Modern Benefits from Archaeological Discoveries (w/ Mary Prendergast and Elizabeth Sawchuk) and Hearing Body Language
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Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Learn about the modern benefits we’re getting from new archaeological discoveries, from researchers Mary Prendergast and Elizabeth Sawchuk. Then, you’ll learn about how people can hear body language in your voice.
Additional resources from Mary Prendergast and Elizabeth Sawchuk:
- Sawchuk, E., & Prendergast, M. (2019, December 23). Archaeological discoveries are happening faster than ever before, helping refine the human story. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/archaeological-discoveries-are-happening-faster-than-ever-before-helping-refine-the-human-story-128743
- Lipson, M., Ribot, I., Mallick, S., Rohland, N., Olalde, I., Adamski, N., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Lawson, A. M., López, S., Oppenheimer, J., Stewardson, K., Asombang, R. N., Bocherens, H., Bradman, N., Culleton, B. J., Cornelissen, E., Crevecoeur, I., de Maret, P., Fomine, F. L. M., … Reich, D. (2020). Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history. Nature, 577(7792), 665–670. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-1929-1
- Follow @prendydigs on Twitter https://twitter.com/prendydigs
- Mary Prendergast. (2019). Slu.edu. https://www.slu.edu/madrid/academics/faculty/mary-prendergast.php
- Springer Verlag. (2020, February 15). Elizabeth SAWCHUK | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Alberta, Edmonton | UAlberta | Department of Anthropology. ResearchGate; ResearchGate. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elizabeth_Sawchuk
People can hear body language in your voice by Grant Currin
- Body language can also be heard. (2013). Donders Institute. https://www.ru.nl/donders/news/news/@1270328/body-language-can-also-heard/
- Pouw, W., Paxton, A., Harrison, S. J., & Dixon, J. A. (2020). Acoustic information about upper limb movement in voicing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(21), 11364–11367. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004163117
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | Today you learn about the modern benefits we're getting from new archaeological discoveries, |
| 0:12.0 | from researchers Mary Prendergast and Elizabeth Saatchuck. |
| 0:15.0 | Then you learn about how people can hear body language in your voice. |
| 0:19.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:22.0 | I was waving my arms around there. I don't know if I could hear that. |
| 0:28.0 | Technological advances have helped archaeologists change what we know about ourselves. |
| 0:34.0 | And over the last couple weeks, |
| 0:35.0 | we've touched on some new discoveries |
| 0:37.0 | from the world of archaeology, |
| 0:38.5 | which are happening faster than ever. |
| 0:40.5 | So today, we're wrapping up our conversation with researchers Mary Prennerghast and Elizabeth |
| 0:44.8 | Sawthuck by helping you understand the modern implications of these discoveries. |
| 0:50.0 | Here's Mary Prennerghast with more. |
| 0:52.1 | Some of our findings have real world implications today. |
| 0:55.3 | So just to take an example from our own research, |
| 0:59.2 | I work in Tanzania with a team of colleagues |
| 1:01.6 | to excavate a site that was occupied by early pastoralists, so people who had sheep, goat, cattle, donkey, and members of my team are using some of these techniques that we've been talking about, they're using |
| 1:13.7 | you know soil chemical analysis for example or micro morphology which is kind of a microscopic |
| 1:19.4 | examination of sediments to examine the impacts that herders may have had or their |
| 1:26.2 | livestock and their most importantly their livestock's dung may have had on the |
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