Today we’re talking about efforts to recreate woolly mammoths, apparently in order to 1) combat climate change, 2) cure cancer, and 3) re-wild the tundra. Our first reactions are, what? But our second reactions are a deep dive into the ethics of paleo-genomic research. Finally, there’s a shoutout to everyone’s favorite giant armadillo tank, Tarkus, and a rare reference to Tasha Yar. So there’s something for everyone.
The Curse of the Mummy’s Double Chins, or, It’s Better to Look Good than to Feel Good
It’s the Very Nearly Live from ASOR 2021 Conference With Extra Special Guests Edition! Part 3-The Last Waltz
It’s the Very Nearly Live from ASOR 2021 Conference With Extra Special Guests Edition! Part 2-After Hours
It’s the Very Nearly Live from ASOR 2021 Conference With Extra Special Guests Edition! Part 1-The Ballroom Tapes
So You Need a Stone Floor For Your Hittite Temple? I Know a Guy.
11,500 Year Old Cultic Site With Huge Stone Circles, Pillars, and Skulls Mystifies Easily Mystified Archaeologists, Or, Gimme That Really, Really, Really Old Time Religion
Middle Bronze Age Site Smashed by Exploding Comet, Film at 11, Or, Who You Crushing with that Cosmic Debris?
New Underwater Discoveries in the Nile Delta, or, Our Ship Sank, but We Brought You a Fruit Basket
It’s the End of Summer Archaeology Super Mega Fun Round-Up Episode!
That’ll Do Iron Age Pig, That’ll Do, or, Jambon in Jerusalem
(Almost) Biblical Writing, or How to Go From Lunchboxes to Bureaucracy in Only 300 Years.
The Gospel of “Who the Heck Falls for This Stuff?”
And That’s How We Solved the Mystery of the Fossil Shark Teeth in Iron Age Jerusalem
Where Did Babies Come from in the Iron Age, or, Biblical Archaeology Smokes a Cigar in the Waiting Room
Death on the Euphrates, or, a Kunga Line to Heaven?
A Resurrected Date by Any Other Name Would Still Taste As Sweet, or, Jurassic Park in the Judean Desert
The Strange Story of the Roman Era Half Lamp, or A Sconce to Light Their Way
Solomon: Portrait of an Iron Age Onassis, or How to Have a State without Really Making a Statement
Which is the Best Bronze Age Note-Taking App, or Why Did it Take the Alphabet a Thousand Years to Catch On?
Boozing in the Bronze Age, or, Narmer, He’s the King of Beers
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