Episodes

  • Landscapes: Drainage, Plants and Palaces

    Landscapes: Drainage, Plants and Palaces
    Oct 16 2011
    We're back! And this month we start by taking a tour of the terribly glamorous ditches in East Anglia. Yes, the whole landscape is one giant piece of drainage archaeology! Plus, we talk about a Roman gladiatorial school, an Iron Age road, Australopithecus sediba and Acheulian tools. And in Backyard Archaeology Tom Birch hops over to Andalucia, where he and his mic just happen to find a rather large palace... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    32 mins
  • Annual Round-Up of Archaeology

    Annual Round-Up of Archaeology
    Jul 14 2011
    This month we return to some of the moist enjoyable archaeological interviews recorded this year. There's everything from alien donkeys, to Pompeiian poo, speared boxes and not-so-recent neanderthals! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    59 mins
  • Bayesian Prehistory, Surface Metals and Sea Defenses

    Bayesian Prehistory, Surface Metals and Sea Defenses
    Jun 16 2011
    This month: how a neat piece of statistical analysis has led to the construction of a prehistoric history; how satellites have revealed some hidden Egyptian pyramids; how autism could have been selected for amongst early humans; and how metals collected from the surface of the Greek island of Kythira can yield information about the people who forged them. Plus, in Backyard Archaeology, Tom takes us to the sea to explore several rather artistic lumps of concrete. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    34 mins
  • Detailed Science of Dating, Data and Ceramics

    Detailed Science of Dating, Data and Ceramics
    May 16 2011
    This month: the most recent Neanderthals in the Caucasus, the science of ceramic petrology, the truth about 'The Anthropocene' and Syrian hunting traps. Plus, in Backyard Archaeology we explore the uses of the National Monument and Historical Environment Records. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    35 mins
  • Dam Busting, Ancient Archaeologists and Iron Age Fort Raids

    Dam Busting, Ancient Archaeologists and Iron Age Fort Raids
    Apr 16 2011
    Researchers re-create the experiments carried out by Barnes Wallis on the bouncing bomb; we discuss the Texan pre-Clovis finds; the Nichoria bone earns its place at multiple points in history and we explore the massacre at Fin Cop hill fort. Plus, in Backyard Archaeology: how to go about doing a bit of zooarchaeology! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    29 mins
  • Warrior Art, Fire and Throwing Spears

    Warrior Art, Fire and Throwing Spears
    Mar 17 2011
    This month: Aegean warriors in art; the most genetically diverse people in the world; prehistoric Californian seafarers; Neanderthals building fires; and atlatls! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    32 mins
  • Egyptian Looting, Behavioural Variability and Pollen

    Egyptian Looting, Behavioural Variability and Pollen
    Feb 17 2011
    This month: current events in Egypt affecting ancient artefacts; Britons fashioning cups from skulls; games played in the Indus; and when humans behaved like humans. Plus, in Backyard Archaeology Tom Birch goes to Paul's place... to look at pollen. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    30 mins
  • First Farmer DNA, Crystals and Chessmen

    First Farmer DNA, Crystals and Chessmen
    Jan 17 2011
    This month's divested archaeology consists of the mitochondrial DNA of Europe's first farmers; how to identify plaster using infrared light; who the Denisovans were; what to expect from twelfth century chessmen and why the Arabo-Persian gulf is so important. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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    35 mins