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The Coolest Archaeological Site in the World: Interview with Professor Chantal Conneller on Star Carr and the Mesolithic
Season 4 Episode 100
Star Carr, located in the Yorkshire region of northern England, is one of the world's richest archaeological sites, a waterlogged window onto the European Mesolithic more than 11,000 years ago. Profe…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
The Polynesians and the Pacific: Interview with Professor Patrick Vinton Kirch
Season 4 Episode 99
Of all the Austronesian-speaking peoples, none have gone further than the Polynesians. Professor Patrick Vinton Kirch of the University of Hawaii is one of the world's leading experts on the Polynesi…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
The Austronesian Expansion, Part 2
Season 4 Episode 98
The first wave of migration out of Taiwan brought speakers of Austronesian to the northern reaches of the Philippines, the homeland of the Malayo-Polynesians. From there, they spread out over a vast …
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
The Austronesian Expansion, Part 1
Season 4 Episode 97
More than 4,000 years ago, a remarkable migration - one of the great journeys in human history - began in Taiwan. Within just a thousand years, people speaking the Austronesian languages spread out e…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
How Did Civilizations in the Andes Deal with Environmental Upheaval? Interview with Professor Jason Nesbitt
Season 4 Episode 96
The harsh, unforgiving conditions of the Andes and the nearby Pacific coastline make it one of the best places in the world to study the relationship between people and their environment. Professor J…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Human Sacrifice, Oracle Bones, and Shang China: Interview with Professor Rod Campbell
Season 4 Episode 95
China's Shang Dynasty is something of an enigma. It produced the earliest written evidence in China, in the form of inscribed oracle bones, and decades of archaeology have shed light on its capital c…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
The Beginnings of Civilization in the Andes: The Mounds of Norte Chico
Season 4 Episode 94
The arid shoreline between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific seems like an unlikely place to host one of the world's earliest complex societies. But more than 5,000 years ago, the people of the Nor…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
The Rise of the Olmecs
Season 4 Episode 93
Mesoamerica is one of only a few places in the world where "civilization" - states, writing, cities, monumental building, and so on - emerged independently. The first society to do all this were the …
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Migration, Ancient DNA, and European Prehistory: Interview with Kristian Kristiansen
Season 4 Episode 92
Over the past several decades, ancient DNA and other archaeological sciences have transformed our understanding of Europe in prehistory. Professor Kristian Kristiansen has worked with these new metho…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
The Steppes of Central Asia in the Bronze Age: Interview with Professor Michael Frachetti
Season 4 Episode 91
The Eurasian steppe is central to grasping the past 5,000 years of human history, and in the past couple of decades, new tools of analysis have transformed our understanding of the place and its impo…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago