Fin Dwyer
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3,225 appearances
18 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
Fin Dwyer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Often analysis and discussion around people buried over a thousand years ago presents them as artifacts or objects rather than people who had feelings like you and I do today.
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Eileen, however, has been able to glean evocative images of the relationships the people who lived, died, and were buried at Ranala had.
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Now as someone who hates going to the dentist, the next part of our conversation was one that made me shudder.
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Teeth in general can be a really rich source of evidence for archaeologists.
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And at Ranala, Eileen looked into the teeth of the people.
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Now they were terrible.
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I let Eileen explain what some of the toothaches they had could even kill.
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And did people clean their teeth at all, or is there any evidence of people cleaning their teeth?
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So that would lead to sepsis, is it?
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Every single detail of these bodies offered up new insights.
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For example, Eileen was able to use the presence of infection and disease to reconstruct aspects of life, including just how dirty day-to-day life was at the time.
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Broken bones was also another great insight into life.
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Eileen has been able to analyse bone injuries and extrapolate what this would have reflected about day-to-day life.
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Like if you break a certain type of bone, this might be related to what you work at.
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So far we talked a lot about medieval life and the many injuries and diseases people suffered with.
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This left me wondering what the people looked like.
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Did they bear the marks of these diseases and injuries in their appearance?
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Basically, what would they have looked like if you could travel back to medieval Ranla?
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Everything in our conversation so far indicated life always veered uncomfortably close to death.
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Next, we moved on to discuss violence.
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