The Dirt On The Past Podcast
Welcome to The Dirt on the Past, 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!
Extreme History News!
Coming soon . . . Join Nancy and Crystal as they talk about what’s coming up this summer for The Extreme History Project, the new podcast logo, and upcoming podcast interviews. They also delve into women’s history month and talk about vice districting in the 1890s in relation to red-light districts and prostitution in the west.
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
