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AnthroBiology Podcast Gaby Lapera
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The AnthroBiology Podcast sits down with biological anthropologists once or twice a month to learn about what they do and why it's rad. Want to know more about our evolutionary past? Or what your bones say about you? Maybe chimps are more your speed? If it's anthropology and it's about humans, we'll cover it.
Learn more at anthrobiology.com
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Dr. Caroline Goodson & Dr. Trent Trombley - Medieval Teeth, Part 2
Dr. Goodson (Cambridge University) and Dr. Trombley (Augustana University) join forces on the show to discuss their bioarchaeological-historical collaboration to understand the Medieval mouth. Learn about what
Books, articles, and selected people mentioned in this episode:
Medieval Mouths in Context: Biocultural and MultiScalar Considerations of the Mouth and the Case of Late-Medieval Villamagna, Italy Dr. Roberta Gilchrist, Medieval Life: Archaeology and the Life Course Dr. Virginia Burruss, Earthquakes and Gardens: Saint Hilarion’s Cyprus Dr. Karl Jacoby, The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire Dr. Roberta Gilchrist, University of Reading Dr. Shannon Novak, Syracuse University Dr. Lauren Hosek, University of Colorado - Boulder Dr. Stephen Brookfield, Discussion as a Way of Teaching Adrian Miller, Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue Jim Auchmutey, Smoke Lore: A Short History of Barbecue in America -
Dr. Trent Trombley - Medieval Teeth, Part 1
Dr. Trent Trombley of Augustana University joins the show to talk about his research at Villamagna, a medieval settlement outside of Rome. He uses macroscopic analysis of teeth along with a few other methods to understand life in the past.
Links mentioned in the show:
Dr. Trombley's ResearchGate profile Making Sense of Medieval Mouths: Investigating Sex Differences of Dental Pathological Lesions in a Late Medieval Italian Community Growing up at Villamagna: Sex, Gender, and Stress During Growth and Development in a Medieval Italian Community -
Dr. Clark Spencer Larsen - Using Bioarchaeology to Understand Health
Dr. Clark Spencer Larsen of Ohio State joins the show to discuss his history in the field, bioarchaeology, and how we can use biological anthropology to understand human health in the past.
Links mentioned in the show:
Dr. Larsen's faculty page The past 12,000 years of behavior, adaptation, population and evolution shaped who we are today (2023 PNAS article - opens as a website) Paleosyndemics: A bioarchaeological and biosocial approach to study infectious diseases in the past (2022 Centaurus article - PDF) Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton (2015 Cambridge University Press book - link to Alibris) Find links to articles, books, and pics at AnthroBiology.com. Find the show on Instagram and Twitter @AnthroBiology. Email the host at gaby.lapera@anthrobiology.com. -
Dr. Dan Benyshek - Placentophagy
Dr. Daniel Benyshek of UNLV joins the show to discuss plancentophagy. Check out his lab page for more info on placentophagy.
Note: There is a special addition at the end of this episode.
Find links to articles, books, and pics at AnthroBiology.com. Find the show on Instagram and Twitter @AnthroBiology. Email the host at gaby.lapera@anthrobiology.com. -
Dr. Jeremy DeSilva - Bipedalism
Dr. Jeremy DeSilva of Dartmouth joins the show to discuss bipedalism -- why anthropologists are obsessed with it and how it might have come to be.
Find links to articles, books, and pics at AnthroBiology.com. Find the show on Instagram and Twitter @AnthroBiology. Email the host at gaby.lapera@anthrobiology.com. -
Ms. Rhianna Drummond-Clarke - Chimpanzees + Bipedalism
Rhianna Drummond-Clarke, PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute (Dept. of Human Origins), joins the show to discuss her most recent article examining how environments affect chimp locomotion. She also chat about her time in the field.
See her article here: https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.add9752
Find links to articles, books, and pics at AnthroBiology.com. Find the show on Instagram and Twitter @AnthroBiology. Email the host at gaby.lapera@anthrobiology.com.
Customer Reviews
Anthropology brought to LIFE!
This is by far one of the greatest anthropology podcasts to date! As an Anthropology student with a forensic certificate is the best why to learn all subfields and peak interests!
Great podcast
Very informative, science based podcast.
Helpful, fun and compelling to listeners from many backgrounds
This is a podcast that should have existed from the start. The host is charming and knowledgeable. Just as importantly, she is aware that listeners may vary from rank amateurs to those who already have long and formal training in the discipline. A lot of academic podcasts fail on this front and so exclude the former or repel the latter. I teach a Paleoanthropology survey to high school students, and will incorporate this going forward. Not only for the reasons mentioned, but because the host humanizes the guests without condescending to the audience. This is welcome to those of us who’ve been reading in the field for decades and is essential for budding scientists.
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