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Saturday May 02, 2020
Tom Higham - On Neanderthals and Religious Relics
Saturday May 02, 2020
Saturday May 02, 2020
Sick of hearing about running? Here’s a podcast about archaeology!
Steve talks to Prof Tom Higham from Oxford University about lockdown in Greece and Tom's work with carbon dating religious relics and Neanderthals. Topics also cover Greek food, who would win in a race between a Neanderthal and a Human and whether archaeology really is as sexy as Indiana Jones. Harrison Ford and Tom Hanks (Da Vinci Code) both get a mention.
Further reading...
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-tom-higham
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/how-the-da-vinci-code-unit-is-exposing-the-truth-about-the-authenticity-of-religious-relics-a6742611.html
https://www.livescience.com/47460-neanderthal-extinction-revealed.html
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