Ep. 427: The OG of Archaeology
The MeatEater Podcast
MeatEater
4.9 • 37.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 138 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Steven Rinella talks with Mike Kunz, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.
Topics include: When we called Mike Kunz the "Forest Gump of Archaeology"; the emperor of the north and the king of the west; dustpans of mosquitos; foxes running out of a gray whale carcass; the Alaska pipeline project; igneous intrusions; when you find Paleoindian projectile points in Alaska; the poor odds that you were the first person to find a thing that someone else dropped; how the Mesa site was discovered; the property of conchoidal fracture; direct tattoo evidence and direwolves; how everyone knew how to make projectile points; polar bears and climate change; the arctic small tool tradition; two iron pendants, two copper rings, and three blue glass beads; Occam's razor; going with the evidence you have; The Mesa Site: Paleoindians above the Arctic Circle; and more.
Connect with Steve and MeatEater
Steve on Instagram and Twitter
MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube
Shop MeatEater Merch
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, this is Brent Rees with the Meadeaters New Podcast, this Country Live. |
| 0:05.0 | You ever wondered how to pick out a good dog, bowl up a massive crawfish or catch catfish |
| 0:09.3 | on a trot line? |
| 0:10.3 | Well, on this Country Live, I'm inviting you into my home, where in each episode I'll |
| 0:14.8 | be telling you the story of a good hunt, close call, a hard time, a good time, whatever. |
| 0:20.0 | And then we'll talk on some good country skills I think you ought to know. |
| 0:24.1 | Listen to this Country Live starting April 21st in the Bear Grease feed on the Out Heart |
| 0:28.8 | Radio app on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:35.8 | This is the Meadeaters Podcast coming at you shirtless, severely bugged bitten in my case, |
| 0:50.8 | underwearless, meadeaters podcast. |
| 0:53.8 | You can't predict anything. |
| 0:55.8 | Presented by first light creating proven versatile hunting apparel from marino base layers |
| 1:02.3 | to technical outerwear for every hunt, first light, go farther, stay longer. |
| 1:10.8 | Holy cow, Mike Huns is here. |
| 1:13.6 | Archaeologist and paleontologist who I knew, you could probably tell me the exact date |
| 1:18.4 | we met, Mike, from your little... |
| 1:20.4 | Oh yeah, June 28th, 2006. |
| 1:24.2 | I'll never forget it. |
| 1:26.6 | Archaeologist and paleontologist. |
| 1:28.5 | When we had, if you go back to an episode, episode 306, one of many affiliations of Mike |
| 1:35.2 | Huns' University of Alaska and the BLM and I knew the Bureau of Land Management, I knew |
| 1:40.3 | him in his Bureau of Land Management capacity when he was directing a bunch of archaeological |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from MeatEater, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of MeatEater and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.