Mycelium Signal #1: Perennial Pyrenees
With Dr. Martin Locker

Part 1 of 2

Episode Overview

Dr. Martin Locker, an archaeologist based in Andorra and founder of the Perennial Pyrenees project, was the first guest on Mycelium Signal. In this two-part conversation, we move from the material record of a mountain civilisation to the conceptual architecture behind it: what makes a place sacred, what survives the collapse of a culture, and where the archaeological frame begins to break down. Part 1 explores the deep history and folklore of the Pyrenees, tribe as a living rather than merely historical category, and Locker’s ethnographic soundscape recordings as a parallel archive to his published research.

Key Themes in This Episode

• The archaeology and folklore of the Pyrenean range: Andorra as a case study in layered historical continuity
• Tribe as a living concept — not merely historical or anthropological, but operative in contemporary highland communities
• The relationship between physical landscape and cultural memory
• Ethnographic soundscape as documentary method: field recordings as a parallel archive to written scholarship
• The Perennial Pyrenees project as a model for multi-disciplinary regional research outside institutional frameworks