The Archaeology Podcast Network
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This is a show about the connection between animals and humans in the past. Our experts, Alex Fitzpatrick and Simona Falanga will guide you through the interesting world of Zooarchaeology.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
ArchaeoAnimals makes animal remains speak clearly about past lives while showing how archaeological claims are tested, qualified, and sometimes left unresolved.
ArchaeoAnimals lets Alex Fitzpatrick and Simona Falanga treat animal remains as evidence of how people ate, worked, imagined creatures, and understood the natural world.
Bunyip folklore meets creepy water animatronics; your archaeology rabbit hole just got wonderfully weird.
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A lighter detour that still folds in archaeology, folklore, and food traditions.
Cute Animals Galore! gives Archaeo Animals a lighter turn, moving away from the show's usual taste for weird, gross, and dead animals and toward something more openly sweet.
A Halloween-season creature study that treats Predator as a running lesson in monster design and franchise lore.
ArchaeoAnimals uses Predator to think about how a monster gets built, named, and kept alive in pop culture. It starts with the 1987 film and moves across the franchise without getting too precious about order, which keeps the archaeology angle in focus even when the discussion…
Medieval animal lore becomes a clear guide to how people read the world.
The episode pairs medieval maps with bestiaries in a way that feels grounded rather than decorative. It treats both as records of how people tried to read the world, with religion, natural history, and translation all tangled together.
Dairy, bones, and the science of reading ovi-caprids in archaeology.
Simona Falanga and Alex Fitzpatrick present dairy as a zooarchaeological question shaped by animal use, bones, and newer archaeological methods.
A grounded tour of fish bones, hearths, and red deer that makes archaeological uncertainty feel tangible.
Experimental zooarchaeology is the draw here, with recreated activity used to test how confidently archaeologists can read traces from the past.
A lively case-study tour of fossil folklore and Australia's many-shaped Bunyip.
Animal bones open a path into folklore in this case-study episode of ArchaeoAnimals, built around Adrian Mayer's phrase, "the folklore of paleontology." Simona Falanga and Alex Fitzpatrick look at how archaeology, folklore studies, anthropology, and history can help explain the…
Horse teeth, saddle strain, and careful limits shape Archaeo Animals' look at warfare.
Archaeo Animals treats the long history of animals in warfare as a zooarchaeological problem, shifting from mounts and pack mules to the support animals used to carry messages.
A playful Star Wars creature study that finds evolutionary questions in bills, missing wings, and skull-like frogs.
Star Wars turns into a field guide for speculative creature analysis as ArchaeoAnimals tests fictional animals against familiar evolutionary patterns.
Mexican history, from the excavated to the conjectured.
Overlooked lives, read from the sources, talked through warmly.
Archaeo Animals episode 64, 'Cute Animals Galore,' opens with Alice Fitzpatrick and Yvonne Atalanta joking about the show's usual '98% dead animals' before moving into hedgehogs, capybaras, and other cute species.
Archaeo Animals episode 63 turns the Predator franchise into a Halloween zooarchaeology case study, starting with 1987's Predator and ending the recap at 2022's Prey.
ArchaeoAnimals episode 62, The Creatures of Medieval Maps and Bestiaries, uses about 1,100 surviving mapamundi to frame a tour of medieval animal imagery.
Archaeo Animals episode 61, 'Lactose Intolerants Beware!
ArchaeoAnimals episode 60, "Ancient Crafts and Ghost Stuff: Experimental Zoo Archaeology," uses case studies from Rio do Meio, Brazil, South Africa, and Bruttser Ancient Farm to show how experiments test archaeological interpretation.
Simona Falanga and Alex Fitzpatrick use episode 59 of Archaeoanimals to trace “the folklore of paleontology” through cyclops, giants, griffins, tengu, bunyip, unicorns, divine chickens, dragons, and sea serpents.
ArchaeoAnimals episode 58, "From the Frontlines to the Trenches - Ep 58," surveys zooarchaeology and texts for animals used in warfare across Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Britain, and World War II.
The Nerf is a herd animal, but the franchise turns "Nerf herder" into an insult about smell and fur.