Today we travel to a future where archaeology accidentally runs out of usable ancient DNA.
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
Voice Actors
- Dr. Pastrana — Ashley Kellem: Instagram, Website
- Graudate Student — — Henry Alexander Kelly: Website, podcast La Lisa: A Latinx Podcast
Further Reading:
- A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome
- Neither femur nor tooth: Petrous bone for identifying archaeological bone samples via forensic approach
- DNA has a 521-year half-life
- A minimally-invasive method for sampling human petrous bones from the cranial base for ancient DNA analysis
- Optimal Ancient DNA Yields from the Inner Ear Part of the Human Petrous Bone
- Use ancient remains more wisely
- Why Scientists Should Celebrate Failed Experiments
- Scientific progress is built on failure
- Highlight negative results to improve science
- Archaeological looting
- Native South Americans were early inhabitants of Polynesia
- Diverse Plant and Animal Genetic Records from Holocene and Pleistocene Sediments
- No bones? No problem: DNA left in cave soils can reveal ancient human occupants
- Neanderthals ‘knew what they were doing’: Archæologist Dr Naomi Martisius discusses her findings about Neanderthals’ behaviour with Wikinews
- Getting under the skin of a Medieval mystery
- Ancient dental plaque: a ‘whey’ into our milk drinking past?
- ZooMS: Species identification of parchment using peptide mass finger printing
- If Neandertals had a bone to pick, which would they choose?
- Identifying Archaeological Bone via Non-Destructive ZooMS and the Materiality of Symbolic Expression: Examples from Iroquoian Bone Points
- Non-destructive ZooMS identification reveals strategic bone tool raw material selection by Neandertals
Complete transcript available in site.