Episodes
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The Long Walk West
How did farming get from the Near East to Europe? This episode covers Andrew Sherratt’s Secondary Products Revolution (milk, wool and the plow), explains why the first dairy farmers couldn’t actually digest milk, and follows the ancient-DNA evidence showing Europe’s first farmers were migrants…
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The First Address
Once humans stop moving, everything about living together has to be invented from scratch. This episode visits Jericho, where a tower more than 10,000 years old still has no agreed purpose, and Çatalhöyük, a town with no streets where ancient DNA shows household ties ran through the mother.…
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Before the Beginning
For roughly 290,000 years, every single human on Earth lived as a hunter-gatherer. Then, within the space of a few thousand years an eye blink on that timescale multiple, disconnected populations on different continents independently started doing something that had never occurred to any human...
About this show
A historical podcast that spans the length of the human narrative. Journey from West to East and across millennia to discover how fragile bands of hunter-gatherers became a global civilization.
Hosted by
Willie D.Bestman
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