And My Trowel
by The Archaeology Podcast Network
Latest episode
Spooky Season Special! Tilly's Ghost Stories! - Ep 76
Spooky Season Special! Tilly's Ghost Stories! - Ep 76
About this podcast
The realms between fantasy and reality have collided and only archaeologists can pave the way through the unknown. Ash and Tilly, armed with two trowels and a backlog of archaeological theory, navigate to new, thrilling worlds, filled with magic and mayhem to answer those burgeoning questions that only archaeologists can answer. “What do you do when you find vampire teeth in a bronze age burial?” “Can you sample ecto-plasm?” “And just how DO you study dragon bones?” With the occasional help of specialists guests they uncover a new realm of archaeology and find out if fantasy is really so far from reality.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 84 episodes
- Spooky Season Special! Tilly's Ghost Stories! - Ep 76 · 32 min · Episode 76We continue our Spooky Season Special with Ash and Tilly! In this episode, Tilly dives into the world of nautical spectres, haunted ships, and bumps in the… coral? From the…
- Spooky Season Special! Ash's Ghost Stories! - Ep 75 · 29 min · Episode 75It’s Spooky Season! In these two special episodes, Ash and Tilly share some of their favourite spooky stories from the world of archaeology. First up is Ash, with two tales of…
- Archaeology of The Hobbit: Troll Curators with Dr Adrián Maldonado (Part 2) - Ep 74 · 29 min · Episode 74Tilly and Ash are back with Dr Adrián Maldonado to uncover the archaeological layers of The Hobbit! We discuss the archaeological process of excavation and recording a hoard and…
- Archaeology of the Hobbit: Hoards and hobbits with Dr Adrián Maldonado (part 1) - Ep 73 · 32 min · Episode 73Ash and Tilly have finally made it to the Troll Caves, and they’re not alone… Joining them as a return consultant is hoard expert Dr Adrián Maldonado! Listen in as the three of…
- Archaeology of the Hobbit: Memories and Dirt - Ep 72 · 44 min · Episode 72Ash and Tilly have finally started chapter 2 of The Hobbit, which means its time for some frantic last-minute preparations before they set off on their quest, or on their…
- PROMO - Argos, the Odyssey, and dogs in popular Media with Dr. Alyce Cannon - Ethno 38 · 56 min · Episode 71While Tilly and Ash are away on their own Odyssey, enjoy this episode from Ethnocynology!
- PROMO - Around the Fire: Small Animals and Paleoindian Camps with Dr. McKenna Litynski - Plains 46 · 29 min · Episode 71While My Trowel takes a wee break, enjoy this episode of The Great Plains podcast, Around the Fire: Small Animals and Paleoindian Camps, featuring Dr McKenna and exploring what…
- Archaeology of The Hobbit: Smials Saloons - Ep 71 · 36 min · Episode 71Ash and Tilly have finally made it through the front door of Bag End! In this episode, they discuss the archaeology of buildings, and talk about how the physical structure of a…
- Archaeology of The Hobbit: Mounds of Middens - Ep 70 · 33 min · Episode 70In this episode, Ash and Tilly continue their deep dig into The Hobbit, focusing on the sedentary settlement of Hobbiton! They discuss how nomadic versus settled societies are…
- Archaeology of The Hobbit: A Hobbit-hole means comfort - Ep 69 · 35 min · Episode 69Ash and Tilly continue to plan their archaeological survey of The Hobbit, and finally manage to move past the map! Tune in to hear them discuss the importance of lineages in…
- Archaeology of The Hobbit: We're going to need a bigger map! - Ep 68 · 35 min · Episode 68In this episode, Tilly and Ash finally delve into the world of The Hobbit, beginning with an overall archaeological survey of the world…or maybe just the map? Tune in to find out…
- There and Back Again - Ep 67 · 39 min · Episode 67It’s time for a bit of a breather, as Ash and Tilly prepare themselves for a longer-term project funded by the Nextian Universe Research Institute! Tune in to hear their plans…
- May the Fourth Be With You (Part 2) - Ep 66 · 45 min · Episode 66Ash and Tilly continue their archaeological survey of the galaxy far, far away, examining the material culture and planetary landscapes that defines Star Wars. Together, they…
- May the Fourth Be With You (Part 1) - Ep 65 · 39 min · Episode 65Join Ash and Tilly as they travel where no man has gone before… no wait… wrong franchise! This episode, we jump into an archaeological survey of Star Wars! Listen to our two…
- PROMO - A flame from my hearth to yours - Teabreak 02 · 1 h 0 min · Episode 65Unfortunately we couldn’t record an episode of And My Trowel this week, so instead we thought we’d travel back in time to the first ever conversation between Ash and Tilly! It's…
- The Daub Towers (Part 2) - Ep 64 · 31 min · Episode 64Ash and Tilly continue their discussion on archaeo-construction with experimental archaeologist and living historian Caroline Nicolay. Together, they outline the details of how…
- The Daub Towers (Part 1) - Ep 63 · 37 min · Episode 63It’s time to get out our plastering trowels out, because this episode Ash and Tilly are (re)joined by experimental archaeologist and archaeo-construction expert Caroline Nicolay…
- Can't Make Dragons Without Clay (Part 2) - Ep 62 · 34 min · Episode 62In this second episode, Tilly and Ash continue their quest with archaeologist and potter, Emma Harrison, to catalogue the Pennykettle Dragon Sanctuary’s current collection of…
- Trowel 61: Can't Make Dragons Without Clay (Part 1) - Ep 61 · 34 min · Episode 61This episode Ash and Tilly are scaling it down and looking at how to analyse tiny little clay dragons from the Pennykettle Dragon Sanctuary. The catch? They are alive! Which…
- Archaeology of Discworld (Part 2) - Ep 60 · 38 min · Episode 60It’s part two of Ash and Tilly’s archaeological survey of the Discworld (as popularised through the written works of Sir Terry Pratchett), and if you thought Tilly had rambled…
