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El Dorado – Fact or Fantasy?
[buzzsprout episode=’13687262′ player=’true’] 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 […]
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S5 E1 Ed’s Origin Story at Copan
[buzzsprout episode=’13507075′ player=’true’] 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 […]
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S4 E9 Earliest Peruvian Civilizations
[buzzsprout episode=’12751630′ player=’true’] 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 […]
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S4 E8 Poverty Point
[buzzsprout episode=’12550627′ player=’true’] 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 […]
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S4 E7 Mapping Palenque Part 3
[buzzsprout episode=’12346287′ player=’true’] 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 […]
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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
[buzzsprout episode=’11789226′ player=’true’] 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. […]
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S4 E3 Mississippian Burial Patterns
[buzzsprout episode=’11607571′ player=’true’] 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 […]
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S4 E2 Mississippian Religion
[buzzsprout episode=’11414476′ player=’true’] In the centuries before Columbus, millions of people lived in what’s now the eastern United States. Today, we call that Mississippian Civilization. In this episode, I’ll discuss […]