Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.
Link of the Month: Trowel Blazers Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon:
https://tinyurl.com/y4g5dp6w
Links:
Why Archaeology May Need to Change:
http://www.royalgazette.com/lifestyle/article/20190909/why-archaeology-may-need-to-change?fbclid=IwAR3NzgoUHTTYjdFj-oOkJS7x7Mf_vBmeNeayMYY1DVmOBbArv2PvCrdlZmk
Bad backs, alcoholism and paranoia: archaeology isn’t for the faint-hearted:
https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/bad-backs-alcoholism-and-paranoia-archaeology-isnt-for-the-faint-hearted/?fbclid=IwAR2cQ8KX97qgE4N4VafDwleAUuK5fL81klm-s6hILoPG6AJh9JcJLqQtHOQ
The Art of Money Laundering:
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2019/09/the-art-of-money-laundering-and-washing-illicit-cash-mashberg.htm?fbclid=IwAR0ignCavv4S_FXyhwJVSju25syyABz57eh7xRFVkxkpIW6g-LLrfT1SEwg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n7rM_pUSns
Welcome to Archaeology: 5142! In this series, we monitor the dispatches of a moon based ‘Archaeological Assessment Unit’! Future theories may get some things wrong but what might these theories tell us about life and archaeology today?
Today, the AAU posits a theory about the so-called 'T-Shirt' People...
Archaeosoup Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/archaeosoup?ty=h
#futurearchaeology #archaeology #archaeosoup
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Dc4mgymB8
Welcome to Archaeologist's Eye. In this series you are presented with a 'puzzle' scenario which you have to solve. Can you think like an archaeologist? Can you see the world through an archaeologist's eyes?
Today, I present (pun intended) the Santa Cam!!!?
Archaeosoup Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/archaeosoup?ty=h
#archaeology #puzzle #archaeosoup
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od3mGvG_k2k
Welcome to Archae-Facts, the place to find bite-sized chunks of Archaeological Trivia!
Today we examine how blaming cats may have added to the victims of Black Death.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz82p3gtPek
Welcome to Archaeo-Scope. In this series we take an archaeological perspective on modern culture; asking questions about current trends and observations from around the world.
Today, I examine the furore surrounding Ben Carson and his opinion about the Pyramids...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GZA085bTqs
Welcome to Archaeoscoop, the place to find heritage and archaeology related news stories from around the world!
Today, I'm about to rush out of the door to go and film at a local museum so I am highlighting one link in particular:
1) Archaeology for Everyone: The Bamburgh Research Project:
http://www.sponsume.com/project/archaeology-for-everyone
Shakespeare 'may have been a humble schoolmaster':
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22064636
New light shed on ancient egyptian port and ship graveyard:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130407150740.htm
It is unfair to compare genetic ancestry testing to astrology:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/apr/08/unfair-genetic-ancestry-testing-astrology
4,000 year-old stone tools, earthenware unearthed from banks of river Narmada in Bhopal:
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/stone-tools-earthenware-unearthed-from-banks-of-river-narmada-bhopal-india-today/1/261098.html
Suffragette Emily Davison to be honoured at Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/the-northerner/2013/apr/04/festivals-women
Art: Archaeology of the home:
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/entertainment/art-news/2013/04/05/archaeology-of-the-home-92746-33121954/
Stanbury Hill Project unearths Bingley Moor history:
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/10338475.Stanbury_Hill_Project_unearths_Bingley_Moor_history/?ref=rss
Middlesbrough Victorian visionary's pottery legacy:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-22064304
Chemical Analysis Leads to New Discoveries in Archaeological Research:
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2013/article/chemical-analysis-leads-to-new-discoveries-in-archaeological-research
Ancient bones dug up during church makeover:
http://www.meltontimes.co.uk/community/community-news/ancient-bones-dug-up-during-church-makeover-1-4975156
Göbeklitepe ancient site attracts interest of notables:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-site-attract-interest-of-notables.aspx?pageID=238&nID=44493&NewsCatID=375
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_F7sCJMJ4g