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When a Smithsonian archaeology intern opened a dusty box of bones in a Panamanian warehouse, she didn't expect to find a mystery, let alone a potential crime scene. But Nina Hirai’s discovery of a tapir skull riddled with what appeared to be bullet holes sparked an investigation that would lead her several miles up the Panama Canal and nearly forty years into the past. Join us as we unspool the strange, unresolved story of a tapir named Alice, and ask what it means to live with uncertainty when the past refuses to explain itself.
Guests:
Nina Hirai, former archeology intern at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Nicole Smith-Guzmán, archeology curator at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Ashley Sharpe, research archeologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Aureliano Valencia (“Yeyo”), archeological research technician at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Phyllis (Lissy) Coley, professor emerita in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Utah and research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Monica Brenes Lynan, former veterinarian at Parque Municipal Summit in Panama
Andres Ramos, lider de guardabosques del Monumento Natural Barro Colorado / head park ranger at Barro Colorado Island
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