Sphinx Thinks
I'll be interviewing specialists, leading researchers and passionate figures to find out about their field, interests and what the future holds.
Dedicated to understanding humanity vis-à-vis evolution, behaviour, culture, history, and the environment.
Podcasting since 2020 • 13 episodes
Sphinx Thinks
Latest Episodes
From Curation to Repatriation: a Career in Osteology with Dr Trish Biers
Dr Trish Biers is Curator of the Duckworth Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. We discuss her early start in the field and where her interests have taken her - across the world in a variety of incredible positions from the Smithsonian In...
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Childrearing: How Different Systems Shape Us with Dr Emily Emmott
Dr Emily Emmott is a lecturer in Human Behavioural Ecology at UCL. Specialising in extended and institutional child-rearing systems (such as parenting, grand-parenting, schooling and social care provisions) and their implications for health and...
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Biomolecular Archaeology with Professor Matthew Collins
Professor Matthew Collins is a Niels Bohr Professor at the University of Copenhagen and the McDonald Chair of Palaeoproteomics at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. We discuss his jour...
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The Indus Valley with Professor Cameron Petrie
Professor Cameron Petrie is professor of South Asian and Iranian Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. We discuss his journey to becoming an archaeologist, and finding his field, as well as his present work in the region.In the In...
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Palaeolithic: Mobility & Group Relations with Dr Amy Clark
Movement, mobility and migration - what can these facets of human behaviour in the archaeological record tell us about our past social relationships? Dr Amy Clark - lecturer and researcher at Harvard University - joins me to discuss this topic ...
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