Chasing History Radio

In this episode, we briefly cover the origins of this most iconic American holiday & discuss how the Relic Room acquires all the diversity it has to offer.

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In this episode, we cover one of the greatest hunter-gatherer sites in the World: Poverty Point. Poverty Point is the only place on earth where a hunter-gatherer society built large monuments, which is why this site is a World Heritage Site. As a part of our Chasing History/Seven Ages Audio Journal series on the mound building cultures of North America, this Louisiana site is one of the most impressive we have seen with a culture that is totally unique to this place with its own art, and tools that are truly not seen anywhere else. The Seven Ages Audio Journal team recorded a great episode with the site manager & we filmed a spectacular Chasing History episode on our YouTube Channel "Chasing History" that will drop in the next few months. Here is a brief overview of the history of the site and its importance to world history. Be sure to check out the Seven Ages Audio Journal Podcast for a more in-depth interview with site director Mark Brink and be sure to check out Chasing History on YouTube for a visual tour of the site and its history with Site Director Mark Brink.

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As a part of our joint Seven Ages audio Journal/Chasing History Radio trip, we discuss the history of Spiro Mound the only true tomb ever discovered north of Mexico. Spiro is one of if not the most important Mississippian era sites and prehistoric Native America sites rivaling the importance of Cahokia. In this episode, we discuss what makes Spiro such an important site in prehistoric Native America.

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As a part of our joint adventure with The Seven Ages Audio Journal Archaeology podcast, we traveled to four prehistoric Native American mound builder sites. We sit down with Seven Ages audio Journal host Jason Pentrail and James Waldo to discuss the first site on our trip - Pinson Mounds. Now an archaeological park for the state of Tennessee, this is a middle woodlands site that has a long history of occupation. A full interview with park ranger Dedra Irwin will be available on the 7 ages audio Journal podcast soon. In this episode, we sit down with Jason and James and discuss the history of this fantastic woodland era Mound site. 

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In this episode, we introduce you to Pinson Mounds, a woodland-era Native American Mound complex in West Tennessee. We are exploring its history as a part of our joint Chasing History/Seven Ages audio Journal archeology podcast cross country Adventure!

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In this episode, we do a brief overview of several prehistoric Native American sites we visited on our recent joint project with the Seven Ages Audio Journal Archaeology Podcast. We spent a week traveling to several different sites conducting interviews with archaeologists and site managers as well as recording episodes for our YouTube channel Chasing History.

We captured a lot of content about some incredible sites which will be available on this podcast as well as on the seven ages audio journal podcast and on our Chasing History YouTube channel. We have a lot more site-by-site shows coming soon where we delve deep into the history! 

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In this episode, we discuss some of the strangest scientific & medical instruments and the way medicine was practiced during the 18th - 19th century. We may not be as advanced as we think we are.

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What is up with this fossil?? It Surely has got to be fake!!! There is NO WAY something can be fossilized that colorfully, naturally!!

Well, you would be surprised the awesome things that are possible in the natural world. There's only one place on Earth where ammonites fossilize into this gorgeous iridescent scatter box of the color spectrum, and the story of how it has these colors is mind-bogglingly fascinating. It involves the Ice Age!!! Listen to the episode to learn how this shell got it's color! 

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In this episode, we look at the importance of studying and understanding your own local history by showing you what we were able to find on our local Civil War battlefield, The Battle of Dandridge, where one of the greatest military blunders of the American Civil War occurred!! 

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In this episode, we discuss the upcoming trip to Tucson Arizona as well as unveil a Brand New Book by our friend Jason Pentrail "Paleoindian Mammoth and Mastodon Kill Sites." This book is a site by site examination of paleo kill sites and is an incredible read!! Jason is one of the hosts of the "Seven Ages Audio Journal," an Archaeology podcast covering American and World Archaeology with interviews of academic archaeologists who are on the front lines of understanding this history. It's a Great book and a Great Podcast we could not recommend them enough! 

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In this episode, we cover one of America's most famous presidents, Theodore Roosevelt. Specifically we cover an early chapter of his life when he was a rancher in North Dakota. You wouldn't think that being in North Dakota would be life-changing but for Roosevelt it was! Listen to find out why!

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In this episode, we look at the history of the Christmas Holiday. Are the roots really in pagan traditions? What do the Romans have to do with it? And how did a German prince completely alter how we celebrate this holiday???   Oh yeah! It gets deep! 

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On the evening of December 5th, 2021, we lost a dear friend of the show & the Smoky Mountain Relic Room - David Dean. For over 65 years David did archaeological & paleontological work for institutions, government organizations, universities, & for himself. David was a Citizen Scientist, a person who collects and analysis data that is relative to a specific subject in collaboration with professional scientists. In this case paleontological and archaeological data.

Over the years David has done much to add to our understanding of the past. There are many vertebrate fossil species that were unknown to science until David came along and discovered them. There were prehistoric Native American sites that no one knew existed until David found them and recorded them. David also volunteered his time and knowledge to anyone that would ask for it. He was a great friend to us and the work that we are doing here at Chasing History. This episode chronicles some of the discoveries that he made, his life as well, and how you can get involved and become a citizen scientist yourself. We think that the greatest tribute to David's life would be to inspire others to pick up the flag and continue to further our knowledge of the past and become citizen scientists. 

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In this episode, we go over the popular hobby of Medal Detecting, explain the in's and out's, why it is an important hobby and how you can discover lost history a foot under the ground. It's Magic! It's really science, but a metal detector seems like Magic!

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In this episode, we dive into the heated debate over where the first thanksgiving took place. Was it the pilgrims like we learned in school? Or was it the Spanish down in Florida with Garbanzo Beans? How about French fur trappers in Maine? Yeah, French fur trappers in Maine is a contender.

This episode is definitely a great conversation to distract the family from that drunk aunt or uncle. .... your welcome!  

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