In this Episode, David discusses his recent travels to California and Connor’s visit to Nashville the week before.

David and Connor met up with Aaron Deter-Wolf of Archaeology Ink and Danny Riday of Totemic Tattoo in Nashville, who gave David and Connor hand-poked tattoos with bone and stone. David discusses the artistry, history, and process behind Danny’s work and his hand-poked tattoo, that is a memorial to his late dog, Strider.

David then discusses three Civil War era sites he and Connor toured in the Nashville area called the Carter House, Carnton Plantation, the Lotz House,  which all were part of the Battle of Franklin. This battle was a major part of the Civil War and the eventual collapse of the confederate army.

In Part 2, David will then discusses the Bellemeade Mansion and the Hermitage in Nashville, and how these powerful Southern families partook in the war.

But mainly, David speaks candidly about how these historic sites have evolved (and not evolved) in their ways of including the story Black Americans and those of the African Diaspora into the landscape of these histories.

Transcripts

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On Tattoos, Nashville, and the Civil War? (Part 1) - Ep 11

As laid out in Episode 4, David will be doing deep dives into movies, TV shows, and books that have to do with anthropology and dogs in the apocalypse. In this episode, David does a deep dive on a film called “Children of Men” directed by Alfonso Cuarón.

Children of Men explores a near-future where men and women have become infertile, and no one is able to reproduce. In this story, dogs play a role in substituting for children, which is uniquely explored in the film through its cinematography.

Some of the things David discusses are the plot Summary, key themes, the role of dogs as surrogates for children, and Cuaron’s cinematic techniques and world-building,

Transcripts

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Ethnocynology in the Apocalypse: Children of Men - Ep 10

In this episode of Ethnocynology, David highlights a recent paper published about a bone needle he helped excavate in the summer of 2022.

While David wasn’t an author on the paper, he was there when it was excavated, recorded the moment, and recently conducted interviews with the two leading authors of the paper.

David discusses how he read a comment on his post about the needle that made him stop to think about how important such a small item could be to people on the ice age plains.

David discusses how to read an academic paper, while conducting interviews with the researchers into the podcast.

Transcripts

 * For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/ethnocynology/09

Links:

 * Early Paleoindian use of canids, felids, and hares for bone needle production at the La Prele site, Wyoming, USA [https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0313610]
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Why this Ice Age Bone Needle is so Important. - Ep 09

In this episode, David chats with good friend and guest Jonny Devaney.

David had interviewed Jonny on the David Ian Howe Show a few months ago and on that episode talked about possibly doing another, and being one of the first guests on Ethnocynology.

David and Jonny begin the episode by catching up and talking about dogs. And then Jonny begins his deep dive into his obsession with Salukis and begins their very interesting history.

After the break, David talks about facts about German Shepherds.

Transcripts

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Salukis and German Shepherds with Jonny Devaney - Ep 08

For this episode of Just the Boyz, we kick off our series on animal domesticates, starting with the oldest known domesticated animal: the dog. We are fortunate to have David as a one of the hosts as he is one of the leading public scholars when it comes to the relationship between dogs and humans throughout human history. We chat about the earliest evidence for dog domestication, the leading theories behind Howe and why dogs were domesticated, and delve into a discussion about the Siberian Fox Domestication experiment and animal research ethics.

Literature recommendations

1) "Dogs": Darcey Morey

2) "The Social Dog: Behavior and Cognition" Kominski and Marshall-Pescini

3) “Dogs: Archaeology Beyond Domestication" Bethke and Burtt

4) "Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know" Alexandra Horowitz

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Encore - Fantastic Domesticates and Where to Find Them - Dogs - Ruins 63

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!

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ENCORE - Social media bifaces - Tea Break 5

In this episode, David shares the news of Strider’s passing, and discusses the two other times he has had to say goodbye to dogs in his life.

Segment one deals with his childhood beagle/spaniel mix named Maggie.

Segment two begins the story of Athena, the family lab mix.

And Segment three begins the discussion of Strider and the difficult issues that lead to his recent euthanasia.

Transcripts

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Strider's Passing - Ethno 07

In this episode of ethnocynology David sits down with Dr Alyce Cannon for part two of their episode on dogs in ancient Greece.

In the previous episode, Dr. Cannon brought up some fascinating topics about dogs in the classical world, specifically Athens, after catching up on life for a bit.

At the end of the episode, he left it up to the audience to submit some questions for Dr. Cannon for part two.

In this episode, David asks Dr. Cannon about dogs and ancient Greek warfare, life at home, and whether or not dogs were kept as pets.

They then dive into the questions post by the audience in the previous episodes YouTube comments, one specifically regarding dogs, helping the disabled in the ancient world.

Transcripts

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Dogs in Ancient Greece with Dr. Alyce Cannon (Part 2) - Ep 06

In this episode of ethnocynology David sits down with recently minted PhD, Dr Alyce Cannon.

David and Elise have known each other for the past 5 years through their work talking about dogs on social media.  Alyce is a Sydney Australia based classicist and archaeologist who did her research on the ancient world and human animal interactions in ancient Greece specifically.

David and Alyce begin by catching up on life and  David congratulates her on recently achieving her status as a phd. They then catch up about the state of the world and American versus Australian culture.

The meat of the episode then begins where Elise starts talking about her dissertation (or thesis)  regarding human and animal interactions in ancient Greece and how dogs appear in pottery, zooarchaeology, and in oral tradition. and specifically, the oral tradition is quite interesting as a lot of stories refer to dogs derogatorily, and how that changes to a more positive light over time.

They then end the episode on the subject of a future episode where dogs in Warfare and their roles in everyday life can be discussed.

Https://ww.instagram.com/historydoggos/ [https://ww.instagram.com/historydoggos/]

Transcripts

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Dogs in Ancient Greece with Dr. Alyce Cannon (Part 1) - Ep 005

In this episode of Ethnocynology with David Ian Howe, David gives an introduction to an idea he’s had for a while to discuss and explore the anthropological themes of apocalyptic fiction.

Apocalypse stories are often set in a bleak world, telling bleak stories. Yet they are fundamentally always HUMAN stories, using a bleak world to explore questions regarding philosophy, morality, and above all…what it means to be human.

But in these stories, the philosophical aspects of what it means to be human are often explored. Yet I think a reason we are so addicted to these stories is that we have a yearning to explore the lives of our past, zoological selves. It’s hard to write a story about the Paleolithic…the set design, the languages, the limited world restricted by the fear of shitty animation (mammoths, ice age fauna). Yet in [post apocalypse stories, we explore the world before civilization, by exploring the world after it. It’s far easier to portray English speaking humans behaving zoologically in the ruins outside of Boston, than it is a period piece set in Paleolithic France with proto-dene-Caucasian subtitles.

We yearn to live in a world without our modern complexities and burdens (last march of the Ents).

If you don’t believe me, think of how much money we spend on hiking, camping, and traveling to areas to spend a day, let alone a week a year outside? Then we must ask for PTO. We must pay for gas, or a plane ticket, or even a campsite – we literally pay to sleep in nature (albeit I don’t mind bc the money goes to keeping the area natural).

So in stories like the Last of US, I Am Legend, and Station Eleven, we explore stories In what I would call the Organic Apocalypse. A world reclaimed by nature, where the earth very much alive, green, and returned to it’s natural state, rid of the disease of humans.

Transcripts

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Ethnocynology and the Apocalypse - Ep 04

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.