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Back to SearchWhy Should Cultural Heritage Be Protected?
Episode 112
Where people are killed and abused in warfare and violent conflict, artifacts of cultural heritage are often destroyed and mistreated as well. Indeed…
3 years, 8 months ago
Brian Lander, "The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire" (Yale UP, 2022)
Episode 52
The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire (Yale UP, 2021) is a multidisciplinary study of the ecolo…
3 years, 8 months ago
Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
Episode 357
Throughout much of history, the Jewish way of life has been characterized by strict adherence to the practices and prohibitions legislated by the Tor…
3 years, 9 months ago
Walking the Via Dolorosa: An Archaeologist Follows Jesus from His Trial to His Crucifixion
Episode 34
Archaeologist Ilka Knüppel discusses her master's thesis—The Search for Jesus's Final Steps: How Archaeological and Literary Evidence Reroutes the Vi…
3 years, 9 months ago
Padma Kaimal, "Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Episode 238
In Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space (U Washington Press, 2020), Padma Kaimal deciphers the intentions of th…
3 years, 9 months ago
Rock Art in the Nomadic Landscape of the Black Desert
Episode 9
The "Black Desert" in the northern Arabian Peninsula is home to thousands of pieces of rock art - both written inscriptions and figural images - left…
3 years, 9 months ago
Iraqi Bedouin and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Episode 7
A conversation with Dr. Salah Hatem and Dr. Jaafar Jotheri, professors of archaeology at al-Qadisiyah University, about their research project docume…
3 years, 10 months ago
Samuel J. Redman, "Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 16
In Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums (Harvard University Press, 2022 for paperback edition), Samuel J. Redman, Associ…
3 years, 10 months ago
Fintan Walsh, "The Road to Kells: Prehistoric Archaeology of the M3, Navan to Kells and N52, Kells Bypass Road Project" (Wordwell Books, 2022)
Episode 32
In this latest publication in the TII Heritage series, the long prehistory of Kells and its hinterland is shown to be written on the landscape in fou…
3 years, 10 months ago
Victoria Hoyle, "The Remaking of Archival Values" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 89
The Remaking of Archival Values by Victoria Hoyle (Routledge, October 2022) posits that archival theory and practice are fields in flux, and that rec…
3 years, 10 months ago