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After the Ice: The Younger Dryas, the Mesolithic, and the Birth of a New World
Season 4 Episode 8
For most of Homo sapiens' time out of Africa, we lived in a world defined by ice. But by around 20,000 years ago, the ice had begun to melt, the glac…
6 years, 1 month ago
How Should We Understand the Deep Human Past? Interview with Professor John Hawks
Season 4 Episode 7
Professor John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of the world's best communicators on the deep human past and paleoanthropology, join…
6 years, 1 month ago
New Insights on the First Americans: Interview with Professor Jennifer Raff
Season 4 Episode 6
Our understanding of the past is constantly in flux, and there's no field where that's clearer than with the early settlement of the Americas. I'm jo…
6 years, 2 months ago
Who Were the First Americans?
Season 4 Episode 5
The Americas were the last continents Homo sapiens reached. Why did it take so long for people to enter this vast and promising expanse of land? Who …
6 years, 2 months ago
Trapped in Ice: The Paleolithic World
Season 4 Episode 4
Twenty thousand years ago, the world was locked in ice. The glaciers advanced from the poles and mountain ranges, swallowing huge portions of the pla…
6 years, 2 months ago
Ancient DNA and the Human Story: Interview with Geneticist Eske Willerslev
Season 4 Episode 3
Ancient DNA is the key that's unlocking the deep history of humanity, allowing us to answer questions about our collective past that we never dreamed…
6 years, 3 months ago
The Ghosts of Archaic Humans
Season 4 Episode 2
Until very recently, Homo sapiens - our species - was only one of several varieties of humans on this planet. As our ancestors spread outward from Af…
6 years, 3 months ago
Bone, Stone, and Genome: Understanding Humanity's Deep Past
Season 4 Episode 1
Welcome to a new season of Tides of History! Over the next year, we'll be traveling from the very origins of our species through the peopling of the …
6 years, 3 months ago
Did I End My Early Modern Series in the Right Place? Interview with Keith Pluymers
Season 3 Episode 58
How do we tell when one period ends and another begins? What are the fundamental characteristics of the early modern period? My dear friend (and frie…
6 years, 4 months ago
The Globalization of the Year 1000: Interview with Professor Valerie Hansen
Season 3 Episode 57
Around the year 1000, merchants, explorers, and missionaries linked the world together from Newfoundland to China. Trade goods, people, and above all…
6 years, 4 months ago