Iron Age figurines in the Southern Levant depict naked women and not a lot else. The usual explanations are goddesses or magical devices related to fertility. But isn’t everything sort of related to fertility? What were mostly male Biblical Archaeologists missing? Probably quite a bit. Our panelists wax eloquent in this family friendly episode.
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The Love Call of the De-Extincted Mammoth, or, Ethics in Paleo-genomic Research (for Fun and Profit)
The Case of the Roman Medical Instruments from Southwest Turkey, Or, The Doctor Will See What’s Left of You Now
How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep in Antiquity, or Sleeping with the Television on in the Ancient Near East?
Remember That Time When Alexander the Great Became Ningirsu? Or, Naming Rights in Mesopotamia
How to Decorate a Philistine Temple, or, Flower Power Tell es Safi Style
Dog Days of Domestication, or, Humans and Canines from Prehistory to the Present
Hello Assyriological Computer, Or, Artificial Intelligence and the Ancient Near East?
Listening to Ancient Greek Sanctuaries, Or, The Past Was a Noisy Country
The Neolithic Canoes of Capri, Or, Have Obsidian, Will Travel?
Iron Age Gezer gets Radiocarbonated, or, From Archaeology to Text, to Text, and Back Again to, Wait, What?
A Note to Our Listener
The Prehistoric Spanish Cave of Drugs, Death and Fun! Or, the Clan of the Cave Hair?
The Toilets of Iron Age Jerusalem, A View from Below, or, Dysentery and the Bible?
The Copper Age Princess of Iberia? Or, I Want to Live With A Cinnabar Girl
A Late Roman Cave of Necromancy and Intrigue, or, A Backdoor to the Underworld in Beth Shemesh?
The Bird Calls of Prehistory, or the Squeaky Flutes of the Natufian
The Stone Receipts of Early Roman Jerusalem, or, Economic History on the Rocks
The Dismembered Hands of Avaris, or How Do You Say “The Sound of One Hand Clapping” in Egyptian?
What Pairs Well with Extreme Desert Conditions? or New Evidence for Wine in the Late Antique Negev
Iron Age Religion East of the Jordan, Or, Ammon, Moab, and Edom Have Entered the Chat.
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