Archaeology and Why It Rules

Tides of History

Audible / Patrick Wyman

History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Archaeology shows up all the time on Tides of History, and it's one of Patrick's favorite topics. Leah joins to chat about what it can tell us, how it works, and why it's so dang cool.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Tides of History, add free on Amazon Music.
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0:06.0	From Wondery, I'm Patrick Weiman.
0:17.2	Welcome to another episode of Tides of History.
0:19.3	Thanks for joining me.
0:20.5	So today we're going to do something a little bit different.
0:23.1	Instead of an interview, we're going to have an informal chat about one of my very favorite
0:26.6	topics.
0:27.6	Archaeology.
0:28.7	Leah is going to sit in with me here today.
0:31.0	She's going to chime in from time to time to make sure I don't get too rambly.
0:34.7	I am happy to do that job.
0:36.8	It is what I was born to do.
0:38.7	It is entirely possible that I'm going to get too rambly because I love archaeology.
0:43.0	In fact, when I was finishing up my master's degree, getting a PhD in archaeology was one
0:47.2	of the things I very strongly considered, actually focusing on castles and battlefield archaeology.
0:52.4	So in a not that implausibly different world, I'm probably a commercial archaeologist somewhere
0:57.0	in Ireland or the UK right now.
0:59.1	What is a commercial archaeologist?
1:01.3	So a commercial archaeologist is much more common in countries that have really strict heritage
1:06.1	laws and lots and long periods of occupation.
1:09.1	So there are laws about like if you're putting in a sewer or something and you run across
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