Episodes
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
PODCAST #23 - Neolithization of Britain | Dr. ALISON SHERIDAN
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
The Prehistory Guys are very proud to share with you this fantastic interview with Dr. Alison Sheridan, recently retired Principal Archaeological Research Curator at the National Museums of Scotland.As you'll find out in the first minutes of this podcast, Alison's C.V. is simply spectacular. If there's such a thing as an A-List archaeologist, she is a prime example of what that looks like - not only in terms of her output and influence, but in the extraordinary breadth of her study.Her special area however, is the crossover period between the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods in Britain and Ireland. In this interview you'll find out what makes her thesis on how the Neolithic 'package' made it across from the continent 6,000 years ago both compelling and controversial and discover her passion for the life archaeological! Help support us and join our Patreon community See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Monday Dec 30, 2019
PODCAST #22 BEER in the Neolithic | Merryn & Graham Dineley
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Ancient craft and brewing specialist Merryn Dineley, together with her brewing expert husband Graham join us to discus how the general unawareness of the way beer is brewed leads to the evidence for it in prehistory being overlooked. Once the process is understood, then the existence of large vessels, like the Grooved Ware pot from Durrington Walls above, suddenly makes sense, as do some of the details inside many excavated ancient and Neolithic buildings up and down Britain and beyond. Help support us and join our Patreon community See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Saturday Dec 21, 2019
PODCAST #21 | 44,000 Year Old Cave Art
Saturday Dec 21, 2019
Saturday Dec 21, 2019
Earlier in December, news articles began to show up reporting the discovery of very old cave art on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. What is significant about the find is that it pushes back the date of the earliest figurative painting a long way, such that this REPRESENTATIVE cave art in Indonesia is of a similar age to the first know ABSTRACT art in Europe.True to form, Rupert and Michael dig a little deeper, celebrating the find, but making sure we don't get bogged down in some of the assumptions and presumptions that may skew our understanding of what this represents. Help support us and join our Patreon community See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Friday Nov 29, 2019
PODCAST #20 | Interview with Dr. RICK PETTIGREW
Friday Nov 29, 2019
Friday Nov 29, 2019
We're kicking off our regular interview features with our good friend and colleague Dr. Rick Pettigrew of the Archaeological Legacy Institute in Eugene, Oregon.The photo above is of Rick standing in front of West Kennet long barrow back in September this year when we were on the 'Backbone of Neolithic Britain' tour. The tour was instigated by Rick and we were delighted to collaborate with him organising this huge adventure and we're delighted to say that we'll be doing it again next year. The point is though that we got to know Rick rather better and found out that (as well as being a great guy!) he's quite a mover and shaker in the world of archaeology and very much aligned to our way of thinking in terms of how it gets communicated.And communication is really something that shines out in this conversation as (via the Columbia River, obsidian dating, Iran, prehistoric migration, and Malta) we arrive at the subject of the development of language in prehistory. Help support us and join our Patreon community See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Thursday Oct 31, 2019
#19 | The Great Megalithic Deception
Thursday Oct 31, 2019
Thursday Oct 31, 2019
Does our ancient landscape lie to us? Well, there is a sense in which we are deceived ... or is it we who deceive ourselves? Michael and Rupert discuss how our natural instinct for creating meaning out of what we see might lead us a little astray.All this and the regular magazine slots in the latest episode of what is now THE PREHISTORY GUYS podcast! Help support us and join our Patreon community See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Sunday Sep 01, 2019
SWS-18 | Murder in the Neolithic
Sunday Sep 01, 2019
Sunday Sep 01, 2019
When things don't seem so great in the present, it's easy to idealise the past.Not so fast!Archaeology has thrown light on some remarkable and truly brutal events in European prehistory recently. It seems that 7,000 years ago a particular phase of angst and conflict in the Neolithic 'Linearbandkeramik' (LBK) culture of central Europe was kicking off and led to some horrific examples of man's inhumanity to man being left in the archaeological record.Rupert and Michael duck the crime scene tape and take a peek under the sheet ... Help support us and join our Patreon community See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
SWS-17 | Neolithic Settlements: MINDS BLOWN!
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
If we're talking about standing stones and the Neolithic, then we have to talk about origins ... and if we talk about origins we have to talk about the Middle East and Anatolia. If we talk about the Middle East and Anatolia, the names Çatalhöyük and Göbekli Tepe seem to come up. But Tell Qaramel? Tell es-Sultan? Motza? Maybe nearer to home on the Danube; Lepinski Vir?By merely scratching the surface of the subject of ancient settlements, Michael & Rupert have their minds quietly blown taking on the implications of the timescales involved in relation to our own, home-grown developments in the British Neolithic. Help support us and join our Patreon community See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
SWS-16 | On Orkney with Michael's Dirty Trowel
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
It seems ages since we last posted a podcast. But it's only just over a month - it must be that we've been incredibly busy! And some of that business is down to Michael's excursion to Orkney to take part in a three-day field archaeology course at the Cairns Broch dig on South Ronaldsay.Yes, the new trowel was well and truly broken in and in this episode, Rupert grills Michael about his adventure and actually manages to extract some interesting information from him about the dig and his hands-on archaeological experience. (Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition).NOTE: if you're interested in following up on the background to the topics covered in this podcast, for the monthly subscription rate of $1 a month, you can have access to the show notes for this show, and much more content besides, by becoming a member on Patreon. Go to the Patreon page for this podcast and become one of our valued Patreon supporters now! Help support us and join our Patreon community See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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