Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago

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In this episode of the Toldinstone Podcast, Deborah Ruscillo and I discuss how zooarchaeology has transformed our understanding of the classical world.

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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
3:13 Preservation of bones
5:40 Beginnings of zooarchaeology
8:08 Feasting at a Roman villa
14:34 A whale bone in the Agora
19:35 Cyclopes
23:55 Seashells and Homeric funerals
28:33 Piglets for Demeter
32:33 Royal purple
38:43 Bronze Age landscapes