The Dirt Podcast

Achoo, and Welcome to The Dirt

This week, Amber is recovering from a nasty cold that has left her normally dulcet tones...

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MINISODE 2: It's Just Archaeology

We're doing something different this week while Amber is on a whirlwind tour of life admin stuff....

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MINISODE - The World's Oldest Story

This week, Anna has some big questions about the Pleiades, a group of bright, beautiful stars...

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Gimme (Rock)Shelter: Neanderthals at Home

We've discussed Neanderthals quite a bit on The Dirt (it's a whole section of Anna's contract)....

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Episode 213 - The Dirt Wines a Bit

Join us for a tasting session along the timewine (TM) of human history! Is the human capacity to...

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Episode 212 - Sport, Kinship, and Black Football with Dr. Tracie Canada

Anna and Amber chat with Dr. Tracie Canada a socio-cultural anthropologist whose ethnographic...

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Welcome (Back) to The Dirt!

Hello, and welcome to the new and improving Dirt Podcast! If you’re a longtime listener, welcome...

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Let's Talk About (Inter)Sex

This week's episode was inspired by news coverage of Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski, who,...

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Ur Never Going to Believe This

Join Anna and Amber on a tour of third millennium BCE Mesopotamia, where they explore the Royal...

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Made For Walkin': A Very Brief History of Footwear

Anna and Amber rummage around on the floor of history's closet to bring you a brief history of...

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What Spake Zarathustra?

It's almost officially springtime in the Northern Hemisphere, and the vernal equinox brings with...

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Lady Statues and Prehistoric Matriarchy

Kick off Women's History Month with a show all about some of the earliest representations of...

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The Unsettling Business of Curating Human Remains

Here at The Dirt, we talk a lot about the things that people leave behind, but we’ve not spent...

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Happy ThanksViking!

This week, Anna and Amber have a Thing*: it’s an episode all about the Viking Age! Sail with us...

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View to a Kilwa: The Medieval Swahili Coast

This week, while Anna and Amber's actual selves will be on the West Coast, the show heads for the...

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Oh, Curses!

Halloween may be over, but Anna and Amber are keeping it spooky as they discuss curses and their...

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Beware the Boogeypeople!

This week, Anna and Amber hunker down around the campfire to talk about things that go bump in...

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Cladh Hallan: An Episode in...Several Parts!

This week, Anna introduces us to Bronze Age Britain and Amber tells us about the very, very...

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Forensic Anthropology with Dr. Jonathan Bethard

We talk to REAL LIVE FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGIST Dr. Jon Bethard (University of South Florida) about...

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Welcome to Cliff Palace: Ancestral Puebloans

This week we round out this month's coverage of indigenous Latin America with a look at the...

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