It’s the holidays! This fortnight, Gabe and Ken are sitting around the table at The Cardinal Room and talking food, drink, music, movies, and even a little bit of archaeology. We then turn it over to Producers Emanuel and Cody who dive into the creative process, AI and the singularity, and your song suggestions for the holidays. Pour yourself a festive beverage (some suggestions, below), listener, as we wrap up the year of the pod that was! See you in 2026!

✨ Thank you for being part of the NBAP community. 🎁 Wishing you a Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

Show Notes

• Pauketat’s Cahokia, William Gibson’s Jackpot Trilogy
• Lion’s Tail cocktail: Brad Parson’s Amaro
• Nonna Maria Sofia’s Limoncello
• Patisserie Jacqui, Hanover Street Chophouse
• Bourbon & Butter, Nevados

Music sourced from the Top 5 Arch Spotify playlist (compliments of Emanuel):

• Mood — Makar
• Climbing the Ginso Tree — Gareth Coker
• Waiting for the Clouds — Nujabes
• Veya, Pt. 1 — Fat Jon
• Distant Land — Madlib

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Sponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)

Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces: Justin Hoenke

This fortnight we're getting biblical, and as we thread the needle between Hannukah and Christmas, we figured what better way than to head back to the source material. That's right, it's the Early Woodland in the Levant (aka the Iron age) and we've got Dr. Kevin McGeough (University of Lethbridge) on the Pod to talk about the Ark of the Covenant. Ken and Gabe have read Kevin's new book Readers of the Lost Ark and we get Kevin to answer all your questions: could it be a conduit to God? is it a weapon? is it an alien radio? and just how many Finnish mystics does it take to excavate the Temple Mount? Happy holidays, listener!

Show Notes

• McGeough, Kevin M. (2025). Readers of the Lost Ark: Imagining the Ark of the Covenant from Ancient Times to the Present. Oxford. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/readers-of-the-lost-ark-9780197653883 (also find it at Indigo and your favourite local bookseller!)
• Kevin McGeough
• Heller, Steven. (2000). The Swastika: Symbol Beyond Redemption. Allworth Press, New York, NY
• CCRA : https://www.facebook.com/p/Canadian-Cultural-Resources-Association-61565057884135/
  • survey link

Credits

Sponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)

Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces: Justin Hoenke

This fortnight, Ken and Gabe sit down with Alexandre Pelletier-Michaud to discuss one of the most recognizable sites in New Brunswick archaeology, the Bristol-Shiktehawk Site. We delve into George Frederick Clarke, caches, Early Woodland ceremonialism, craft production, and Alex and Gabe come dangerously close to making us the New Brunswick pseudoarchaeology podcast. They're not Solutrean, but they could be leaves. Prepare your offering to Boognish, cause lordy, lordy he’s coming home.

Show Notes

Clarke, George Frederick. 2016. Someone Before Us: Buried History in Central New Brunswick. Expanded Fourth Edition ed., edited by Mary Bernard. Woodstock, New Brunswick: Chapel Street Editions.

Honsinger, Alexander, Alexandre Pelletier-Michaud, Arthur Anderson, M. Gabriel Hrynick, and Hendrik Carroll-Pohls. 2025. "Provenance, Petrography, and Distribution of “Quoddy Speckled Mudstone:” a Distinctive Lithic Raw Material from the Maine–new Brunswick Quoddy Region." Archaeology of Eastern North America 53: 73-86.

Pelletier-Michaud, Alexandre. 2018. "The Bristol-Shiktehawk bifaces and Early Woodland ceremonialism in the Middle Saint John Valley, New Brunswick." MA, Department of Anthropology, University of New Brunswick.

Rust, Horatio N. 1905. "The Obsidian Blades of California." American anthropologist 7 (4): 688-695. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1905.7.4.02a00150. https://go.exlibris.link/sZY1fSh8.

Hit Pieces

Olson, Olivia, "Birdsong: Human-Bird Relationships during the Ceramic Period in Wabanaki Homeland: a Case Study at the Frazer Point Site (Me 44-49; Acad 00110), Schoodic Peninsula, Maine" (2025). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4201.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/4201

Seymore, Deni J. 2025. Extraordinary Claims, Extraordinary Evidence: The Coronado Expedition’s 1541 Suya Settlement. American Antiquity, 90:419-445 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/abs/extraordinary-claims-extraordinary-evidence-the-coronado-expeditions-1541-suya-settlement/2F3ACA404ED9993051E508B1562E4587?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark

Credits

Sponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)

Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces: Justin Hoenke