390 Episodes

  1. Egypt Before the Pharaohs

    Published: 2/11/2021
  2. Classic Tides | Boxing, Race, and the Gilded Age: An Interview with Professor Louis Moore

    Published: 2/9/2021
  3. Mesopotamia at the Dawn of History

    Published: 2/4/2021
  4. What is Civilization?

    Published: 1/28/2021
  5. Alcohol and Agriculture in Prehistoric East Asia: Interview with Professor Li Liu

    Published: 1/21/2021
  6. Agriculture and Complex Societies in the Americas, 4000-1500 BC

    Published: 1/14/2021
  7. The Americas from Foraging to Agriculture, 10,000 BC-4000 BC

    Published: 1/7/2021
  8. Agriculture, Migration, and the Births of Language Families: Interview with Professor Peter Bellwood

    Published: 12/31/2020
  9. Classic Tides | Europe After the Black Death

    Published: 12/24/2020
  10. Neolithic China and Jomon Japan

    Published: 12/17/2020
  11. East Asia in Prehistory

    Published: 12/10/2020
  12. Why Were There So Many Neolithic Farmers? And What Can Big Data Do For Archaeology? Interview with Professor Stephen Shennan

    Published: 12/3/2020
  13. Classic Tides | Peasants' Rebellions and Resistance

    Published: 11/26/2020
  14. Neanderthals, Our Closest Kin: Interview with Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes

    Published: 11/19/2020
  15. Ötzi the Iceman: The Neolithic Ice Mummy

    Published: 11/12/2020
  16. Who Were the Proto-Indo-Europeans?

    Published: 11/5/2020
  17. The Lost Civilization of Old Europe: The Copper Age and the First Cities

    Published: 10/29/2020
  18. Classic Tides | Peasants and the Medieval Countryside

    Published: 10/22/2020
  19. Prehistory Mailbag! Archaeology, Language, and the Advantages of Farming

    Published: 10/15/2020
  20. Megalithic Europe

    Published: 10/8/2020

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Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we spend and how we earn it at work, what language we speak and how we raise our children. From Wondery, host Patrick Wyman, PhD (“Fall Of Rome”) helps us understand our world and how it got to be the way it is.Listen to Tides of History on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to bonus episodes available exclusively and ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/tides-of-history/ now.