The Archaeology Podcast Network
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Carlton Gover, Connor Johnen, and David Howe are three friends that went to graduate school together and decided to start an archaeology podcast. Join them every week for witty conversation, amazing guests, and a bit of profanity - all in the name of archaeological science. Join them as they investigate the careers of those living a life in ruins.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Archaeological evidence meets field experience, media criticism, and candid conversation about how knowledge is made and communicated.
A Life In Ruins treats archaeology as work done by people, with Carlton Gover, Connor Johnen, and David Howe moving between guest interviews, research conversations, and their own field experience.
A Sutton Hoo movie chat checks the trenches; you get the post-film debrief you wanted.
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A practical look at why arrows and darts do not always behave as separate ballistic categories.
Dr. Devin Pettigrew frames projectile ballistics as an archaeological problem, connecting stone-tipped darts and arrows to what terminal ballistics can and cannot show in the record.
A candid guide to making archaeology knowledge clearer through talks, editing, and better sound.
David Ian Howe turns an unplanned solo episode into a useful note on how archaeology can become clearer in public media. He begins with the surprising reach of his YouTube lecture on the history of dogs, then moves into a practical case for learning the tools around…
A lively archaeological reading of The Dig, grounded in Sutton Hoo, ship burial imagery, excavation, and the thrill of a buried find.
The Dig receives a clear archaeological reading here, with the discussion returning to Sutton Hoo's ship burial, its finds, and the way the film turns excavation into drama.
A relaxed archaeology conversation that makes childhood feel central to the record.
Mackenzie Corey's archaeology of childhood stays focused on where children appear in the archaeological record, which makes the discussion easy to follow.
A soccer memory turns gender ideology into something immediate, then links family rules to anthropology and personal growth.
A Life In Ruins uses Margie Serrato's perspective to trace how gender rules formed at home can follow people into social and professional life.
Multi-part dramatized retellings of scandals like OceanGate's Titan and the Lehman Brothers collapse.
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David Ian Howe uses episode 169 of A Life In Ruins to turn a January YouTube lecture on the history of dogs into a lesson about media production.
Carlton Gover, Connor Jonin, and David Ian Howe host Raven Todd DeSilva and Natasha Bilson for a repeat episode centered on Netflix's The Dig and Sutton Hoo.
Mackenzie Corey, a PhD candidate at Indiana University, discusses his research on the archaeology of childhood, focusing on identifying children's play areas like miniature teepees.
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A Life In Ruins examines rice cultivation on the southeastern coast, linking South Carolina and Georgia plantations to established rice traditions in West Africa.
A Life in Ruins Episode 152 uses archaeology to explain the layered history of Warhammer 40K, a setting placed 40,000 years in the future.
Joe Watkins traces his path from finding a 4,000-year-old projectile point in Oklahoma to becoming a foundational scholar of Indigenous archaeology.
Zach Rice and Taylor Moore, directors of the Pawnee Language Program, describe Pawnee identity through four bands and related tribal connections.