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History of the World podcast

The incredible story of the human history of the world. Come and join us on this incredible journey!

Episodes

Total: 343

We explore two very fundamental changes to village life in and around the rivers of the Fertile Cres

This week's podcast centres around Stonehenge, but in order to try to understand this most famous of

Göbekli Tepe in the Fertile Crescent appears to have marked the start of a megalithic period which u

Humans of the Fertile Crescent appear to have started mastering the ability to use metals during the

Unscripted (2)

2018/10/21

A look at some of the correspondence and other podcasts that have inspired the History of the World

Unscripted (1)

2018/10/14

A brief look at the history and the future of the History of the World podcast.

We talk about the emergence of sedentary lifestyles of the Mesolithic and early Neolithic with the i

The big question to be answered, did farming spread or emerge?  We travel to Europe, the Indus Valle

We try to unravel the mystery of the human transition from the success of nomadic hunter-gathering,

We look at at the previous 13 episodes and explore some of the aspects as yet undiscussed including

Red ochre, shark teeth, ostrich eggs, lion men, hand stencils, cannibalism, friendly wolves, ritual

A look back at our changing diet and the ways and means in which we had to evolve ourselves and our

Modern humans expand to Japan, America and Europe, but what happened when they met the neanderthals

This podcast is heading for Australia, stopping at Israel, Denisova, Flores and Wallacea.  Please re

Social media indicates that we love talking about ourselves, so let's do it.  Let's talk about ourse

Find out about the geological science behind glaciation studies, the effect that ice ages have had o

The highly anticipated neanderthals, our rugged cousin who appeared to be quite brutish but was surp

How is it that we can talk?  Why are we the only animal that can successfully produce audio podcasts

Let us put some flesh on the bones of our prehistoric hominin story, and discover what our ancestors

Homo erectus, as the name would suggest, is the first fully upright human and it was definitely a mi