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Introducing ArchaeoAnimals - Episode 0
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Welcome to a brand new podcast from the Archaeology Podcast Network - ArchaeoAnimals! Our hosts, Alex Fitzpatrick and Simona Falanga, will guide you through the world of animals, humans, and archaeology. This first episode will tell you what the show's about and a little about Alex and Simona.
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Welcome to Archaeo Animals
00:00:00
Speaker
You're listening to the Archaeology Podcast Network. Welcome to Archaeo Animals. This is a new podcast on the Archaeology Podcasting Network and we're going to be talking about archaeology. I'm one of the hosts out of Fitzpatrick and with me is... And I'm Simone Halanga.
What is Zooarchaeology?
00:00:35
Speaker
So yeah, let's start off our episode zero. Let's talk a little bit about what zoo archaeology is. Basically, it's the study of dead animals if you want to be pretty brief about it. Anything you want to add. Usually the way I'd like to explain zoo archaeology is looking at the dead animals to tell you more about the dead people.
00:00:57
Speaker
That's actually a pretty good way to do it. The thing that by studying animal remains as such a plethora of information that you can learn about the people and how they lived and their economy. I mean, unless you're like me, you just literally just like to learn more about the animals themselves. I just like bones. So, yeah, we're two different zoarchaeologists here to give you our opinions on zoarchaeology.
Podcast Structure and Themes
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and dead animals. That's basically our show. So basically the way the episodes are going to work is we're going to cover a bit of a main topic. It could be a certain species of animals, it could be a type of animal like farm animals, animals and rituals, stuff like that. And then we'll come up with some case studies, right?
00:01:43
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Although it might be very heavy on British case studies, because we're both based in the UK and work more with British archaeology, so expect a lot of Roman stuff. Yeah, occasionally we'll try to branch out to other countries, but I think the two of us mostly know stuff here in Britain, so apologies for that in advance. But we also would like to have some guests on occasionally. I think we have a couple of guests in mind for future episodes.
00:02:12
Speaker
Yes, we do, actually. I'm still slowly, slowly working on that. Go on, hopefully we can branch out to other parts of the world and time period because it's not all about this tiny small island we live in. There's definitely loads of zoo archaeologists out there who work on very specific types of animals, types of time periods, types of regions that we don't necessarily get to see. Look out for a couple of special guests in the near future.
00:02:42
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And we'll be releasing episodes on the first Tuesday of each month, so definitely look out for that.
Engaging with Listeners
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And definitely also send questions to our show, Twitter. We are at ArcheoAnimals on Twitter, and we also use the hashtag ArcheoAnimals. So if you have any questions about duarcheology, any suggestions on future episodes, just let us know and we'll keep into consideration, because if it's garbage, we won't do it.
00:03:10
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Yeah, the one very nice way of using the archaeo animals hashtag as well is like, it's not just about if you have questions or queries, but if you actually are a professional zoo archaeologist, and you want to share any aspect of your research, like, please feel free to use the hashtag as well. Because the way it was originally meant to serve to create a platform for people in the field or people that just are just interested in the subject, to sort of share them little
00:03:37
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facts and research that they've been focusing on, but whatever really. If you've got any interesting information about cats in this one village in Belgium, we want to hear about it. Yeah, definitely. And also help us find some future guests maybe. If you have research that you'd like to talk about, let us know. We'd love to have you on our podcast.
00:04:01
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I can already think of so many people. I just want it to be me. I want to be the only person on this podcast, to be honest. I'm sorry, we technically do already have a permanent guest. It's me.
00:04:15
Speaker
Well, actually, I was gonna say that it's my lady Bastet. Oh, your cat. It is also your cat who I love, but it's also me. And bear in mind the spelling S-T-E-T, because when I usually tell people what my cat's called, they think I'm saying something entirely different and rather rude. It's Bastet as in the ancient Egyptian cat goddess.
00:04:38
Speaker
So do you want to like end this episode zero with just kind of talking about who we are and what we do real quick so that people- Who am I? What do I do? Yeah, we do things. It would be nice I think for people who are listening to this podcast, all three of them, to know kind of who's going to be talking into their ears for like an hour.
Meet the Hosts: Simone and Alex
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I'm a commercial field archaeologist. So what that means work in the British commercial sector. So we do excavation and recording of archaeological features ahead of development. And also in my spare time, I do like to do a bit of psych on Twitter. So you'll be able to find me under the name of crazy bone lady, which was meant to be a play on words and crazy cat lady, but I don't think that caught on.
00:05:28
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And on my profile, I like to do like a series of Sycom activities. And so like, they range from just like, Sycom content to quizzes and things. So you can find me on Twitter at crazy bone lady, which was supposed to be a play on words and crazy cat lady, but I don't think it's caught on very well. And
00:05:51
Speaker
And over there, I like to do quite a bit of psych-on. And the three hashtags they'll probably most likely see me using were archaeo-animals, which I think, as we mentioned before, was intended for zoo archaeologists to bring them together and get them to promote their research or even just people that are interested and read more about a particular topic and want people to know about it. Like submissions are very much welcome. I also tweet quite a bit on archaeocats.
00:06:20
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that sort of focuses on specifically the archaeology of cats. And also what I try and do every Sunday is a quiz sort of ID gank or school Sunday, where I post a photo of an animal school
00:06:35
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every week and people usually have about 24 hours to guess the species. Because that has been on hold for the last couple of weeks, purely because there's only so many schools a woman can own. Because they also tried to
00:06:50
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source as many as I feasibly can from museums and other educational institutions. But of course, I very much rely on user submissions on that. So if you've got photos of animal schools from museums or the university and you're allowed to take photos and use them, please send them my way. That'd be fantastic. And other than that,
00:07:15
Speaker
I guess my main research interests are the introduction of the domestic cats and looking at the folklore and ritual of animal bones in post medieval Britain. I'm Alex Fitzpatrick. I don't do any fun hashtag games because I'm not smart enough to think of them first.
00:07:31
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But I am on Twitter at archaeologyfits. I write on a blog called Animal Archaeology. And yeah, you can find me there. And again, use that hashtag archaeoanimals so we can hear from you about what you want to hear from us and, you know,
00:07:50
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what excites you about zoo archaeology.
Wrapping Up and Audience Interaction
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And again, for any zoo archaeologists out there who want to talk about the research, just let us know and send us questions so we can answer them on the show. And I think that about wraps up episode zero, unless there's anything else you can think of.
00:08:08
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We're both pretty big fans of Dragon Age, so please, please ask us to do an episode of A Bestiary of Dragon Age. That's not Bethesda, but Bioware, if you're listening to us, please send us Dragon Age stuff, we would love it, thank you. Please put ads on our show for Dragon Age, thank you. But yeah, no, I think that's about it for Episode Zero.
00:08:32
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I presume as much. So subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher or Google Play and remember to look for new episodes on the first Tuesday of each month.
Podcast Production and Support
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This show is produced and recorded by the Archaeology Podcast Network, Chris Webster and Tristan Boyle, in Reno, Nevada at the Reno Collective. This has been a presentation of the Archaeology Podcast Network. Visit us on the web for show notes and other podcasts at www.archpodnet.com. Contact us at chrisatarchaeologypodcastnetwork.com.
00:09:20
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