Tides of History
Wondery / Patrick Wyman
Tides of History
Wondery / Patrick Wyman
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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.
Thursday 23 June 2022 : Of all the Austronesian-speaking peoples, none have gone further than the Polynesians. Professor Patrick Vinton Kirch of the University of...
Monday 20 June 2022 : On May 4, 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley was found fatally shot in a car on a dark North Hollywood street. The prime suspect was her husband, famed...
Thursday 16 June 2022 : The first wave of migration out of Taiwan brought speakers of Austronesian to the northern reaches of the Philippines, the homeland of the...
Thursday 09 June 2022 : More than 4,000 years ago, a remarkable migration - one of the great journeys in human history - began in Taiwan. Within just a thousand...
Monday 06 June 2022 : Introducing thetrue crime podcast Persona: The French Deception— the story of Gilbert Chikli, one of the greatest con artists of all...
Thursday 02 June 2022 : The harsh, unforgiving conditions of the Andes and the nearby Pacific coastline make it one of the best places in the world to study the...
Thursday 26 May 2022 : China's Shang Dynasty is something of an enigma. It produced the earliest written evidence in China, in the form of inscribed oracle bones,...
Thursday 19 May 2022 : The arid shoreline between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific seems like an unlikely place to host one of the world's earliest complex...
Thursday 12 May 2022 : Mesoamerica is one of only a few places in the world where "civilization" - states, writing, cities, monumental building, and so on -...
Thursday 05 May 2022 : Over the past several decades, ancient DNA and other archaeological sciences have transformed our understanding of Europe in prehistory....
Thursday 28 April 2022 : The Eurasian steppe is central to grasping the past 5,000 years of human history, and in the past couple of decades, new tools of analysis...
Monday 25 April 2022 : Will Be Wild is a new 8-part series about the forces that led to the January 6th insurrection and what comes next. Through in-depth stories...
Thursday 21 April 2022 : Four thousand years ago, the sprawling cities of the Indus Valley Civilization dominated much of South Asia; a millennium after that,...
Thursday 14 April 2022 : More than a billion people around the world speak a language of the Indo-Iranian family today. These languages all trace their origin to a...
Monday 11 April 2022 : You never really know someone…especially online. In today’s world, the power of influence can be the quickest path to money and fame,...
Thursday 07 April 2022 : The Indus Valley Civilization doesn’t get much attention compared to Mesopotamia or Egypt, but it covered an area of a million square...
Thursday 31 March 2022 : Language is fundamental to how people experience the world, but how can we know what languages people spoke in the distant past? By 1200 BC,...
Monday 28 March 2022 : Is sugar really more addictive than cocaine? Does intermittent fasting work? Should I buy crypto? We’re all on 24-7 information overload,...
Thursday 24 March 2022 : About one in every five people alive on the planet today speaks a language belonging to the Bantu family, and Bantu-speaking peoples have...
Thursday 17 March 2022 : The state - a centralized administration that exerts control over a territory and can coerce the people living there - is one of the driving...
Monday 14 March 2022 : The founders of WeWork thought they were on the brink of making history. The company was valued at $47 billion dollars, ready for a huge...
Thursday 10 March 2022 : Ancient DNA and new archaeological work have changed our understanding of many different parts of the global past, but nowhere more so than...
Thursday 03 March 2022 : The most striking environmental shift on the planet in the Holocene epoch was the greening of the Sahara. For thousands of years, the...
Thursday 24 February 2022 : Africa is rightly known as the “Cradle of Humanity,” because that’s where the most recent wave of modern human migrants originated and...
Monday 21 February 2022 : We all want love, that happily-ever-after feeling of finding your soulmate. What if someone not only claimed they could help you find that...
Tides of History
Wondery / Patrick Wyman
The Polynesians and the Pacific: Interview with Professor Patrick Vinton Kirch
Of all the Austronesian-speaking peoples, none have gone further than the Polynesians. Professor Patrick Vinton Kirch of the University of...
Wondery Presents: The Execution of Bonny Lee Bakley
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On May 4, 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley was found fatally shot in a car on a dark North Hollywood street. The prime suspect was her husband, famed...
The Austronesian Expansion, Part 2
The first wave of migration out of Taiwan brought speakers of Austronesian to the northern reaches of the Philippines, the homeland of the...
The Austronesian Expansion, Part 1
More than 4,000 years ago, a remarkable migration - one of the great journeys in human history - began in Taiwan. Within just a thousand...
Wondery Presents Persona: The French Deception
Introducing thetrue crime podcast Persona: The French Deception— the story of Gilbert Chikli, one of the greatest con artists of all...
How Did Civilizations in the Andes Deal with Environmental Upheaval? Interview with Professor Jason Nesbitt
The harsh, unforgiving conditions of the Andes and the nearby Pacific coastline make it one of the best places in the world to study the...
Human Sacrifice, Oracle Bones, and Shang China: Interview with Professor Rod Campbell
China's Shang Dynasty is something of an enigma. It produced the earliest written evidence in China, in the form of inscribed oracle bones,...
The Beginnings of Civilization in the Andes: The Mounds of Norte Chico
The arid shoreline between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific seems like an unlikely place to host one of the world's earliest complex...
The Rise of the Olmecs
Mesoamerica is one of only a few places in the world where "civilization" - states, writing, cities, monumental building, and so on -...
Migration, Ancient DNA, and European Prehistory: Interview with Kristian Kristiansen
Over the past several decades, ancient DNA and other archaeological sciences have transformed our understanding of Europe in prehistory....
The Steppes of Central Asia in the Bronze Age: Interview with Professor Michael Frachetti
The Eurasian steppe is central to grasping the past 5,000 years of human history, and in the past couple of decades, new tools of analysis...
Wondery Presents: Will Be Wild
Will Be Wild is a new 8-part series about the forces that led to the January 6th insurrection and what comes next. Through in-depth stories...
Indo-Aryans, the Rigveda, and a World on the Move
Four thousand years ago, the sprawling cities of the Indus Valley Civilization dominated much of South Asia; a millennium after that,...
The World of the Indo-Iranians
More than a billion people around the world speak a language of the Indo-Iranian family today. These languages all trace their origin to a...
Wondery Presents: Scamfluencers
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You never really know someone…especially online. In today’s world, the power of influence can be the quickest path to money and fame,...
What was the Indus Valley Civilization? Interview with Dr. Adam Green
The Indus Valley Civilization doesn’t get much attention compared to Mesopotamia or Egypt, but it covered an area of a million square...
Languages of the World in 1200 BC
Language is fundamental to how people experience the world, but how can we know what languages people spoke in the distant past? By 1200 BC,...
Wondery Presents: Call Me Curious
Explicit content
Is sugar really more addictive than cocaine? Does intermittent fasting work? Should I buy crypto? We’re all on 24-7 information overload,...
Kathryn de Luna on Africa, Bantu, and Historical Linguistics
About one in every five people alive on the planet today speaks a language belonging to the Bantu family, and Bantu-speaking peoples have...
What is the State?
The state - a centralized administration that exerts control over a territory and can coerce the people living there - is one of the driving...
Wondery Presents: WeCrashed: The Director's Cut
Explicit content
The founders of WeWork thought they were on the brink of making history. The company was valued at $47 billion dollars, ready for a huge...
Mary Prendergast on Ancient Africa
Ancient DNA and new archaeological work have changed our understanding of many different parts of the global past, but nowhere more so than...
The Green Sahara and African Neolithics
The most striking environmental shift on the planet in the Holocene epoch was the greening of the Sahara. For thousands of years, the...
Africa and the Many Cradles of Humanity
Africa is rightly known as the “Cradle of Humanity,” because that’s where the most recent wave of modern human migrants originated and...
Wondery Presents: Twin Flames
Explicit content
We all want love, that happily-ever-after feeling of finding your soulmate. What if someone not only claimed they could help you find that...
