Today, Chris interviews explorer and author Tara Roberts. She dove and worked with Diving with a Purpose, a non-profit organization that excavated underwater wrecks of slave ships. She tells the stories of the slave ships and the people doing the work. We talk about her career and her journey to writing the book.

• Written In The Waters - Hardcover on Amazon
• Written In The Waters eBook on Amazon
• Diving with a Purpose
• Into the Depths Podcast (Apple)
• Tara Roberts website
• @‌tararoberts_explorer on Instagram

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This week we found several news stories claiming that they had new evidence for an artifact or site being “the oldest…” Join us for a discussion on whether we think these claims are accurate!

• 11,000-year-old indigenous site — one of oldest on continent — found in Canada
• Great Plains Archaeology Podcast
• The oldest shoes in the world are on display in Oregon

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On today’s show we talk about three recent news stories including prehistoric cannibalism in Poland, a WWI era German soldier buried in a 2000 year old Roman villa, and a cutting edge new technology where the mitochondrial DNA of soil is analyzed in Spain.

• Brain-eating cannibalistic community lived in Poland cave 18,000 years ago, bones show
• Archaeologists discover Roman villa in France — then unearth soldier’s wedding ring
• New DNA research examines predecessors of Red Lady of El Mirón

• For rough transcripts head over to https://archpodnet.com/archaeology/294

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• Rachel Roden
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