Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism

di Thomas Preston Floyd

Governo Storia Scienze sociali

Stagione 4

Neolithic Cultures of the Lower Yellow River

This week we cover the emerging neolithic cultures of the lower Yellow River between the years 6000-4000 BC. This includes the Houji, Beixin, and Dawenkou. We go over their lifestyles and food production methods, pottery, and how they evolved over time. We also talk about their suspected relations to each other as well as other neighboring cultures. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/EcW1ApniBWA

The Start of the Yangshao

This week's episode focuses on the origins of the Yangshao culture. We go over its discovery in the 1920s and early theories it gave rise too. How those changed over time after the discovery of its earliest period, the Banpo phase and its type site. We talk about their homes, pottery, crafts, burial practices, social organization, lifestyles, and their spread east and west along the Wei River Valley. We also cover the theories that they had a proto writing system and that they were speakers of Sino-Tibetan. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/WeILK_qP4AU

Neolithic Cultures of the Upper Yellow River

This week I go over some information I found regarding potential matriarchy mentioned last week and I also talk about modern examples of more matriarchal societies in modern China. Of course our main focus is on the neolithic cultures that emerged along the upper yellow river between 6000-4000 BC(E), the Laoguantai, Dadiwan, and Bajia cultures. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/kW46L4FehBg

Neolithic Cultures of the Middle Yellow River

This week we cover the neolithic cultures of the Peiligang, Cisha, and Jiahu. Or do we? Part of this week's episode deals with some debates about how closely related these neolithic culture are related to each other. We of course still talk about lifestyles of these sites, their pottery, economies, and burial practices. We also set the stage for next week's discussion about sites along the upper yellow river and the upcoming rise and spread of the Yangshao culture. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/yorEZn0UGCg

Neolithic Cultures of the Yangtze Delta

This week's episode week we talk about the emerging neolithic cultures of the Yangtze Delta. This includes the Kuahuqiao, Hemudu, and Majiabang. We discuss the expanding roll of rice agriculture during this period for the various sites. but also the continued reliance on wild sources of food. We also discuss some the differences in their pottery as well as other artifacts. We talk about the canoe found at Kuahuqio, and their disappearance. We compare the Hemudu and Majiabang and discuss how closely they are related. As well as their possible origins, Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/a9IAQDc0IqU

The Pengtoushan and Daxi cultures

This week we talk about two neolithic cultures that existed in the western portion of the Yangtze River system, the Pengtoushan and Daxi cultures. The Pengtoushan culture ends a few hundred years after the start of this season, but we discuss their last (or next to last) site of Bashidang. As well as their burial practices, architecture, pottery, and tools. We also talk about their use of domesticated crops. As for the Daxi we discuss their occupation of the Three Gorges region, their own unique pottery, their use of walls and ditches. How they were more reliant on domesticated food sources, their DNA results, and their trade links with groups to the east along the Yangtze Delta. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/RsbbM34B0dI

Setting the Stage for China's Neolithic Expansion

This week we go over several broad topics that are related to neolithic China. This includes the etymology of the two main rivers, the Yangtze and the Yellow, along which various neolithic cultures emerge. The potential langue spoken and spread by one or more of these cultures, and the broad genetic background of the people who will found the neolithic cultures of China. This is all the sets the stage for next week were we travel up and down the river to talk about cultures like the Yangshao, Cishan, Houli, and many more. I also went over an brand new article that ties in a little to last week's episode about a Denisovan jawbone found in the Penghu archipelago. Here is the link for those interested in the subject: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads3888 Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/AbQOZQDsn4g

The start of Neolithic Taiwan and the Austronesian People

This week's episode sees us discuss the island of Taiwan, and the people living on it. We go over the theory of how over the next few seasons they will spread off the island and spread the Austronesian language and their influence over a number of other regions and people. We also talk about the etymology of the island as well as different names given to it at different times and different people. I also give a rough road map of how I plan to cover the various neolithic cultures that are emerging this season along the Yangtze and Huang He Rivers. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/BPVP7WCPzDY

In the Mountains and Hills

This week's episode talks about genetics and linguistics in Southern China and the border regions of northern South East Asia, We al briefly discuss the climate and geography of the Guilin and Guangxi provinces , and we talk about the final abandonment of the Zengpiyan site as well the spread of rice agriculture south from the Yangtze River. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/VZlGse7K4hs

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. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/P_kL8taSL6Q

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