Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday August 3rd 2020 and I'm

the host of the show Kara Santa Maria and this week I want to thank the top patrons from last month. They include

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merch dot com and pick up some cool swag all right guys this is gonna be a really

exciting episode I had the opportunity to sit down with a professor of

anthropology and the director of the Historic Preservation Program at the University of

Nevada Reno.

Her name is Dr. Carolyn White.

And her most recent book, guys, this is really fascinating,

is called The Archaeology of Burning Man,

the rise and fall of Black Rock City.

So yeah, we're going to talk about the Archaeology of Burning Man.

Without any further ado, here she is Dr. Carolyn White.

Well, Carolyn, thank you so much for joining me today.

Thanks so much for having me.

Absolutely, so your book has to be one of the most interesting kind of conceptual books,

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