Childhood, Motherhood, and the Body in Iron Age Europe: Interview with Professor Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Thanks to cutting-edge tools, archaeologists can study the lives of past people in ways that were never before possible. Professor Katharina Rebay-Salisbury applies those tools to children and mothers in Bronze and Iron Age Europe, shedding light on the experiences of those often left out of traditional narratives.

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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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0:06.2	Hi everybody, from Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History.
0:21.2	It is wonderful to have you all here and thanks for joining me.
0:24.9	When we try to understand Europe, north of the Alps and the Bronze and Iron Ages were
0:28.6	faced with some problems.
0:30.4	Unlike the societies living to the south, in Greece, in Italy, and Iberia, the people
0:34.4	living in continental Europe didn't use much writing.
0:37.2	Their literate neighbors didn't have much to say about them until after 500 BC, and
0:41.0	even then, it's hard to say how much of their writing we should really trust.
0:44.8	Luckily, though, we have another resource at our disposal to understand the lives of
0:48.4	people living in Bronze and Iron Age Europe.
0:50.8	Archaeology
0:52.7	No part of the world has been more thoroughly investigated and excavated than Europe,
0:56.5	and the archaeological record for the Bronze and Iron Ages is impossibly rich and entailed.
1:02.2	Archaeologists have been digging up sites from these periods for nearly two centuries,
1:05.2	everything from burials to settlements to hordes of valuable items to entire ancient landscapes.
1:10.8	But today, the tools archaeologists have at their disposal allow us to understand the experiences,
1:15.6	lives, and even beliefs of ancient Europeans in ways we never thought possible even a generation
1:20.1	ago.
1:21.1	Today's guest works right on the cutting edge of European archaeology in the Bronze and
1:25.6	Iron Ages, and is doing some incredibly fascinating work on a variety of topics, ranging
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