Into the Dust Archaeology

In this episode, Jason breaks down his version of the Top 10 Archaeological Discoveries of 2024 (the final 5). Among these: 

6) A pot of gold (literally) found in Turkey
7) Cleopatra's real face?
8) Dec…

In this episode, Jason breaks down his version of the Top 10 Archaeological Discoveries of 2024 (the first 5 anyway!). Among these: 

1) Lost cities in the Amazon
2) Oldest cave art ever discovered conf…

In this episode, Jason describes and amazing, one-of-a-kind artefact, The Bronze Hand of Prêles. This is an archaeology crime even though the detectorists who found it were not traffickers. In fact, …

In this episode, we delve into Zooarchaeology, the archaeology of animals. As they can be peoples' best friend, animals do tell a lot about society and how humans live. We also investigate another ar…

Following his site visits to the Outer Banks, Jason visited with Scott Dawson, head of the Croatoan Archaeological Society, whose passion for the history of his Croatoan ancestors led to a lifelong p…

Jason recently took a road trip to the OBX, and the reality there is perhaps more interesting than anything you'll find on Netflix. He encountered recent findings relating to two of early Colonial Am…

In today's archaeology site visit, Jason delves into the fascinating world of Petra, an archaeological marvel in Jordan popularized as an Indiana Jones film location. Together, we explore its rich hi…

In this episode, Jason delves deeper into the field of genetics to explain the significance of Y-chromosomes for understanding ancient DNA. He also explores one of the biggest mysteries of the Bronze…

This week, Jason introduces X-Ray Fluorescent technology and its amazing ability to detect the elemental composition of artefacts. Then, we go deep into archaeological crime with one of the biggest s…

Today, Jason brakes down the Wheeler Box Grid method for excavation, somewhat outdated, but still an oldie-but-goodie. In Archaeology News, he looks at a Danish dendrochronology study which looks for…

For today's interview, we're speaking with a leading academic focusing on antiquities trafficking - a subject which has recently broken out into the news in some very high-profile cases.

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In this episode, we go through a varve dating, a powerful tool for absolute dating that surpasses even dendrochronology. Jason also will introduce you to the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological R…

In this episode, Jason reviews the basics of urban archaeology. It is exactly what it sounds like - archaeology in an urban context - but it's a lot more complicated than you think! We also do a site…

In this episode, we examine an amazing remnant of the "Celtic" period in Europe - the largest booze bucket of antiquity, the Vix Krater. Found in northeastern France, it belonged to a powerful female…

For episode 25, we are going to focus our Archaeology Porn on an amazing celestial device from the early Bronze Age as well as the real crime story of its discovery and recovery. With antiquities, un…

Today we're going to delve into the Three Age System, which breaks history up into the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Age. It's definitely an imperfect concept, but it still kinda works.

Then, as we've alrea…

In today's episode, we learn about stratigraphy, the bread n' butter of all archaeological practice and we take a site visit to the Megalithic Temples of Malta, which are collectively a UNESCO World …

In this episode, we are visiting two Bronze Age sites in and around Peterborough, UK: an exhibit on Must Farm, known as "Britain's Pompei", and Flag Fen. You'd never believe how much amazing archaeol…

You thought you knew about Radiocarbon dating? Well, it's a lot more complicated than you thought! We explain it all in the ABCs of Archaeology.

Also, we review two exciting news stories - the discove…

Learn the virtues of quarter sectioning, visit a quartet of sites in Oman, and learn about some intriguing sites uncovered in Archaeology News: the Tomb of Cerberus, dinosaur cave art in Brazil, and …