Latest Bioarchaeology Podcast Episodes
Dr. Sabrina Sholts - The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
AnthroBiology Podcast - June 13, 2024 06:30 - 56 minutesDr. Sholts of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History joins the show to discuss her new book, The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs. Dr. Sholts uses an anthropological lens to understand epidemics. She touches on One Health, historical and current ...
Dr. Mark Griffin - Teeth in pre-contact Native American groups
AnthroBiology Podcast - June 03, 2024 01:10 - 1 hourDr. Griffin of San Francisco State University joins the show to discuss dental caries and toothwear in pre-contact Native American groups. Books, articles, and media mentioned in this episode: Griffin, MC. (2014). Biocultural implication of oral pathology in an ancient central California pop...
Dr. Danny Wescott - Body Farm at Texas State
AnthroBiology Podcast - May 23, 2024 10:08 - 43 minutesDr. Wescott of Texas State University joins the show to discuss the Texas State body farm (Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State - FACTS) and the forensic research carried out there. Books, articles, and selected people mentioned in this episode: Dr. Wescott's ResearchGate profile Hag...
Dr. Caroline Goodson & Dr. Trent Trombley - Medieval Teeth, Part 2
AnthroBiology Podcast - April 25, 2024 04:36 - 56 minutesDr. Goodson (Cambridge University) and Dr. Trombley (Augustana University) join forces on the show to discuss their bioarchaeological-historical collaboration to understand the Medieval mouth. Books, articles, and selected people mentioned in this episode: Medieval Mouths in Context: Biocult...
Dr. Trent Trombley - Medieval Teeth, Part 1
AnthroBiology Podcast - March 25, 2024 10:03 - 1 hourDr. Trent Trombley of Augustana University joins the show to talk about his research at Villamagna, a medieval settlement outside of Rome. He uses macroscopic analysis of teeth along with a few other methods to understand life in the past. Links mentioned in the show: Dr. Trombley's ResearchG...
Dr. Clark Spencer Larsen - Using Bioarchaeology to Understand Health
AnthroBiology Podcast - February 24, 2024 06:15 - 40 minutesDr. Clark Spencer Larsen of Ohio State joins the show to discuss his history in the field, bioarchaeology, and how we can use biological anthropology to understand human health in the past. Links mentioned in the show: Dr. Larsen's faculty page The past 12,000 years of behavior, adaptation...
Dr. Dan Benyshek - Placentophagy
AnthroBiology Podcast - January 03, 2024 16:15 - 1 hourDr. Daniel Benyshek of UNLV joins the show to discuss plancentophagy. Check out his lab page for more info on placentophagy. Note: There is a special addition at the end of this episode. Find links to articles, books, and pics at AnthroBiology.com. Find the show on Instagram and Twitter @Ant...
Dr. Jeremy DeSilva - Bipedalism
AnthroBiology Podcast - July 22, 2023 04:25 - 43 minutesDr. Jeremy DeSilva of Dartmouth joins the show to discuss bipedalism -- why anthropologists are obsessed with it and how it might have come to be. Find links to articles, books, and pics at AnthroBiology.com. Find the show on Instagram and Twitter @AnthroBiology. Email the host at gaby.lapera...
Ms. Rhianna Drummond-Clarke - Chimpanzees + Bipedalism
AnthroBiology Podcast - March 24, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutesRhianna Drummond-Clarke, PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute (Dept. of Human Origins), joins the show to discuss her most recent article examining how environments affect chimp locomotion. She also chat about her time in the field. See her article here: https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10...
Dr. Kirsty Graham - Bonobos + Gestural Communication
AnthroBiology Podcast - January 30, 2023 11:39 - 48 minutesDr. Kirsty Graham from the University of St. Andrews discusses how bonobos use gestures to communicate, which winds into a chat about what that means for ape communication generally -- especially humans. They also have some insights into field research. Check out the article about humans under...
Dr. James Cole - Stone Tools & Cognition
AnthroBiology Podcast - December 21, 2022 11:25 - 1 hourDr. James Cole from the University of Brighton joins the show to talk about how studying stone tools can reveal insights about the evolution of cognition in humans. Along the way, we touch on brain size, theory of mind, and social groups. Find links to articles, books, and pics at AnthroBiolog...
Mr. Rick Coste - Evolution Talk
AnthroBiology Podcast - November 28, 2022 11:28 - 44 minutesRick Coste, host of the Evolution Talk podcast, talks about his new book (Evolution Talk) and how he became interested in science. Find links to articles, books, and pics at AnthroBiology.com. Find the show on Instagram and Twitter @AnthroBiology.
Dr. King & Dr. Fuentes - Research Animal Welfare
AnthroBiology Podcast - November 01, 2022 20:21 - 52 minutesDr. Agustin Fuentes of Princeton and Dr. Barbara King joined the show to discuss the scientific community's responsibility for animals used in research. Should it be done? Is it possible to carry out ethical research involving animals? Want to learn more? Read the article the episode is based...
Dr. Christian Crowder - Forensic Anthropology
AnthroBiology Podcast - September 23, 2022 22:09 - 1 hourDr. Christian Crowder from the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office joins the show to talk about his experiences in forensic anthropology, using histology for forensic cases, and how anthropologists are a crucial component of the response team for mass fatality events. Dr. Crowder also talks ...
Dr. John Lindo - Ancient DNA & Pre-Contact Groups
AnthroBiology Podcast - July 20, 2022 18:41 - 37 minutesDr. John Lindo of Emory talks about ancient DNA -- how it works, what you can understand from it, and why it's important. He explains how he's using ancient DNA to understand the biological diversity of pre-contact indigenous groups in the Americas. Find links to articles, books, and pics at A...
Dr. Nicole Iturriaga - Exhuming Violent Histories
AnthroBiology Podcast - June 16, 2022 05:33 - 1 hourDr. Nicole Iturriaga of UC - Irvine joined the show to talk about her book: Exhuming Violent Histories: Forensics, Memory, and Rewriting Spain’s Past. In this episode, we discuss the history of the Spanish Civil War, how forensics can help change perceptions and heal communities, and how the gen...
Dr. Julia Boughner - Teeth
AnthroBiology Podcast - May 18, 2022 10:02 - 43 minutesDr. Julia Boughner of the University of Saskatchewan talks about the evolution of human teeth. Why do adults have ~32 teeth? Are our jaws shrinking? What's the deal with wisdom teeth? Does modern dentistry change our evolutionary path? Find links to articles, books, and pics at AnthroBiology.c...
Ms. Selina Carlhoff - Archaeogenetics
AnthroBiology Podcast - April 20, 2022 18:00 - 45 minutesMs. Selina Carlhoff, PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, talks about the basics of DNA, what you should know about ancient DNA, and some of the ethical complexities that come with studying prehistoric populations. She also fills us in on her article in Nature...
Dr. David Braun - Tool Use, Environmental Change, and Niche Construction
AnthroBiology Podcast - March 25, 2022 07:33 - 39 minutesDr. David Braun of George Washington University's Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology in the Anthropology Department chats about the cycles of tool use and niche construction. We talk about how one affects the other and vice versa in cycles, plus the interplay of greater environm...
Dr. Jonathan Marks - Creationism
AnthroBiology Podcast - February 23, 2022 10:00 - 44 minutesDr. Jonathan Marks of the University of North Carolina - Charlotte joins the show to talk about his book, Why Are There Still Creationists? Human Evolution and the Ancestors. We chat about one of the toughest conversations everyone who deals with evolution faces: Speaking with creationists. In th...
Dr. Bill Schutt - Pump: A Natural History of the Heart
AnthroBiology Podcast - November 11, 2021 06:40 - 35 minutesDr. Bill Schutt, zoologist and author, joins the show to talk about his latest book, Pump: A Natural History of the Heart. We chat about the evolution of hearts, how people learned about how hearts work, and science writing. Check out his book here. Find links to articles, books, and pics at ...
Dr. Robert Anemone - Geospatial Paleoanthropology
AnthroBiology Podcast - October 28, 2021 05:46 - 43 minutesDr. Robert Anemone of the University of North Carolina - Greensboro joins the show to talk about how advances in geospatial tech can help paleoanthropologists find productive sites, along with how he's used it in his real life field work in the Great Divide Basin of Wyoming. Helpful background: ...
Dr. Sarah Kindschuh - DPAA & Forensics
AnthroBiology Podcast - September 23, 2021 06:33 - 57 minutesDr. Sarah Kindschuh of the DPAA discusses what it's like to work for federal government to recover and identify members of the U.S. armed services. We also chatted about advice for undergraduates interested in pursuing work as anthropologists. Find links to articles, books, and pics at AnthroBiol...
Dr. Christopher D. Lynn - Tattoos & Immunity
AnthroBiology Podcast - September 08, 2021 16:00 - 57 minutesDr. Christopher D. Lynn of the University of Alabama joins the show to talk about tattoos and what they can tell us about immune function, health signaling, and cultural meanings. Plus, we talk about sci comm! Find links to articles, books, and pics at AnthroBiology.com. Find the show on Instagr...
Ms. Stine Carlsson - PhD Candidate, Queens University Belfast
AnthroBiology Podcast - August 26, 2021 07:33 - 58 minutesStine Carlsson is a PhD candidate at Queens University Belfast in Northern Ireland. We discuss strategies for finding a good grad program, dealing with toxic academic environments, choosing a path, and skeletal stress indicators. Find links to articles, books, and pics at AnthroBiology.com. F...
Dr. Robert Mann - Forensic Anthropology
AnthroBiology Podcast - August 11, 2021 13:00 - 1 hourDr. Robert Mann of the University of Hawaii talks about his winding path in biological anthropology. Find links to articles, books, and pics at AnthroBiology.com. Find the show on Instagram and Twitter @AnthroBiology.
Dr. DiGangi & Dr. Bethard - Ancestry in Forensic Anthropology
AnthroBiology Podcast - May 11, 2021 06:23 - 1 hourDr. DiGangi from SUNY-Binghamton and Dr. Bethard from the University of South Florida joined the show to discuss their position papers on the use of ancestry in forensic sciences and in the justice system. Find links to articles, books, and pics at AnthroBiology.com. Find the show on Instagram a...
Dr. Tara Cepon-Robins - Worms
AnthroBiology Podcast - April 22, 2021 07:16 - 50 minutesDr. Tara Cepon-Robins of the University of Colorado - Colorado Springs joined me to talk about worms. She talks about humans' evolutionary arms race with parasites, measuring disgust, and her work among the Shuar people and in the rural southern United States. Check out Dr. Cepon-Robins' site. F...
Dr. Herman Pontzer - Burn
AnthroBiology Podcast - April 09, 2021 18:32 - 42 minutesDr. Herman Pontzer of Duke is on the show this week to talk about human metabolism and his new book, Burn. He helps answer questions like: How much energy can a person burn in one day? Does exercise help you lose weight? Do people with different subsistence strategies have different metabolisms...
Dr. Cara Ocobock - Energetics and Science Communication
AnthroBiology Podcast - March 24, 2021 06:48 - 41 minutesDr. Cara Ocobock of Notre Dame joins the show to discuss human energetics in high-latitude populations, and the potential downstream health consequences of a changing environment. (Learn why reindeer herders are rad!) She also shares insights on science communication and how we can do it better....
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