Material Culture, Microhistory and Mayhem. The Past and Stuff is a casual and irreverent podcast by Dr. Ashley Bozian and Dr. Tracey Cooper. Each week we challenge each other to identify an historical object, and then discuss what it can tell us as a unique window on the past. Expect an unexpected mesh of connections and terrible jokes, as a two very serious academics (not!), one a Armenian-American millennial and the other a British Gen Xer, have too much fun while trying to understand each other and the history of the world.

Show Notes Episode 12: Pan-Mediterranean Mythos and Mummy Bees

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Ashley’s Stuff in the News

Aylin Woodward, “Our Big Brains Have Shrunk. Scientists Might Know Why,” Wall Street Journal, September 8, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/science/human-brains-shrinking-evolution-science-980c45e

DeSilva, Jeremy et al. “Human Brains Have Shrunk: The Questions are When and Why.” Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1191274

Tracey’s Stuff in the News

“Nuclear Waste Storage,” Nuclear Princeton, Princeton University, accessed on September 20, 2023 at https://nuclearprinceton.princeton.edu/yucca-mountain

Mitch Jacoby, “As Nuclear Waste piles up scientists seek the best long term solutions,” Chemical and Engineering News 98:12, accessed on September 20, 2023 at https://cen.acs.org/environment/pollution/nuclear-waste-pilesscientists-seek-best/98/i12

“Where does the proposed Yucca Mountain waste come from and where is it currently stored?” United States Environmental Protection Agency accessed on September 20, 2023 at https://www.epa.gov/radiation/where-does-proposed-yucca-mountain-waste-come-and-where-it-currently-stored

Martina Igini, “The Nuclear Waste Disposal Dilemma,” earth.org, Sept 12, 2022, accessed September 20, 2023 at https://www.earth.org/nuclear-waste-disposal/

Mark Piesing, “How do we warn future generations to avoid our buried nuclear waste,” National Geographic, September 1, 2023, accessed on September 20, 2023 at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/nuclear-waste-repository-ray-cat-wipp-hitf-fabbri

Ashley’s Piece of Stuff

Sarah Derouin, “These Bees Have Been Mummified in Their Cocoons for 3,000 Years,” New York Times, August 20, 2023,  https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/science/mummified-bees-cocoons.html

Carlos Neto de Carvalho et al. “Eucera Bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Eucerini) Preserved in their Brood Cells from late Holocene (Middle Neoglacial) Palaeosols of Southwest Portugal.” Papers in Paleontology 9, no 4 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1518

Oldroyd, Benjamin P. and Stephen C. Pratt. “Comb Architecture of the Eusocial Bees Arises from Simple Rules Used During Cell Building.” Advances in Insect Physiology 49 (2015): 101-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aiip.2015.06.001

Helen Briggs, “Prehistoric Farmers were First Beekeepers,” BBC News, November 11, 2015, https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34749846

Tracey’s Piece of Stuff

“Copper Ingot, Cypriot, Late Bronze Age,” metmuseum.org, accessed September 20, 2023 at https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248493

Louise A. Hitchcock, “Knossos is Burning: Gender Bending The Minoan Genius,” Engendering Prehistoric: “Stratigraphies” in the Aegean and the Mediterranean, Proceedings of an International Conference, University of Crete, Rethymno, 2-5 June. Aegaeum 30 (2009). Accessed on academia.com on September 20, 2023 at https://www.academia.edu/3479282/_Knossos_is_Burning_Gender_Bending_the_Minoan_Genius_

“Griffon,” wikipedia.com, accessed on September 20, 2023 at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffon

Unita Ahdifard, “Who was Hathor?” getty.edu, accessed September 20, 2023 at https://www.getty.edu/news/who-was-hathor-egyptian-goddess-ancient-nubia/

Ralph L. Slotten, “The Master of Animals: A Study in the Symbolism of Ultimacy in Primitive Religion,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 33 (1965): 293-302.
Joan Aruz, et al. Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014).