Pre History - the archaeology of the ancient Near East
A podcast by PreHistoryPodcast
27 Episodes
-
Episode 26: Samarra
Published: 01/12/2022 -
Episode 25: The Neolithic Comes to Transcaucasia
Published: 01/08/2022 -
Episode 24: Early Chalcolithic Anatolia
Published: 06/06/2022 -
Episode 23: Wadi Rabah
Published: 15/05/2022 -
Episode 22: Halaf
Published: 03/03/2022 -
Episode 21: Cyprus Goes the Way of the Khirokitia Culture
Published: 17/11/2021 -
Episode 20: Mine! Advances in the Seventh Millennium BCE
Published: 16/09/2021 -
Episode 19: The many faces of Late Neolithic Mesopotamia
Published: 25/08/2021 -
Episode 18: The Levantine Pottery Neolithic
Published: 16/07/2021 -
Episode 17: Ceramic Neolithic Anatolia
Published: 12/06/2021 -
Episode 16: Collapse? The end of the PPNB
Published: 19/04/2021 -
Episode 15: Cyprus
Published: 01/03/2021 -
Episode 14: Social Bubbles and Social Networks in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Published: 14/02/2021 -
Episode 13: It takes a village to make the Neolithic
Published: 01/02/2021 -
Episode 12: Domestication on the Hoof in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Published: 11/01/2021 -
Episode 11: Bright Ideas? Growing your own food in the Neolithic
Published: 05/01/2021 -
Episode 10: Settling into the Late Epipalaeolithic
Published: 29/12/2020 -
Episode 9: Why do we have an Epipalaeolithic?
Published: 05/12/2020 -
Episode 8: Eating and Social Networking in the Upper Palaeolithic
Published: 30/11/2020 -
Episode 7: Inventing the Upper Palaeolithic
Published: 22/11/2020
The Near East - the region known politically as the Middle East - is the home of both a long and eventful history as well as a much longer and fascinating prehistory. Here on Pre History I will cover the story of the Near East as we know it from the archaeological study of what people left behind as hunter-gatherers turned into farmers, as villages turned into cities, and as empires rose and fell.