Episode 44 - The Episode Is Revolting
It's another Very Special Sponsored Episode this week, about the archaeology of protest, revolt, and rebellion. Join Anna and Amber alongside coal miners in West Virginia, Jewish rebels in the first century CE, enslaved Africans in the Dutch Virgin Islands, and more stories of human defiance and resilience in the face of oppression.
To learn more about this week’s stories, check out:
Mountaintop Rescue (Archaeology)
What Did the Miners See?: Archaeology, Deep Mapping, and the Battle of Blair Mountain (West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies)
West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
Visit Historic Matewan, West Virginia (YouTube)
Heat, dust and history in the sand as the riddle of Masada was uncovered (The Guardian)
Masada (UNESCO)
Archaeologists get set to dig at Masada, after 11-year hiatus (Times of Israel)
Masada Dig Reveals a Pleasure-Garden at King Herod’s Palace (Biblical Archaeology Society)
Estate by Estate: The Landscape of the 1733 St. Jan Slave Rebellion (Syracuse University)
Watch the throne: why artist Thierry Oussou faked an archaeological dig (The Guardian)
Thierry Oussou: ‘I would like the discourse that I am developing in my work to educate people – to make them think differently’ (studio international)
Tiananmen Square Massacre: Who was the Tank Man and how is he being remembered today? (Independent)
Photo credit: Aerial view of Masada, in the Judaean Desert, with the Dead Sea in the distance, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.