After a curious coincidence in 1924, the world's weirdest paperweight was revealed to be the fossilized remains of one of our earliest ancestors.

To learn more about today's topic, check out:

Lee R. Berger, & Ronald J. Clarke. (1996). The load of the Taung child. Nature, 379(6568), 778-779.

Berger, L.R., Clarke, R.J., 1995. Eagle involvement of the Taung child fauna. Journal of Human Evolution 29, 275-299.

Dart, Raymond A. (1925), "Australopithecus africanus: The Man-Ape of South Africa", Nature, 115: 195–199, doi:10.1038/115195a0.

——— (1929), Australopithecus africanus: And His Place in Human Nature, Unpublished manuscript in the University of Witwatersrand archives.

SA fossil murder mystery solved (BBC)

Taung Child (Smithsonian)

Australopithecus africanus (Smithsonian)

In our first episode, we introduce ourselves and talk a little bit about archaeology, anthropology, and how we definitely do not study dinosaurs. Also, hot takes on some of pop culture's most important "archaeologists."

Greetings, fellow workers! In observance of May Day, which in many parts of the world is a day for celebrating and acknowledging the struggles of workers in the labor movement. In that spirit, we bring you an episode about work.

How do we define "jobs" in the archaeological record? What can skeletons tell us about what people did every day? What was it like to be a monument worker in ancient Egypt? Tune in for all this and more!

Show Notes

The Eloquent Bones of Abu Hureyra (Scientific American)

Neandertal Humeri May Reflect Adaptation to Scraping Tasks, but Not Spear Thrusting - PMC

https://phys.org/news/2012-07-unique-neandertal-arm-morphology-due.html

EA5634 ostracon (British Museum)

The Strikes in Ramses III's Twenty-Ninth Year (Journal of Near Eastern Studies)

A letter of complaint to the Vizier To (Journal of Near Eastern Studies)

Hard Work-Where Will It Get You? Labor Management in Ur III Mesopotamia (Journal of Near Eastern Studies)

The Forgotten History of New York’s Bagel Famines (Gastro Obscura)

SWCA Environmental Consultants in Salt Lake City Join Teamsters (International Brotherhood of Teamsters)