This week we go over the end of the Epigravettian and the emergence of smaller regional sites in Greece and the Balkans as migrants from Anatolia arrive. We also talk about broad changes in the north east of Europe. twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://youtu.be/w3NUN9hH2Gs
SORRY FOR THE DELAY! This was meant to release a bit earlier, but travel and some technical issues caused me to have some real problems getting this recorded and uploaded. So again I am sorry. That said I have gotten some fixes in place and next week's episode will be out at the regular time.This week we're reviewing the 2016 action adventure video game Far Cry Primal. This sees you play as Takkar of the Wenja as he fights to reunite his people while also trying to lead them to victory in a thre...
This week's episode ended up being a bit different than I had initially planned. I had a few details from last week's episode that I forgot to include and decieded to correct those oversights now and then give a very very broad overview of the Europe we will be talking about for the next few weeks. Thank you all for listening! Please enjoy!Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/rtOowEVst9Y...
This week we discuss the Torres Islanders, Australia, and Tasmania as its people are cut off from New Guinea and the rest of the world, and the internal isolation that happens to its relative groups. We also talk about their tools and weapons utility. We also discuss their environment and how that was probably affecting their religious ideas, including the Rainbow Serpent. Please listen and enjoy this very long very exhaustive episode. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://yo...
This week we move into Melanesia and Australia. We discuss the native aboriginal population of New Guinea after Sahul has sunk and separated the two landmasses. We also talk about how the Papuans were distinct from most other hunter gatherers. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg
This week we conclude Asia for this season. We go over a number of genetic groups that the various tribes and bands of hunter gathers belong too, how they got there, and what they had to do to live. Mammoths and dogs also feature. We also speculate on some of their cultural or religious practices. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg...
This week episodes focuses on the emergence of the Jeulmun Culture of the Korean Peninsula and Jeju Island and the evolution of the Jomon culture of the Japanese Archipelago after the end of the Younger Dryas.
This week we review some new DNA evidence to talk about who the Neolithic cultures were and who they will become. With some help from and philosophical rambling about the developments of the primary language families (family?) that occupy Southeast and East Asia today.Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod
This is a big episode! This week we finish up Neolithic China by discussing the 6 or so material cultures that begin to shift from a mobile hunter gatherer lifestyle to practicing agriculture and animal herding. What makes each unique and what they had in common. This will set the stage for a finale in China before we finish up talking about the rest of Asia.Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg...
This week we move to northern China and talk about a transitory culture, the Nanzhuangtou, and how they were an early example of the shift of Paleolithic to a Neolithic lifestyle. We also discuss the climatic and environmental changes that the region was going through. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg
Special episode for the 4th of July week. I've been busy with work and packing for a long weekend so here's a review/talk about a very fun imaginative work of historical fiction. Jean M. Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear.Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg
This week we talk about Prehistoric Fujian and Zhejiang and their etymology, as well as the beginning of the emerging Neolithic Kuahuqiao culture. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg
This week we talk about some Neolithic people and developments in modern day Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Hainan. Including the Pearl River Delta and theories on the development of Rice. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod
This week we focus on the Philippines and Taiwan and some etymology related to those places. We also lay the foundation for Austronesian migrations that are about to take place in the region. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://youtu.be/EDPVFdr_sdM
This week's episode focuses on Java and Borneo and the humans who have slowly become separated and isolated from the mainland by slowly rising sea levels. I also ramble about tigers and etymology. Like all of our best episodes.
This week we talk about the Hoabinhian tool culture and some of its regional variations. We also talked about some Neolithic sites all across mainland Southeast Asia. We also talk about the genetic evidence we have about the ancient residents and how they relate to some modern groups.
This weeks sees us enter Southeast Asia. We talk about the geography of the region and what separates it form South and East Asia. We also talk about the Irrawaddy River, Arakan Mountains, the Shan Highlands, and the Padalin Caves. We also start a discussion about languages in the region that will continue for the remaining episodes focusing on the region. Please Enjoy!Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg...
Due to Mother's Day in the US this weeks episode is a little shorter. Please enjoy. This week we are covering the Neolithic Tibetan Plateau and its people and the challenges they faced after the end of the Younger Dryas. We also go over how the name Tibet potentially got to us in English. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg...
In this week's episode I talk about the people living in the Ganges River Delta. What attracted people to the area and what were some of the features that were unique to the region. I also go into some of the difficulties facing archeological studies of the region. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg...
This week we talk about the Lakshadweep Islands and why they probably were not inhabited by humans yet. The geographic feature of Rama's Bridge and how it connected Sri Lanka to the rest of South Asia. We also discuss life on the island as well. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg
This week we lay out some internal geographic features of the Indian Subcontinent and what effects that had on travel, trade, and habitation of the region and how they may have affected the archeological record.
This week we move away from Mehrgarh to talk about the ancient sites in the Soan River Valley and Sivalik Hills then move further east and conclude with talk about Bhirrana.Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod
This week we talk about the origin of the name of the Indus River and we talk about the first phase of Mehrgarh. A settlement that will last in some form or another until the middle 2000s BC and form one of the bedrocks of South Asian Civilizations. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod
This week we talk about how people entered South Asia and the banks of the Indus River. We also talked about some of the big geographic and meteorological differences and the other parts of Asia we have talked about this season. We also begin to lay the foundation about the subject of next weeks episode Mehrgarh.
This week we begin to talk about South Asia at 8000-6000 BC/BCE. We're starting in the mountains of the Hindu Kush and I only digress three times. We talk about the early agriculture and herding happening in the region as well as early mining of stones like Lapis Lazuli Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg
This week we're moving into Central Asia. The humans moving into the region at this time were having to deal with the environmental changes left behind by the retreating ice sheets and glaciers of the Younger Dryas. We also touch on early exports from the area as well as talk about other early factors that will put it on it on the path to become a vital player in world wide trade.Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg...
This week see us return briefly to Iran to discuss a smaller number of sties that are only beginning to be established before we begin to move into Central Asia beginning with modern day Turkmenistan and talking about the Jeitun culture. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg
This week we move into what is modern day Iran and talk about a few sites associated with the earliest evidence of domesticated sheep and goats as well as very early ceramic use in the Middle East. Please provide any feedback or questions via email or at my twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod
This week we finish Anatolia and move into the Caucasus Mountains, Pontic Mountains, Mesopotamia, Arabia, and Northern Iran and the Caspian Sea cost and talking about the peoples living there. There's slightly less specific artifacts and sites to talk about so we will be covering more groups though with slightly less detail. I hope you all enjoy. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod
This week we finish our discussion of Catalhoyuk by talking about some of the early discussions of the site and what continued excavation of the location has found and how that should change what is thought about the site. We then talk about what makes a city and if Catalhoyuk or Gobekli Tepe and the rest of the Stone Hills sites qualify.
