Prehis/Storie‪s‬ Archaeology Podcast Network

Join Kim as she talks to Professor Chris Gosden of Oxford University about the historical and prehistorical links to Christmas books we all know and, perhaps, love. We take in an ambitious collection of four books from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, to John Masefield’s Box of Delights, Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising and Terry Pratchett’s The Hogfather.
Links

Chris Gosden's profile on the University of Oxford's website

Chris Gosden's book The History of Magic

A Christmas Carol on Project Gutenberg

The Box of Delights from publisher Egmont

The Dark is Rising from publisher Penguin

The Hogfather on Terry Pratchett Books

Stations of the Sun by Ronald Hutton on Oxford Scholarship Online

Herne the Hunter

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Twitter: @prehistpod, @kimbiddulph

Kim talks to stone tool specialist and experimental archaeologist Dr James Dilley about the film Iceman, a dramatic reconstruction of the last days of Ötzi the Iceman. We consider such important questions as “What was the social structure of Chalcolithic society?”, “Did they not have mittens?” and “Which 80s blockbuster was that actor in?”.
James - @AncientCraft https://www.ancientcraft.co.uk
Contact
Twitter: @prehistpod and @kimbiddulph

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Ghosts, magic, witches and sacrifice, just in time for Halloween! Kim talks to Sue Greaney and Joana Valdez-Tullet about folklore and prehistoric sites in Europe. Sue is working on. PhD about Neolithic sites in Britain and Ireland and is responsible for interpretation at Stonehenge for English Heritage but got into folklore due to a chance find in a junk shop. Joana works for Scotland’s Rock Art where she uses her doctoral research into rock art, and has uncovered lots of folk tales related to panels of rock art.
Links

Provenance of Sarsens used in Stonehenge

Joana’s book on Atlantic Rock Art

Rollright Stones

Contact

Twitter: @prehistpod


Kim Biddulph: @kimbiddulph

Sue Greaney: @SueGreaney

Joana Valdez-Tullet: @JoanaValdez

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I talk to Dr Rena Maguire about On Raven’s Wing by Morgan Llywelyn. This book is a retelling of part of the Ulster Cycle, especially the life of Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster, and the Tain Bo Cuailhge, the Cattle Raid of Cooley. It is mainly set at Emain Macha which is known to be Navan Fort bear Armagh. How much of the story reflects the Irish Iron Age?
Links

On Raven’s Wing by Morgan Llywelyn

Navan Research Group

Tain online

Emania Journal

The Togail

Kenneth Jackson

Mallory, James P. [ed.], Aspects of the Táin, Belfast: December, 1992. Contact Navan Fort, as their shop may still have copies

Contact

Twitter: @prehistpod


Guest Twitter: @justrena

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Kim talks to Erin Kavanagh, a poet and geomythologist based in Wales about the old Welsh “Book of Taliesin”, especially the recent translation into English by Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan Williams. How much can we learn about the post-Roman period of Britain from the literature of the time?
Links
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/274601/the-book-of-taliesin/9780141396934
Contact

Twitter: @prehistpod


Twitter: @geomythkavanagh


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It’s been two years since we published the last episode, and it’s been ten years since Michelle Paver published the last of her Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series of Mesolithic set books that had started with Wolf Brother. But we’re both back! We kicked off this podcast with Wolf Brother back in 2015 and now I get to talk to the author as she publishes a new book in the series, Viper’s Daughter, that sees Renn, Torak and Wolf journey to the far north and encounter new tribes, new dangers and the last surviving mammoths.
Links

Wrangel’s Island Mammoths

PreHistories Episode 2: Wolf Brother

Buy Viper’s Daughter

Michelle Paver on Twitter

Michelle’s Website: https://wolfbrother.com/


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Twitter: @prehistpod

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