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25: Urbicide, Killing the Cities
The death of a city is not always a deliberate destruction of a city through war. It is also a recurring disruption within longer urban histories in which human societies repeatedly erase, rebuild,…
24: Facing the Palmyrenes
Palmyra’s funerary portraits allow us to gaze upon a desert city’s elite and explore how they used sculpture to negotiate identity, power, and change across centuries of trade and empire.This is the…
23: Jerash: revealing the Peripheral
Excavations at Jerash’s “peripheral” Northwest Quarter reveals how everyday domestic life, industry, and innovation were woven into the city’s fabric before being abruptly frozen by the earthquake of…
22: Unboxing Palmyra
Archaeology can be transformed through archival research. Like the unboxing of Harald Ingholt’s Palmyra archive, it can reveal how stored notes, photographs, and drawings preserve and reshape the…
21: Urban Jungle
The suburbs and their sprawl might feel like a modern development, but recent archaeological research suggest that cities and countryside often blended into something known as “patch urbanism.”This…
20: Mother of Invention
Archaeology of ancient cities reveals how urban life, not rural necessity, inspired innovation through the dense networks of people, skills, and exchange that come together in urban centres.This is…
19: Ratting out
Humans have had to live alongside rats for millennia, and archaeology can study these little vermin to uncover how ancient cities lived, traded, and changed over time.This is the nineteenth episode…
18: Garden Cities
Archaeology reveals how ancient urban life was sustained and shaped by visible and hidden green spaces, from elite villas to public parks and buried traces of cultivation within city fabrics.This is…
17: The Exultation of Discovery
Archaeology of urban discovery shows how new sites, from colonial-era excavations to modern LiDAR surveys, they reveal previously unknown urban worlds.This is the seventeenth episode of Urban…
16: Collapse and Decline
What’s in an ending? Usually it is much more complicated than just ceasing to exist. Archaeology reveals that narratives of collapse often obscure long patterns of adaptation, reuse, and continuity…
15: The Energy of Crowds
From the Pueblo settlements in the American Southwest to the Burning Man festival, archaeologists look at how crowded ancient and modern gatherings alike and reveal cities as “social reactors” where…
14: Machine Learning
Archaeology shows how ancient cities functioned as early “megamachines,” revealing long-standing parallels between urban networks of power, technology, and today’s debates about AI.This is the…
13: Lost Cities: the Unpublished Words
Archaeology shows how forgotten excavations and archives hold the “lost cities” of the discipline, where unfinished urban discoveries still reshape our understanding of the ancient world.This is the…
12: Dispersed Ancient Mediterranean Cities
Archaeology can reveal how ancient urban networks shaped craft and fine art, and how they are inseparably woven with city life.This is the twelfth episode of Urban Opinion, a podcast where we dive…
11: Counting Cities
How many cities are there? Archaeology’s drive to count cities and societies shows how numbers can clarify (complicate) our understanding of the ancient world.This is the eleventh episode of Urban…
10: Against the Flow
As humanity faces increasingly dire environmental crises, looking for answers in archaeological research may prove fruitful.This is the tenth episode of Urban Opinion, a podcast where we dive into…
9: Time to Do It Right: Long-term Excavations
Archaeological research can be slow, this is especially true if the site is a sprawling metropolis, and this careful pace of excavation often reshapes what we thought we knew entirely.This is the…
8: Seasons and the City
Long before modern comforts, the changing seasons shaped when cities lived, worked, traded, and even fell to disaster. Archaeology can reveal exactly these rhythms in minute detail.This is the eighth…
7: The Difference Within
Archaeologists love to disagree about what makes a city: Is it the size? The population density? Or is it something harder to quantify like the exchange of ideas that shape urban life?This is the…
6: Broken Links and Smashed Glass
From ancient Egypt to Viking ports, fragments of glass reveal the hidden networks that connected cities, crafts, and people across millennia.This is the sixth episode of Urban Opinion, a podcast…
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