S2 E5 Ma'ax Na Part 2 and Other Tales
Part two of the last episode. Stories of my 3rd and 4th seasons mapping Ma'ax Na and some other crazy stuff that happened in my career in 1996 and 1997. Support the show Support ArchaeoEd through Patr...
1 Mai 202139min
S2 E4 How I Discovered Ma'ax Na
Back in the 1990's, I discovered the ancient Maya city of Ma'ax Na in the remote jungles of Northwestern Belize. This podcast tells the story of how I did it. Support the show Support ArchaeoEd throu...
1 Apr 202135min
S2 E3_New World Contact Epidemics
The moment of contact between Europe and the Americas in the 15th century brought with it a host of infectious diseases. The result was the spread of epidemics at a scale and speed the world had neve...
1 Mar 202138min
S2 E2_Inca Khipu
The Inca Khipu - knotted string records of the Inca Empire. The amazingly organized Inca civilization of over 10 million people was kept running smoothly through the use of the khipu, essentially the...
1 Feb 202137min
S2 E1_Chaco Canyon
Chaco Canyon is without doubt the finest ancient architecture within the modern United States. The Ancestral Pueblo built it over a 300 year period between 850-1150 CE, but the strange thing is - the...
1 Jan 202142min
S1 E6_DeSoto was a Psycho
From 1539 to 1542, Hernando de Soto led an army of Spanish conquistadors through what is now the southeastern United States. What his men saw and documented during those three years was amazing. Wha...
1 Des 202036min
S1 E5_Easter Island
Easter Island, or as its known to its inhabitants, Rapa Nui is one of the most remote places on the planet. In this episode, Ed will discuss how the first people made it to the island, the insights t...
1 Nov 202037min
S1 E4_Tulum
Tulum was an ancient Maya port city on Yucatan's eastern coast and still populated when the Spanish first arrived, but strangely the conquistadors never securely identified or occupied it. Why? I th...
1 Okt 202036min
