Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism
The goal of this project is to document the history of humanity by documenting all of humanity’s attempts to defeat it’s greatest foe. Itself. This is not going to be a straightforward documentation of kings fighting and destroying each other, though there will be many mentions and examples of that. This will attempt to explain our subjects from the ground up. The common foot soldiers to the leaders at their head. Their strategies, tactics, weapons, and technologies. Their triumphs and tragedies. Their lives and their deaths. What they fought for and why. What motivated them. What drove them.
New Cultures and the Spread of Agriculture
This week we conclude our study of South East Asia between 6000-4000 BC(E). In it we discuss the sites and material cultures of Quỳnh Văn and Đa Bút. We also go over the spread of agriculture into other parts of the region toward the end of the season as well as a talk about the current understanding of the genetic relationship between the Andamanese and the Hoabinhian.
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Neolithic South East Asia
Take 2! After an Audacity crash caused me to lose my first recording I was able to rerecord, and while I think this is much rougher we were still able to go over some highlights of this period of Neolithic South East Asia in general like the spread of agriculture and the domestication of pig and chickens.. I also focused on some specific sites in what is now Thailand.
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Agriculture from the East?
This week I go over some agricultural developments. One about millet domestication I forgot to cover in an earlier episode. The other is about rice domestication and the possibility of local strains being domesticated prior to the introduction of other strains from the East. We also discuss potential animal domestication events. Finally we discuss potential relations and interactions to neighboring peoples and regions in East Asia.
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The Ganges and Brahmaputra
This week's episode deals with some etymology of the two eponymous rivers. The climate of the regions their systems run through and how that has affected archeology of this region during this period. We also give a very brief overview of the populations living in what is now Nepal and Bhutan.
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Isolated Tongues
This week I talk about some of the most mysterious and probably oldest isolated languages in the Indian subcontinent in the regions we've gone over so far this season. If they existed during this season's time frame and if so where. We also talk about the Vedda people of Sri Lanka
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Between the Mesolithic and Neolithic
This week we start talking about Southern India and Sri Lanka for this season. We discuss how the sea level is affecting the connection between the two regions as well as possible agricultural and pastoral developments in the region. We also talk about potential language and ritual developments.
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The Neolithic Indus
This week we talk about the similarities between the sties we discussed last week and the numerous villages and sites emerging along the Indus River Valley. We also talk about some of those sites and how they were beginning to develop their own material identity.
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Mehrgarh III and Neolithic Balochistan
This week we finish Mehrgarh up for this season by discussing the first half of Phase III and enter the chalcolithic phase for the site. We also discuss two material cultures that emerged from the neolithic expansion happening in Balochistan, Kili Gul Mohammad and Togau.
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Developments at Mehrgarh
This week I am following up to some questions about the Eurasian Steppe. Before we moved on to talk about the end of the first phase of Mehrgarh, a site we first discussed last season. We move into the second stage and appearance of pottery as well as the wide range of new production techniques developed during the period. We also go over changes to burials during this period.
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Central Asian Neolithic and the Kelteminar
This week we talk about the continued spread of the Neolithic life styles along the various river valleys around portions of Central Asia.
We also discuss the more traditional Kelteminar culture of the Caspian and Aral Sea. As well as some theories surrounding their spread.
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