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Grown ups, if there's a child in your life who is interested in curious about or fascinated

by people in places from history, then my podcast, The Past and the Curious, might just

be a hit in your home.

From the invention of microscopes to world traveling dogs, to fashions of the 1890s,

gold rush ghost towns, and audiences going wild for walking competitions, we've got

a little bit of it all.

Hosted by Children's Author and Museum Educator Mick Sullivan, that's me.

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Every single time you throw something away, you're contributing to a collective time capsule,

because buried deep within the landfills that dot the earth, lies precious information

about who we are, how we live, and what we really care about.

Archaeologists use heaps of trash to study people and culture, and even have a special

nice sounding name for garbage piles, Middens.

In one Midden near Rome, archaeologists uncovered 25 million containers for carrying olive oil,

telling us that Romans used a lot of olive oil, but almost none of it came from Rome.

Most was from Spain and Egypt, and we know from Shell Middens that the Maori people of New

Zealand hunted Moa and seals early on, but later had to switch to fish, shellfish, and

small birds as the Moa and seals became overhunted.

Digging through more recent history, a Midden outside of George Washington's home revealed

the belt buckles he wore, the China he used, and the meat he and his guests ate off of

that China.