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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. Bu…
4 years, 5 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 indepen…
4 years, 5 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 Kr…
4 years, 5 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 trans…
4 years, 5 months ago
Indo-Aryans, the Rigveda, and a World on the Move
Season 4 Episode 90
Four thousand years ago, the sprawling cities of the Indus Valley Civilization dominated much of South Asia; a millennium after that, however, the ci…
4 years, 6 months ago
The World of the Indo-Iranians
Season 4 Episode 89
More than a billion people around the world speak a language of the Indo-Iranian family today. These languages all trace their origin to a group of i…
4 years, 6 months ago
What was the Indus Valley Civilization? Interview with Dr. Adam Green
Season 4 Episode 88
The Indus Valley Civilization doesn’t get much attention compared to Mesopotamia or Egypt, but it covered an area of a million square kilometers, was…
4 years, 6 months ago
Languages of the World in 1200 BC
Season 4 Episode 87
Language is fundamental to how people experience the world, but how can we know what languages people spoke in the distant past? By 1200 BC, the ling…
4 years, 6 months ago
Kathryn de Luna on Africa, Bantu, and Historical Linguistics
Season 4 Episode 86
About one in every five people alive on the planet today speaks a language belonging to the Bantu family, and Bantu-speaking peoples have shaped the …
4 years, 6 months ago
What is the State?
Season 4 Episode 85
The state - a centralized administration that exerts control over a territory and can coerce the people living there - is one of the driving forces o…
4 years, 7 months ago