Game of Bones

Flash Forward

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Science

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Today we travel to a future where archaeology accidentally runs out of bones. Guests: Dr. Keolu Fox — assistant professor at UC San Diego, Indigenous Futures Lab Dr. Benjamin Vernot — postdoctoral scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Dr. Naomi Martisius — postdoctoral scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology → → → Further reading & resources here! ← ← ← Voice Actors: Dr. Pastrana — Ashley Kellem: Instagram, Website Graudate Student — — Henry Alexander Kelly: Website, podcast La Lisa: A Latinx Podcast Flash Forward is hosted by Rose Eveleth and produced by Julia Llinas Goodman. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. The voices from the future this episode were played by Ashley Kellem and Henry Alexander Kelly. Get in touch: Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // [email protected] Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Subscribe: iTunes // Soundcloud // Spotify Episode Sponsors: PNAS Science Sessions: Short, in-depth conversations with the world’s top scientific researchers. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! Shaker & Spoon: A subscription cocktail service that helps you learn how to make hand-crafted cocktails right at home. Get $20 off your first box at shakerandspoon.com/ffwd. Tab for a Cause: A browser extension that lets you raise money for charity while doing your thing online. Whenever you open a new tab, you’ll see a beautiful photo and a small ad. Part of that ad money goes toward a charity of your choice! Join team Advice For And From The future by signing up at tabforacause.org/flashforward. Tavour: Tavour is THE app for fans of beer, craft brews, and trying new and exciting labels. You sign up in the app and can choose the beers you’re interested in (including two new ones DAILY) adding to your own personalized crate. Use code: flashforward for $10 off after your first order of $25 or more. Purple Carrot: Purple Carrot is THE plant-based subscription meal kit that makes it easy to cook irresistible meals to fuel your body. Each week, choose from an expansive and delicious menu of dinners, lunches, breakfasts, and snacks! Get $30 off your first box by going to www.purplecarrot.com and entering code FLASH at checkout today! Purple Carrot, the easiest way to eat more plants! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm your host and flash forward is a show about the future.
0:06.0	Hello and welcome to Flash Forward.
0:08.6	I'm Rose and I'm your host and Flash Forward is a show about the future.
0:13.2	Every episode we take on a specific possible or not so possible future scenario.
0:20.1	We always start with a little field trip into the future to check out what's going on and then we teleport back to today to talk to experts about how that world we just heard might really go down.
0:33.5	Got it?
0:34.4	Great.
0:35.1	This episode, we are starting in the year
0:37.2	25.
0:38.9	Dr. Pastrana, hi, do you have a minute?
0:45.0	Sure, of course.
0:47.0	I think I know what I want to focus on for my thesis.
0:50.0	Oh, good. I was starting to worry about you.
0:52.0	Yeah, I just have a lot of interests I guess.
0:56.1	Not always a bad thing, but sometimes a bad thing. So what are you thinking?
1:03.0	I really love the guest lecture that Dr. Manoan did a few weeks ago, and I've been doing some of my own research into it, and I think
1:09.9	I want to look into this question of Bronze Age cultural changes across Eurasia, especially
1:16.0	language changes.
1:17.4	It's so interesting to me that we just don't know what caused these.
1:21.4	Did the ideas move or did the people move? But that seems like a
1:25.6	question we could totally answer. We just have to do more work on the DNA, right? I don't
1:30.0	think there's a big broad comparative study that samples across all of Eurasia to
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