Podcast Episodes

The Red Land and New Cultures

Season 4 Episode 10

This week we talk about the eastern desert and the goods that are starting to be sourced from the area. We also talk about the culture doing the sourcing as well as a couple of other cultures emergin…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Nubia and The Foundations of Kush

Season 4 Episode 9

This week we jump ahead to talk about terminology used by the Egyptians about the regions and peoples to their south. We also talk about the site that will become the city of Kerma and the beginning …

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

The Highlands and the Sea

Season 4 Episode 8

This week we talk about the Cushitic branch of Afroasiatic languages and the peoples of the Horn of Africa as well as their proto states and interactions with Egypt and Arabia.

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Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

The White Nile, African Great Lakes, and the Omo

Season 4 Episode 7

This week we discuss the Eburran culture and it's interaction with a pastoralist groups coming into African Great Lakes Region from the Nile and Horn of Africa. We also discuss said pastoralists and …

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Lake Chad

Season 4 Episode 6

This week we talk about the importance of Lake Chad. The origin of that name. The arrival of pastoralism and the importance of fishing in the region. We discuss the establishment of small scale trade…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Lake Chad and The Headwaters Of the Nile

Season 4 Episode 5

This week we move to the peoples living around Lake Chad, the eastern Sahel, the southern Nile, and its tributaries between 6000-4000 BC(E) and the expansion of pastoralism and agriculture.

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Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Small Advances and Small Branches

Season 4 Episode 4

This week we finish this season's coverage of West Africa. I talk about the delay in the adoption of agriculture in the region, and the future expansion of textiles, cloth, and leather production and…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

West African Hunter Gatherers, the Round Head Period, and New Languages

Season 4 Episode 3

This episode was a little shorter than I would have liked thanks to some technical issues, but that didn't stop me from talking about the West African Hunter Gatherers that inhabited places like Shum…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Central Africa and it's Gatherers

Season 4 Episode 2

This week we talk about the ancestors of Central Africa's Pygmy peoples. We discuss why they may have evolved their shorter stature and their potential social organizations and what we know of their …

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Neolithic South Africa and Pastoral East Africa

Season 4 Episode 1

I return this week after a very frustrating experience last week to talk about the ancestors of the modern Khoi and San peoples and some of the reasons that these peoples haven't had to change as qui…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago