Archaeology Books for Fun

Florida Public Archaeology Network - North Central
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Archaeology Books for Fun is a twice-monthly podcast and book club where archaeologists Barbara and Tristan dig into books that aren't drier than dirt. Drawing on over 40 years of combined experience, they explore ancient civilizations, archaeological mysteries, "lost" cities, and popular myths; from the illicit artifact trade to ancient aliens and Atlantis, high-tech LiDAR discoveries to the occasional murder mystery. A good fit for history, science, and true crime fans. Also great book club material. Winner of the 2024 Tallahassee Trust for Historic Preservation Education Award.

  1. 4d ago

    We Want to Go to Goblin Hill! | Spooky Archaeology, 1 of 4 | Bigfoot, King Arthur, & Ley Lines

    Why did the Anglo-Saxons look at ancient monuments and name them Elf Burrow and Goblin Hill? And why does that make us want to visit? In this episode of Archaeology Books for Fun, archaeologists Barbara and Tristan begin Spooky Archaeology: Myth and the Science of the Past by Jeb J. Card, a surprisingly funny book about how folklore, the occult, and archaeology have been tangled together from the start. They dig into where Bigfoot really came from, the monks who "found" King Arthur's grave at Glastonbury, and how ley lines went from drawing lines on a map to tracking UFOs. A must-listen for anyone curious about folklore, pseudoarchaeology, and how myths about the past get made. WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE: Goblin Hill and Elf Burrow: how people mythologize ancient sites they no longer have a connection to, and how those myths encourage looting.Folklore's original fairies and elves, not Tolkien's but the ones who steal children, and the burial-mound treasure behind Beowulf's dragon.Where Bigfoot came from: roots in Pacific Northwest Native traditions, and how far today's "I Believe" t-shirt version has drifted from them.King Arthur's grave at Glastonbury Abbey, "discovered" after a fire, and why the Holy Grail legend is closer to 900 years old than 2,000.Frederick Bligh Bond, who rebuilt Glastonbury Abbey with automatic writing, dug where a dowsing rod pointed, and joined the Ghost Club.Ley lines, Stonehenge, Avebury, and the druids: what these ideas actually started as, and how they got wrapped in myth.A what-archaeologists-actually-think moment: a reported one in eight archaeology instructors believed in dowsing in the 1980s, which is harder to excuse than the public believing in Atlantis.A four-year anniversary callback: while Bligh Bond was dowsing for gold, Basil Brown was excavating Sutton Hoo about 200 miles away, the subject of our very first book, The Dig.Florida and regional connection: how public archaeologists can answer questions about myths and folklore without dismissing the people asking. ABOUT THE BOOK: Spooky Archaeology: Myth and the Science of the Past by Jeb J. Card (University of New Mexico Press). Card is an archaeologist who teaches anthropology at Miami University in Ohio, and his book traces how archaeology has contributed to legends about ghosts, psychics, curses, and the occult since the discipline began, with a much drier sense of humor than you'd expect. RESOURCES & LINKS: Our new website: https://podcast.page/websites/archaeology-books-for-fun/Sign up for the free newsletter: https://archaeologybooksforfun.substack.com/subscribe We have received two signed copies of Where the Moon Stands Still from author James W. Graham, so subscribe to the newsletter to be in the raffle! Episode 1 of the Frauds, Myths and Mysteries series (Spotify): https://bit.ly/4d8GtcgThe first episode of the podcast covering The Dig (Spotify): https://bit.ly/46SpJm4 Support the show: https://www.fpan.us/give/ COMING UP NEXT: On October 15, we're reading chapters 4 and 5 of Spooky Archaeology. And would you buy dowsing rods at the gift shop? Tell us in the comments. #archaeologybooksforfun #SpookyArchaeology #Folklore

    We Want to Go to Goblin Hill! | Spooky Archaeology, 1 of 4 | Bigfoot, King Arthur, & Ley Lines

  2. Sep 15

    They Had to Trespass to See the Moon Rise | Where the Moon Stands Still, Part 3 | Newark Earthworks, UNESCO World Heritage, & NAGPRA

    Why did a hundred people have to sneak onto a golf course to watch the moon rise over a two-thousand-year-old observatory? In this series finale of Archaeology Books for Fun, archaeologists Barbara and Tristan close out Where the Moon Stands Still: Revealing the Cosmic Genius of Ohio's Indigenous Earthworks by James W. Graham with the long fight over who gets to access the Newark Earthworks. This is a fight that ran through a private country club's lease, an arrest, the Ohio Supreme Court, and finally UNESCO World Heritage listing. Along the way, Bob and Ray find still more alignments, including sightlines connecting earthworks more than fifty miles apart. A must-listen for anyone interested in the Newark Earthworks, Indigenous heritage preservation, and what it takes to protect an ancient site. WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE: Chapters 11–14: Bob and Ray find the last alignments, including sightlines taken from hills across two valleys rather than from inside the earthwork itself.Lunar sightlines connect Newark to other earthworks more than 50 miles away, suggesting the whole complex was conceived together rather than added to over time.A Monte Carlo analysis puts the odds of one site's alignments being random at about a million to one, and after decades of struggling for recognition, Bob and Ray land a 2025 paper in the Journal of Skyscape Archaeology.A what-archaeologists-actually-think moment: popular acceptance was never the goal, since ancient aliens is popular too. Bob and Ray wanted their findings tested by other professionals.The access fight: a private golf club leases the land over the earthworks and allows four grudging public-access days a year, always on the dates hardest to make.A Cherokee woman is arrested because she wanted to touch the ground while she prayed. The Friends of the Mounds raise her bail, much of it donated in Sacagawea dollars.The case reaches the Ohio Supreme Court, where the judge rules you can't claim to operate for the public good when you're a private club.NAGPRA in practice: human remains come off museum display, and one Presbyterian congregation has voluntarily protected the burial mound in its churchyard for over a century.Florida connection: development pressure on sites, including data centers, and why geophysical survey still isn't standard in development review. ABOUT THE BOOK: Where the Moon Stands Still: Revealing the Cosmic Genius of Ohio's Indigenous Earthworks by James W. Graham, now formally released. Graham is a writer with a decades-long career in journalism, government, and public affairs, and the author of Victura: The Kennedys, a Sailboat, and the Sea. Barbara and Tristan both recommend it without reservation, one of the few books they've covered that they'd hand to anyone, regardless of background. RESOURCES & LINKS: Catch up on Where the Moon Stands Still series: https://bit.ly/3KVndn2Our Frauds, Myths and Mysteries series, the deeper dive on why pseudoarchaeology claims don't hold up: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/archaeologybooksforfun/episodes/Frauds--Myths--and-Mysteries-Part-1-of-3-e2kbs15Where the Moon Stands Still at Ohio State University Press: https://bit.ly/3UPWSfqHopewell Ceremonial Earthworks (UNESCO World Heritage): https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1689/____ Support the show: https://www.fpan.us/give/ COMING UP NEXT: October 1 marks our four-year anniversary, and we're starting Spooky Archaeology: Myth and the Science of the Past by Jeb J. Card — just in time for spooky season. We've also got some big changes coming to the show, so follow along so you don't miss it. ____ #archaeologybooksforfun #WhereTheMoonStandsStill #WorldHeritage

    They Had to Trespass to See the Moon Rise | Where the Moon Stands Still, Part 3 | Newark Earthworks, UNESCO World Heritage, & NAGPRA

  3. Sep 1

    The Moon Alignment No One Wanted to Believe | Where the Moon Stands Still, Part 2 | Newark Earthworks, Archaeoastronomy & Lunar Standstill

    What if a two-thousand-year-old earthwork in Ohio tracked the moon more precisely than anyone thought possible, and nobody believed it? In this episode of Archaeology Books for Fun, archaeologists Barbara and Tristan continue Where the Moon Stands Still: Revealing the Cosmic Genius of Ohio's Indigenous Earthworks by James W. Graham, as a philosopher and an astronomer discover that the Newark Earthworks don't line up with the sun at all, they line up with the moon, across an 18.6-year cycle, to within less than a degree. Then they spend years struggling to get anyone in archaeology to take it seriously. A must-listen for anyone interested in the Newark Earthworks, archaeoastronomy, Hopewell culture, and how scientific ideas actually win acceptance. WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE: Chapters 7–10: how Bob and Ray found that the Newark Earthworks align not to the sun but to the moon at multiple points across its 18.6-year cycle, every alignment accurate to less than a degree, and what a "lunar standstill" actually isHopewell life beyond the alignments: obsidian sourced to the Rocky Mountains with no trade-route artifacts in between (suggesting pilgrimage rather than trade), communal burial practices that brought disparate peoples together, and the atlatl, an ancient hunting tool, as the same idea as a tennis-ball thrower you use with your dogA what-archaeologists-actually-think moment: why their paper got rejected (the "you don't dig, so it isn't archaeology" problem the hosts still run into today) plus the reminder that skepticism itself is healthy science, and that big perspective shifts often come from outsiders or the very youngNative voices and NAGPRA: a chapter rich with descendant perspectives, including how commingled ancestors create a sense of shared community, the moon as a feminine symbol and women's roles in Hopewell society, and Barbara's clarification that most archaeologists today are strong supporters of NAGPRAFlorida & regional connection: University of Florida archaeologist Patricia Essenpreis and her alignment work at Fort Ancient, Tristan's field school at the Hopeton Earthworks (and the alfalfa farmer who ran over their survey stakes), and a shout-out to Stingray Tom's episode on Florida's mounds and middens ABOUT THE BOOK: Where the Moon Stands Still: Revealing the Cosmic Genius of Ohio's Indigenous Earthworks by James W. Graham. Graham is a writer with a decades-long career in journalism, government, and public affairs, and the author of Victura: The Kennedys, a Sailboat, and the Sea. He recounts Ray Hively and Robert Horn's investigation of the earthworks while refuting exploitative mythical interpretations and tracing the long history of how the U.S. has treated Indigenous people, and of tribes' efforts to regain authority over their stories, ancestors, and places. Release date September 2nd! RESOURCES & LINKS: Part 1 of our Where the Moon Stands Still series: https://bit.ly/3KVndn2Stingray Tom, "Of Mounds and Middens: Day Trip to Indigenous Sites on Florida's West Coast":https://youtu.be/KD-Y-N5kNN4?si=1V2w3PvNgJjd3vFQWhere the Moon Stands Still at Ohio State University Press: https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814259917.htmlSupport the show: https://www.fpan.us/give/ COMING UP NEXT: Part 3, our final episode on this book. #archaeologybooksforfun #WhereTheMoonStandsStill #Archaeoastronomy

    The Moon Alignment No One Wanted to Believe | Where the Moon Stands Still, Part 2 | Newark Earthworks, Archaeoastronomy & Lunar Standstill

  4. Aug 15

    Two Skeptics Tested an Ohio Earthwork to Debunk Stonehenge | Where the Moon Stands Still, Part 1 | Newark Earthworks, Archaeoastronomy & Hopewell

    Could a two-thousand-year-old earthwork in Ohio really be built to follow the moon and what happens when two skeptics set out to prove it couldn't? In this episode of Archaeology Books for Fun, archaeologists Barbara and Tristan begin a brand-new book, "Where the Moon Stands Still: Revealing the Cosmic Genius of Ohio's Indigenous Earthworks" by James W. Graham, following a philosopher and an astronomer who tested the massive Newark Earthworks expecting to expose archaeoastronomy as wishful thinking. Along the way they marvel at how Indigenous builders engineered these enormous earthworks entirely by hand, unpack the Newark "Holy Stones" hoax, and sit with the harder history these places are bound up in. A must-listen for anyone interested in the Newark Earthworks, Hopewell culture, and ancient astronomy. WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE: ‣ The book's opening stretch (chapters 1–6): the Newark Earthworks - a half-mile-long octagon-and-circle complex of roughly 7 million cubic feet, engineered and carried into place by hand, without wheelbarrows, metal tools, or beasts of burden; and how a philosopher (Bob) and an astronomer (Ray) came to investigate it ‣ Archaeoastronomy and healthy skepticism: the "you can draw an alignment through anything if you have enough points" problem, why skepticism is how science actually works, and the shift toward more respectful, accurate language (mounds → earthworks, prehistoric → pre-contact) ‣ A what-archaeologists-actually-think moment: the Newark "Holy Stones" hoax and the "Lost Tribes of Israel" myth - a forgery tangled up in the harmful, complicated history of denying that Native peoples built these sites (with a callback to the hosts' Frauds, Myths and Mysteries series) ‣ Hard history, handled with care: the book gives real space to the Indian boarding schools, the mid-twentieth-century Native adoption programs, and the remarkable life of Zitkála-Šá (Gertrude Simmons). The hosts credit the author for not glossing over this, and connect it to why consultation laws like Section 106 exist - and why current efforts to weaken that consultation concern them ‣ Florida & regional connection: how earthworks and mounds get reused and misused, from the golf course sitting on the Newark site to a shell mound in Jupiter, Florida topped by a lighthouse keeper's house ABOUT THE BOOK: "Where the Moon Stands Still: Revealing the Cosmic Genius of Ohio's Indigenous Earthworks" by James W. Graham. Graham is a writer with a decades-long career in journalism, government, and public affairs, and the author of Victura: The Kennedys, a Sailboat, and the Sea. He isn't an archaeologist; instead, he recounts Ray Hively and Robert Horn's investigation of the earthworks while refuting exploitative mythical interpretations and tracing the history of how the U.S. treated Indigenous people and of tribes' long quest to regain authority over their stories, ancestors, and places. RESOURCES & LINKS: Our Frauds, Myths and Mysteries series (the deeper dive on the Newark hoax and "lost tribe" myths) - https://youtu.be/rRDH0z7HN-4 Where the Moon Stands Still at Ohio State University Press: https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814259917.html The Newark Earthworks / Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks (UNESCO World Heritage) - https://www.ohiohistory.org/visit/browse-historical-sites/newark-earthworks/ Society for American Archaeology Statement on Section 106 - https://saa.org/Member/SAAMember/Media-Room/News/SAA-Issues-Statement-On-ACHP-Draft-Changes-To-Section-106-Regulations.aspx ___ Support the show: https://www.fpan.us/give/ COMING UP NEXT: Part 2, where we read chapters 7–10. ___ #archaeologybooksforfun #WhereTheMoonStandsStill #NewarkEarthworks

    Two Skeptics Tested an Ohio Earthwork to Debunk Stonehenge | Where the Moon Stands Still, Part 1 | Newark Earthworks, Archaeoastronomy & Hopewell

  5. Aug 1

    Volunteers Helped Uncover 50 New Nazca Lines | Archaeology from Space, Part 5 | Looting, the Antiquities Black Market, Satellites, & Citizen Science

    How did online volunteers help uncover 50 previously unrecorded Nazca lines? In this series finale of Archaeology Books for Fun, archaeologists Barbara and Tristan close out Archaeology from Space by Sarah Parcak with its most hopeful idea: that anyone can join the search. Through crowdsourcing projects like her own GlobalXplorer°, volunteers scanning satellite imagery helped record 14,000 new sites in Peru, including 50 Nazca lines nobody had documented before. The finale also turns to the darker side of the field, from satellite-tracked looting in Egypt to the collectors who quietly drive the antiquities black market. A must-listen for anyone curious about the Nazca lines, satellite archaeology, and how the public can help discover and protect the past. WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE: The series finale (chapters 10–12): the profession's challenges around diversity and access, satellite-tracked looting, and the book's closing argument that "space archaeology" can be for everyone Citizen science and crowdsourcing: how projects like Galaxy Zoo/Zooniverse and Parcak's GlobalXplorer° turn thousands of volunteers loose on scientific data A what-archaeologists-actually-think moment: why the collectors who create the demand, not the local diggers who take the risks, are the real drivers of looting, plus the Hobby Lobby / Museum of the Bible case where smuggled artifacts were mislabeled as "roof tiles" Florida connection: FPAN's Heritage Monitoring Scouts, a real citizen-science program where trained volunteers document and monitor archaeological sites threatened by hurricanes and erosion ABOUT THE BOOK: Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past by Dr. Sarah Parcak. Parcak is a pioneer of satellite archaeology who wrote the first textbook on the subject, a National Geographic Explorer, and a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the 2016 TED Prize winner and founder of GlobalXplorer°, a citizen-science platform that invited anyone to help spot potential archaeological sites in satellite imagery. RESOURCES & LINKS: Part 1 of our Archaeology from Space series: "Space Archaeology Found 18,000 Hidden Sites" - https://youtu.be/-0QkJZfJBf4 Zooniverse: the citizen-science hub that grew out of Galaxy Zoo - https://www.zooniverse.org Eyewire: a citizen science game that we... must... not... play right now - https://eyewire.org/explore FPAN Heritage Monitoring Scouts: help document and monitor Florida sites - https://www.fpan.us/training-courses/hms-florida/ Support the show: https://www.fpan.us/give/ Coming up next: We're starting Where the Moon Stands Still: Revealing the Cosmic Genius of Ohio's Indigenous Earthworks by James W. Graham - an advance copy the author sent us ahead of its release. We'll cover the first six chapters, and it keeps our accidental space streak alive: it's all about how the Hopewell earthworks align with the cycles of the moon. New episode drops on the 15th. #ArchaeologyBooksforFun #ArchaeologyfromSpace #NazcaLines podscan_uk5rD3LMOJPrMcD3bUQXyJLLatTOt1eG

    Volunteers Helped Uncover 50 New Nazca Lines | Archaeology from Space, Part 5 | Looting, the Antiquities Black Market, Satellites, & Citizen Science

  6. Jul 15

    Will Robots Take Over Archaeology? | Archaeology from Space (Part 4 of 5)

    Will robots and drones replace archaeologists? In this episode of Archaeology Books for Fun, archaeologists Barbara and Tristan dig into "Archaeology from Space" by Sarah Parcak and her vision of the field's high-tech future, from "dig bots" and machine learning to thermal imaging and portable chemical scanners. They also follow her satellite hunt for a lost Egyptian capital, where space-shuttle elevation data revealed a forgotten channel of the Nile before rampant looting shut the dig down. A must-listen for anyone curious about the future of archaeology, remote-sensing technology, and ancient Egypt. WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE: ‣ The future of archaeology (chapter 9): camera drones and "dig bots," machine learning, thermal infrared imaging, and portable X-ray fluorescence, kicked off with a sci-fi story that ends with an archaeologist applying to dig in outer space. ‣ The satellite find (chapter 8): using space-shuttle elevation data to reveal a lost, unrecorded channel of the Nile while searching for an Egyptian Middle Kingdom capital, and how deep core sampling revealed a site 5 meters (16 feet) under the surface. ‣ A what-archaeologists-actually-think moments: why perfect 3D-printed replicas won't end looting, why "instant" robotic DNA analysis would complicate descendant and tribal consultation, and the overlooked Quftis, Egypt's expert excavators long labeled "foremen" rather than archaeologists. ‣ Florida connection: Florida fieldwork as a yardstick, meter-deep shovel testing versus Egypt's deep alluvial sediment, and teams from the recent the First Lego League robotics challenge trying to protect us from the heat, a real threat for archaeologists. ABOUT THE BOOK: "Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past" by Dr. Sarah Parcak. Parcak is a pioneer of satellite archaeology who wrote the first textbook on the subject, a National Geographic Explorer, and a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the 2016 TED Prize winner and founder of GlobalXplorer°, a citizen-science platform that invites anyone to help spot potential archaeological sites in satellite imagery. RESOURCES & LINKS: Part 1 of our "Archaeology from Space" series: "Space Archaeology Found 18,000 Hidden Sites" - https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/VUoNwGddM4b Part 1 of our "Four Lost Cities" series which elaborates on the ideas of chapter 8 in this episode: "Çatalhöyük" - https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/vAMp55sdM4b Our recent interview with the "Continuing Studies Podcast": "Beyond the Interview: Using a Book Club Podcast to Bring Academic Expertise to the Public" - https://bit.ly/44wJs9D The Vesuvius Challenge - the effort to read charred, rolled scrolls that Tristan references from recent news - https://bit.ly/4hdH6nu Support the show: https://www.fpan.us/give/ #archaeologybooksforfun #ArchaeologyFromSpace #FutureOfArchaeology

    Will Robots Take Over Archaeology? | Archaeology from Space (Part 4 of 5)

  7. Jul 1

    Satellites Mapped an Entire Buried Egyptian City | Archaeology from Space (Part 3 of 5)

    What does an entire buried city look like from space? In this episode of Archaeology Books for Fun, archaeologists Barbara and Tristan dig into "Archaeology from Space" by Sarah Parcak and the chapter where satellite imagery uncovers the buried Egyptian city of Tanis (the real city Indiana Jones races to find in Raiders of the Lost Ark) revealing its streets, suburbs, and houses from orbit. They get into how fancy techniques, moisture, and time of year expose buried mud-brick architecture, why the book's globe-trotting "Grand Tour" chapter struggles without a core idea to hold it together, and a closing chapter that sets the satellites aside for a historical-fiction portrait of one woman's life as drought and famine bring down Egypt's Old Kingdom. A must-listen for anyone curious about satellite archaeology, remote sensing, and ancient Egypt. WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE: How satellite imagery mapped the entire buried city of Tanis in "Digging in the Wrong Place" (chapter 5), the chapter the hosts thought finally delivered the "space" the book promised. The technique behind it: combining multispectral and high-resolution satellite imagery (down to 0.3 m) to detect buried mud-brick architecture, and how moisture, season, and time of day change what the satellites can actually see, plus why ground-truthing still matters. A what-archaeologists-actually-think moment: Barbara and Tristan diagnose why the book struggles, it has a subject (satellite archaeology) but no core idea or organizing theme to guide it Florida connection: a visiting underwater archaeologist at the University of West Florida (UWF) demonstrating how photogrammetry turns shipwreck photos into 3D models in hours, work that used to take weeks of hand-drawing ABOUT THE BOOK: "Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past" by Dr. Sarah Parcak. Parcak is a pioneer of satellite archaeology who wrote the first textbook on the subject, a National Geographic Explorer, and a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the 2016 TED Prize winner and founder of GlobalXplorer, a community-science platform that invites anyone to help spot potential archaeological sites in satellite imagery. RESOURCES & LINKS: Part 1 of our Archaeology from Space series: "Space Archaeology Found 18,000 Hidden Sites" - https://youtu.be/-0QkJZfJBf4 Part 2: "Hunting Vikings with Satellites" - https://youtu.be/IF9nxTp4TVk The real Tanis (San el-Hagar) and the treasures of Psusennes I - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanis Support the show: https://www.fpan.us/give/ #archaeologybooksforfun #ArchaeologyFromSpace #AncientEgypt

    Satellites Mapped an Entire Buried Egyptian City | Archaeology from Space (Part 3 of 5)

  8. Jun 15

    Hunting Vikings with Satellites | Archaeology from Space (Part 2 of 5)

    Can satellites really find lost Viking settlements? In this episode of Archaeology Books for Fun, archaeologists Barbara and Tristan dig into "Archaeology from Space" by Sarah Parcak, following her satellite search for Norse sites along the coast of North America and Newfoundland. They unpack how buried turf longhouses reveal themselves from orbit through subtle changes in vegetation, why North American archaeology is worlds apart from Egyptology, and how a dig that "fails" can still be a scientific win. A must-listen for anyone curious about space archaeology, satellite remote sensing, and the Norse exploration of the Americas. WHAT WE COVER IN THIS EPISODE: - Hunting lost Norse (Viking) settlements in Newfoundland and along the North American coast with satellite imagery and remote sensing, and why real archaeology is about everyday life, not gold or "lost cities" - How buried turf longhouses and their outbuildings appear from space as faint vegetation and soil marks, plus pareidolia: the trap of "seeing" structures that aren't there ("a needle in a haystack made of needles") - A what-archaeologists-actually-think moment: why a dig with no blockbuster find still counts as science, testing the method and gathering negative data is real progress (with a clarification that the book was not suggesting Vikings were vegetarians) - Regional connection: Barbara and Tristan weighing the book's claims about fieldwork hardship against the reality of North American and Florida field conditions ABOUT THE BOOK: "Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past" by Dr. Sarah Parcak. Parcak is a pioneer of satellite archaeology who wrote the first textbook on the subject, a National Geographic Explorer, and a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the 2016 TED Prize winner and founder of GlobalXplorer°, a citizen-science platform that invites anyone to help spot potential archaeological sites in satellite imagery. RESOURCES & LINKS: - Part 1 of our Archaeology from Space series: "Space Archaeology Found 18,000 Hidden Sites" - https://youtu.be/-0QkJZfJBf4 - L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site (Parks Canada) - the first known Viking site in North America: https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nl/meadows - Support the show: https://www.fpan.us/give/ #archaeologybooksforfun #ArchaeologyFromSpace #Vikings

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Archaeology Books for Fun is a twice-monthly podcast and book club where archaeologists Barbara and Tristan dig into books that aren't drier than dirt. Drawing on over 40 years of combined experience, they explore ancient civilizations, archaeological mysteries, "lost" cities, and popular myths; from the illicit artifact trade to ancient aliens and Atlantis, high-tech LiDAR discoveries to the occasional murder mystery. A good fit for history, science, and true crime fans. Also great book club material. Winner of the 2024 Tallahassee Trust for Historic Preservation Education Award.

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    Florida Public Archaeology Network - North Central
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    2022 - 2026
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