Lee Strange; Science Communicator
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An educational podcast that focuses on the archaeology of the Midwest. Hosted by Lee Strange!If you'd like to learn more about ARI visit our website here!
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026
A patient interview show about archaeology, reconstruction, and local memory that keeps uncertainty in view.
Midwestern Archaeology Podcast belongs on the History shelf as a specialist interview show. Lee Strange gives guests time to think, and that suits the material. The show treats archaeology as active interpretation, not a finished display.
Ancient beer politics, poop-knife science, local history, and pre-contact illustration without the museum hush.
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A close look at Wari power, where feasting and ritual mattered as much as walls.
Dr. Justin Jennings presents Wari power as something built through houses, feasting, ritual, and the social force of alcohol and drugs, not just through the broad public stages more often linked with empires.
Experimental archaeology, explained with patience, detail, and real curiosity.
A patient field conversation about how ancient stone tools may have emerged, and how experimental archaeology can change the way prehistory is understood. Dr.
A serious local-history conversation about art, memory, and the ethics of ancestry.
This episode stays centered on Tori Shandell-Vivoda's work in Evansville, with the conversation moving through art, history, activism, and community service. Lee Strange keeps things moving, and Tori comes across as wide-ranging and thoughtful.
A clear look at how archaeology illustration helps make the past easier to picture.
Archaeology illustration is presented as a practical way to make past cultures and societies easier to picture, with Wren Harvey working closely with academic and avocational archaeologists to keep the drawings accurate.
A patient case for experimental archaeology, peer review, and moving discovery forward a little at a time.
The episode follows Lee Strange in conversation with an experimental archaeologist, opening on the frozen-poop knife study before widening into a clear case for testing assumptions against messy reality.
Multi-part dramatized retellings of scandals like OceanGate's Titan and the Lehman Brothers collapse.
A season-by-season history show pairing dramatized Rasputin and Salem narratives with historian interviews.
Greg Young and Tom Meyers explain how New York City's streets took shape.
Fashion historians April Callahan and Cassidy Zachary dig into garments, letters, and the people who wore them.
Lee Strange keeps the conversation going with Dr.
An interview with Dr.
Lee opens with a content warning, since sexually explicit material comes up later in an Andean archaeology context.
Part 1 of a three-part conversation between host Lee Strange and Dr.
Interview with Tori Shandell-Vivoda, curator at Evansville African American Museum, tracing her unlikely journey from medieval studies to uncovering hidden African American history in Southern Indiana.
Lee Strange interviews archaeologic illustrator Wren Harvey about her unconventional career journey.
An interview with Dr.
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Host Lee Strange interviews Dr.
An interview with archaeologist David Ian Howe about his research on dogs in Native American culture and his career in archaeology.
This episode covers the Archaic period in Native American pre-contact history, part of a four-part series on different periods.
An interview with paleontologist Dr.
This episode introduces a four-part series on pre-contact Native American history, starting with the Paleo period and the arrival of humans in the Americas.
This episode discusses the history of archaeology as a field and highlights African-American archaeologist George McJunkin.
The hosts introduce their new podcast aimed at making archaeology accessible to everyone, focusing on the Ohio River Valley and Midwest.