Hey everyone, make sure to stay tuned at the end of today's show for an important announcement.

It's hardcore history.

A tantrum.

One of the other big history podcasters that I stay in regular touch with and have known for years is the wonderful Dan Yehli Baleli, host of the history on Fire Podcast,

which if you have not checked that out and you like my show, you really ought to because you'll like that probably as well.

And for a while up until recently it was behind the paywall, but now it is free for everyone just like my show is.

So go check that out if you haven't or if you haven't checked it out in a while, there's going to be a whole bunch of new shows you haven't heard.

Dan Yehli is a university lecturer when he's not doing podcasts, he has degrees in history, anthropology, Native American studies, a subject on which he is an expert.

He's written four books.

The first one was published when he was only 22 so he's a very accomplished guy.

And we were talking the other day and I was working on ideas for a hardcore history, a dendum.

And he said, you know, we should talk about archaeology.

Now saying we should talk about archaeology is a little like saying we should talk about history. I mean, it's a giant subject isn't it? And neither one of us are archaeologists, although he's more qualified to talk about it with his anthropology degree than I am.

But we're both kind of geeking out about it for a while.

And so we decided, you know, what we'll have this conversation and we'll just sort of talk a little bit about, you know, our interesting stories or things that we would like to see or things from the past that.

You know, would resonate maybe with the listeners and maybe talk about it in terms of, you know, I proposed an Ebenezer Scrooge Christmas Carol kind of organization, right?

The ghost of archaeology past, the ghost of archaeology present and the ghost of archaeology future.

Sounds great in my head. We'll see how it works out in practice in this discussion with the wonderful, charismatic and intensely knowledgeable, Danielle E. Bollelli, host of history on fire.

All right, with me right now, my long term friend, Danielle E. Bollelli to talk, well, like a couple of geeks geeking out about archaeology, really.

And as I said, I think what we'll do is organize this into sort of a ghost of archaeology past, ghost of archaeology present, ghost of archaeology future.

And we'll leave those categories a little fungible. We might be moving between them a little bit.

But let's start off with sort of the early things that you can find out there where early peoples showed an interest in their even earlier past.

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