S1 Ep3: Episode 3 - Man's Best Friend and A Ukrainian Woman's Revenge

Tracey’s Stuff in the News

https://www.medievalists.net/2023/07/how-criminals-new-names-medieval-england/

Ashley’s Stuff in the News

Al Jazeera, “Japan May Start Controversial Fukushima Water Release Next Month,” July 5, 2023, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/5/japan-may-start-controversial-fukushima-water-release-next-month.

Al Jazeera, “Why is Japan’s Fukushima Water Release So Controversial?” July 4, 2023, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/4/why-is-japans-fukushima-water-release-so-controversial.

Henry Puna, “Japan must work with the Pacific to find a solution to the Fukushima water release issue – otherwise we face disaster,” The Guardian, January 4, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/04/japan-must-work-with-the-pacific-to-find-a-solution-to-the-fukushima-water-release-issue-otherwise-we-face-disaster.

Sierra Abukins, “Can Scientists Stop Japan from Dumping Fukushima Water into the Ocean?” Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, June 13, 2023, https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/news/can-scientists-stop-japan-dumping-fukushima-water-ocean#:~:text=The%20scientists%20have%20proposed%20several,bridges%20using%20the%20treated%20water.

Tracey’s Piece of Stuff

“Temple Pendant with Two Sirens Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and confronted birds (back).” Kyivan Rus’, 11th-12th century. On view at Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 300. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917. Accession Number. 17.190.680. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464554 accessed on 7 July, 2023.

Ntalija Ristovska, “Temple Pendants in Medieval Rus’: How Were They Worn?” in C. Entwistle and N. Adams eds., Intelligible Beauty: Recent Research in Byzantine Jewellry (London, British Museum Press, 2010), 203-211. Available at Academia.com https://www.academia.edu/4539478/Temple_Pendants_in_Medieval_Rus_How_Were_They_Worn_in_Ch_Entwistle_and_N_Adams_ed_Intelligible_Beauty_Recent_Research_on_Byzantine_Jewellery_London_The_British_Museum_Press_2010_
Accessed on 7 July, 2023.

Bisserka Gaydarska and John Chapman, “Ancient Ukrainian “Megasites” Might Have Been the World’s First Cities,” De Gruyter Conversation, 30 November 2020, Accessed 11 July 2023 at https://blog.degruyter.com/ancient-ukrainian-megasites-might-have-been-the-worlds-first-cities/

Christian Raffensperger, “Princess Olga: A Medieval Heroine for Modern Ukraine,” medievalists.net, May 2022. Accessed 11 July 2023 at https://www.medievalists.net/2022/05/princess-olga-medieval-hero-ukraine/

Homer, Odyssey XII, 39.

Mike Dixon-kennedy, Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend, Bloomsbury Academic, 1998.

L.V. Pekars’Ka, “Treasures from Ancient Kiev in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Dumbarton Oaks,” Metropolitan Museum Journal, 32 (1997), 65-75.

Ashley’s Piece of Stuff

Chrstine Dell’amore, “Ancient Dog Skull Shows Early Pet Domestication,” National Geographic News, August 19, 2011, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/110819-dogs-wolves-russia-domestication-animals-science-evolution?rnd=1689101171431&loggedin=true.

Ovodov, Nikolai D. et al. “A 33,000-Year-Old Incipient Dog from the Altai Mountains of Siberia: Evidence of the Earliest Domestication Disrupted by the Last Glacial Maximum.” PloS ONE 6, no. 7 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022821.

Public Library of Science, “Siberian Fossil Revealed to Be One of the Oldest Known Domestic Dogs,” Science Daily, March 6, 2013, www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130306221139.htm.

Druzhkova, Anna S. et al. “Ancient DNA Analysis Affirms the Canid from Altai as a Primitive Dog.” PLoS ONE 8, no. 3 (2013). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057754.

Joseph Stromberg, “This 33,000-Year-Old Skull Belonged to One of the World’s First Dogs,” Smithsonian Magazine, March 6, 2013, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-33000-year-old-skull-belonged-to-one-of-the-worlds-first-dogs-763615/.

Shelley Littin, “Ancient Domesticated Dog Skull Found in Siberian Cave,” University of Arizona News, January 20, 2012, https://news.arizona.edu/story/ancient-domesticated-dog-skull-found-in-siberian-cave.

Hamish Pritchard, “Ancient Dog Skull Unearthed in Siberia,” BBC News, August 3, 2011, https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-14390679.

Music Credits:

Background Music: Stars (Extended) by Vlad Gluschenko | https://soundcloud.com/vgl9
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Intro/Outro/Interlude Music composed by Ashley Bozian

Cover Art
Photo by Tracey Cooper .