Episodi del podcast
Stagione 4
Lake Chad and The Headwaters Of the Nile
This week we move to the peoples living around Lake Chad, the eastern Sahel, the southern Nile, and its tributaries between 6000-4000 BC(E) and the expansion of pastoralism and agriculture. We also go over the idea of a macro Nilo-Saharan language and some of the pushback and criticism that got. We talk about the etymology of the Nile and Chari rivers. Next week we will focus on specific sites sites seeing evidence of agriculture and pastoralism in the region. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/3Em4y6ja7Ew
Small Advances and Small Branches
This week we finish this season's coverage of West Africa. I talk about the delay in the adoption of agriculture in the region, and the future expansion of textiles, cloth, and leather production and styles. We also talk about some of the smaller branches (potentially) of the Niger-Congo Language Family including the Dogon and their religion. X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/-7P-kInG2us
West African Hunter Gatherers, the Round Head Period, and New Languages
This episode was a little shorter than I would have liked thanks to some technical issues, but that didn't stop me from talking about the West African Hunter Gatherers that inhabited places like Shum Laka. We also started to touch on the Niger-Congo language family and how branches of it are starting to spread. Particularly Mande (Though it may be a separate language family) and it's probable connection to the Round Head Period of the Savannah and how the desertification was affecting its spread. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/RW3Pm7leFdw
Central Africa and it's Gatherers
This week we talk about the ancestors of Central Africa's Pygmy peoples. We discuss why they may have evolved their shorter stature and their potential social organizations and what we know of their languages. We also discuss the all encompassing importance of the forest to them and what role music played in this importance. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/JH499Nil6XQ
Neolithic South Africa and Pastoral East Africa
I return this week after a very frustrating experience last week to talk about the ancestors of the modern Khoi and San peoples and some of the reasons that these peoples haven't had to change as quickly as those living in other regions. I also dive into some discussion about hunter gatherer warfare or conflict and what the differences between that and settle warfare were. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod