Landscapes: Drainage, Plants and Palaces
Landscapes: Drainage, Plants and Palaces
We're back! And this month we start by taking a tour of the terribly glamorous ditches in East Anglia. Yes, the whole la... Read more
16 Oct 2011
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32mins
Annual Round-Up of Archaeology
Annual Round-Up of Archaeology
This month we return to some of the moist enjoyable archaeological interviews recorded this year. There's everything fr... Read more
14 Jul 2011
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58mins
Bayesian Prehistory, Surface Metals and Sea Defenses
Bayesian Prehistory, Surface Metals and Sea Defenses
This month: how a neat piece of statistical analysis has led to the construction of a prehistoric history; how satellit... Read more
16 Jun 2011
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34mins
Detailed Science of Dating, Data and Ceramics
Detailed Science of Dating, Data and Ceramics
This month: the most recent Neanderthals in the Caucasus, the science of ceramic petrology, the truth about 'The Anthrop... Read more
16 May 2011
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35mins
Dam Busting, Ancient Archaeologists and Iron Age Fort Raids
Dam Busting, Ancient Archaeologists and Iron Age Fort Raids
Researchers re-create the experiments carried out by Barnes Wallis on the bouncing bomb; we discuss the Texan pre-Clovis... Read more
16 Apr 2011
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28mins
Warrior Art, Fire and Throwing Spears
Warrior Art, Fire and Throwing Spears
This month: Aegean warriors in art; the most genetically diverse people in the world; prehistoric Californian seafarers;... Read more
17 Mar 2011
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31mins
Egyptian Looting, Behavioural Variability and Pollen
Egyptian Looting, Behavioural Variability and Pollen
This month: current events in Egypt affecting ancient artefacts; Britons fashioning cups from skulls; games played in th... Read more
17 Feb 2011
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29mins
First Farmer DNA, Crystals and Chessmen
First Farmer DNA, Crystals and Chessmen
This month's divested archaeology consists of the mitochondrial DNA of Europe's first farmers; how to identify plaster u... Read more
17 Jan 2011
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34mins
Roman bodies, site survival and collapse
Roman bodies, site survival and collapse
This month: why a Roman horse became a donkey; how part of Pompeii recently collapsed; how a Roman village survived unde... Read more
17 Nov 2010
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30mins
Hard-to-Reach Heritage: Israel and Peru
Hard-to-Reach Heritage: Israel and Peru
We make our way to some of the least accessible bits of heritage this month: Naked Scientist Laura Soul treks to Machu P... Read more
16 Oct 2010
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29mins