Ethnocynology with David Ian Howe

In this episode of Ethnocynology with David Ian Howe , I sit down with my good friend and former graduate school cohort member Cassidee Thornhill , Collections Manager at the University of Wyoming Archaeological Repository. Cassidee’s research dives into the early contact era in Wyoming , focusing on the arrival and spread of horses before and during European colonization. We discuss her fascinati...

In this episode of Ethnocynology , host David Ian Howe sits down with archaeologist and anthropologist Dr. William Taylor (University of Colorado Boulder), author of Hoofbeats: How Horses Shaped Human History . While this show usually focuses on dogs, today we shift to the other animal that transformed humanity: the horse. Dr. Taylor walks us through the evolutionary history of horses, their domes...

In this episode of Ethnocynology , host David Ian Howe sits down with friend and creator North02 to dive into one of North America’s most fascinating and overlooked archaeological stories—the Old Copper Culture . Together, they explore how Native communities in the Great Lakes region began shaping some of the world’s earliest metal tools and weapons , thousands of years before metallurgy took hold...

On this episode of A Life in Ruins Podcast, David and Connor talk to Dr. Angela Perri about her lengthy CV and her academic/professional career. Dr. Perri is currently the top researcher in the world in terms of understanding the relationship between humans and dogs in the ancient world. So clearly, David's ears perked up. As usual, we first dive into Angela's early life and career in anthropology...

An Anthro Chat With Stefan Milo. In this episode of ethnic psychology, David sits down with good friend Stefan Milo, archaeologist, YouTuber, and overall outstanding chap. David and Steve catch up on recent anthropology news and discussed the recent archaeological findings at White Sands national Park, as well as the recent genetic findings surrounding Dragon Man, the Denisovans, and the peopling...

On this episode of A Life In Ruins podcast, David interviews his former advisor Dr. Todd Surovell. Todd served as an advisor to David and was a committee member for David and Connor‘s MA theses. David begins interviewing Todd about what archaeology means to him, and a discussion of his early life. The conversation later turns into how Todd found his way into anthropology, and his work in graduate...

In this episode of ethnic psychology, David sits down with a friend of the pod, Artur Hulu. But you may know him by his Instagram pseudonym Gaius Flavius. Arthur is a prolific memes it is pretty tapped into the cultural Zeitgeist of the Internet. Well, most of his memes have to do with ancient Rome and classical history, they are successful because he understands the complex history of memes and m...

In this episode of Ethnocynology with David and Howe, David sits down with good friend Jonny Devaney! Jonny recently got back from an extended trip to Italy with his family, where he went to Pompeii, Naples, Venice, Rome, and got to see a mass run by the new Pope Leo. They first start by catching up with each other and then quickly get into the trip. Jonny spent the most time in Rome and Naples, b...

In this episode, David answers questions he received from a Q&A on Instagram. While some are archaeological, most are on dogs. The questions range from dogs in the Americas, to dog burials in Europe, why are some wolves black? Why are there so many arrowheads in Wyoming? And were dogs really eaten? David answers these questions, and does his usual rant and tirades in between questions about curren...

In this episode, David finally discusses the 2018 film “Alpha.” Alpha is a movie that takes place 20,000 years ago in France, in which a boy is separated from his hunting party, and has to survive on his own to get home. That is until he meets a wolf, and the two of them then have to survive together to make it home. It is a story of survival, but also the first domestic dog. David reviews the mov...

In this episode, David reads some selected short stories and posts from his Instagram that helped build his account.  If you've been following him for a while, you'll recognize some of these posts, and more importantly you'll recognize the illustrations done by Ettore Mazza. Many of these posts have to do with dogs, wolves, and anthropology but the final one has to do with tattoos and the Lord of...

In this episode of Ethnocynology, David chats with friend, colleague, and former A Life in Ruins host, Dr. Carlton Shield Chief Gover. David and Carlton do a brief catch up before diving right into the recent paper released by Colossal Biosciences and a team of researchers regarding newly researched direwolf genetics. David and Carlton discuss the ethics of release the un-peer reviewed paper only...

In this episode, David talks about the recent news about the direwolves that were “brought back from extinction.” However, as he explains, no direwolves were brought back from extinction, and it seems the company is intentionally lying to the public for one reason or the other. David talks biology, speciation taxonomy, and why it seems the public is being duped. Links: davidianhowe.com Davidianhow...

In this episode of Ethnocynology with David Ian Howe, David sits down with friend and wildlife photographer Hannah Rheaume. Hannah, born in Maine, but residing in the Pacific Northwest today, frequently travels to Yellowstone to photograph wolves in the wild. David asks her about her childhood, what led her to photography, and what it must be like to get so close to wolves and understand their beh...

David then discusses the Bellemeade Mansion and the Hermitage in Nashville, and how these powerful Southern families partook in the war. But mainly, David speaks candidly about how these historic sites have evolved (and not evolved) in their ways of including the story Black Americans and those of the African Diaspora into the landscape of these histories Links: davidianhowe.com Davidianhowe.com/s...

In this Episode, David discusses his recent travels to California and Connor’s visit to Nashville the week before. David and Connor met up with Aaron Deter-Wolf of Archaeology Ink and Danny Riday of Totemic Tattoo in Nashville, who gave David and Connor hand-poked tattoos with bone and stone. David discusses the artistry, history, and process behind Danny’s work and his hand-poked tattoo, that is...

As laid out in Episode 4, David will be doing deep dives into movies, TV shows, and books that have to do with anthropology and dogs in the apocalypse. In this episode, David does a deep dive on a film called “Children of Men” directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Children of Men explores a near-future where men and women have become infertile, and no one is able to reproduce. In this story, dogs play a rol...

In this episode of Ethnocynology, David highlights a recent paper published about a bone needle he helped excavate in the summer of 2022. While David wasn’t an author on the paper, he was there when it was excavated, recorded the moment, and recently conducted interviews with the two leading authors of the paper. David discusses how he read a comment on his post about the needle that made him stop...

In this episode, David chats with good friend and guest Jonny Devaney. David had interviewed Jonny on the David Ian Howe Show a few months ago and on that episode talked about possibly doing another, and being one of the first guests on Ethnocynology. David and Jonny begin the episode by catching up and talking about dogs. And then Jonny begins his deep dive into his obsession with Salukis and beg...

For this episode of Just the Boyz, we kick off our series on animal domesticates, starting with the oldest known domesticated animal: the dog. We are fortunate to have David as a one of the hosts as he is one of the leading public scholars when it comes to the relationship between dogs and humans throughout human history. We chat about the earliest evidence for dog domestication, the leading theor...

In this month's episode, Matilda chats with fellow podcaster and well-known YouTube anthropologist David Ian Howe all about ancient arrowheads. Probably everyone knows what an arrowhead is, but what's the story behind the use and development of arrowheads? And most importantly, what's the link between arrowheads and smartphones? Listen in to find out all this and more! Links Tea Break Time Travel...

In this episode, David shares the news of Strider’s passing, and discusses the two other times he has had to say goodbye to dogs in his life. Segment one deals with his childhood beagle/spaniel mix named Maggie. Segment two begins the story of Athena, the family lab mix. And Segment three begins the discussion of Strider and the difficult issues that lead to his recent euthanasia. Transcripts For...

In this episode of ethnocynology David sits down with Dr Alyce Cannon for part two of their episode on dogs in ancient Greece. In the previous episode, Dr. Cannon brought up some fascinating topics about dogs in the classical world, specifically Athens, after catching up on life for a bit. At the end of the episode, he left it up to the audience to submit some questions for Dr. Cannon for part two...

In this episode of ethnocynology David sits down with recently minted PhD, Dr Alyce Cannon. David and Elise have known each other for the past 5 years through their work talking about dogs on social media. Alyce is a Sydney Australia based classicist and archaeologist who did her research on the ancient world and human animal interactions in ancient Greece specifically. David and Alyce begin by ca...

In this episode of Ethnocynology with David Ian Howe, David gives an introduction to an idea he’s had for a while to discuss and explore the anthropological themes of apocalyptic fiction. Apocalypse stories are often set in a bleak world, telling bleak stories. Yet they are fundamentally always HUMAN stories, using a bleak world to explore questions regarding philosophy, morality, and above all…wh...