Season 4 Mailbag: Prehistory and Early History
It's mailbag time! Patrick answers a variety of questions about topics covered (and not covered) in this season of Tides, ranging from Svante Pääbo's Nobel Prize in paleogenomics to Indo-European orig...
20 Okt 202250min
Empires, Networks, and the Hittites: Interview with Professor Claudia Glatz
What is an empire? It sounds straightforward enough, but figuring out what the term means - much less whether it really helps us understand past political units - is actually pretty complicated. Profe...
13 Okt 202247min
Who Were the Sea Peoples?
When assigning blame for the Bronze Age Collapse, the most common culprits are said to be the Sea Peoples: nomadic raiders and sackers of cities who plied the sea-lanes of the late Bronze Age world an...
6 Okt 202245min
The Fall of Mycenaean Greece and the Trojan War
Mycenaean Greece was one of the glittering jewels of the late Bronze Age world, but it fell to pieces in dramatic fashion: burned palaces, abandoned settlements, and the end of a centuries-old politic...
29 Sep 202246min
How Ancient Economies Fell Apart: Interview with Professor Sarah Murray
We're often told that trade was central to the interconnected world of the late Bronze Age, but what were people really trading? Why did trade matter so much? And what happened when that trade disappe...
22 Sep 202257min
What was the Bronze Age Collapse?
The term "Bronze Age Collapse" is by now common, but what do we actually mean when we talk about "collapse?" Is it a matter of political reorganization or something rather more drastic? In the case of...
15 Sep 202241min
Clashing Empires in the Late Bronze Age
The late Bronze Age was a time of powerful empires and intense competition between them. Never before had true states covered such a large area, or had such resources to devote to politicking and figh...
8 Sep 202242min
Living as a Regular Person in Ancient Egypt: Interview with Professor Anne Austin
What was it like to be a regular person in ancient Egypt? What did people do when they got sick or injured? Professor Anne Austin is an Egyptologist and bioarchaeologist who studies health and disease...
1 Sep 202248min
