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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 th…
5 years, 11 months 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 …
5 years, 11 months 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 descen…
5 years, 11 months 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 Ri…
5 years, 11 months ago
Classic Tides | Peasants and the Medieval Countryside
Season 3 Episode 59
When we think of the medieval world, our minds usually turn to knights, royalty, and clergy. But the backbone of the medieval economic and social ord…
5 years, 11 months ago
Prehistory Mailbag! Archaeology, Language, and the Advantages of Farming
Season 4 Episode 13
How do we know what we know about the deep past? What languages did people speak in prehistory? And why, if the life of an early farmer seemed to be …
6 years ago
Megalithic Europe
Season 4 Episode 12
It didn't take long for the first pioneering farmers of Europe to establish mature and stable societies. The monuments of these societies are still w…
6 years ago
The Neolithic Revolution: Europe's First Farmers
Season 4 Episode 11
Farming came into existence in the Fertile Crescent, but it didn't stay there. By 5000 BC, agriculture had spread east and west, reaching both Centra…
6 years ago
How Did People Domesticate Animals? An Interview with Professor Greger Larson
Season 4 Episode 10
The domestication of animals has transformed the way that people eat, clothe themselves, and live over the past 10,000 or so years, but what in the w…
6 years, 1 month ago
The First Farmers
Season 4 Episode 9
The domestication of plants and animals has remade the way that people feed themselves, organize their societies, and interact with the landscapes ar…
6 years, 1 month ago