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EPISODE · Apr 15, 2026 · 2H 3M

EPISODE 5: INVENT HORIZON

from Older, Further, Stranger: A Podcast of the Possible Past · host jacoboringold

Civilizations seem to rise, fall, and vanish in clean, dramatic strokes—until the timeline begins to shift. Across sites from Angkor to the Late Bronze Age collapse, what once looked like sudden catastrophe or steady decline dissolves into something far less certain: centuries mistaken for moments, sequences collapsed into a single cause. This episode explores the edge of temporal knowability in archaeology—where better dating doesn’t just refine the past, it rearranges it. Events fragment, causes reverse, and whole histories lose their shape. At the Invent Horizon, time itself becomes unstable, and the stories we thought we understood begin to come apart.

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Civilizations seem to rise, fall, and vanish in clean, dramatic strokes—until the timeline begins to shift. Across sites from Angkor to the Late Bronze Age collapse, what once looked like sudden catastrophe or steady decline dissolves into something...

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