#269 The Archaeology of Dust w/ Anita Radini

The Road to Now

Benjamin Sawyer

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

For most of us, dust is a surface-level annoyance. For Anita Radini, it is a fountain of information about the past. In this episode, Anita joins us to share the fascinating new details about the lives of Medieval women that she discovered in the tiny remains of dust that collected in their dental plaque, and how her interdisciplinary work in archaeological science and paleoecology is reshaping the way we understand human history.

Dr. Anita Radini is an Assistant Professor at the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, and a recipient of the 2023 Dan David Prize.

The Dan David Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history. For more on the prize and the research its funding, visit dandavidprize.org.

This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.

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0:00.0	Coming to Curiosity Podcasts.
0:04.4	America loves its founding fathers, but that's a tough act to follow as a founding son.
0:11.3	If you do not rise to the head, not only of your profession but of your country,
0:16.2	it will be owing to your own laziness, slovenliness, and obstinacy.
0:20.7	John Quincy Adams never escaped the long shadow of his father, John Alexander. going to your own laziness, slaveliness, and obstinacy.
0:25.3	John Quincy Adams never escaped the long shadow of his father, John Adams.
0:31.5	He failed as a one-term president, but became an extraordinary ex-president.
0:36.0	He could see the coming civil war, and was trying desperately to stop it.
0:41.9	I'm Bob Crawford. As the basis for the Ava brothers, I've spent a lot of time in tour buses reading American history, and John Quincy Adams deserves a second look. Join me, Patrick
0:48.9	Warburton, and Nick Offerman, as we bring the sixth president to life. We'll travel back to the start of this fledgling nation, torn between slave and free states, to a bitter presidential campaign against Andrew Jackson.
1:04.8	Was there ever witnessed such a bare-faced corruption in any country before?
1:09.0	Letter from Philadelphia threatening organized opposition and civil war if Jackson
1:14.9	has not chosen.
1:17.8	And we'll follow John Quincy Adams to the halls of Congress.
1:21.6	But he did want to reclaim his greatness after he'd been knocked down after his presidency
1:26.5	actually had been something of a failure.
1:28.9	We'll learn about his reluctance to join the abolitionists,
1:32.3	only to later champion liberty for enslaved people
1:35.7	by arguing a landmark case before the Supreme Court.
1:39.3	I yielded and told them that if by the blessing of God my health and strength should permit, I would argue the case.
1:48.8	We'll bring you inside the uprisings, legal battles, and political brinksmanship that threatened to
1:55.1	shatter the fragile union, and the toll Adams' ambition took on his family.
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