The New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast

Mar 04 2025 52 ep. 88 mins 24

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Covering 13,000 years of history, archaeologists Gabe Hrynick (Associate Professor, University of New Brunswick) and Ken Holyoke (Assistant Professor, University of Lethbridge) introduce the people, technologies, and stories of archaeology in New Brunswick, Canada.

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Fer Shore [Dinner]

Mar 04 2025 59 mins

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 Eri

It Starts with the Doom: Archaeology and Climate Change Part II

Feb 19 2025 81 mins

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 a

Un-Tidalled: Archaeology and Climate Change Part I

Feb 02 2025 80 mins

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 use

Holiday [It would be so nice]

Jan 08 2025 88 mins

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, list

Phenomena...Do-Do-Do-Do-Do

Dec 24 2024 94 mins

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 m

Enough about archaeology. Let's talk about ourselves

Dec 04 2024 84 mins

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

ESA-tis-F-ying - Intrusive Feature 3a

Nov 20 2024 32 mins

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

Great Sites: Fort Anne, "I can't think of archaeology not being public"

Oct 30 2024 90 mins

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 Annapoli

When the Computer First Came to NB Archaeology

Oct 15 2024 59 mins

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,

REACH-ing Out to the Ancestors: Black Cemeteries in NB

Oct 01 2024 59 mins

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 NotesEdward Mitchell Bannister: https://en.wikipedia.