The Coolest Archaeological Site in the World: Interview with Professor Chantal Conneller on Star Carr and the Mesolithic
Star Carr, located in the Yorkshire region of northern England, is one of the world's richest archaeological sites, a waterlogged window onto the European Mesolithic more than 11,000 years ago. Profes...
30 Jun 202242min
The Polynesians and the Pacific: Interview with Professor Patrick Vinton Kirch
Of all the Austronesian-speaking peoples, none have gone further than the Polynesians. Professor Patrick Vinton Kirch of the University of Hawaii is one of the world's leading experts on the Polynesia...
23 Jun 202246min
The Austronesian Expansion, Part 2
The first wave of migration out of Taiwan brought speakers of Austronesian to the northern reaches of the Philippines, the homeland of the Malayo-Polynesians. From there, they spread out over a vast s...
16 Jun 202243min
The Austronesian Expansion, Part 1
More than 4,000 years ago, a remarkable migration - one of the great journeys in human history - began in Taiwan. Within just a thousand years, people speaking the Austronesian languages spread out ev...
9 Jun 202237min
How Did Civilizations in the Andes Deal with Environmental Upheaval? Interview with Professor Jason Nesbitt
The harsh, unforgiving conditions of the Andes and the nearby Pacific coastline make it one of the best places in the world to study the relationship between people and their environment. Professor Ja...
2 Jun 202243min
Human Sacrifice, Oracle Bones, and Shang China: Interview with Professor Rod Campbell
China's Shang Dynasty is something of an enigma. It produced the earliest written evidence in China, in the form of inscribed oracle bones, and decades of archaeology have shed light on its capital ci...
26 Mai 202251min
The Beginnings of Civilization in the Andes: The Mounds of Norte Chico
The arid shoreline between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific seems like an unlikely place to host one of the world's earliest complex societies. But more than 5,000 years ago, the people of the Nort...
19 Mai 202239min
The Rise of the Olmecs
Mesoamerica is one of only a few places in the world where "civilization" - states, writing, cities, monumental building, and so on - emerged independently. The first society to do all this were the e...
12 Mai 202242min
