What role does power play in research?
As we’ve seen in The Unburied Podcast Season 1 and Season 2, power plays an immeasurable role in the lives of those who were studied as artefacts and not people.
In The Unburied Podcast Season 2 Episode 3, we uncover how much of an impact power had on the people studied by a Raymond Dart in South Africa.
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It is interesting to think that without South Africa’s mining activity, these fossils might have stayed buried forever. Without the mining industry, we would have been left with a huge gap in our understanding of early human evolution.
Want to know more about how South Africa’s colonial history shaped not only South Africa, but the world?
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From our shared origins to our shared future 🌍
“The Taung Skull has extended my umbilical cord to the other nations of the world.”
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What counted as knowledge building 200 years ago?
“I found it. I’m naming it.”
Maybe it’s time to rethink what we still value today.
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The “explorer”: brave, heroic, and almost always… the same kind of person.
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A look into a telegram that revealed the cold logic of colonial science, and exposes a history of dehumanisation.
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We love the idea of the brave explorer… but where did that story come from? 👀
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Rewriting the story of discovery: from conquest to collaboration.
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The lines drawn in the name of science shaped an entire nation.
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A single telegram arrives and it changes everything for a family, and for the memory of a young woman lost to history.
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The Taung Child proved humanity’s African origins, but behind the science lies a story of racism, colonial power, and exploitation. This episode uncovers how brilliance and harm became intertwined, and how today’s scientists are reshaping the field with justice and care.
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Labourers who shaped science, even if history didn’t acknowledge them.
Episode 2 of The Unburied Podcast Season 2 is out now.
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