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Podcast #12: Thrown Together: Potters, Painters, and Ceramic Production with Sanchita Balachandran
On this episode of the Peopling the Past Podcast, we are joined by Sanchita Balachandran, Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum.
Listen in, as she speaks to us about the sensory experience of ancient potters and painters, her experimental archaeology project at Johns Hopkins, and the underdrawings on Greek painted pottery.
Peopling the Past, Video #9: Jitse H.F. Dijkstra talks about graffiti and personal piety in Egypt
Dr. Jitse Dijkstra discusses graffiti in the ancient Mediterranean, including the religious use of graffiti as a form of personal piety in ancient Egypt.
Podcast #11: Making Waves in the Aegean: Lana Radloff and the Milesian Seascape
On this episode of the Peopling the Past Podcast, we are joined by Dr. Lana Radloff, Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies at Bishop’s University.
Listen in, as she discusses her research on seascapes, the ancient sensory experience of the Mediterranean, and the city of Miletus.
Peopling the Past, Video #8: Hannah Lau talks about Zooarchaeology and Domesticated Animals
In the eighth instalment of our video series, Dr. Hannah Lau discusses zooarchaeology and the study of animal domesticates in Bronze Age Azerbaijan, including subsistence strategies, animal husbandry, and animal burial in tombs.
Image of the Month
“Biccus gives Mercury whatever he has lost (that the thief), whether man or male may not urinate nor defecate nor speak nor sleep nor stay awake nor [have] well-being or health, unless he bring (it) in the temple of Mercury; nor gain consciousness of (it) unless with my intervention.”
British Museum inv. 1978,0102.80 (© The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
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