The Two Humans go searching for the Iron Age and discover the ancestor of reality television instead.

Episode 77: Iron Age House: “Living in the Past” and the Evolution of Reality TV

An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans

Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.

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1982 Living History: Simulating Everyday Life in Living Museums. American Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 3 (1982), pp. 290-306.

BFI Screenonline

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2016 Making Iron in the Irish Midlands: The Social and Symbolic Role of Iron Age Ironworkers. The Journal of Irish Archaeology, Vol. 25 (2016), pp. 31-48.

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2015 10,000 BC Review: ‘It might make you wish you lived in a time before television.’ The Guardian, February 3, 2015, www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/feb/03/10000-bc-review-channel-5-reality-series#:~:text=It.

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2015 10,000 BC: ‘They’d face disaster in their modern lives, never mind the prehistoric ones. The Guardian, February 7, 2015, www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/feb/02/10000-bc-reality-show-preview.

Llawerch, Will

2022 The Little Book of Iron Age Skills. Endeavour Productions Canada, Coppell, TX.

McCarthy, Patrick

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2024 Cue the Sun: The Invention of Reality TV. Random House, New York, NY.

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1980 Living in the Past: A Journey Back to the Iron Age. British Broadcasting Corporation, London, UK.

Peterson, David

1988 IN MY OPINION: There Is No Living History, There Are No Time Machines. History News, September/October 1988, Vol. 43, No. 5 (September/October 1988), pp. 28-30.

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2015 Hillforts of the Iron Age. Archaeology, November/December 2015, Vol. 68, No. 6 (November/December 2015), pp. 54-56, 58, 60, 62-63.

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2001 Symbol before Concept: Material Engagement and the Early Development of Society. Archaeological Theory Today (ed. Ian Hodder), pp. 122-140.

Renfrew, Colin and Paul Bahn

2008 Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice (Fifth Edition). Thames and Hudson, New York, NY.

Rose, Randall L. and Stacy L. Wood

2005 Paradox and the Consumption of Authenticity through Reality Television. Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 32, No. 2 (September 2005), pp. 284-296.

Williams, Joe

2025 Beltain Celtic Fire Festival at Butser Ancient Farm – Crowds Dazzled by Burning of 40 ft. Wickerman. The News, May 4, 2025, www.portsmouth.co.uk/news /people/beltain-celtic-fire-festival-at-butser-ancient-farm-crowds-dazzled-by-burning-of-40ft-wickerman-5112680.

Think YOU can do it better? In this episode, The Two Humans take a swing at creating a better world. The suggestion box is outside the entrance to the communal showers.

Episode 75: I’ll Topia if U-topia: Why It’s So Hard to Create a Perfect World.

An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans

Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.

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Backhouse, Fid and others

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