NEWS: Climate Models, Non-Kosher Ancient Judeans, and Coins - Ep 125

We have three articles for you today. The first is about current climate models and how they don't take archaeological information into consideration. For example, how many acres of food were grown per person in 1500 Europe verses China? Next we look at why pig and fish remains were in abundance in some ancient Judean settlements? Weren't they supposed to be Kosher? Finally, a paper that's still just an abstract suggests that coin makers in ancient Greece and Rome found it hard to make bronze dies. Links Archeologists Are Making a Push to Improve Climate Modeling What Archaeology Tells Us About the Ancient History of Eating Kosher - Smithsonian Magazine Link to paper in the Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Model for ancient Greek and Roman coinage production - ScienceDirect Contact Chris Webster chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com Please Visit Our Sponsors! Archaeology Southwest Cafe: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/things-to-do/cafe/ Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular