Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism

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.co...

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:/...

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.

Due to a last minute decision on my part I will be out of town longer than normal this weekend and my recording availability would be very short so I have decided to post this episode a bit earlier than I had planned. Our regular episodes will be back next week. In the meantime I hope you enjoy this special episode where I talk with one of my best friends in the world, Kyle, about a shared passion...

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

This week we finish our focus on Gobekli Tepe and move on to talk about a few other sites in and around the Stone Hills. Including Sefer Tepe, Nevali Cori, Karahan, and Gucru Tepe Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod

This week we go into what the earliest interpretation of what Gobekli Tepe was and how that has begun to change over time as more excavation of the site. Please leave any feedback via email or at our Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod

This week we begin our discussion of Gobekli Tepe. We will be here for a couple of weeks. This episode goes over where it was located, what's nearby, when it was located and by who. We also talk about what was found in the initial excavation and why it stood out.

Thank you all for listening! This week we close out on the PrePottery Neolithic B period in the Southern Levant and move north into modern day Syria. This episode mostly focuses on Tell Abu Hureyra but also talks about it's sister site of Mureybet. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod

Happy New Year! Sorry for the delay in getting this one recorded and posted. Travel and unpacking was a bit more draining than I expected. This week we talk about the first attempts of humans to permanently live on Cyprus and how they were similar and different to the other PrePottery Neolithic groups. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod

This week we finish up with Neolithic Jericho and talk a bit about how it changed from the period we covered in the last episode. This was actually a second recording. My first attempt to record this episode was corrupted. Thankfully the second attempt was recorded. Sorry if this was a rougher less focused episode. I thank you all for your continued support. https://twitter.com/waradrevpod

This week we start our overview of Aisa at 8000 BC. This does involve a brief look back to the Natufian, but we do continue and discuss the Pre Pottery Neolithic, the site of Tell Sultan, or Neolithic Jericho and it's stone walls and towers. Please enjoy. This was a long one. Please feel to reach out via email or via DM on twitter: twitter.com/waradrevpod

This weeks episode returns and talks about the Qadan Culture and Nabta Playa site of upper Egypt as well as potential relations to early myths about Hathor, Orion's Belt and any associated Egyptian Gods We also talk about the Harifian culture of Lower Egypt and their relation to the Natufian culture of the Levant and the spread of herds and agriculture to the region. We also see the beginnings of...

This week we discuss the Afroasiatic Language Family and it's development in and around the Horn of Africa. We also talk about possible early religions of the area. Please feel free to contact me via DM here https://twitter.com/waradrevpod