In this special episode of Behind the Trowel Podcast, I'm joined by the late Professor Timothy Darvill OBE, a leading expert on Stonehenge and prehistoric Britai`n. This conversation, originally recorded during a 2020 YouTube live show (Archaeologists in Quarantine), explores the significance of Stonehenge during the Winter Solstice and its evolution as a sacred, multi-purpose monument.

Professor Darvill shares fascinating insights about:

🪨 The origins of Stonehenge and its bluestones, which he believed to hold healing properties.

🌄 The importance of the Winter Solstice sunset in the Neolithic calendar.

📜 How Stonehenge connects to local and global prehistoric landscapes.

You can watch a live stream from Stonehenge on English Heritage's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/EnglishHeritage

This episode also serves as a tribute to Professor Darvill, who passed away in October 2024. I reflect on his remarkable career, his mentorship, and his profound contributions to archaeology, including his pioneering work at Stonehenge and his role in shaping the next generation of archaeologists.

Join us to celebrate the life and legacy of an extraordinary archaeologist while uncovering the mysteries of Stonehenge at its most magical time of year.

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

Watch the original YouTube live here: https://www.youtube.com/live/4dGPFAJgo7o?si=yzXy0z9c4bfI1X3K

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http://instagram.com/behindthetrowel

Stonehenge and the Winter Solstice with Professor Timothy Darvill - BTT 1

In this month's episode, Matilda chats with fellow podcaster and well-known YouTube anthropologist David Ian Howe all about ancient arrowheads. Probably everyone knows what an arrowhead is, but what's the story behind the use and development of arrowheads? And most importantly, what's the link between arrowheads and smartphones? Listen in to find out all this and more!

Links

 * Tea Break Time Travel [https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/teabreak]
 * David's YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidIanHowe]
 * A Life in Ruins Podcast [https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ruins]

Contact

 * Name: David Ian Howe
 * insta: @ethnocynology
 * fb: /ethnocynology
 * twitter: @davidianhowe
 * Email: matilda@thearchaeologiststeacup.com
 * https://www.thearchaeologiststeacup.com [https://www.thearchaeologiststeacup.com/]
 * insta: @the_archaeologists_teacup [https://www.instagram.com/the_archaeologists_teacup]
 * fb: /TheArchaeologistsTeacup [https://www.facebook.com/TheArchaeologistsTeacup]
 * twitter: @ArchaeoTeacup [https://www.twitter.com/ArchaeoTeacup]

ArchPodNet

 * APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com [https://www.archpodnet.com/]
 * APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet
 * APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet
 * APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet
 * Tee Public Store [https://www.teepublic.com/stores/archaeology-podcast-network?ref_id=5724]

Affiliates

 * Motion [https://www.archpodnet.com/motion]

ENCORE - Social media bifaces - Tea Break 5

Introducing a new podcast from the Archaeology Podcast Network. Behind the Trowel.

Behind the Trowel is a video podcast that delves into the fields of archaeology and history, as well as the individuals dedicated to bringing the past to life. Hosted by Natasha Billson, an archaeologist with experience in the UK commercial archaeology sector (also known as CRM) since 2013, she is one of the lead presenters on Channel 4's The Great British Dig and the creator of the social media account @‌tash_archaeo.

Behind the Trowel provides an inside look at archaeological digs and introduces you to the incredible people working in this field. We will discuss various topics, including excavation and conservation techniques, as well as how we interpret history through our findings. Additionally, we will invite guests to share their own stories and experiences in archaeology and history, offering you the opportunity to learn from a diverse range of voices.

Links:

Stay up-to-date with Behind The Trowel podcast by following your host, Natasha Billson, on:

http://instagram.com/tash_archaeo

http://tiktok.com/@tash_archaeo

youtube.com/@BehindtheTrowel [https://www.youtube.com/@BehindtheTrowel]

http://facebook.com/behindthetrowel

http://instagram.com/behindthetrowel

Introducing Behind the Trowel - Ep 0

Introducing Behind the Trowel - BTT 0

The Archaeology Podcast Network is taking a break for the holiday season. In the meantime, please enjoy this encore episode. It’s a favorite of ours! Happy holidays!

There’s a lot of dates thrown around regarding the first people to enter and settle North and South America. However, what’s the evidence? What do we know with a high degree of certainty? Let’s find out on this episode.

Contact

 * Dr. Alan Garfinkel
   avram1952@yahoo.com
   Dr. Alan Garfinkel’s Website [https://www.dralangarfinkelgold.com/]
   Support Dr. Garfinkel on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/user?u=79908652&utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator]

ArchPodNet

 * APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com [https://www.archpodnet.com/]
 * APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet
 * APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet
 * APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet
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Affiliates and Sponsors

 * California Rock Art Foundation [https://www.carockart.org/]
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Encore: Evidence for the Peopling of the Americas - Rock Art 111

Encore: Evidence for the Peopling of the Americas - Ep 111

The Archaeology Podcast Network is taking a break for the holiday season. In the meantime, please enjoy this encore episode. It’s a favorite of ours! Happy holidays!

Welcome to one of the creepiest nights of my life.  Alone on a desert highway one evening in 1998, I decided to pull over into a deserted parking lot.  The parking lot belonged to a large storage building which had a huge sign on the front proclaiming that it housed "The Thing."  Against my better judgement, I walked in...

Links

 * The Thing Today [https://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/arizona/road-trips/2018/09/19/thing-arizonas-weirdest-roadside-attraction-just-got-stranger/1291604002/]

Contact

 * Kinkella Teaches Archaeology (Youtube) [https://m.youtube.com/c/KinkellaTeachesArchaeology]
 * Blog: Kinkella Teaches Archaeology [http://kinkellasarchaeology.wordpress.com/]

ArchPodNet

 * APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com [https://www.archpodnet.com/]
 * APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet
 * APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet
 * APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet
 * Tee Public Store [https://www.teepublic.com/stores/archaeology-podcast-network?ref_id=5724]

Affiliates

 * Motion [https://www.archpodnet.com/motion]

ENCORE: Kinkella Visits "The Thing" - Ep 98

ENCORE: Kinkella Visits "The Thing" - Pseudo 98

This show dives into topics related to CRM Archaeology and is hosted by longtime professionals in the field.

The CRM Archaeology Podcast

Rock art is one of those things that just captivates your attention. The ancient carvings, drawings, and paintings tell a story. Sometimes we can interpret what that story is and sometimes we can't. World renowned rock art expert, Dr. Alan Garfinkel joins APN founder Chris Webster and a cast of expert guests to talk about rock art: what is it, how do we know how old it is, who made it, and much more. Join us as we take you on a journey through space and time via pictures on rock.

The Rock Art Podcast

The Archaeology Show is produced by the Archaeology Podcast Network. It's hosted by archaeologist's Chris Webster and Rachel Roden. We will interview people from around the world in a variety of topics. Enjoy the ride.

The Archaeology Show

All the history we read in the history books can begin to seem a little mundane,
but history also has a Flipside. Each month we take an historical event
anniversary and, admittedly sometimes tenuously, extract a discussion topic from
it, then we ask guests from the history, archaeology and heritage spheres to sit
down and have a chat with us about it... no holds barred; these discussions
could head off in any number of tangents. Ever wondered how suffragette martyr
Emily Wilding Davison, a little-known hieroglyph specialist and the modern
gender pay-gap are linked, well except from all being in one single episode of
Flipside that is... listen and find out! And as always, stay safe, and we'll see
you on the Flipside! #OnTheFlipside

Flipside

This is a show about the connection between animals and humans in the past. Our experts, Alex Fitzpatrick and Simona Falanga will guide you through the interesting world of Zooarchaeology.

ArchaeoAnimals

Carlton Gover, Connor Johnen, and David Howe are three friends that went to graduate school together and decided to start an archaeology podcast. Join them every week for witty conversation, amazing guests, and a bit of profanity - all in the name of archaeological science. Join them as they investigate the careers of those living a life in ruins.

A Life In Ruins

Chris Webster, MS and Dr. Paul Zimmerman discuss topics between the intersection of archaeology and technology. Join them as they talk Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Sub-Surface monitoring, and all things tech.

The ArchaeoTech Podcast

Jessica Yaquinto is an ethnographer and deals in tribal consultation. The podcast includes topics on mediating between tribes, community based participatory research, and tribes' perspectives of anthropology.

Heritage Voices

Archaeology and Gaming covers not only the study of archaeology in video games but also the study of games as material culture. Some of our hosts you already may know, Andrew Reinhard – who featured in the documentary ATARI: Game Over, Tara Coppelstone – who studies how games are made through an archaeological lens, and Meghan Dennis – a PhD candidate at University of York who is studying ethics in videogames, plus many more interesting and insightful players in the archaeogaming world are ready to load. The show is hosted by Sara Head of Archyfantasies and Tristan Boyle, content creator on the Archaeology Podcast Network and is produced by Sara, Tristan, and Chris Webster.

Archaeology and Gaming

Hosts Rachel Roden and Heather Boyd bring you a unique podcast organized by seasons. In each season you'll learn about yarn or pattern styles from around the world: where did they come from? What's the history? Then you'll be able to grab the pattern for a custom design based on the topic from either Rachel or Heather. Each episode's first half discusses history and the second half discusses the pattern.

Historical Yarns

Follow Alyssa and Michaela as they dive into a podcast about experiences going through the various stages of being an archaeologist. In this podcast, we talk about navigating through academia, entering the workforce and different routes you can take after graduation. Not to mention the other facets of archaeology found in media, reading, and gaming!

I Dig It

Subscribe to this channel for bits and pieces and short interviews from conferences all over the world.

Archaeology Conferences

This podcast was a series we did on the APN that feature a podcast a day for about 400 days. The back catalogue is at www.archpodnet.com/arch365.

365 Days of Archaeology

Take a journey through archaeology, from academic to contract field archaeology, with the women of archaeology.

Issues in Archaeology

Archaeology lectures from the Red Deer pub in Sheffield, England and presented by Archaeology in the City of the University of Sheffield

Archaeology and Ale

All too often we talk about fake news and alternative facts as if they are new concepts. In reality history itself is constructed, and thus constrained by its authors, we have as a society taken this as truth and unfortunately there is more to history that just the past.

Modern Myth

Profiles in CRM features short interviews with CRM professionals from all experience levels and educational levels. I ask a standard list of questions and see how each person answers them based on their experience.

Profiles in CRM

Kim Biddulph talks to archaeologists and authors about the real stories behind the fictional books with archaeology and history as a major component.

Prehis/Stories

Dr. Andrew Kinkella brings you stories about pseudo-archaeology and the real stories behind the false claims.

Pseudo-Archaeology

Join host Carlton Gover (from A Life In Ruins podcast on the Archaeology Podcast Network) as he brings on a co-host for each season to discuss a single archaeological site. They'll dive into every aspect of a site over the course of the season. Every episode of the season will be released at the same time so you can binge on a quiet Sunday morning or listen when you can.

Site Bites

Jenny McNiven, host and diva of the Struggling Archaeologist’s Guide to Getting Dirty brings a witty, personal, and often musical view of archaeology. From personal experiences to just telling you about something she really loves, you’ll always be informed and entertained.

The Struggling Archaeologist's Guide to Getting Dirty

Welcome to Trowel Tales! What is Trowel Tales? It’s a story-based podcast with tales told about the exciting, strange, dangerous, and silly things that can happen in the field of archaeology. In this first episode, we’ll explore the wonderful world of archaeology and hear how some of us got into this fantastic field.

Trowel Tales

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SoupCast

Have you ever wanted to travel back in time? Back to the mediaeval period, to see the earliest printing press or spinning wheel? To the Bronze Age, watching from the sidelines as a blacksmith hammers out a beautiful leaf -shaped blade? How about the early Neolithic, to learn how to knap that perfect stone hand axe? Or even all the way back to the Palaeolithic, to witness the creation of the earliest ever clay object? Well, you’re in luck! My name is Matilda Siebrecht and I will be hosting a brand-new monthly series called Tea-break Time Travel. Every episode I will be joined on my tea break by a guest with expert knowledge on a particular archaeological object. Together, we will travel back in time, discussing the object itself as well as the cultures and environments surrounding its creation and use. So plug in your headphones, grab your hot beverage of choice, and settle down for a journey back in time!

Tea-Break Time Travel

Find shows from Cultural Resource Management Archaeology to technology to anarchy to whatever. We cover it all in this feed. 

The Archaeology Podcast Network Feed

The realms between fantasy and reality have collided and only archaeologists can pave the way through the unknown. Ash and Tilly, armed with two trowels and a backlog of archaeological theory,  navigate to new, thrilling worlds, filled with magic and mayhem to answer those burgeoning questions that only archaeologists can answer. “What do you do when you find vampire teeth in a bronze age burial?” “Can you sample ecto-plasm?” “And just how DO you study dragon bones?” With the occasional help of specialists guests they uncover a new realm of archaeology and find out if fantasy is really so far from reality.

And My Trowel - Two Archaeologists Between Fantasy and Fiction

Uncover the mysteries of the past on Archaeological Context with Dr Noah. From deciphering the symbolism of tattoos found on prehistoric mummies to uncovering the heartbreaking tales behind the looting of Syria’s antiquities or the food and training habits of Roman gladiators, each episode offers a captivating exploration of the fascinating world of archaeology. Join me as we explore intriguing research from around the globe, going beyond mere objects and excavations to uncover the rich cultural and scientific contexts behind archaeological discoveries. With engaging overviews based on published research and enlightening conversations with leading experts, this podcast offers a fresh perspective on our shared and diverse cultural heritage. Subscribe now and embark on a journey of discovery with Archaeological Context.

Archaeological Context

Host's Show

Join Professor Carlton Shield Chief Gover on an immersive journey through the heart of North America's Great Plains as we uncover the rich and fascinating histories buried beneath the prairie. In each episode, we delve into the latest archaeological discoveries, past cultures, and historical insights that shape our understanding of this vast and storied region. From ancient artifacts to the echoes of Indigenous civilizations, "The Great Plains Archaeology Podcast" brings you closer to the hidden past of the Great Plains, revealing the stories of the people who once called this land home. Whether you're an archaeology enthusiast, history buff, or curious mind, tune in to explore the mysteries of the Great Plains with us.

The Great Plains Archaeology Podcast

Join Egyptologist Stephanie Rice as she delves into topics such as the elaborate tombs built to immortalize the dead, ancient guardians of the afterlife, and the tales of heroes who defied and often triumphed over deities of death. The Past Macabre explores the diverse ways in which cultures throughout history have sought to understand, confront, and transcend death.

The Past Macabre

ADHD-BCE … the podcast that scours the ages in search of Neurodiversity. Many have suggested some of our most influential creators, inventors and renegades were firmly on the spectrum. Join late diagnosed neurodivergent George Lomas in this quest to identity and celebrate humanities greatest stories and achievements that may just betray spectrum traits. In each episode George, along with Neurodiversity coach and trainer Ben Holmes pick the minds of their special guests.

ADHD BCE

Ethnocynology is the study of dogs in human cultural contexts. This podcast, hosted by anthropologist and comedian David Ian Howe, explores the history and archaeology of dogs, the roles of dogs in modern media, and the latest findings from archaeology in general.

Ethnocynology with David Ian Howe

Behind the Trowel is a video podcast that delves into the fields of archaeology and history, as well as the individuals dedicated to bringing the past to life. Hosted by Natasha Billson, an archaeologist with experience in the UK commercial archaeology sector (also known as CRM) since 2013, she is one of the lead presenters on Channel 4's The Great British Dig and the creator of the social media account @tash_archaeo.

Behind the Trowel provides an inside look at archaeological digs and introduces you to the incredible people working in this field. We will discuss various topics, including excavation and conservation techniques, as well as how we interpret history through our findings. Additionally, we will invite guests to share their own stories and experiences in archaeology and history, offering you the opportunity to learn from a diverse range of voices.

Host

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