Pre History - the archaeology of the ancient Near East

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27 Episodes

  1. Episode 26: Samarra

    Published: 12/1/2022
  2. Episode 25: The Neolithic Comes to Transcaucasia

    Published: 8/1/2022
  3. Episode 24: Early Chalcolithic Anatolia

    Published: 6/6/2022
  4. Episode 23: Wadi Rabah

    Published: 5/15/2022
  5. Episode 22: Halaf

    Published: 3/3/2022
  6. Episode 21: Cyprus Goes the Way of the Khirokitia Culture

    Published: 11/17/2021
  7. Episode 20: Mine! Advances in the Seventh Millennium BCE

    Published: 9/16/2021
  8. Episode 19: The many faces of Late Neolithic Mesopotamia

    Published: 8/25/2021
  9. Episode 18: The Levantine Pottery Neolithic

    Published: 7/16/2021
  10. Episode 17: Ceramic Neolithic Anatolia

    Published: 6/12/2021
  11. Episode 16: Collapse? The end of the PPNB

    Published: 4/19/2021
  12. Episode 15: Cyprus

    Published: 3/1/2021
  13. Episode 14: Social Bubbles and Social Networks in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic

    Published: 2/14/2021
  14. Episode 13: It takes a village to make the Neolithic

    Published: 2/1/2021
  15. Episode 12: Domestication on the Hoof in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic

    Published: 1/11/2021
  16. Episode 11: Bright Ideas? Growing your own food in the Neolithic

    Published: 1/5/2021
  17. Episode 10: Settling into the Late Epipalaeolithic

    Published: 12/29/2020
  18. Episode 9: Why do we have an Epipalaeolithic?

    Published: 12/5/2020
  19. Episode 8: Eating and Social Networking in the Upper Palaeolithic

    Published: 11/30/2020
  20. Episode 7: Inventing the Upper Palaeolithic

    Published: 11/22/2020

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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.