Recent Posts
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Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead is a captivating and globally celebrated holiday. Accompany Ed on a journey through its rich origins, his personal encounters with this vibrant tradition in Latin America, […]
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El Dorado – Fact or Fantasy?
Season 5 Episode 2 – When it comes to lost ancient cities that everyone wants to find, El Dorado runs a close 2nd to Atlantis. Did it really exist? Join […]
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S5 E1 Ed’s Origin Story at Copan
Ever wonder how Ed became an archaeologist? Well here’s the story. The year was 1990 and the place was Copan, Honduras. Ed’s first field school experience was quite an adventure! […]
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S4 E9 Earliest Peruvian Civilizations
Fact – Peru’s first pyramids are earlier than Egypt’s Not only did they start earlier, they were built for centuries longer. Join Ed as the explains Peru’s first civilizations from […]
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S4 E8 Poverty Point
3500 years ago, Poverty Point was a thriving city of over 5000 people in the bayous of northern Louisiana. Despite not having agriculture or even ceramics, those people built North […]
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S4 E7 Mapping Palenque Part 3
The final chapter of the Palenque Mapping Project, Season 1. More snakes, more temples, and a robbery at gun point! I got by with a little help from my friends. […]
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S4 E6 Mapping Palenque Part 2
The continued story of how I mapped Palenque – still in 1998, field season 1 of 3. In this episode – forest fires, mangos, and skinny dipping. Show Notes:
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S4 E5 Mapping Palenque
From 1998 to 2000, I led the Palenque Mapping Project. In this episode I’ll share the behind the scenes story of how I got the job and the strange things […]
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S4 E4 The Wari
The Wari were a civilization of 100’s of 1000’s of people living in the Andes between 500 and 1000 CE. Never heard of them? You’re not alone. In this episode, […]
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S4 E3 Mississippian Burial Patterns
Mississippian civilization honored its dead by laying them to rest in pyramidal burial mounds. But why? What did it mean to them and where did they get the idea to […]