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Patrick Wrote a Book! With Leah Sutherland and Rachel Kambury
Season 4 Episode 50
Patrick's book, The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World, comes out next Tuesday, July 20th! He worked really hard on it, people like Mike Duncan and Dan Jones say it…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Iran, Central Asia, and the Caucasus Mountains
Season 4 Episode 49
While Mesopotamia and even the Indus Valley get the lion's share of the attention, sophisticated and long-lasting societies inhabited the lands fringing the Caspian Sea for thousands of years. The pe…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
The Lives of Herders on the Ancient Steppes: Interview with Professor Alicia Ventresca Miller
Season 4 Episode 48
When we think of the open grasslands of the Eurasian steppes, we usually imagine nomadic herders taking their livestock from place to place on horseback. But the steppes are a vast and varied place, …
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
The Bronze-Age Steppe and the Emergence of the Indo-Iranians
Season 4 Episode 47
Things didn't stop happening on the vast grasslands of the Eurasian steppes once the first waves of migrants had departed to make their mark on Europe and beyond. New societies, languages, and ethnic…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Ancient DNA, Indo-Europeans, and the Steppe: Interview with Professor David Anthony
Season 4 Episode 46
Professor David Anthony is one of the world's foremost experts on the archaeology of the ancient Eurasian steppes and sits at the cutting edge of Indo-European studies. We discuss the unique nature o…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
The Archaeology of Human Bones and the Iberian Copper Age: Interview with Dr. Jess Beck
Season 4 Episode 45
Human bones are one of our most valuable and illuminating sources of information about the past, but how do we use them, and what can they tell us about prehistory? I talked to Dr. Jess Beck, a bioar…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
The Bell Beaker Phenomenon and the Rise of the Bronze Age
Season 4 Episode 44
Around 4,500 years ago, bell-shaped ceramic drinking vessels called "beakers" begin showing up with the dead in tombs all over western Europe. Everywhere from Portugal to Sicily to Scotland to Slovak…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Indo-European, Migration, and the Corded Ware Culture
Season 4 Episode 43
Five thousand years ago, small groups of herders began making their way from the open grasslands of the Eurasian steppe into the hills and forests of northern Europe. They moved west, intermarrying w…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Cuneiform Literature, Medicine, and Mental Health: Interview with Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid
Season 4 Episode 42
At the heart of the ancient Middle East, a sophisticated, urbanized, and long-lived world, was a writing system: cuneiform, used for everything from heroic epic to receipts and medical texts, and fir…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
The Yamnaya Culture and the Proto-Indo-European Migrations
Season 4 Episode 41
More than 5,000 years ago, a group of wandering herders on the Eurasian steppes - the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European - began to move outward from their homeland. With their wagons, horses, …
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago