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In this week's episode of PillarTalk, Will, Joe and Lewis are going back to one of the first episodes to do a part two of the real monsters behind mythology. Joe takes a look at the mysterious Wendigo of North America, Will discusses the Abarimon with some of the possible explanations for their appearances in history and Lewis takes a look at the Buddhist origins of the infamous Yeti or the Abominable Snowman.

In this episode of PillarTalk we take a look back at this years podcast episodes, the climate of 2020, some ancient festivals and our hopes for 2021. Thanks to everyone who has listened in 2020, here's to many more!



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In this week’s episode we are discussing race and diversity within the discipline of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology, the challenges people of colour face within this discipline and ways we as a department can overcome these obstacles. In the episode we are joined by CAHAE Society members Dan and Tahira, fellow UoM lecturers Dr Hannah Cobb & Dr Roberta Mazza and Tanya from Teach Black Studies UoM. Here the CAHAE society we feel very passionately about making our discipline as inclusive and diverse as possible, we hope in the future we can continue to make progress and change in the wider discipline as a whole.

Here are some really important links related to the content in today’s episode:

Follow @nevertaughtinschool for Afro-Caribbean history & culture. To help @teachblackstudiesuom campaign, make sure to:

1. Follow, like & share their socials

2. Sign their change.org petition

3. Email @officialuom senior leadership

4. Donate to their campaign if you can

Society of Black Archaeologists (including the “Archaeology in the time of BLM” talk I mention) https://www.societyofblackarchaeologists.com/

Society of Black Archaeologists resource list https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ba9378ebfba3e7b319e2ce6/t/5f2f05c509e14e53cb898607/1596917190138/Compilation+of+Resources+SBA+2020.pdf

Intersectional GLAM privilege quiz https://intersectionalglam.org/privilege-quiz/

CIfA 10 steps to diversify your workplace https://www.archaeologists.net/news/10-steps-diversify-your-workplace-1575640689

A handy bibliography of readings on archaeology and race can be found here https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766567/obo-9780199766567-0239.xml

For a summary of all the statistics on the lack of diversity in archaeology see Chapter 6 in Cobb, H., and Croucher, K. 2020. Assembling Archaeology: Teaching, Practice and Research. Oxford: Oxford University

Franklin, M. (2001). A Black feminist-inspired archaeology? Journal of Social Archaeology, 1(1), 108–125. https://doi.org/10.1177/146960530100100108

Maria Franklin & Nedra Lee (2020) African American descendants, community outreach, and the Ransom and Sarah Williams Farmstead Project, Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage, 7:2, 135-148, DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2020.1718408

Jones, S. 1997. The Archaeology of Ethnicity : Constructing Identities in the Past and Present . London; Routledge.

A google doc full of anti-racism resources (not archaeology or heritage specific, but useful none the less) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YWgZ__fSUqSto20lArFjWl9VFT5YOIu7ZE8JxYQUMao/edit

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*Viewer Warning* - Discussion of death + burial - Images of human remains 

DISCLAIMER: This episode was filmed using Zoom due to the current UK COVID-19 restrictions, Lewis and Joe are in the same household so Will joined via Zoom. 

In this week’s episode of PillarTalk, Will rejoins Lewis and Joe for another instalment of 'Dodgy Deaths' - this time looking at Georgie, the young boy found beneath the Vindolanda Fort, Alexander the Great's potential cause of death and La Brea Woman - one of the oldest murder victims in the USA.   Social Media:  Instagram & Twitter: @uomcahaesociety

In this week’s episode Alice, Nikki and Jenny discuss the ins and outs of  Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology! This includes a discussion about what forensic archaeology and anthropology is, how it can be used and also what important ethical problems can occur in this specific area of archaeology. We would like to take this chance to reiterate our disclaimer from the podcast: “This episode of the podcast will be discussing human remains and specific cases, both in terms of domestic homicide investigations and also international disaster and conflict events- in particular, the Asian tsunami of 2004, 9/11, the Grenfell Tower disaster and the mass graves that resulted from the conflicts within the territory of the former Yugoslavia. The information given will, in many cases, not be particularly graphic and furthermore no specific names will be stated. However, if you believe that any of this information may cause you distress, please do not listen to this episode of the podcast”. Please join us next time for “G: Gough’s Cave”.

Bibliography:

Blau, S. and Ubelaker, D. H. (2016). Handbook of Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology (2 nd edn.). New York: Routledge.

Mires, A. M. (2019). The Use of Forensic Archaeology in Missing Persons Cases, Forensic Archaeology, 111-141.

Mundorff, A. (2009). Human Identification Following the World Trade Center Disaster: Assessing Management Practices for Highly Fragmented and Comingled Human Remains. Available at:https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/56373999.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1lONCBUc7g_KLR56plK3W_jh--EYK2OITj_6PRtIpDXT9rGU8ylTmHgpM.

Obledo, M. N. (2009). Forensic Archaeology in Criminal and Civil Cases, Forensic Mag, 6(4), 31-34.

Pringle, H. (2009). Witness to Genocide, Archaeology, 62(1), (a publication of the Archaeology Institute of America).

Walsh-Haney, H. (2002). Skeleton Keys: How Forensic Anthropologists Identify Victims and Solve Crimes. Available at: https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2002/06/skeleton-keys-how-forensic-anthropologists-identify-victims-and-solve-crimes?fbclid=IwAR2TkD9WDhLNedQeAwePwhCKgfJUe-GzqgtWoRsoxJkY__27S6KLSGdwjLM#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20many%20of%20t he,%2C%20sticks%2C%20and%2.

We’re already at the 5 th episode of the A-Z of Archaeology! In this episode Jenny and Alice are joined by a very special guest- Dr John Piprani, who joins them to talk all things experimental archaeology. This includes his work in the public engagement aspect of experimental archaeology, how experimental archaeology has been useful in his own research and also how the University of Manchester includes experimental archaeology within the archaeology department! Join us in the next episode for “F: Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology”.