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This podcast was a series we did on the APN that feature a podcast a day for about 400 days. The back catalogue is at www.archpodnet.com/arch365.
The world heritage site of Troy, in modern Anatolia in Turkey, best known from the homeric epics, is today known as the site of nine successive cities dating between 3000 BCE and AD 500.
The Roman baths, in the City of Bath, England, are one of the best preserved roman bathing complexes in the United Kingdom.
A large, bronze, S-shaped trumpet in use by Iron Age Celtic peoples, the Carynx was regularly used in battle to intimidate their enemies.
The Ise Grand Shrine, also called Ise Jingū, is a paris-sized Shinto shrine complex with 125 separate temples that was founded in the 7th century. The Ise complex located in the city of Ise, Mie Prefecture of Japan.
The Saalburg is a Roman fort located northwest of Bad Homburg, 20 km north-north-west of Frankfurt in the state of Hessen in Germany.
Stonehenge is a British cultural icon that is also one of the best known archaeological sites in the world. It is set within one of the most extensive Neolithic and Bronze age landscapes in Britain.
Of the many methods of exploiting fish, weirs are one of the most important to archaeologists as they leave the longest lasting evidence on the landscape.
The ancient Chinese city of Dunhuang, located at a strategic crossroads of the ancient southern silk road, is famed for its art and archaeology relating to historical Buddhist worship.
Roskilde a Danish city with a fascinating history in its own right and whose origins date back to the pre-christian Viking age is most well known for the Danish Viking Ship Museum.
Jórvík, the scandinavian name for the southern kingdom of Northumbria, which roughly corresponds to present day Yorkshire, and also its capital city York, was controlled by a succession of Norse warrior-kings between the late 9th and early 10th century CE.
With a foundation date some time in the sixth century, the monastic landscape of Glendalough (Glen-daw-lock but said kinda fast) is a rich archaeological resource located 35 km south of Dublin.
The largest ever find of Viking Age blacksmithing and woodworking tools was found in the Mästermyr Wetlands, west of the town of Hemse, on the island of Gotland in Sweden.
The ancient citadel, known as the Acropolis of Athens or just the Acropolis, best known for the monumental temples and structures including the Parthenon, is a symbol of ancient Athenian and Greek power and civilisation the world over.
Wolin, a Polish island in the Baltic Sea, has evidence of a human presence from the Neolithic, but is best known as the site of trading settlements from the early medieval period.
The astonishingly beautiful, illustrated Gospel, known as the Book of Kells was created between the 6th and 8th centuries.
The cemetery hill at Valsgärde, in use for five hundred years, provides an unparalleled insight into elite life and death in Sweden during the tail end of the Migration Period, through the Vendel Age, and into the Viking Age.
Today Jelling is a small town of less than 4000 people, however, it is considered to be the site of the the founding of modern Denmark.
Ogham in Old Irish, or Ogham (Oham) in modern Irish, is a writing system that utilizes lines in groups of one to five across a longer, central line, usually carved into stone.
The Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analogue computer and was able to track astronomical and astrological movements as well as the four year cycle of ancient Greek Games.
Though considered by some to be the Dark Ages, some aspects of the Early Medieval period produced some phenomenal works of art. Many such works of art made in metal were created in Ireland.
Possibly produced in the Frankish part of Europe, these swords have long been a mystery. Some have agreed that they represent a new technology of crucible steel. However, there are examples of them found that have been pattern-welded, a method which usually indicates a different form of metal production.
Extending between the Iberian Peninsula in the West, Central Europe and Italy in the East, Britain, Ireland and Jutland in the North, and Sardinia, Sicily, and the Balearic Islands in the South the ‘Bell-Beaker’ culture is the most widely distributed and coherent prehistoric ‘culture’ that has been identified in Europe.
The Pazyryk culture is thought to have been a purely nomadic culture of the Iron Age since it is only identified through burials and associated artefacts. No settlements have been linked to it. These burials are found in the Altay Mountains in Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia, and were placed in long barrows similar to the tomb mounds of the Scythian culture in modern-day Ukraine.
Prehistoric shellfish exploitation in the Chesapeake Bay This podcast is about prehistoric shell middens in the Chesapeake Bay region on the Atlantic coast of the United states. Archaeologists use the term midden to refer to trash deposits, and a shell midden is just the result of prehistoric shellfishing.
The Baltic has become a major focus for maritime archaeology over the last three decades with a huge variety of different types of wreck dating from the medieval period to the 20th century in close proximity to each other.
Carcassonne is more than just a board game and is also one of the most well known medieval fortified towns in Europe.
A fulacht fiadh, as it is called in Ireland, or burnt mound as it is known in the UK is a type of cooking pit which usually dates to the Bronze Age (2500-500BCE).
Located in the south-east of modern Zimbabwe near Lake Mutirikwe, the 7.2 hectare World Heritage Site of Great Zimbabwe was the capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe which existed between c.1220 and 1450 CE.
Initially uncovered by bedouin shepherds in the first half of the 20th century the Dead Sea Scrolls, also known as the Qumran Cave Scrolls, contain the second oldest dated fragments of texts which eventually formed the canon of the Hebrew Bible.
Bathing was not only one of the most common daily activities in Roman culture but was a highly communal activity that was raised to the level of high art through extensive ritual.
During the construction of a predecessor to the present Chelsea Bridge, over the River Thames, workers dredging the river bed found a large quantity of Roman and Celtic weapons amongst a significant number of skeletons.
Sometimes storms cause nothing but destruction but sometimes they reveal secrets of our past. This is the case of Skara Brae, a Neolithic settlement on the Island of Mainland, part of the Orkney archipelago, North of Scotland.
Melting ice in Northern Norway is revealing more about human activity than ever suspected.
A linear earthwork along the border of Wales and England, Offa’s Dyke is one of the largest surviving Saxon-era earthworks in Britain.
The Tower of London has an enduring place in the popular imagination as a place of torture and execution, but it is also a World Heritage Site, and fascinating example of evolving castle design through history.
The Swedish island of Helgö represents one of the earliest phases of urbanisation in Sweden.
Most famous for its richly adorned Anglo-Saxon ship burial, probably of King Rædwald, a powerful, early Christian, East Anglian King in the 6th to early 7th centuries, the site of Sutton Hoo has been of unique importance to archaeologists and historians trying to understand the post-roman period in Britain.
A 4th-century Roman glass cage cup, the Lycurgus cup is truly a unique artifact. Depending on lighting, you'll see something different each time you look at it.
Located on the northernmost tip of Newfoundland in Canada lies the only confirmed site of a Viking settlement in North America.
The Hochdorf Prince's grave site is a Celtic burial chamber dating from 530 BC and was adorned with massive riches.
Ireland's County Meath is home to Newgrange, a Neolithic mound with stone passageways and inner chambers.
The Battle of Visby was fought over 600 years ago on the island of Gotland. Today, it's an archaeological site that you can visit - and learn from.
A Bronze Age settlement in England, Must Farm is an extremely well-preserved settlement that has taught archaeologists a lot about that time and place.
Welcome to the Arch365 Podcast - 2018 Edition - Prepare for another year of awesome archaeology.
This is the final episode of 2017! It's been a long, difficult year but we did it! Thanks to all the people that helped make this happen. They're mentioned in the show. We're continuing this through 2018 with a new team of volunteers! Stay subscribed to get the new episodes. We're starting the numbering over at 1 with a numbering scheme of 18001. That's the year first, then, the episode number.
A Bronze Age site in the Republic of Macedonia, Kokino was discovered in just 2001, but, dates back to the 19th century BC.
Some of the best-preserved Roman ruins on the Mediterranean, Leptis Magna was founded in the 7th century BC and was always a hot spot for activity and war.
Still a thriving city in Lebanon, Baalbek has been inhabited for the last 8,000 to 9,000 years!
The Silk Road was an important trade route for many years. Suyab was an Asian city and important stop on that route.
Steeped in history and death, Necromanteion was a Greek temple devoted to Hades and Persephone.
Turin is a city rich in history, each square, church and opera house could be an Arch365 episode by itself.
Otrar was a city in what is today Kazakhstan. Its place in central Asia along the fabled Silk Road made it a literal crossroads of ancient history.
Nineveh was one of the greatest cities in the ancient world… for about fifty years before a coalition of rising powers in the ancient world allied together to raze it to the ground in 612 BC.
Lindos is an archaeological site on the east coast of the island of Rhodes. The city has seen its fair share of history dating from its founding in Classical times by the the same Dorian people mentioned in your high school english class (when you were assigned to read the “Odyssey”), to the Medieval period (when the Knights of St. John defended the island from the Ottomans).
The Nabataean capital city of Petra is an archaeological site in southern Jordan. The city is most famous for temples and tombs cut into the rock walls that surround the city.
The Sannai-Maruyama Site is a prehistoric Japanese settlement that dates from the Jomon Period (14,000-300 BC), first being settled in 2900 BC and being abandoned in 2300 BC (although the dates of its exact occupation do appear to be in dispute).
Zacpeten is a Mayan city located on a peninsula on the shores of Lake Salpeten in the Peten Department (which are the equivalent US states) of northern Guatemala. The city went through several cycles of habitation and abandonment over its active lifespan.
Shuqba Cave is the site of two of the most important finds in ancient Middle Eastern archaeology. This included the discovery of a previously unknown culture that inhabited the Eastern Mediterranean during the Epipaleolithic era (which is the end of the Ice Age, approximately 12,500-9500 BC), which was named the Natufian Culture (in honor of the nearby valley, Wadi an-Natuf).
The Pyramids of Argolis were a series of pyramid shaped structures located in Argolid, Greece. Of these, only two remain (one at Hellenikon and another at Ligourio).
The Temple mount is a hill that forms the eastern section of the Old City of Jerusalem, which (as its name suggests) is the original city of Jerusalem mentioned in countless ancient books and is now a .9km square neighborhood separated from modern Jerusalem by the old city walls.
Skellig Michael is the larger of two Skellig islands off the southwestern coast of Ireland. A Gaelic Christian Monastery was founded there sometime between the 6th and 8th centuries and remained in use until the 12th century.
Ur was an important Sumerian coastal city-state in ancient Mesopotamia. The Sumerians were the people who invented the first writing system that relied on symbols to create words, instead of the hieroglyphic, pictograms and pictures that had been used before. Mesopotamia was a historical region that spanned over much of the Middle East.
The Tunnel of Eupalinos (also called the Eupalinian aqueduct) is an aqueduct (3,399’ long) built to take water from a hidden spring through Mount Kastro to the capital city of Samos in the 6th century BC.
Machaquila was once a city of monuments. Now it stands as a monument to looters and the encroaching world around it.
If any city could tell enough tales for thousand and thousand of thousand and one night, Baghdad is definitely one.
Yeah - that Delphi. The Oracle of Delphi isn't the only thing that was there. Great architecture and many stories and myths are also associated with the site.
Darband Cave is a lower Paleolithic cave located in northern Iran. It contains the easiest evidence for prehistoric humans in that time.
Located in West Java, Indonesia, Batujaya is at least 30 structural mounds across a five square kilometer area that dates back to at least the fifth and sixth centuries.
The remains of Amphipolis, an Ancient Greek city that was later a Roman city, is famous for many things including battles between the Spartans and Athenians and as a place for Alexander the Great spent a great deal of time.
Likely built during the Eastern Han dynasty, AD 25 to 220, the Tomb is a fascinating cross-shaped structure with a complicated history.
Part of the Maya civilization, Copán was a capital city of the major Classic Period kingdom. It was occupied for more than 2,000 years!
Petroglyphs in Wisconsin? That's right. And they're fine examples of local animals of the time along with more abstract designs.
Thought to be the basis for the legend of Atlantis, Akrotiri was a real place that was destroyed by a volcanic eruption around 1627 BC.
Centered around one of the only unexcavated Hopewellian mounds on the East Coast, Indian Mound Cemetery is also home to several important politicians of the last few centuries.
Almost tossed in the trash, the Amarna Letters are actually clay tablets that paint a curious picture of Egyptian New Kingdom politics.
Found next to a river I the Pacific Northwest and embroiled in controversy for the next couple decades, Kennewick man answered some questions but generated more.
Dmanisi - located in Georgia, Southwest fo the capital of Tbilisi, contains some of the oldest hominid remains ever found in the area.
From former presidents to tourists, Gadsby's Tavern has been host to a number of characters, business, and stories.
Seven fired earthenware heads discovered in South Africa could have been used for ceremonial purposes or something else...
It's a prehistoric Native American site in Vermont that was first identified in 1972 and listed on the National Register in 1978. Winooski has a lot to say about the prehistoric past and right now there are more questions than answers.
It's got a museum and a long history - it's the Bedford Village in Pennsylvania and it was part of the Monongahela culture.
In 2016 Bears Ears was made a National Monument by President Obama. It has a long and extensive history and is important to a great many people.
A well preserved Chinookan Village that's over 700 years old, Sunken Village is an archaeological site located in Oregon.
Containing over 16,000 years of history, the Gault Site shows evidence of almost continuous human occupation.
This Archaic Period site located in Oklahoma shows evidence of early Native Americans in that part of the region via high-quality stone artifacts.
Located in Williamson County, the Coats-Hines Site is loaded with mastodon remains and evidence of the interaction between early Native Americans and these creatures.
With earth lodge sites and artifacts, the Mitchell Site was a very important prehistoric Indian village in South Dakota.
The site of an almost meaningless treaty, the Saluda Old Town site represents 5000 years of history for the Saluda people of South Carolina.
Today episode is a chat with public Archaeologist Dr. Lorna Richardson of umea university about the Public Archaeology Twitter Conference scheduled for 17th November 2017. Setting itself apart from standard academic conferences, #PATC is open to all and comments and questions are welcomed through the public platform. Speakers tweet their paper in around 15 tweets and the conference lasts from early morning to late evening. There are key notes held on the 16th November 2017 as well as a twitter wine reception for people to mingle on the hashtag.
A series of three sites, Pictograph Cave is a site in Montana with some fantastic rock art, and, the site of one of the first archaeological investigations in the state.
Earth Resistance is a non-invasive method that is used to map archaeological sites without destroying them. It can be used to find a number of subsurface features prior to, or instead of, excavation.
Famous for its hundreds of standing stones, Carnac is a French commune on the south coast of Brittany in northwestern France.
Magnetometry is a non-invasive method that is used to map archaeological sites without destroying them. It can be used to find a number of subsurface features prior to, or instead of, excavation.
Located in Finland, Astuvansalmi is a massive collection of sites with the most amazing being the rock paintings. The pictographs date back to at least 3000 BC.
Earth Resistance is a non-invasive method that is used to map archaeological sites without destroying them. It can be used to find a number of subsurface features prior to, or instead of, excavation.