Podcast Episodes

The Desert, The Forests, and The Deccan

Season 3 Episode 26

This week we lay out some internal geographic features of the Indian Subcontinent and what effects that had on travel, trade, and habitation of the region and how they may have affected the archeolog…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Shiva's Tresses and Bhirrana

Season 3 Episode 25

This week we move away from Mehrgarh to talk about the ancient sites in the Soan River Valley and Sivalik Hills then move further east and conclude with talk about Bhirrana.Twitter: https://twitter.c…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

The Indus and Mehrgarh

Season 3 Episode 24

This week we talk about the origin of the name of the Indus River and we talk about the first phase of Mehrgarh. A settlement that will last in some form or another until the middle 2000s BC and form…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Reaching the Indus

Season 3 Episode 23

This week we talk about how people entered South Asia and the banks of the Indus River. We also talked about some of the big geographic and meteorological differences and the other parts of Asia we …

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Into the Hindu Kush

Season 3 Episode 22

This week we begin to talk about South Asia at 8000-6000 BC/BCE. We're starting in the mountains of the Hindu Kush and I only digress three times. We talk about the early agriculture and herding happ…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

A Past and Future Junction

Season 3 Episode 21

This week we're moving into Central Asia. The humans moving into the region at this time were having to deal with the environmental changes left behind by the retreating ice sheets and glaciers of th…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Lands Between the Mountains

Season 3 Episode 20

This week see us return briefly to Iran to discuss a smaller number of sties that are only beginning to be established before we begin to move into Central Asia beginning with modern day Turkmenistan…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

On the Periphery Of the Rivers and Mountains

Season 3 Episode 19

This week we move into what is modern day Iran and talk about a few sites associated with the earliest evidence of domesticated sheep and goats as well as very early ceramic use in the Middle East.

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Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Mountains, Mesopotamia, and Arabia

Season 3 Episode 18

This week we finish Anatolia and move into the Caucasus Mountains, Pontic Mountains, Mesopotamia, Arabia, and Northern Iran and the Caspian Sea cost and talking about the peoples living there. There'…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Revising Catalhoyuk

Season 3 Episode 17

This week we finish our discussion of Catalhoyuk by talking about some of the early discussions of the site and what continued excavation of the location has found and how that should change what is …

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago