The Peopling the Past Podcast is back for a fourth season and this time we’re focusing on cultural heritage and the legacies of colonialism. Join your hosts Dr. Chelsea Gardner and Dr. Melissa Funke, as well as Dr. Christine Johnston (the producer of Season 4), for a very special preview episode, taking us through what we can expect from our podcast this season.
Tag Archives: archaeology
Blog Post #101: Peopling the Past Celebrates “Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences” at the AIA
Join us at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting (hybrid!) as we celebrate the release of the upcoming open-access volume, “Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World.”
Blog Post #100: Decoding Adolescence in the Human Skeleton with Creighton Avery
In our 100th blog, we continue our Halloween themed content with a post by Dr. Creighton Avery, an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. Here, she delves into her research on the lives of adolescents in the Roman Empire, which she approaches through a bioarchaeological lens.
Blog Post #99: (After)Lives: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Identification at Corinth with Hannah Lee
In this week’s blog, we continue our Halloween themed content with a blog post by Hannah Lee, a doctoral candidate in Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Here, she delves into her osteological work on the Corinth ‘Hero’ and reflects on the Greek practice of hero worship.
Blog Post #98: Cultural Finger Amputation with Brea McCauley
In this week’s blog post, we interview Brea McCauley, a Ph.D. candidate at Simon Fraser University, who details the practice of cultural finger amputation through numerous human societies throughout history around the globe.
Blog Post #97: Graduate Student Feature with Adrian Talotti Proestos
In this week’s blog post, we interview Adrian Talotti Proestos, a Ph.D. candidate at McMaster University, who takes us through his research which uses network analysis to trace interactions between Oenotrian communities in southern Italy.
Blog Post #95: Graduate Student Feature with Elizabeth Keyser
In this week’s blog post, we interview Elizabeth Keyser, a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, who guides us through a reassessment of popular and elite religious practices in the Mycenaean Late Bronze Age on mainland Greece.
Podcast Season 3, Episode 12: How do you Solve a Problem like Cleopatra? : Shelley Haley and the last Egyptian Pharoah
On the last episode of our podcast season on ancient women, we are joined by Dr. Shelley Haley, the recently retired Edward North Chair of Classics and Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College.
Listen in, as we untangle the image of Cleopatra as a seductive manipulator and challenge assumptions, misconceptions, and preconceived notions about her persona and reign.
Blog #94: Reconstructing Space, Place, and Power in Late Bronze Age Cyprus with Kevin Fisher
In this week’s blog we interview Dr. Kevin Fisher of UBC on his recently published monograph, “Monumentality, Place-making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus”, exploring the complex ways in which urban environments and monumental space shape human societies.
Blog #92: The Libyans with Matthew McCarty
In the latest instalment of our Unknown Peoples Series, Matthew McCarty (University of British Columbia) takes us through his research on the ‘Libyans’, the indigenous peoples of the Maghreb — that is, the vast territory stretching across North Africa from modern western Libya, through Tunisia and Algeria, to the Atlantic coast of Morocco, and from the northern Sahara to the Mediterranean coast.
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