S1 Ep1: Episode One - Chess and Cleanliness

In episode number one Ashley discusses the history of a common bathroom item and Tracey discusses the trade networks behind the discovery of hoard of medieval gaming pieces.

Sources:

From Tracey’s Stuff in the News.

Owen Jarus, “2,700-year-old Petroglyphs Depicting People, Ships, and Animals Discovered in Sweden,”Livescience.com, accessed on June 20, 2023 at https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2700-year-old-petroglyphs-depicting-people-ships-and-animals-discovered-in-sweden


Richard Whiddington, “Researchers Flying Drone Have Discovered 7,000-year-old Cave Painting in the Mountains of Spain, Artnet.com, accessed on June 20, 2023 at https://news.artnet.com/art-world/drone-prehistoric-cave-paintings-spain-2310253


Richard Whiddington, “Archeologists in Peru used A.I. to Discover Ancient Geogylphs of Killer Whales, Two-Headed Snakes, and Other Creatures Carved into the Land,” Artnet.com June 7, 2023, accessed June, 20, 2023 at https://news.artnet.com/art-world/nazca-geoglyphs-peru-ai-2316856.


Masato Sakai, Yiru Lai, Jorge Olano Canales, Masao Hayashi, Kohhei Nomuru, “Accelerating the Discovery of New Nazca Geogylphs Using Deep Learning,” Journal of Archaeological Science 155, July 2023, 105777, accessed on June 20, 2023 at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105777


Francisco Javier Molina Hernández, Virginia Baricela González, Ximo Martorell Briz, “Metodología de detección cón dron (RPAS) aplicada a la prospección de arte rupestre prehitórico (Drone (RPAS) detection methodology for prehistoric art surveying), Lucentum XLII, 2023, 33-50.

Jessica E. Saraceni, Archaeological Headlines, Monday June 12, 2023, Archaeology.org, accessed on June 20, 2023 at https://www.archaeology.org/news

From Tracey’s Piece of Stuff: Queen from Lewis Chessmen

A Deepminded Queen thinking deep thoughts - or perhaps this is her resting chess face.Picture Credit: National Museum of Scotland, shared on wikicommons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NMSLewisChessmen21.jpg. National Museum of Scotland’s reference and description:  H.NS 23: Chessman or chess piece, queen, crowned and holding a drinking horn, seated on throne, of walrus ivory, found in an underground chamber in the parish of Uig, Lewis in 1831: Scandinavian, late 12th century

Nancy Marie Brown, Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015)

David H. Caldwell, Mark A. Hall and Caroline M. Wilkinson, the Lewis Chessmen Unmasked (National Museums of Scotland, 2011)

N. Stafford, the Lewis Chessmen and the Enigma of the Hoard (The British Museum Press, 1997).

Tracey mentioned the story of the making of walrus rope recorded after an account by Ohthere of Hẳlogaland given to King Alfred of Wessex (r.871-899) and recorded in the ninth century Old English version of the fifth century book by Paul Orosius, Seven Books of History Against the Pagans.

Tracey also referred to Ferdowsi’s (Firdausi) Shahnameh, edited by Arthur and Edmond Warner (Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1905-1925, available at the Internet Archive.