EP26 Dig This!

hey everyone make sure to stay tuned at the end of today's show for an important announcement hardcore history one of the other big history podcasters that I stay in regular touch with and have known for years is the wonderful daniele belly host of the history on fire podcast which if you have not checked that out and you like my show you really ought to because you'll like that probably as well and for a while up until recently it was behind a paywall but now it is free for everyone just like my show is so go check that out if you haven't or if you haven't checked it out in a while there's going to be a whole bunch of new shows you haven't heard daniele is a university lecturer when he's not doing podcasts he has degrees in history anthropology Native American studies a subject on which he is an expert he's written four books the first one was published when he was only 22 so he's a very accomplished guy and we were talking the other day and I was working on ideas for a hardcore history addendum and he said you know we should talk about archeology now saying we should talk about archeology is a little like saying we should talk about history I mean it's a giant subject isn't it and neither one of us are archaeologists although he's more qualified to talk about it with his anthropology degree than I am but we're both kind of geeking out about it for a while and so we decided you know what we'll have this conversation and we'll just sort of talk a little bit about you know our interesting stories or things that we would like to see or things from the past that you know would resonate maybe with the listeners and maybe talk about it in terms of you know I I proposed an Ebenezer Scrooge Christmas Carol kind of organization right the the ghost of archeology past the ghost of archeology present and the Ghost of archeology future sounds great in my head we'll see how it works out in practice in this discussion with the wonderful charismatic and intensely knowledgeable daniele host a history on fire all right with me right now my long-term friend Danielle to talk well like a couple of Geeks geeking out about ...