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.

Source Notes Episode 13: Faking Fossils and Reading Livers

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Tracey’s Stuff in the News

Tara Cobham, “Alien Corpses’ shown to Congress as UFO expert is forced to testify under oath,” Independent, September 13, 2023. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/alien-corpses-in-mexico-found-congress-ufo-b2411144.html

David Nelson, “Claims of Alien Corpses made at Mexican Congress hearing into Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena,” Diario AS, September 13, 2023. https://en.as.com/latest_news/claims-of-alien-corpses-made-at-mexican-congress-hearing-into-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-n/

Megan Janetsky, “Scientists call fraud on supposed extraterrestrials presented to Mexico’s Congress,” Associated Press, September 13, 2023. https://apnews.com/article/extraterrestrials-ufo-mexico-congress-af7d54fabf3278ef83c39d899c457c76

Ashley’s Stuff in the News

Karen Brooks Harper and Jayme Lozano Carver, “‘An Epidemic’: Syphilis Rages through Texas, Causing Newborn Cases to Climb amid Treatment Shortage.” Texas Tribune. September 13, 2023. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/13/texas-syphilis-newborns-treatment/

Texas Department of State Health Services, “Congenital Syphilis – Exploring an Epidemic” Podcast. 2022. https://www.dshs.texas.gov/hiv-std-program/hiv-aids-std-information/syphilis/congenital-syphilis/congenital-syphilis-exploring-an

Tracey’s Piece of Stuff

Isabelle De Groote, “Following the Piltdown Man crime: how we worked out there was only one forger,” The Conversation, August 10, 2016. https://theconversation.com/solving-the-piltdown-man-crime-how-we-worked-out-there-was-only-one-forger-63615

Kate Nelson, “Piltdown Hoax: Culprit behind one of history’s greatest ruses finally exposed,” Independent, August 10, 2016. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/piltdown-hoax-solved-who-did-it-evolution-link-arthur-conan-doyle-a7182286.html

Keith Stewart Thompson, “Piltdown Man: The Great English Mystery Story,” American Scientist, May-June 1991. https://www2.clarku.edu/faculty/djoyce/piltdown/map_prim_suspects/abbott/abbot_defense/piltman_englishmystery.html

Angela Muthana and Ray Ellen, “The Great Eolith Debate and the Anthropological Institute,” Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, Vol. 30, May 8, 2023. https://archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10.5334/bha-623

Michael Price, “Study reveals culprit behind Piltdown Man, one of science’s greatest hoaxes,” Science, August 9, 2016. 

https://www.science.org/content/article/study-reveals-culprit-behind-piltdown-man-one-science-s-most-famous-hoaxes

Nandini Subramaniam, “The Problem of Piltdown Man,” Distillations Magazine, April 27, 2023. 

Ashley’s Piece of Stuff

Olmsted, David. “Translation of Bronze Etruscan Piacenza Liver Reveals Liver Divination Practices (400 BCE).” HCommons, 2021. https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:39396/datastreams/CONTENT/content

Orlandi, Riccardo et al. “‘I Miss My Liver.’ Nonmedical Sources in the History of Hepatocentrism.” Hepatology Communications 2, no. 8 (2018): 982-9.

Riva, Michele Augusto, Enrica Riva, Mauro Spicci, Mario Strazzabosco, Marcello Giovannini, and Giancarlo Cesana. “‘The City of Hepar’: Rituals, Gastronomy, and Politics at the Origins of the Modern Names for the Liver.” Journal of Hepatology 55, no. 5 (2011): 1132–6.

Roffi, Luigi. “Liver in Mythology: A Different Version of Tityos’ Myth.” Journal of Hepatology 57, no. 3 (2012): 710–1.

Van der Meer, L.B. The Bronze Liver of Piacenza. Leiden: Brill, 2023.

Van Gulik, Thomas M. “The Bronze Liver of Piacenza.” Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition 10, no. 4 (2021): 433. https://doi.org/10.21037%2Fhbsn-2021-17

Visit Piacenza, “Etruscan Liver,” https://visitpiacenza.it/en/art-and-culture/etruscan-liver/