The New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast

This fortnight we’re bringing you an episode about a podcast. The HIS 399 class at the University of New England, under the tutelage of Eric Zuelow (historian) and Arthur Anderson (archaeologist), recently produced “Falling By The Wayside,” a documentary-style podcast about some buildings at the University of New England campus that were almost lost to history. Arthur and Eric, along with Peyton S...

This fortnight, Ken and Gabe sit down for a conversation with a real geoarchaeologist: Robin Woywitka (Grant McEwan University) . It may start with the doom, but it ends with the laughs, and the hope for a brighter, collaborative future. Grab your Russian Peat Borers, we're headed to the muskeg. Show Notes: Ronaghan, B. M. (Ed.). (2017). Alberta’s Lower Athabasca Basin Archaeology and Palaeo envir...

This fortnight we’ve got an all coastal erosion episode. Andrea Richardson, the Climate Change Adaptation Coordinator at the Cape Sable Historical Society, updates us about some of her work and plans for monitoring and managing coastal erosion in Nova Scotia. Katie DeWater and Arthur Anderson of the University of New England join us to discuss a recent paper led by Katie that used GIS, archaeologi...

Happy New Year from the New Brunswick archaeology podcast! This fortnight, Ken and Gabe review a few of the year’s highlights in archaeology, with some digressions into the style, food, and beverage. Then they hand it over to the NB Arch Pod Producer, Emanuel Akel to provide you with some musical suggestions. We’re looking forward to chatting with you more in the new year, listener--it will be so...

We have a phenomenal show this fortnight: an interview with the phenom of phenomenology himself, David Milley. Join us as David tells us about his work using various forms of imaging and GIS as a helpful counterbalance to phenomenological theories of landscapes. And it’s not just our theoretical comfort zones we’re stepping out of today, it’s our regional ones, too, because much of David’s work co...

This fortnight, we realized it had been a while since we, your faithful hosts, told you what we'd been up to. Turns out, it's just like riding a bicycle. Initially running over 6.5 hours and 3.5 bottles of Courvoisier, Emanuel has trimmed this down to manageable proportions. Tune in for an all Ken and Gabe episode of the New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast to hear about the research projects we've b...

Apologies for the later than usual show, but we're back after a mid-season pause this fortnight-and-a-half and this one, listener, is a record breaking tight 31 minutes of content the likes the NB Archaeology Podcast has never seen. We touch base with Gabe while he's in New Hampshire and Ken is in New Brunswick, to recap the Eastern States Archeological Federation Annual Meeting at Salve Regina Un...

This fortnight, we're back with a real Vaubanarama of a Great Site from the Maritimes, taking a trip across the Bay of Fundy thanks to a listener request. We're headed to Annapolis Royal and Port-Royal, no wait, Charles Fort, no wait, the fort at Port-Royal, no wait, Fort Anne! with Becki Dunham, Parks Canada Terrestrial Archaeologist. We talk about the Mi'kmaq presence in Annapolis River area, th...

This fortnight, Ken and Gabe have a chat with Dimity Hammon, Vice President of the Tubac Historical Society--who, while in warmer settings of the southwest today, cut her teeth in the cooler (and at times inhospitably wet) climes of New Brunswick. We talk to Dimity about her thesis work on the Holt's Point site and the famous engraved pebbles, the early days of archaeology at UNB, The Computer, an...

This fortnight we’re joined by Dr. Mary McCarthy-Brandt to discuss New Brunswick’s segregated cemeteries, and her work with “REACH in New Brunswick” to locate, document, and preserve Black cemeteries in New Brunswick. She also shares some information about forthcoming publications and an art exhibit about that work. Show Notes Edward Mitchell Bannister: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mitchel...

This fortnight we’re chatting about Ken’s field trip back east! So tune in to hear us interview Mi’kmaq basket weaver and expert oyster harvester, Katrina Sock, and Sharon Cunningham of the Saint John River Society. You can also listen live while we learn that multiple summers of CRM did not result in Route 11 being fully twinned. Finally, congrats to Laura and Taylor who won the Quest for 10k lis...

Welcome to this all hit piece episode of the New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast where we have a show about a book about 640 pieces of published New Brunswick Archaeology. Tonight we’re not just podcasters, we’re co-authors, with the illustrious Trevor Dow who joins us in conversation about the Bibliography of New Brunswick Archaeology: Works to 2022 . And that’s not all, listener. We have a special...

Welcome to Season 3 Listeners!! Ken and Gabe are both in New Brunswick this fortnight, and although they’ve stepped into place they’ve stepped out of time again. They’re joined this episode by Margarita de Guzman, the Managing Director and CEO of Circle CRM and the founding director of The Fair Field Foundation. We discuss The Fair Field Foundation’s initiatives around bolstering women in archaeol...

This fortnight, we’re putting on our best Boston accent and becoming the New Brunswick Auk -aeology Podcast. That’s right, listener, all good things must come to an end. Like Season 2 of the New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast and the Great Auk. There's no cliffhangers here, we're not even burying the lede, but we’re joined for our season finale by Lucia Snyderman, who is researching the Great Auk a...

This fortnight (with proper audio now), Gabe is still in tiki gear two weeks later and Ken is still freezing despite the current heat wave and we're joined by Dr. Emma Yasui, the multi-talented archaeobotanist, podcaster, cultural consultant, and gaming guru. On our way through a conversation covering everything from representation in ttRPGs to Japanese kitchen gardens, Gabe learns about discord a...

This fortnight, the Northeast is engulfed in a heat wave and Alberta has returned to periglacial conditions. Gabe is therefore on assignment poolside while Ken stokes the fire and says a prayer for his tomatillos. Whether you’re in a daiquiri or a hot toddy setting today, get ready to change latitude and change attitude as the NB Archaeology Podcast goes south of the border. In the latest installm...

Content Warning: this episode deals with sensitive topics like drug use and sexual harassment. Archaeology is a lot of fun, and it’s even more fun when you aren’t on the business end of a bear bluff charge. In this episode, we are joined by Greer Vanderbyl ( 22:37 ), Carol Colaninno ( 59:53 ), and Nadine Byers ( 1:22:43 ) for big picture advice about field safety. Greer discusses building a cultur...

We're back a demi-fortnight later than usual to bring you this sonic and gastronomic journey through the Paris of the Prairies. The Award-Winning NB Archaeology Pod travelled to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association in Saskatoon, SK earlier this month an caught up with friends, met new colleagues, and encountered a Peppa Pig singing robot at the Number 1 Noodle House. We al...

This fortnight we learned you can take the Loyalist out of the states, but maybe you can’t take the states out of the Loyalist. You certainly can’t take the cannon out of the dooryard. Tune in to hear Dr. David Black tell us about Sam Bliss, the well armed shopkeeper turned soldier turned well-armed Quoddy Region farmer. And it’s not just weapons, Dave will also tell you about what the Blisses ate...

Do you like art? Do you like rocks? Well have we got the show for you! This fortnight your hosts Ken and Gabe are joined by Bryn Tapper (Memorial University) to discuss Indigenous pictographs and petroglyphs from Maine and the Maritimes. Bryn also discusses the importance of rock art sites for understanding Indigenous landscapes, ontologies, and shamanistic practices. Show Notes Bragdon, K. J. (20...

It’s spooky season here on the New Brunswick Archaeology podcast. We’re joined by Dr. Chris Wolff to talk about his research about fear as an important aspect of societies past and present. He’ll also give you a primer on the archaeology of Newfoundland and Labrador, share some of his recent work at Stock Cove, and discuss how the peopling of Newfoundland fits into a broader understanding of the c...

This fortnight we were joined by some of the UNB and Parks Canada team conducting bioarchaeological research at the (rapidly eroding) Fortress of Louisbourg in Cape Breton. Tune in to hear from Amy Scott, Mallory Moran, Kelsey Kane, Chris Burgess, Nicole Hughes, Taylor Corbett, and Nicole Breedon about mitigating 18th century cemeteries from the Fortress, and the cutting edge, we mean breaking new...

This fortnight, the New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast makes sure you don’t feel like you’re up a creek without a paddle. Your hosts, Ken and Gabe, talk about dugouts, birchbark canoes, skin boats, and portage routes in a 13000 year tour of what we know, and especially what we don’t, about watercraft. We also introduce our new producer, Emanuel Akel. Finally, we’d like to fondly remember Dick Doyle...

This fortnight (and a half...) Gabe and Ken are talking archaeology with our friend and esteemed guest, Mr. Austin Paul, Esq. We're also in the same room, and joined by a whole crowd of people in the Riverside Room at Picaroons Roundhouse/540 North on the banks of the Wolastoq. That's right, it's our first live episode, recorded in Fredericton on February 20th as part of the APANB/UNB Anthropology...

Tune in this fortnight for a new NB Archaeology Podcast series, “Great Sites.” In Great Sites episodes, we’ll showcase important archaeological sites from New Brunswick and the region. This episode, we talk to Dr. Sue Blair of the University of New Brunswick about the Jemseg Crossing Site (BkDm-14), where she led one of largest scale archaeological excavations ever undertaken in the province. The...