The goal of this project is to document the history of humanity by documenting all of humanity’s attempts to defeat it’s greatest foe. Itself. This is not going to be a straightforward documentation of kings fighting and destroying each other, though there will be many mentions and examples of that. This will attempt to explain our subjects from the ground up. The common foot soldiers to the leaders at their head. Their strategies, tactics, weapons, and technologies. Their triumphs and trage ...
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This week we talk about the importance of Lake Chad. The origin of that name. The arrival of pastoralism and the importance of fishing in the region. We discuss the establishment of small scale trade that will eventually grow much larger. We also discuss the interaction between the various ethnolinguistic groups living in and around the region. Twi…
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Lake Chad and The Headwaters Of the Nile
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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 riv…
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Small Advances and Small Branches
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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/Twi…
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West African Hunter Gatherers, the Round Head Period, and New Languages
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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 …
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Central Africa and it's Gatherers
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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://twitte…
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Neolithic South Africa and Pastoral East Africa
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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…
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Early Urban Infrastructure and Features
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In our last Urbanization special for season 4 we talk about the first major urban sites in Mesopotamia and the Indian subcontinent, and what we know and don't know about them at this early date. We also talk about why these areas were ahead of their neighbors in seeing cities form. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube:https://youtu.be…
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This week we take a look at some older views of cities and their origins from Plato and Aristotle and compare them with the criteria we discussed last week. I also talk about some feedback about cities in the US and my home state. X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod Twitter: https://youtu.be/XsmZniUlZyA…
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!! Apologies for the sound mixing. My theme song's volume would not mix in at a lower volume than the episode audio !! This week we're reviewing V. Gordon Childe's 10 criteria of a city and the issues with them. We're also reviewing etymology of smaller sedentary settlements and going over their sizes (at least in an English context) and equivalent…
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This week we're talking about copper, gold, meteoric iron, and the methods that were used by humans to manipulate and shape these elements. We also discuss the evolution of the concept of a copper age. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/C1jZ09bkdDs
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This week we finish this season's animal domestication episodes by talking about Sus domesticus, or pigs. X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/fi8aSGRzre4
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This week's domestication episode talks about the Camelids including the Bactrian Camel, Vicuna, Guanaco, Alpaca, and Llama. As well as the Chicken and its primary ancestor the Red Jungle Fowl. Also we fight some technical difficulties. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/9LDCcef0jIY…
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Bees and Beasts of Burden
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This week we move over to our first animal domestication special for this season. In it we talk about Donkeys and Bees. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/E6fI2cZ4BSU
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Corn and Agriculture in South America
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This week we complete this season's discussion about crop domestication. In it we finish discussing the crops emerging in Mesoamerica like maize, amaranth, and avocado. We then talk about the foundation of South American agriculture with the emergence of potatoes, cassava, and new world cotton. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: ht…
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Europe, Onions, Cucurbita, and Beans
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This week I deal with a headache, but you get to learn about spelt, onions, and we move into North American to talk about squash and beans. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/6bnT0jSNVZo
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In this weeks episode we finish up corps being domesticated in Asia this season by talking about bananas, water chestnuts, burdock, and perilla. Not only fruits and plants useful as food stuffs but also for medicinal and secondary by product purposes. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/q4U-9bqJRBk…
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Rice, Soya, and Millet Domestication
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!!!Apologies!!! I just realized I forgot to edit out the clap sync at the start of this episode. I think a cough is in there too. I would normally edit this out, but the audio was already mixed and I deleted the raw files. This week we're continuing our overview of crop domestication. This episode contains information on the different strains of Ri…
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The First Domesticated Fruits and Cotton
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This week's episode focuses on the domesticate grape vine and first winery. Cotton trees in the Indian Subcontinent and how they may or may not have spread into the Levant. The start of orchards with the domestication of Apples and Pomegranates. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://youtu.be/15IJgYZ2U4g…
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Etymology, Rye, Dates, and Olives
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Following a surprising amount of viewer feedback I decided to go into some etymological breakdowns of crops we've talked about so far. I also continue to go over the next round of crops domesticated in the fertile crescent. Including Rye, Dates, Olives. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://youtu.be/CQOVlTt_M5Q…
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Plant Domestication in Africa
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Season 4 continues with a general information and topics episode. This week's episode sees us talk about the various crops that are being domesticated in Africa during the period of 6000-4000 BC(E) and what regions they're being domesticated in. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://youtu.be/8RZ10ZFHT6E…
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The Growth of Pottery and Ceramics
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New year new season! We kick off season four with a talk about pottery, why it is important in both an academic sense and for practical reason. We also go over the different types and what the difference is between them. Or at least the types that have been invented by the end of this newest season. Twitter/X:https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube…
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The Eastern Amazon Basin, Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego
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This week is the season finale! We finish by talking about a couple of final sites in modern Brazil and the emergence of pottery there, and whether it may or not be the origin of pottery for the rest of the continent. We then move south to talk about the movement of people along other rivers into the interior of the south of the continent before ta…
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Las Guayanas and the Amazon Basin
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The week we discuss the Guianas and their environment and a couple of groups of humans that occupied various parts of the region. We also talk about the origin of the Amazon River's name and what new archeology information has been coming up through the use of new technologies. Twitter/X : https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://youtu.be/u…
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The North of the Andes and the Continent
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This week I go over some information that a view provided me to help flesh out some information about the Southern Andes and the Chinchorro Culture. We also go over groups in the modern countries of Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://youtu.be/q0uf0ck1jYI…
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Developments in South America
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This week we move into and talk about changes happening in South America at the dawn of the Neolithic. We also discuss some etymology of the Andes mountains and how the continent was first peopled. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod
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El Riego and Mesoamerica’s Foundations
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This week we talk about some more etymology and the origin of the name for the continent of America. We also talk about the people occupying the Tehuacan Valley and the emerging El Riego phase that they begin in the region. This includes their stone work, woodworking, and emerging experimentation with agriculture. As well as evidence for an emergin…
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Mississippi, Mountains, Maize, and Cucumbers
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This week's episode covers geography and etymology lessons regarding the Mississippi River and all giving context regarding it's constituent basins. We also talk about the Sierra Madre Mountains and Altiplano Mexico, and how these things were affecting the humans living there. We also talk about the origins of agriculture in North America. I also t…
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Eastern North America and Copper
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This week's episode focuses on the changes to the environment and challenges facing humans living east of the Mississippi and the beginning of the Old Copper Culture. We also talk about the mystery of the emergence of the bow and arrow in the new world. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/waradrevpodYouTube: https://youtu.be/uVLFEKebFcU…
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The final October historical fantasy/fiction bonus episode of 2023 is a review about the 2010 French film Ao: the Last Hunter We talk about what they got right, what was good, and what was bad or confusing. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/waradrevpodYouTube: https://youtu.be/eaS3NaUP-Zs
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Changes in North America
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This episode we talk about how environmental changes in North America led to changes in the lifestyle of the ancestors of the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest, Western Canada, and the American Southwest. As well as technological advances happening due to the extinction of the Megafauna. We also talk about the arrival of the Aleut on the Al…
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This bonus episode is a review of Dan Davis' Gods of Bronze serie's first book Godborn.This is a 'realistic' story set during the 3000s B.C. of the young demi god Herkuhlos' whose adventures will eventually evolve into the well known Greek myths of Heracles. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/waradrevpodYouTube: https://youtu.be/Hs-5RKXm9Zg…
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In this episode we talk about/review the first book in the Legends of the First Empyre: Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan.This is a prequel series that takes place thousands of years in the past of Sullivan's other fantasy novels. In this work we see both elves and humans deal with revolutions' in technology and social institutions while also deal…
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This week we have a Halloween bonus episode talking about the Robert Howard story The Scarlet Citadel. This is an early Conan the Barbarian story dealing with King Conan of Aquilonia dealing with treachery as he battles the King of Koth, Strabonus, and the dark wizard Tsohta-lanti. We also dive into the some of the historical references and inspira…
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The Islands of Britain and Ireland
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This week we conclude this season's coverage of Europe by talking about Ireland and Britain. We discuss the changes to the islands after the end of the Younger Dryas and the peoples and animals living there. We also discuss the famous Cheddar Man as well as tools, houses, and the Isle of Mann. Twiiter/X: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: htt…
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This week we talk about the Mediterranean Islands like Sicily, Malta, and Sardinia. We also move west and talk about the changes in Iberia and France happening following the break up of the Azilian Culture. https://twitter.com/waradrevpod https://youtu.be/nN8Is1Vr-qM
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Border Between the Old and New
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This week I go into some Entomology that I forgot last week and for this week's subjects as well. We also talk about the Cardium Ware culture emerging along the Adriatic Coast and all along the Italia Coast.To the north we talk about the environmental changes in Scandinavia and the impact that had on the Maglemosian culture and other remnants of th…
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Twilight of Old Europe and the Dawn of the Neolithic
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This week we go over the end of the Epigravettian and the emergence of smaller regional sites in Greece and the Balkans as migrants from Anatolia arrive. We also talk about broad changes in the north east of Europe. twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://youtu.be/w3NUN9hH2Gs
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SORRY FOR THE DELAY!This was meant to release a bit earlier, but travel and some technical issues caused me to have some real problems getting this recorded and uploaded. So again I am sorry. That said I have gotten some fixes in place and next week's episode will be out at the regular time.This week we're reviewing the 2016 action adventure video …
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This week's episode ended up being a bit different than I had initially planned. I had a few details from last week's episode that I forgot to include and decieded to correct those oversights now and then give a very very broad overview of the Europe we will be talking about for the next few weeks. Thank you all for listening! Please enjoy!Twitter/…
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This week we discuss the Torres Islanders, Australia, and Tasmania as its people are cut off from New Guinea and the rest of the world, and the internal isolation that happens to its relative groups. We also talk about their tools and weapons utility. We also discuss their environment and how that was probably affecting their religious ideas, inclu…
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Melanesia and Australia Separated
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This week we move into Melanesia and Australia. We discuss the native aboriginal population of New Guinea after Sahul has sunk and separated the two landmasses. We also talk about how the Papuans were distinct from most other hunter gatherers. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg…
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North Asia from the Pacific to the Urals
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This week we conclude Asia for this season. We go over a number of genetic groups that the various tribes and bands of hunter gathers belong too, how they got there, and what they had to do to live. Mammoths and dogs also feature. We also speculate on some of their cultural or religious practices. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: ht…
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Neolithic Korea and Japan
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This week episodes focuses on the emergence of the Jeulmun Culture of the Korean Peninsula and Jeju Island and the evolution of the Jomon culture of the Japanese Archipelago after the end of the Younger Dryas.
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This week we review some new DNA evidence to talk about who the Neolithic cultures were and who they will become. With some help from and philosophical rambling about the developments of the primary language families (family?) that occupy Southeast and East Asia today.Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod…
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Expansion of Neolithic China
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This is a big episode! This week we finish up Neolithic China by discussing the 6 or so material cultures that begin to shift from a mobile hunter gatherer lifestyle to practicing agriculture and animal herding. What makes each unique and what they had in common. This will set the stage for a finale in China before we finish up talking about the re…
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Neolithic Foundations of China
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This week we move to northern China and talk about a transitory culture, the Nanzhuangtou, and how they were an early example of the shift of Paleolithic to a Neolithic lifestyle. We also discuss the climatic and environmental changes that the region was going through. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel…
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Special episode for the 4th of July week. I've been busy with work and packing for a long weekend so here's a review/talk about a very fun imaginative work of historical fiction. Jean M. Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear.Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg…
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Prehistoric Fujian and the Kuahuqiao
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This week we talk about Prehistoric Fujian and Zhejiang and their etymology, as well as the beginning of the emerging Neolithic Kuahuqiao culture. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg
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Southern Mountains and the Pearl River
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This week we talk about some Neolithic people and developments in modern day Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Hainan. Including the Pearl River Delta and theories on the development of Rice. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod
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This week we focus on the Philippines and Taiwan and some etymology related to those places. We also lay the foundation for Austronesian migrations that are about to take place in the region. Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod YouTube: https://youtu.be/EDPVFdr_sdM
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