Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBrian 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 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, 1 month ago
Walking the Via Dolorosa: An Archaeologist Follows Jesus from His Trial to His Crucifixion
Season 1 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month ago
Iraqi Bedouin and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Season 1 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, 1 month 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, 2 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, 2 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, 2 months ago
Ahmad Al-Jallad, "The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions" (Brill, 2022)
Episode 14
The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions (Brill, 2022) by Ahmad al-Jallad pr…
3 years, 3 months ago