Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism

por Thomas Preston Floyd

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Temporada 3

Shiva's Tresses and Bhirrana

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

The Indus and Mehrgarh

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

Reaching the Indus

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.

Into the Hindu Kush

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/waradrevpodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg

A Past and Future Junction

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/waradrevpodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg

Lands Between the Mountains

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

On the Periphery Of the Rivers and Mountains

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

Mountains, Mesopotamia, and Arabia

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

Revising Catalhoyuk

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.

Catalhoyuk Discovered

This week we are starting a discussion about a the site of Catalhoyuk. We begin by placing it in its geographic context and then move on to the controversies surrounding it's discoverer James Mellaart before talking about the people, art, and religion of the site. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod

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