Naked Archaeology, from the Naked Scientists

von Diana O'Carroll · Wissenschaft

Naked Archaeology, from the Naked Scientists

Where did the Nazca Lines come from? Who built Stonehenge, and what secrets lie concealed within Egypt's pyramids? To find out, join the Naked Archaeologists as they undress the past...

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  • Landscapes: Drainage, Plants and Palaces
    16. Oktober 2011 · 32 min
    We're back! And this month we start by taking a tour of the terribly glamorous ditches in East Anglia. Yes, the whole landscape is one giant piece of drainage archaeology! Plus,…
  • Bayesian Prehistory, Surface Metals and Sea Defenses
    16. Juni 2011 · 34 min
    This month: how a neat piece of statistical analysis has led to the construction of a prehistoric history; how satellites have revealed some hidden Egyptian pyramids; how autism…
  • Detailed Science of Dating, Data and Ceramics
    16. Mai 2011 · 35 min
    This month: the most recent Neanderthals in the Caucasus, the science of ceramic petrology, the truth about 'The Anthropocene' and Syrian hunting traps. Plus, in Backyard…
  • Dam Busting, Ancient Archaeologists and Iron Age Fort Raids
    16. April 2011 · 29 min
    Researchers re-create the experiments carried out by Barnes Wallis on the bouncing bomb; we discuss the Texan pre-Clovis finds; the Nichoria bone earns its place at multiple…
  • Egyptian Looting, Behavioural Variability and Pollen
    17. Februar 2011 · 30 min
    This month: current events in Egypt affecting ancient artefacts; Britons fashioning cups from skulls; games played in the Indus; and when humans behaved like humans. Plus, in…
  • First Farmer DNA, Crystals and Chessmen
    17. Januar 2011 · 35 min
    This month's divested archaeology consists of the mitochondrial DNA of Europe's first farmers; how to identify plaster using infrared light; who the Denisovans were; what to…
  • Roman bodies, site survival and collapse
    17. November 2010 · 30 min
    This month: why a Roman horse became a donkey; how part of Pompeii recently collapsed; how a Roman village survived underneath London; and what obesity meant to the Romans. Plus,…
  • Hard-to-Reach Heritage: Israel and Peru
    16. Oktober 2010 · 30 min
    We make our way to some of the least accessible bits of heritage this month: Naked Scientist Laura Soul treks to Machu Picchu and we hear about the fenced-off Palestinian…
  • Maya burial and abandonment
    16. September 2010 · 32 min
    This month we explore the dramatic burial of an El Zotz Maya king; he was seemingly interred with the remains of six sacrificed children. Also under the spotlight is the…
  • Roman food: before and after
    16. August 2010 · 31 min
    What did the Romans eat at their feasts? What came out the other end afterwards? This month we explore the toilets of Pompeii and the kinds of food eaten by its inhabitants. In…
  • Human remains and genetic legacies
    16. Juli 2010 · 35 min
    Human remains are our main topic of interest in this month's Naked Archaeology. Diana and Duncan explore the nature of Bronze Age cremations, the repatriation of Yagan's head and…
  • Southeast Asia: Hobbits and Niah Caves
    16. Juni 2010 · 35 min
    The diminutive, one-time inhabitants of Flores are probably the most famous early humans from this area of the world but where does H. floresiensis fit into our family tree? We…
  • Australian Archaeology and Rabbit Warrens
    16. Mai 2010 · 29 min
    This month on Naked Archaeology: when and how did the first humans make it to Australia? We unearth the evidence from archaeology and genetics. Also this month we discover that…
  • Changing sea levels and thin sections
    16. April 2010 · 30 min
    This month on Naked Archaeology: the discovery of a possible link between genus Homo and Australopithecus - Aus. sediba; we find out how people first made it to Cyprus; which is…
  • First cities and first writing: Mesopotamia
    17. März 2010 · 34 min
    How is it that the first farms, cities and writing all originated in Mesopotamia, now Iraq? We explore the so-called 'fertile crescent' and fanatical record-keeping in the…
  • Illicit Antiquities: Repatriation and Curating
    17. Februar 2010 · 32 min
    This month we divest the darker world of black market archaeology. We find out how illicit antiquities can be tracked down after being lost for decades and how they can be…
  • Make-up, Cleopatra and Temples
    17. Januar 2010 · 34 min
    Neanderthals wore make-up too! We explore the cosmetics worn by early humans and Egyptians. Naked Archaeology this month also explores the discovery of Cleopatra's unfinished…
  • Troy, Ithaca and Iceland
    17. Dezember 2009 · 31 min
    This month in divested archaeology we cover the archaeology that just happened to turn up in the legends of Homer. We find out about the man who discovered Troy, Heinrich…
  • Mary Rose, Underwater Landscapes and Metal Hunting
    17. November 2009 · 31 min
    This month's edition of Naked Archaeology hails from Poseidon's Realm: we find out how synchrotrons can help in the preservation of the famous raised wreck, the Mary Rose and how…
  • Nero, Hoards and Aberdeen Ships
    16. Oktober 2009 · 33 min
    This month has seen an archaeological spoil heap the size of Nero's party leftovers. And it's been quite a month for Roman archaeologists who've just announced the positive…
  • Hadrian's Timber Wall, Shell Beads and Brucellosis
    16. September 2009 · 32 min
    We find out how the Romans got to grips with building a 73.5 mile-long wall, why humans were bejewelled 82,000 years ago and how a disease called brucellosis indicates our…
  • Lost Legends: Altinum, Herod's Tomb and the HMS Diana
    17. August 2009 · 33 min
    Sometimes archaeologists know there's a site worth digging but don't quite know where to find it! We join the search for the original city of Venice, otherwise known as Altinum,…
  • Hunting, Submerged Traps and Flutes
    16. Juli 2009 · 31 min
    We dive into the underwater traps at Lake Huron, explore the origins of hunting and play a tune on the world's oldest flute. Plus, in Backyard Archaeology Tom explores the depths…
  • Naked Special: 800th Anniversary Dig
    21. Juni 2009 · 25 min
    2009 is The University of Cambridge's 800th birthday and what better way to celebrate than by digging an archaeological trench? We take a trip to the local Cambridgeshire village…
  • Dating, Pottery and Norway
    16. Juni 2009 · 33 min
    We strip down the science of dating this month by taking a look at rehydroxylation. We unearth some of the oldest pottery in the world, find out why Minoan pottery was so…
  • Technology - Iron, Glass and Slag
    16. Mai 2009 · 33 min
    Archaeology bared this month includes the 'long sleep' of human innovation, a technological accomplishment in the form of a 2000 year-old millefiori bowl and we explore the…
  • The Mediterranean and the Romans
    17. April 2009 · 30 min
    This month we explore the mysterious anchors buried off the shores of Cyprus, the unusual burial practices in Malta and the highly decorative shipsheds of the Romans. Plus, in…
  • Horses, battleships and pillboxes
    17. März 2009 · 29 min
    This month we explore the archaeology of war. We explore the earliest-known domestication of horses, find out about an armed Elizabethan privateer ship and rediscover the…
  • Battles, Chocolate and Brothels
    17. Februar 2009 · 30 min
    The sins of the past are uncovered in this month's Naked Archaeology, including chemical warfare; consuming desires for chocolate and finding the hidden Greek brothels. We also…
  • Oetzi, American migrations and animal bones
    17. Januar 2009 · 30 min
    The mitochondrial story of tzi, or the Tyrolean iceman, is unearthed in this month's Naked Archaeology. Also, how the Americas were populated and the study of zooarchaeology are…
  • TB, Underwater Archaeology and the Shaman
    17. Dezember 2008 · 25 min
    The tale of TB's earliest victims, the science of archaeology underwater and the first shamanic burial all go under the trowel in this month's Naked Archaeology. We also uncover…
  • Egyptian Mummified Foetuses, the First Crops and Solomon's Mines
    17. November 2008 · 31 min
    Mummified foetuses found in Tutankhamun's tomb go under the genetic spotlight to find out who they were and where they came from, we dig up the history of the domestication of…
  • The Vanishing Nasca, Repairing Pompeii and Peruvian Water-works
    16. Oktober 2008 · 30 min
    Why cutting down a precious tree species brought the Nasca people to their knees, how Pompeii is receiving a makeover, a new source of Neanderthal flints unlocks the secrets of…

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