5. Hunting the Minotaur

Fingerprints

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Fingerprints Episode 5
Curator Andrew Shapland shows us a tiny fragment which reveals the story of the man who set out to hunt down the mythical minotaur. Sir Arthur Evans went on to become known as the father of archaeology, but his journey reveals a culture war between empires in the Mediterranean. Find a transcript of this episode here
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Speakers in this episode:

Series host: Lucie Dawkins, Director & Producer, Ashmolean Museum
Dr Andrew Shapland, Curator of Bronze Age & Classical Greece
Dr Lucia Patrizio Gunning, Modern Historian, UCL
Dr Antonis Kotsonas, Associate Professor of Mediterranean History and Archaeology
Dr Lisa Bendall, Associate Professor in Aegean Prehistory, University of Oxford
Dr Athanasia Kanta, archaeologist
With the voice of Jonathan Aris as Arthur Evans

About the Fingerprints podcast
Every object in the Ashmolean has passed from hand to hand to reach the Museum. In a new podcast, we uncover the invisible fingerprints left behind by makers, looters, archaeologists, soldiers, rulers, curators, and many more. These stories of touch reveal the ways in which the forces of conflict and colonialism have shaped Britain’s oldest Museum. Join the Ashmolean’s curators alongside artists, experts, and community members, for our new podcast: Fingerprints.
Fingerprints will be released on the Ashmolean’s website, on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you get your podcasts, weekly from 21 January 2022 until 25 February 2022.
Fingerprints is produced and hosted by Lucie Dawkins. Guests include Bénédicte Savoy, co-author of the Report on African Cultural Heritage, commissioned by Emmanuel Macron; Professor Dan Hicks, of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum; and Simukai Chigudu, one of the founding members of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.
www.ashmolean.org/fingerprints

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