After the Ice: The Younger Dryas, the Mesolithic, and the Birth of a New World
For most of Homo sapiens' time out of Africa, we lived in a world defined by ice. But by around 20,000 years ago, the ice had begun to melt, the glaciers retreating back toward the poles and mountain ...
3 Sep 202047min
How Should We Understand the Deep Human Past? Interview with Professor John Hawks
Professor John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of the world's best communicators on the deep human past and paleoanthropology, joins me to talk about archaic humans, genomics, and wh...
27 Aug 202054min
New Insights on the First Americans: Interview with Professor Jennifer Raff
Our understanding of the past is constantly in flux, and there's no field where that's clearer than with the early settlement of the Americas. I'm joined by Professor Jennifer Raff of the University o...
13 Aug 202050min
Who Were the First Americans?
The Americas were the last continents Homo sapiens reached. Why did it take so long for people to enter this vast and promising expanse of land? Who were they, and where had they come from? In today's...
6 Aug 202047min
Trapped in Ice: The Paleolithic World
Twenty thousand years ago, the world was locked in ice. The glaciers advanced from the poles and mountain ranges, swallowing huge portions of the planet's surface and making the rest colder and drier,...
30 Jul 202045min
Ancient DNA and the Human Story: Interview with Geneticist Eske Willerslev
Ancient DNA is the key that's unlocking the deep history of humanity, allowing us to answer questions about our collective past that we never dreamed of addressing even 20 years ago. Eske Willerslev i...
16 Jul 202041min
The Ghosts of Archaic Humans
Until very recently, Homo sapiens - our species - was only one of several varieties of humans on this planet. As our ancestors spread outward from Africa in their great migration, they encountered tho...
9 Jul 202046min
Bone, Stone, and Genome: Understanding Humanity's Deep Past
Welcome to a new season of Tides of History! Over the next year, we'll be traveling from the very origins of our species through the peopling of the planet, the Ice Age, and then to the beginnings of ...
2 Jul 202045min
