Agriculture, Migration, and the Births of Language Families: Interview with Professor Peter Bellwood
The relationship between agriculture, migration, and the distribution of today's most prominent language families is direct but complex. Professor Peter Bellwood, one of the world's leading experts on...
31 Des 202040min
Classic Tides | Europe After the Black Death
Plague, war, and a worsening climate drastically changed Europe in the years and decades after 1350. This new state of affairs laid the groundwork for the explosion around 1500 that gave rise to the m...
24 Des 202050min
Neolithic China and Jomon Japan
East Asia was one of the world's primary centers of agricultural innovation. Farming was invented there, rice and millet domesticated, and the people who did so grew in numbers and sophistication. Som...
17 Des 202045min
East Asia in Prehistory
Hominins have lived in East Asia - what's now China, Korea, and Japan - for millions of years, at least as far back as Homo erectus if not further. And as the glaciers began to recede for the last tim...
10 Des 202043min
Why Were There So Many Neolithic Farmers? And What Can Big Data Do For Archaeology? Interview with Professor Stephen Shennan
Professor Stephen Shennan is one of the world's leading experts on the early farmers of the Fertile Crescent and Europe. In this interview, I pick his brain about why early farmers were so, uh, fertil...
3 Des 202042min
Classic Tides | Peasants' Rebellions and Resistance
Peasants and common folk were oppressed by their social superiors, but they didn't accept that as a natural state of affairs: They resisted in small, everyday ways, and they rebelled, sometimes specta...
26 Nov 202051min
Neanderthals, Our Closest Kin: Interview with Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes
What were Neanderthals really like? Our closest relatives shared an incredible amount in common with us, argues Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of the wonderful new book Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Lov...
19 Nov 202041min
Ötzi the Iceman: The Neolithic Ice Mummy
Five thousand years ago, a man died more than 10,000 feet high in the Alps of northern Italy. He had been shot in the back with an arrow, the corpse left behind, where he was frozen into a glacier alo...
12 Nov 202039min
