{"podcast":{"title":"The Archaeology Podcast Network Feed","slug":"the-archaeology-podcast-network-feed-1094208","podcast_index_feed_id":1094208,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/QNDcZ_dQ","website_url":"https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/all-shows/","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/c24ea252-fe3a-4c93-b8f2-906c7ed7faa6/577ade91-003f-4ab9-b17a-e2fa54351e2a/3000x3000/5e4ec29b-0825-4747-aacb-12c6a2c9da0c.jpeg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Host","episode_count":1917,"summary":"Find shows from Cultural Resource Management Archaeology to technology to anarchy to whatever. We cover it all in this feed.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-archaeology-podcast-network-feed-1094208"},"episode":{"title":"Early Hominin Structures, Pompeii Discoveries, and the Band of Holes in Peru - TAS 328","slug":"early-hominin-structures-pompeii-discoveries-and-the-band-of-holes-in-peru-tas-328","published_at":"2026-05-04T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-archaeology-podcast-network-feed-1094208/early-hominin-structures-pompeii-discoveries-and-the-band-of-holes-in-peru-tas-328","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-archaeology-podcast-network-feed-1094208","url":"https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/all-shows/","audio_url":"https://injector.simplecastaudio.com/c24ea252-fe3a-4c93-b8f2-906c7ed7faa6/episodes/813b2ecd-0802-46dc-9642-68cc92ed2126/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=c24ea252-fe3a-4c93-b8f2-906c7ed7faa6&awEpisodeId=813b2ecd-0802-46dc-9642-68cc92ed2126&feed=QNDcZ_dQ","summary":"In this week’s episode, we cover three archaeology news stories. First up, a Nature-backed report on unusually old woodworking from Kalambo Falls, where waterlogged conditions preserved a wedge, digging stick, and notched logs dated by luminescence to about 476,000 years ago, suggesting advanced planning and challenging simple “Stone Age” assumptions. We then discuss a Pompeii discovery of two skeletons outside the city walls near Porta Stabia, including a man apparently shielding his head with a terracotta bowl and carrying an oil lamp, and we debate the benefits and risks of an AI-generated scene reconstruction. Finally, we examine Peru’s Monte Sierpe “Band of Holes,” over 5,200 aligned pits mapped by drones and analyzed via microbotanical remains, with a study proposing early market use and later Inca-style accounting patterns resembling quipu, while we question how and why such a vast system was built and used.","meta_description":"In this week’s episode, we cover three archaeology news stories. First up, a Nature-backed report on unusually old woodworking from Kalambo Falls, where w…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3448,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-archaeology-podcast-network-feed-1094208/episodes/early-hominin-structures-pompeii-discoveries-and-the-band-of-holes-in-peru-tas-328/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-archaeology-podcast-network-feed-1094208/early-hominin-structures-pompeii-discoveries-and-the-band-of-holes-in-peru-tas-328.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}