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Agriculture, Migration, and the Births of Language Families: Interview with Professor Peter Bellwood
Season 4 Episode 21
The relationship between agriculture, migration, and the distribution of today's most prominent language families is direct but complex. Professor Peter Bellwood, one of the world's leading experts o…
Published on 5 years ago
Classic Tides | Europe After the Black Death
Season 3 Episode 61
Plague, war, and a worsening climate drastically changed Europe in the years and decades after 1350. This new state of affairs laid the groundwork for the explosion around 1500 that gave rise to the …
Published on 5 years ago
Neolithic China and Jomon Japan
Season 4 Episode 20
East Asia was one of the world's primary centers of agricultural innovation. Farming was invented there, rice and millet domesticated, and the people who did so grew in numbers and sophistication. So…
Published on 5 years ago
East Asia in Prehistory
Season 4 Episode 19
Hominins have lived in East Asia - what's now China, Korea, and Japan - for millions of years, at least as far back as Homo erectus if not further. And as the glaciers began to recede for the last ti…
Published on 5 years ago
Why Were There So Many Neolithic Farmers? And What Can Big Data Do For Archaeology? Interview with Professor Stephen Shennan
Season 4 Episode 18
Professor Stephen Shennan is one of the world's leading experts on the early farmers of the Fertile Crescent and Europe. In this interview, I pick his brain about why early farmers were so, uh, ferti…
Published on 5 years ago
Classic Tides | Peasants' Rebellions and Resistance
Season 3 Episode 60
Peasants and common folk were oppressed by their social superiors, but they didn't accept that as a natural state of affairs: They resisted in small, everyday ways, and they rebelled, sometimes spect…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Neanderthals, Our Closest Kin: Interview with Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Season 4 Episode 17
What were Neanderthals really like? Our closest relatives shared an incredible amount in common with us, argues Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of the wonderful new book Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Lo…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Ötzi the Iceman: The Neolithic Ice Mummy
Season 4 Episode 16
Five thousand years ago, a man died more than 10,000 feet high in the Alps of northern Italy. He had been shot in the back with an arrow, the corpse left behind, where he was frozen into a glacier al…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Who Were the Proto-Indo-Europeans?
Season 4 Episode 15
Today, everywhere from Bengal to British Columbia, some 3.2 billion people speak an Indo-European language. All of these diverse languages are descended from a common ancestor spoken long before the …
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
The Lost Civilization of Old Europe: The Copper Age and the First Cities
Season 4 Episode 14
The first farmers of Europe and their descendants persisted for thousands of years. In the Neolithic heartland of eastern Europe, along the Danube River and through the northern Balkan Mountains, the…
Published on 5 years, 2 months ago