Revisiting the Ancient Americas with Professor Shane Miller

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

I've had the opportunity to talk to a lot of great people during this season, and Professor Shane Miller of Mississippi State University has been incredibly generous with his time on multiple occasions. He and I catch up on the state of the debate about who came first to the Americas, what agriculture in the eastern United States looked like, and how to find really old dirt.

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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.
0:22.4	The best thing about doing this season of Tides, at least for me, has been getting to
0:25.2	talk to so many wonderful people.
0:27.3	These conversations have been so awesome, I feel like I've really been welcomed into a bunch
0:34.7	of academic disciplines with open arms.
0:37.0	And I've learned a ton, which I hope I've been able to pass on to you all, and it is
0:40.5	due entirely to the openness and generosity of the people I've talked to.
0:44.8	With that in mind, I think it's fitting for our last interview episode of the season to
0:48.0	be with one of these fantastic folks who is now making his third appearance.
0:51.8	Shane Miller is an associate professor of anthropology at Mississippi State University
0:55.4	and wrote a book from colonization to domestication, population, environment, and the origins
0:59.9	of agriculture in Eastern North America.
1:02.2	He recently co-edited a volume entitled The American South East at the end of the Ice Age,
1:07.3	and he's written a whole bunch of journal articles.
1:09.8	He's an expert on the archaeology of the Americas with a ton of different interests, including
1:13.3	the Ice Age colonization of the Americas, agriculture in Eastern North America, and stone
1:17.1	tools, all of which we'll touch on a bit today.
1:19.3	Shane, thank you so much for joining me once again.
1:21.3	I'm happy to be here, man.
1:23.6	So the last time you were kind enough to come on the show, it was in the fall of 2021,
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