Tides of History

Prehistory Mailbag! Archaeology, Language, and the Advantages of Farming

Oct 15, 2020

59:03

Highlights

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Episode notes

Paleoclimatology - How to Get a Better Climate

01:42

Stontium Isotopes and Dendrochronology

02:04

Afro-Asiatic Languages - A Very Interesting Case

02:09

Introduction

2min

What's More Practical Than a Quality Shave?

4min

Stontium Isotopes and Dendrochronology

2min

How Does Radiocarbon Dating Work?

4min

The Best Method for Estimating Prehistoric Population?

2min

Paleoclimatology - How to Get a Better Climate

2min

Early Middle Ages - How to Get the Sources to Line Up With Writings

2min

What Are the Benefits of Site Classifications?

4min

Plush Care Is a Great Way to Take Care of Yourself

4min

10.

Afro-Asiatic Languages - A Very Interesting Case

2min

11.

The Early Neolithic Farmers of Europe Probably Spoke an Afro-Asiatic Language

2min

12.

What Is the Relationship Between Pre-Historic Languages and Agriculture?

3min

13.

The Importance of Intentional Control of Fire in Agriculture

2min

14.

How to Shape a Landscape With Fire

4min

15.

Prehistoric Human Development

4min

16.

What Doesn't Survive?

4min

17.

The Ethnographic Record - How Much Can We Learn About Our Past?

3min

18.

What's the Value of the Ethnographic Record?

2min

19.

Early Farming

5min

20.

What Area of the World Do We Know the Least About?

3min

21.

What Is the Cambridge World Archaeology Series?

4min

22.

The Al Franken Podcast

2min

How do we know what we know about the deep past? What languages did people speak in prehistory? And why, if the life of an early farmer seemed to be so miserable, did farmers have so many children? I answer all of these questions and more in our first prehistory mailbag episode.

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