstract and figures only)
• Cave drawings from 20,000 years ago may feature an early form of writing
• Could These Cave Markings Be the Earliest Form of Writing?
• An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar (open access)
• Pseudo-Arch Podcast: The Antikythera Mechanism - Ep 96
• Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
• Archaeologists may have found Egypt's oldest mummy

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We’re in Lake Havasu City, AZ this week so naturally we’re talking about the London Bridge! Did you know that one of the three stone versions of the bridge to exist in the last 1500 years is here in Arizona? We talk about this history of the bridge and what led to this version being moved to an Arizona tourist town that was literally built around it.

• The London Bridge
• London Bridge History
• Remains of the Old London Bridge

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