Questions of Doom

Questions of Doom is a regular series of Archaeology Soup videos, 
In this particular series, presenter Marc offers answers to various viewer questions about archaeology.
In Marc's own words: Welcome to Questions of Doom. In this series, we answer your questions about Archaeology and our shared heritage.
If you have a question about the discipline of archaeology (especially if it has not appeared in a QoD episode so far), feel free to write an e-mail to ArchaeoSoup with your question, using the contact information provided in the main article (see above link).
== Overview of the series ==
The full chronological playlist for this series can be found here.
For greater ease of navigation, the episode overviews listed below are arranged according to the year of their first release. Please note that the order number of the videos does not reset with these years, as this is a long-term video series. Pleasant viewing !
==2011==
Questions of Doom episodes from 2011.
Order	Video topic 	Topic notes 	Release date 	Runtime
1 	Series introduction 	N/A 	13 July 2011 	0:13
2 	Questions of Doom: THE Stone Age? 	 	13 July 2011 	7:44
3 	Questions of Doom: Can You 'See' My Ancestors? 	 	26 July 2011 	10:45
4 	Questions of Doom: Concrete Conservation? 	 	4 August 2011 	5:10
5 	Questions of Doom: Monuments Database 	HER Wales Scotland 	5 August 2011 	4:18
6 	Questions of Doom: How Can You Know the Past Even Happened? 	 	16 August 2011 	8:08
7 	Questions of Doom: What is Field Walking? 	 	17 August 2011 	4:47
8 	Questions of Doom: Welsh Castles 	 	23 August 2011 	3:49
9 	Questions of Doom: Should I Dig Up My Garden? 	 	1 September 2011 	9:11
10 	Questions of Doom: Does Archaeology Get Harder the Further Back You Go?	 	6 September 2011 	6:37
11 	Questions of Doom: Which Era Do You Prefer? 	 	8 September 2011 	6:13
12 	Questions of Doom: Can Archaeology Be Hazardous to Your Health? 	 	15 September 2011	8:08
13 	Questions of Doom: Processual Vs. Post Processual: The Great Schism? 	 	20 September 2011	10:50
14 	Questions of Doom: Money, Money, Money... 	 	28 September 2011	16:18
15 	Questions of Doom: Archaeology and Religious Institutions 	 	5 October 2011 	9:39
16 	Questions of Doom: 'Sexy' Archaeology? 	 	11 October 2011 	10:23
17 	Questions of Doom: Re-burying Bodies? 	The Bicester Re-Burial Story	17 October 2011 	9:39
18 	Questions of Doom: Most Disturbing Task? 	 	28 October 2011 	6:20
19 	Questions of Doom: Getting a-Head? 	 	2 November 2011 	5:28
20 	Questions of Doom: Human Sacrifice, Pandering to the Public? 	 	10 November 2011 	12:36
21 	Questions of Doom: It's Behind You! 	 	14 November 2011 	6:31
22 	Questions of Doom: Art or Science? 	 	21 November 2011 	10:34
23 	Questions of Doom: Why do Military Graves Matter? 	 	28 November 2011 	12:54
24 	Questions of Doom: Excavating Human Remains 	 	5 December 2011 	13:38
25 	Questions of Doom: The Ring and Dot Motif 	 	13 December 2011 	5:58
26 	Questions of Doom: Does it Matter How Well Preserved Remains Are? 	 	19 December 2011 	9:46
==2012==
Questions of Doom episodes from from 2012.
Order	Video topic 	Topic notes	Release date 	Runtime
27 	Questions of Doom: Forbidden Archaeology? 	 	13 January 2012 	12:22
28 	Questions of Doom: Which School Subjects are Best for Archaeology? 	 	31 January 2012 	16:45
29 	Questions of Doom: Is Archaeology a Forensic Science? 	 	11 February 2012 	12:38
30 	Questions of Doom: The Heart of the Matter! 	 	14 February 2012 	7:01
31 	Questions of Doom: Too Many Rituals and Rites? 	 	22 February 2012 	13:10
32 	Questions of Doom: If You Could Travel Through Time...? 	 	27 February 2012 	12:45
33 	Questions of Doom: Pronunciation of Ancient Languages 	 	12 March 2012 	11:06
34 	Questions of Doom: Historically Accurate Films? 	 	21 March 2012 	11:34
35 	Questions of Doom: Earliest Archaeology? 	 	2 April 2012 	13:07
36 	Questions of Doom: Radioactive Archaeology? 	 	17 April 2012 	4:41
37 	Questions of Doom: Is Wearing a Hard Hat On-Site Actually Important?	 	23 April 2012 	7:50
38 	Questions of Doom: Hominin and Hominid? 	 	30 April 2012 	6:53
39 	Questions of Doom: Is There Anything Left to Discover? 	 	7 May 2012 	7:13
40 	Questions of Doom: Origins of the Olympic Torch? 	 	11 May 2012 	8:21
41 	Questions of Doom: Ancient Translators? 	 	14 May 2012 	14:39
42 	Questions of Doom: Dinosaurs and People in Peru? 	 	25 May 2012 	11:56
43 	Questions of Doom: Elementary Archaeology, Dear Watson!? 	 	11 June 2012 	14:45
44 	Questions of Doom: Has Individuality always been Important? 	 	18 June 2012 	16:43
45 	Questions of Doom: Does Archaeology Make You a Better Person? 	 	4 July 2012 	10:52
46 	Questions of Doom: Is Looting Sometimes Okay? 	 	11 July 2012 	11:17
47 	Questions of Doom: Archaeology of the Book 	 	26 July 2012 	13:59
48 	Questions of Doom: Humans, Alcohol & Fire! 	 	1 August 2012 	10:43
49 	Questions of Doom: Poor Presentation at Pompeii? 	 	8 August 2012 	11:32
50 	Questions of Doom: Annoying Archaeology in Films? 	 	15 August 2012 	12:32
51 	Questions of Doom: Origins of Cymraeg (Welsh) 	 	24 August 2012 	14:27
52 	Questions of Doom: Are Archaeologists like Sherlock Holmes? 	 	29 August 2012 	12:44
53 	Questions of Doom: The 2012 Phenomenon 	 	5 September 2012 	13:27
54 	Questions of Doom: Pipes and Tobacco 	 	12 September 2012	13:08
55 	Questions of Doom: BC-AD Vs. BCE-CE 	 	15 October 2012 	14:24
56 	Questions of Doom: Homer's Trojan War 	 	26 October 2012 	13:48
57 	Questions of Doom: What is a Context Sheet? 	 	1 November 2012 	19:57
58 	Questions of Doom: Encouraging a Budding Archaeologist? 	 	29 November 2012 	14:45
==2013==
Questions of Doom episodes from 2013.
Order	Video topic 	Topic notes	Release date 	Runtime
59 	Questions of Doom: Seeds of Inspiration 	 	15 January 2013 	16:13
60 	Questions of Doom: To Preserve or not To Preserve... Is that the Question?	 	5 February 2013 	12:34
61 	Questions of Doom: A CHALLENGE... Pluralism and Pseudoarchaeology 	 	18 February 2013	17:41
62 	Questions of Doom: Surnames: What Can You be Sure of? 	 	27 February 2013	16:13
63 	Questions of Doom: The Best We Can Be? 	 	13 March 2013 	11:39
64 	Questions of Doom: The 'Culture' Conundrum? 	 	22 March 2013 	18:11
65 	Questions of Doom: G.E.D. Archaeology/ Anthropology? 	 	8 May 2013 	13:12
66 	Questions of Doom: Is There Anything Left to Do? 	 	24 May 2013 	13:27
67 	Questions of Doom: Archaeology/ Anthropology: What's the Difference? 	 	12 July 2013 	16:40
68 	Questions of Doom: No.1 Skill from the Stone Ages? 	 	21 August 2013 	14:12
69 	Questions of Doom: Contact with Ancient China 	 	29 August 2013 	23:21
70 	Questions of Doom: These Boots Were Made for Diggin' 	 	7 October 2013 	9:51
71 	Questions of Doom: Bog Bodies in the Bath? 	 	3 December 2013 	9:56
72 	Questions of Doom: Excavating Santa's Workshop? 	 	24 December 2013	17:33
==2014==
Questions of Doom episodes from 2014.
Order	Video topic 	Topic notes	Release date 	Runtime
73 	Questions of Doom: Evolution - Life & Death? (Jelly Head) 	 	21 January 2014 	16:47
74 	Questions of Doom: Horns on Helmets? 	 	7 February 2014 	19:30
75 	Questions of Doom: F.A.Q's 	 	17 February 2014	20:04
?? 	Questions of Doom: 'Tribal' Tattoos? 	 	22 February 2014	21:49
76 	Questions of Doom: The Importance of Writing? 	 	9 April 2014 	15:57
77 	Questions of Doom: Human Extinction? 	 	2 May 2014 	24:20
78 	Questions of Doom: What is an Ancestor? 	 	21 May 2014 	17:19
79 	Questions of Doom: 'Conflict' or 'Battlefield' Archaeology?	 	21 June 2014 	6:42
80 	Questions of Doom: Stone or Stone Tool? 	 	29 August 2014 	15:02
81 	Questions of Doom: Evolution vs. Brain Disorders? 	 	4 November 2014 	15:09
82 	Questions of Doom: Roman Urbanism? 	 	26 November 2014	16:38
83 	Questions of Doom: Vikings Discovered America? 	 	18 December 2014	11:55
==2015==
Questions of Doom episodes from 2015.
Order	Video topic 	Topic notes 	Release date 	Runtime
84 	Questions of Doom: Europe or Australia? 	 	11 February 2015 	17:48
85 	Questions of Doom: Managing Mammoth? 	40 Year Old Flesh Brings Mammoth Cloning Closer Woolly Mammoth Clone 	10 March 2015 	12:16
86 	Questions of Doom: Druids? 	 	10 April 2015 	19:56
87 	Questions of Doom: Intrigue, Prep, Reward? 	 	11 May 2015 	14:28
88 	Questions of Doom: Is the Past Static? 	 	5 June 2015 	14:22
89 	Questions of Doom: Evolution - A 'Touchy Subject'?	 	22 June 2015 	16:01
90 	Questions of Doom: Killing a Sword? 	Killing the Weapons. An Insight on Graves with Destroyed Weapons in Late Iron Age Transylvania Hidden Histories: Fake it 'till They Excavate it!	21 August 2015 	16:50
91 	Questions of Doom: Braces 	 	18 September 2015	11:26
92 	Questions of Doom: Ruined Monasteries 	 	2 October 2015 	13:34
93 	Questions of Doom: Antiquarians = Archaeologists? 	 	2 December 2015 	14:42
==2016==
Questions of Doom episodes from 2016.
Order	Video topic 	Topic notes 	Release date 	Runtime
94 	Questions of Doom: Essay Writing FAQs 	 	7 March 2016 	14:33
95 	Questions of Doom: Indiana Jones Anti-Archaeology? 	 	12 April 2016 	17:48
96 	Questions of Doom: Stratigraphy/ Site Formation 	 	19 May 2016 	8:03
97 	Questions of Doom: Why "Artefacts" in Archaeology? 	 	24 May 2016 	30:46
98 	Questions of Doom: What is an Amateur Archaeologist? 	Lindisfarne monastery evidence found by amateur archaeologist (BBC News)	6 July 2016 	9:50
99 	Questions of Doom: Space Archaeology? 	 	8 September 2016	18:08
100 	Questions of Doom: Why Don't More Archaeologists Vlog?	5 Risks of Public Archaeology ? 	21 November 2016	23:57
101 	Questions of Doom: Pyramids & Poop! 	 	1 December 2016 	14:08
==2017==
Questions of Doom episodes from 2017.
Order	Video topic 	Topic notes	Release date 	Runtime
102 	Questions of Doom: How Old is Terrorism? 	 	23 May 2017 	16:37
103 	Questions of Doom: Seeing What Our Ancestors Saw?	 	20 July 2017 	23:23
104 	Questions of Doom: How Old is this Burnt Patch? 	 	22 August 2017	14:32
==2018==
Questions of Doom episodes from 2018.
Order	Video topic 	Topic notes 	Release date 	Runtime
105 	Questions of Doom: How to Pronounce Boudica? 	 	2 January 2018 	16:37
106 	Questions of Doom: Ley Lines!? 	 	29 March 2018 	22:34
107 	Questions of Doom: Aesthetically Sensing Monuments? 	 	17 April 2018 	21:21
108 	Questions of Doom: What Will Future Archaeologists Think? 	 	12 July 2018 	29:10
109 	Questions of Doom: Is My Archaeology Degree LIMITED? 	Questions of Doom: Which School Subjects are Best for Archaeology? Questions of Doom: G.E.D. Archaeology/ Anthropology? Archaeo-Chat: Archaeology After University... Studying Archaeology at University Archaeo-Chat: Tips for Heading to Uni!	20 August 2018 	19:26
110 	Questions of Doom: What do Archaeologists REALLY Think of Metal Detecting?	 	13 September 2018	25:48
111 	Questions of Doom: Dissertation Planning in the First Year at Uni? 	Portable Antiquities Scheme Stats 	5 October 2018 	24:00
112 	Questions of Doom: Heritage Vs. New Homes? 	Saving an Art Deco Pub!? (November 2017 episode of Watching Brief) 	16 October 2018 	19:37
==2019==
Questions of Doom episodes from 2019.
Order	Video topic 	Topic notes	Release date 	Runtime
113 	Questions of Doom: Balancing Scientific Method with Pseudoscience?	 	17 October 2019	21:13
==2020==
Questions of Doom episodes from 2020.
Order	Video topic 	Topic notes 	Release date 	Runtime
114 	Questions of Doom: Upsetting/Emotionally Affecting Archaeology? 	 	14 August 2020 	25:00
115 	Questions of Doom: Heathens, Daemons & Pictish Beliefs on the Edge of the World!? (Halloween 2020)	Glenmorangie Research Project Tayside And Fife Archaeological Committee (Volume 15, 2009) Volume 15, 2009 PDF National Museums Scotland Blog of Adrián Maldonado	26 October 2020	46:25
==2021==
Questions of Doom episodes from 2021.
Order	Video topic 	Topic notes 	Release date	Runtime
116 	Questions of Doom: Why do Archaeologists Use Trowels?	BBC News: Skara Brae women archaeologists who were written out of history BRP Video: Archaeology Basics - The Trowel Article from British Archaeology blog on trowels	7 May 2021 	21:14
==2022==
Questions of Doom episodes from 2022.
Order	Video topic	Topic notes	Release date	Runtime	
117 	[ N/A] 	 	TBA 2022 	TBA 	
118 	[ N/A] 	 	TBA 2022 	TBA 	
== Defunct and obsolete episodes ==
Certain earlier episodes of the series are now defunct, as they were either outdated in terms of content, or were obsolete in some other way. 
Or. no.	Video topic 	Topic notes 	Release date 	
4 	Questions of Doom: What is Your Belief? 	Defunct. 	1 August 2011 	N/A
7 	Questions of Doom: Tell Me About Your Trowel! 	Archaeology Tools.eu Defunct. 	10 August 2011 	N/A
9 	Questions of Doom: We Don't Do Dinosaurs! (The Archaeology Song) 	One of Marc's two filk songs on misconceptions about the science of archaeology. Currently moved to a separate playlist for the songs.	17 August 2011 	3:25
62 	Questions of Doom: Why the Trowel? 	Defunct. 	17 December 2012	N/A
71 	Questions of Doom: We Don't Do Aliens! (Another Archaeology Song)	One of Marc's two filk songs on misconceptions of the science of archaeology. Currently moved to a separate playlist for the songs. 	6 June 2013 	5:21
81 	Questions of Doom: 'Tribal' Tattoos? 	Co-hosted with Rhys. 	22 February 2014	21:49
== Theme tune and trivia ==
The series originally lacked a theme tune with the title card in the early episodes (1-86, between 2011 and 2015) accompanied by an amusingly melodramatic voiceover by Marc, declaring "Questions ! Of ! Doooooom !".
In episode 87 from November 2015, the series introduced a dedicated short intro sequence, with a new animated Questions of Doom title card, complete with a titles font imitating that of the Indiana Jones film series. The title card continues to be accompanied by Marc's amusingly melodramatic voiceover of the series' name, and also has slightly ominous background music, with a mysterious and tribal undertone (though it's clearly played for laughs, rather than entirely seriously). Episode 87 of QoD was filmed in the new "ArchaeoSoup Towers" office and set of Archaeology Soup, so the intro reflected this with a more impressive facelift for the opening titles.
Marc has also developed a habit to do a tongue-in-cheek "Welcome to... questionnsss... of... dooommm !" welcome at the start of every episode, after these opening titles.
The name of the series itself is a pun on Temple of Doom, the subtitle of the second film in the Indiana Jones film series. 
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