Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMarilyn Palmer and Ian West, “Technology and the Country House” (Historic England Publishing/U.Chicago, 2016)
Episode 12
For the aristocracy in Britain and Ireland, country house living was dependent upon the labors of men and women who performed innumerable chores invo…
9 years, 4 months ago
Rebe Taylor, “Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity” (Melbourne UP, 2017)
Episode 11
In her book, Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity (Melbourne University Press, 2017), Rebe Taylor, the Coral Thomas Fellow at the…
9 years, 5 months ago
David Rohl, “Exodus: Myth or History? (Thinking Man Media, 2015)
Episode 10
Archaeologists and scholars of the ancient Near East regularly make statements to the effect that there is absolutely no archaeological evidence for …
9 years, 7 months ago
Stephen Dupont, “Piksa Niugini” (Peabody Press/Radius Books, 2013)
Episode 9
Piksa Niugini by Stephen Dupont, with forward by Robert Gardner and essay by Bob Connolly, is published by the Peabody Press and Radius Books, (2013)…
10 years ago
Eric H. Cline, “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
Episode 8
It quickly sold out in hardback, and then, within a matter of days, sold out in paperback. Available again as a 2nd edition hardback, and soon in the…
11 years ago
Bruce A. Bradley, et al., “Clovis Technology” (International Monographs in Prehistory, 2010)
Episode 7
13,000-years ago, the people of the first identifiable culture in North America were hunting mammoth and mastodon, bison, and anything else they coul…
11 years, 1 month ago
Douglas B. Bamforth et al., “The Allen Site: A Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Nebraska” (U of New Mexico Press, 2015)
Episode 6
In this episode of New Books in Archaeology we talk with Douglas B. Bamforth about his new book The Allen Site: A Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Ne…
11 years, 2 months ago
Asya Pereltsvaig and Martin Lewis, “The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Episode 5
Who were the Indo-Europeans? Were they all-conquering heroes? Aggressive patriarchal Kurgan horsemen, sweeping aside the peaceful civilizations of Ol…
11 years, 3 months ago
J. Laurence Hare, “Excavating Nations: Archaeology, Museums, and the German-Danish Borderlands” (U of Toronto Press, 2015)
Episode 4
A recent book review I read began with the line “borderlands are back.” It’s certainly true that more and more historians have used borderland region…
11 years, 3 months ago
Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, “The Archaeology of Tibetan Books” (Brill, 2014)
Episode 3
In Archaeology of Tibetan Books (Brill, 2014), Agnieszka Helman-Wazny explores the varieties of artistic expression, materials, and tools that have s…
11 years, 7 months ago