Wild Beings Podcast

Michelle C Langley is an australian archeologist and the author of A Record in Bone; exploring Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander bone & tooth objects.
Her book is fascinating, documenting many records of organic materials used in Indigenous Australia. Allowing readers to get a glimpse of what every day tools looked like on this land before the industrialised world took over. I find these insights to be deeply fascinating & insightful of the refined relationships Australian Aboriginals had/have with the landscape and its many organic resources.

During this episode, we discuss:
Michelles work as an australian archeologist
various bone & tooth tools
How to determine what artefacts have been used for
A little journey from Africa 300 000 years ago
Mega fauna, the mystery of were they hunted?
Different bone types & their unique uses, avian, terrestrial mammal, land mammal
Tasmanian archeology
Human bones & ancestral connections to the deceased
The important cross over of academia and Indigenous Oral History

I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did!

Michelle C. Langley is an Associate Professor in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE) and Program Advisor for the Bachelor of Science (Archaeology) in the School of Environment and Science. Currently, she is the President of the Australian Archaeological Association (AAA).
Her research centres around the evolution and diversity of human behaviour which she explores through the study of artefacts made on hard animal materials – bone, tooth, antler, ivory, and shell. She is the author of 'A Record in Bone. Exploring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Bone and Tooth Objects' (2023, Aboriginal Studies Press) and has been involved in unveiling some of the earliest ornaments, bone tools, and shell artefacts discovered throughout the Australian and Southeast Asian regions. She also maintains research in Palaeolithic Europe, childhood archaeology, and most recently, Egyptology -- publishing in both specialist and overarching academic journals.
Her work has been published in Nature Communications, Nature Human Behaviour, PNAS, Current Anthropology, Antiquity, Quaternary Science Reviews, and the Journal of Human Evolution. It is also regularly highlighted in the media: National Geographic, New Scientist, Archaeology Magazine, and Australasian Science Magazine, as well as NITV, SBS, and the ABC. Most recently she consulted on the ABC Series, 'First Weapons'. 
She is a recipient of a 2018 Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science Award (AIPS) and a Women in Technology (WiT) Research Leader in Science Finalist 2021. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Resources mentioned:

A Record in Bone by Michelle C Langley
Bone, Antler Ivory & Horn by Arthur MacGregor
Australian Archeology Association:
https://australianarchaeologicalassociation.com.au/

After year long hiatus from the podcast, we are back recording some awesome conversations on interesting related topics, archeology, human rewilding, wilderness living the list goes on.

This is just a little update on what we have been up to, tanning, month-long earthskills immersion, hunting courses & goannas waking up much earlier than usual..

Stay Tuned for our next episode drop with and australian archaeologist! It was a super fun converstion.

Thanks for listening along, these topics are close to our heart and we love spreading the word.

If you have any particular topic you'd like us to speak to, let us know in the comments & we will see what we can do!

You can find all our upcoming events here:
www.wildbeings.org

Monica Wilde, formally known as Mo is an ethnobotanist and research herbalist. She is based in Scotland in a self-built wooden house where she has created a wild, teaching garden on 4 organic acres. Mo holds a Masters degree in Herbal Medicine, is a Member of the British Mycological Society and a founding Member of the Association of Foragers. Mo has been teaching foraging and herbal medicine for several decades now, with the aim of “Restoring Vital Connection” –
She lived entirely on wild foods for a year & wrote a book called the wilderness cure. And is currently part of a 3 month long research project called Wild Biome project. 

During this conversation we cover a range of diverse topics around Mo's journey with Wild Foods & eating solely wild for long stints & what that has been like for her.
We chat about the ancient ways meeting the modern, how wild foods bring connection to place & unite us with each other.
Towards the end we also go into a deep dive of Lymes disease as part of Mo's work entails treating folks with Lymes disease with herbal medicine.
A truly fascinating conversation, enjoy!

Monicas Website
https://monicawilde.com/home/
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/monicawilde/?hl=en
The Wild Biome Project
https://www.instagram.com/wildbiomeproject/?hl=en
Wild Biome Project Information
https://monicawilde.com/the-wildbiome-project/
The Wilderness Cure
https://monicawilde.com/book-links/the-wilderness-cure/
Book Mentions: Human Rewilding in the 21st Century: Why Anthropology Fails by James M Van Lanen

Mark Mathieson is a psychologist with over 25 years of experience. Specialising in performance psychology and nature-based mental health, offering highly innovative solutions for individuals, teams and organisations that reconnect humans with the outdoors and natural principles of ecologically derived performance.

Mark's lead effort is to address complex human systems by integrating cutting-edge research with practical strategies. His work spans diverse sectors, including corporate clients and government agencies, emphasising sustainable excellence in challenging environments.

During this conversation we chat about many topics revolving around modern human psychology compared to tribal psychology. As an eco-psychologist, Marks work focuses on how nature impacts our wellbeing. Mark is the consultant for the SBS survival show Alone Australia so has an understanding of what one psychologically endures when put in situations that really test their limits.

Connect with Mark
https://markmathieson.com/

Arthur Haines is a Maine hunting, fishing, and recreation guide, forager, ancestral skills mentor, author, public speaker, and botanical researcher.  He grew up in the western mountains of Maine, a rural area that was home to swift streams known for their trout fishing. He spent most of his childhood in the Sandy River Valley hiking, tracking, and foraging.  Arthur now runs the Delta Institute of Natural History in Canton, Maine, where he teaches human ecology, focusing on the values of foraging, wildcrafting medicine, and primitive living skills.  He operates an apprenticeship program where students spend a moon (28-days) learning place-based skills, communal living, ancestral child rearing, and human rewilding. He continues to spend a great deal of his free time practicing his skills as a modern hunter-gatherer.  In 2017, he authored “A New Path”, a comprehensive work on nature connection and rewilding, detailing how to incorporate ancestral practices into modern living.  As a research botanist for the Native Plant Trust, he completed an inclusive flora of the New England region titled “Flora Novae Angliae” and has authored over twenty publications in peer-reviewed journals and books, including naming species of plants new to science.  His series of YouTube videos has inspired thousands of people interested in foraging wild edible and medicinal plants. Learn more at www.arthurhaines.com

During this conversation we discuss Arthurs seasonal way of gathering food, his in depth botanical knowledge , what it means to be part of ecology & so much more.