Episode 165: Boats and Foes
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
"Sailed round the Isle of Wight" - "...sailed round and round the Isle of Wight till everyone gets dizzy, then set for home" - Captain Redbeard Rum; Blackadder II, episode "Potato"
Number Six - Battlestar Galactica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Six_(Battlestar_Galactica)
Gaius Baltar - Battlestar Galactica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Baltar
S'mores, they're called. The BBC has a take on them but can't get Graham Crackers, apparently: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/smores_30560
The funniest part is that I write these references as I listen through the track, but when you read them they don't have time tags or anything so it must look baffling if you read them before you listen. Or even afterwards, I guess.
"Planet Nine" (even though we already have more than that PLUTO IS A PLANET DAMMIT (JANET): https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-of-a-real-ninth-planet/
"Dr X will build a creature" - Movie 'Doctor X' (1932), sure, but really the song 'Science Fiction Double Feature' from 'The Rocky Horror Show': https://rockyhorror.co.uk/
PLUTO IS A PLANET: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAU_definition_of_planet
Mary Rose (Tudor warship with leaky gun ports): https://maryrose.org/
The other ship Kate was thinking of wasn't in fact either French or Spanish - it was the Swedish 'Vasa', which suffered the same failure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)
'Context' (archaeological term): https://www.thoughtco.com/context-in-archaeology-167155
"GPS for teeth" - archeological use of strontium traces in dental remains: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-teeth-reveal-our-roots-180969495/
The Amesbury (not Avebury, though there's but 30 km in it) Archer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amesbury_Archer
The Dyatlov Pass Incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident
The Great Heathen Army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Heathen_Army
Bj.581, the grave apparently of a high-status warrior, found to have XX ('female') chromosomes: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/viking-warrior-women-reassessing-birka-chamber-grave-bj581/7CC691F69FAE51DDE905D27E049FADCD
Tafl ('table') games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafl_games
And a couple of articles to start you off: https://www.world-archaeology.com/features/estonia-salme-ship-burials/
https://thevikingherald.com/article/what-do-viking-ships-buried-in-estonia-tell-us-about-the-start-of-the-viking-age/298
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