New Podcast: Christmas quiz 2024
Added 2024-12-24 09:27:49 +0000 UTCListen to the latest podcast here: https://podfollow.com/time-team/episode/19bd5f7946d57f89b26fa0567786a98c1cd8b4a0/view
Time Team's Helen Geake and Derek Pitman go head to head in this Christmas edition of the podcast. Members of the Time Team family provide the questions to find out if they really know their stuff.
Also, co-host Martyn Williams has a special festive surprise for Helen and Derek as they perform Twas The Night Before Time Team.
Don't miss our next episode on 7th January where Helen and Derek will be answering your archaeology questions from Patreon.
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Comments
I really looked forward to this Podcast, but had to give up on it because of the background music. Some folk's brains simply cannot handle extraneous noise. Please don't add background music; your excellent dicussions are enough.
JessieB
2025-02-11 09:27:38 +0000 UTCI have a question (well, three questions!): I would like to know more about the new method of DNA testing that is being done on post-Roman bone. What are archaeologists hoping to learn from this investigation? How does the testing work? Are there any early results you can share with us?
Wessex-Wyvern
2025-01-01 17:14:14 +0000 UTCThank you Time Team for the special Christmas episode - how you guys have the energy to do this on top of your personal holiday preparations and celebrations, I'm sure I don't know but I do appreciate it! I finally thought of a question, based on the TT Doggerland special and a different documentary on the ancient history of Ireland. Do you know of any efforts exploring the possibility of a Doggerland-type area under the Irish Sea? Have any artefacts of human habitation been discovered? Considering the water depths now and how the low they got, to this layman it seems a possibility. Many thanks for everything Time Team is doing!
Elaine P
2024-12-30 15:00:13 +0000 UTCNot about the Christmas podcast but the Gladiator blades and eastern treasures one. (the date of which is not easy to find). Apropos upper storeys, putatively implied by thick walls, might some or even most villas have been like some more recent buildings? Some buildings have walls two feet or more thick despite being only single storey.
Dr Richard Mellish
2024-12-28 12:23:28 +0000 UTCGreat Christmas quiz and poem Well done! I had a Time Team notebook and pen as gifts for Christmas. Will look forward to using those and the next podcast. Thank you 🙏
Maria
2024-12-27 21:23:16 +0000 UTCWhat a fantastic way to wake up on a quiet Christmas morning! That was fun and educational. Also as a resident of Clement Moore’s Hometown, I’m think he would have been proud of your rendition of his famous poem. A Merry Christmas to all!
Brooke Owen-Thomas
2024-12-25 12:25:26 +0000 UTCFantastic... and it got me checking some books. Guy's "Roman Britain" talks about marching camps with clavicula entrances, "a type mainly first century in date" page 117 of the 2nd edition of his book. I have also been reading "An African History of Africa," and A. afarensis and A. africanus are NOT the same. Lucy, discovered 1974 was the former, found in Ethiopia and dated to 3.2 million years, Taung Child, 2.8 million years is the latter, and was found near Kimberley in South Africa. (pages 11-13 of the book by Zeinab Badawi.) Having just been reading the relevant chapter last night meant I could easily check that question out. The Roman marching camp question (like Helen, I would have guessed a Hill Fort) was something I had to seek out in my book collection... which is something I always enjoy doing. It helps me learn/'discover' details that have otherwise well and truly escaped my notice (and memory!) :D Thanks for a fun event for Christmas morning here in Oz. I watched Mass at the Vatican on TV then the Time Team quiz on YouTube. Does it get any better than this??? Love to all the team, background crew and my fellow patreon members! Here's to lots of exciting digging, discovering, and learning in 2025.
Kerry Hennigan
2024-12-25 02:14:01 +0000 UTCThat was such an interesting podcast, thank you for the great questions and answers. Love the TT poem.
JUDITH COOKE
2024-12-24 21:48:14 +0000 UTCLove the TT poem!
Carrie S
2024-12-24 19:40:24 +0000 UTCI picked up on that, too. Years of Latin come in handy!
Julianne Ture
2024-12-24 16:32:32 +0000 UTCI loved the first question! "Clavicle" means "collarbone" in English, in German "Schluesselbein" (literally translated: "key bone"), "clavis" is the Latin word for "key". So maybe the "clavicular entrance" ist the "key" to the camp?
Tina Kreißler
2024-12-24 12:06:35 +0000 UTCI just love the 'Night before Christmas' Time Team style!
Jill Bray
2024-12-24 09:56:31 +0000 UTC
