This fortnight (with proper audio now), Gabe is still in tiki gear two weeks later and Ken is still freezing despite the current heat wave and we're joined by Dr. Emma Yasui, the multi-talented archaeobotanist, podcaster, cultural consultant, and gaming guru. On our way through a conversation covering everything from representation in ttRPGs to Japanese kitchen gardens, Gabe learns about discord and how an RPG works, and Ken reminisces about his pals on subaruforester.com. If you're interested in Jomon and Nikkei archaeology, or wondering what to cook with your yamaimo, this is the episode you've been waiting for!

Show Notes

Find Emma on LinkedIn and Twitter/X @starchaeologist

• How fuki still grows at a former imprisonment camp in BC

• Tonari Gumi cookbooks (on kitchen gardens)

• Nikkei in Canada

• Nikkei archaeology in Canada (Bob Muckle)

• Asians Represent! https://aznsrepresent.carrd.co/# (link to join the discord server is under “contact”)

• Some of Emma's consulting work: https://www.kidstablebg.com/makimaster

Hodgetts, L., Supernant, K., Lyons, N., & Welch, J. R. (2020). Broadening #MeToo: Tracking Dynamics in Canadian Archaeology Through a Survey on Experiences Within the Discipline. Can. J. Arch., 44(1), 20.

Yasui, E. (2022). Processing it all: Starch residues on Jomon Period ground stone from southern Hokkaido, Japan. J. Arch. Sci. Rpts, 45, 103597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103597

Banning, E. B., Hitchings, P., Rhodes, S., Yasui, E., Gibbon, E., Handziuk, N., Glasser, A., Ullah, I., & Abu Jayyab, K. (2018). Jawafat Shaban and the Late Neolithic in Wâdî al-Bîr, Northern Jordan. Paléorient, 44(1), 57-74.

Hit Pieces

Patton, K., C. Hernandez, and K. Maxwell. 2024. A Decolonial Reflection on Archaeological Pedagogy and Practice. The SAA Archaeological Record 24(3):24-27.

Peace, T. (2023). The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680-1790. UBC Press. (Winner of the 2024 Canadian Historical Association’s Clio prize for Atlantic Region)

Credits:

Sponsors: APANB, ULeth SSHRC Exchange

Producer: Emanuel Akel LinkedIn