The Dirt On The Past Podcast
Welcome to The Dirt on the Past, a podcast of The Extreme History Project. Whether digging up a site or dusting off the archives, we bring you some of the most fascinating and cutting edge research in history and archaeology, and discuss why it matters today. Join co-hosts, Crystal Alegria and Nancy Mahoney as we converse with professionals in the fields of history, archaeology, and anthropology who bring the past…into the present. You can find the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening for more . . . Dirt on the Past! If you would like to support our this podcast, please visit our Patreon page by clicking here!


Join us for a conversation with Dr. Matthew Bennett, the lead scientist on a recently published article in the Journal Science that examined a set of human footprints preserved on an ancient lakeshore in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park that date to between 21,000 and 23,000 years old.

Crystal and Nancy dig deep into the history of a historic structure in downtown Bozeman, MT. This building is significant because it currently houses Nancy’s boutique, Moka, along with three other businesses including Alara Jewelry, Plume Bridal and Visions West Gallery! We explore the history of this building through the historic characters and businesses that have occupied this space through the years. A big thanks to our sponsors for this episode, Steep Mountain Tea and The Western Heritage Center.


Join us as we talk with Marsha Small about her work to locate and document Indian boarding school cemeteries. Marsha leads the Indigenous Peoples’ Day Montana movement and her work with the preservation and conservation of sacred sites and places using GPR, GPS, and GIS, specifically in boarding school cemeteries is internationally known. Marsha uses ground-penetrating radar to locate unmarked graves, including at the Chemawa Indian School cemetery in Salem, Oregon. Marsha has a master’s degree in Native American Studies from Montana State University and is currently working on a PhD. Marsha was the distinguished visiting Native American Studies professor in Anthropology at Willamette University in 2019. We discuss Marsha’s work at the Chemawa Indian Boarding School cemetery, along with the work she has been doing to establish protocols to document boarding school cemeteries. This is hard history and very difficult to discuss. Our thanks to Marsha for her continued dedication to this work and her mission to locate and document the graves of these children. To follow Marsha on social media use #aVoicefortheChildrenInIndianBoardingSchoolCemeteries.

Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo72232678.html
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Redlining the West: The Spatial Geography of Inequity
Click here to listen to our conversation with graduate student, Kerri Clement about her participation in a research project on the persistent spatial structure of inequality in urban neighborhoods, specifically in Denver, Colorado. We discuss redlining, intergenerational wealth inequality, and spatial segregation – all a result of the Jim Crow era that has persisted to the present.
Indigenous Archaeologist, Joe Watkins, on the Past as Present
Validating Places of History and Memory
Nasty Wenches, Good Wives, and Foul Bodies
High-Altitude Archaeology Collaboration and Friendship
Burying the Dead through Time
Six Hundred Generations

Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Click here to hear our discussion with Jill Falcon MacKin on Indigenous Food Sovereignty.

What Teeth Can Tell Us About Becoming Human

Introduction

Mapping Inequality

Watching Over Yellowstone
The Dirt on the Past is a collaboration of The Extreme History Project and Gallatin Valley Community Radio, http://www.kgvm.org.

