Tides of History
Wondery / Patrick Wyman
Tides of History
Wondery / Patrick Wyman
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 10 June 2021 : Around 4,500 years ago, bell-shaped ceramic drinking vessels called "beakers" begin showing up with the dead in tombs all over western...
Thursday 03 June 2021 : Five thousand years ago, small groups of herders began making their way from the open grasslands of the Eurasian steppe into the hills and...
Thursday 27 May 2021 : At the heart of the ancient Middle East, a sophisticated, urbanized, and long-lived world, was a writing system: cuneiform, used for...
Thursday 20 May 2021 : More than 5,000 years ago, a group of wandering herders on the Eurasian steppes - the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European - began to...
Tuesday 18 May 2021 : Two young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs set out to rid the world of smoking with an incredible new product. The device stands to disrupt the...
Thursday 13 May 2021 : What do Achilles and Gilgamesh, two of the most renowned literary figures of the ancient world, have in common? A great deal more than you...
Thursday 06 May 2021 : Egypt and Mesopotamia are the most famous civilizations of the ancient world, but at the same time in South Asia - today's Pakistan and...
Thursday 29 April 2021 : South Asia - encompassing Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan - is one of the cradles of human civilization, and today it's home to one in every...
Thursday 22 April 2021 : Professor Tim Denham is one of the world's leading experts on Kuk Swamp, the most important archaeological site for understanding the...
Thursday 15 April 2021 : The Highlands of New Guinea are one of the most remote places on the planet, a maze of crosscutting valleys and enormous mountains that...
Thursday 08 April 2021 : Professor David Wengrow is one of the world's leading experts on Egypt before the pharaohs. He's also one of the most creative and...
Thursday 01 April 2021 : Tattoos, and other forms of body decoration, are as old as humanity itself. But what can we know about the skin of long-past people that no...
Thursday 25 March 2021 : Understanding the first migrants to the Americas more than 13,000 years ago is a big task. So is figuring out how the ancestors of...
Thursday 18 March 2021 : Language is one of the foundational pieces of being human, but in the absence of writing, what can we know about it in the deep past?...
Thursday 11 March 2021 : There are still people living now who make their living by foraging, and understanding them is an essential component of grasping the...
Thursday 04 March 2021 : Kings are practically synonymous with ancient Egypt, and it's not just because their monuments - like the pyramids - still tower above the...
Thursday 25 February 2021 : What can we learn about the deep human past by studying present-day hunter-gatherers? I asked that question to Professor Robert Kelly of the...
Thursday 18 February 2021 : More than 5,000 years ago, the city of Uruk in what's now Iraq was the heart of a new civilization. Cities, kings, armies, monumental...
Thursday 11 February 2021 : Pyramids, mummies, and pharaohs define our understanding of ancient Egypt, a timeless and eternal land. But the Nile wasn't always ruled by...
Tuesday 09 February 2021 : Boxing has a long past, one deeply connected to race, labor, and broader developments in American history. Professor Louis Moore joins me to...
Thursday 04 February 2021 : Civilization first emerged in the fertile floodplains of Mesopotamia - present-day Iraq - with priest-kings and cities full of temples and...
Thursday 28 January 2021 : I'm not just talking about the wonderful Sid Meier game series, which I've spent far too many hours playing; how do we define...
Thursday 21 January 2021 : Stanford University's Professor Li Liu is one of the world's leading experts on prehistoric East Asia and one of the world's primary...
Thursday 14 January 2021 : Agriculture was invented in no fewer than three, and probably four, places in the Americas. It went along with sedentary living and complex...
Thursday 07 January 2021 : The initial migrations to the Americas get most of the attention, but people didn't stop living there in the aftermath of those first...
Tides of History
Wondery / Patrick Wyman
The Bell Beaker Phenomenon and the Rise of the Bronze Age
Around 4,500 years ago, bell-shaped ceramic drinking vessels called "beakers" begin showing up with the dead in tombs all over western...
Indo-European, Migration, and the Corded Ware Culture
Five thousand years ago, small groups of herders began making their way from the open grasslands of the Eurasian steppe into the hills and...
Cuneiform Literature, Medicine, and Mental Health: Interview with Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid
At the heart of the ancient Middle East, a sophisticated, urbanized, and long-lived world, was a writing system: cuneiform, used for...
The Yamnaya Culture and the Proto-Indo-European Migrations
More than 5,000 years ago, a group of wandering herders on the Eurasian steppes - the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European - began to...
Wondery Presents: The Vaping Fix
Two young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs set out to rid the world of smoking with an incredible new product. The device stands to disrupt the...
Achilles, Gilgamesh, and Epic Poetry: Interview with Professor Michael Clarke
What do Achilles and Gilgamesh, two of the most renowned literary figures of the ancient world, have in common? A great deal more than you...
The Indus Valley Civilization
Egypt and Mesopotamia are the most famous civilizations of the ancient world, but at the same time in South Asia - today's Pakistan and...
Ancient South Asia
South Asia - encompassing Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan - is one of the cradles of human civilization, and today it's home to one in every...
Bananas, Civilization, and Ancient Farming in New Guinea: Interview with Professor Tim Denham
Professor Tim Denham is one of the world's leading experts on Kuk Swamp, the most important archaeological site for understanding the...
The Invention of Agriculture in New Guinea
The Highlands of New Guinea are one of the most remote places on the planet, a maze of crosscutting valleys and enormous mountains that...
Ancient Egypt in Context: Interview with Professor David Wengrow
Professor David Wengrow is one of the world's leading experts on Egypt before the pharaohs. He's also one of the most creative and...
Ancient Tattooing: Interview with Aaron Deter-Wolf
Tattoos, and other forms of body decoration, are as old as humanity itself. But what can we know about the skin of long-past people that no...
North America After the Ice Age: Interview with Professor Shane Miller
Understanding the first migrants to the Americas more than 13,000 years ago is a big task. So is figuring out how the ancestors of...
Languages of the World in 3000 BC
Language is one of the foundational pieces of being human, but in the absence of writing, what can we know about it in the deep past?...
Understanding Prehistory Through Ethnography
There are still people living now who make their living by foraging, and understanding them is an essential component of grasping the...
Egypt and the Rise of the Pharaohs
Kings are practically synonymous with ancient Egypt, and it's not just because their monuments - like the pyramids - still tower above the...
Hunter-Gatherers, Archaeology, and Prehistory: Interview with Professor Robert Kelly
What can we learn about the deep human past by studying present-day hunter-gatherers? I asked that question to Professor Robert Kelly of the...
Uruk and the Rise of Civilization
More than 5,000 years ago, the city of Uruk in what's now Iraq was the heart of a new civilization. Cities, kings, armies, monumental...
Egypt Before the Pharaohs
Pyramids, mummies, and pharaohs define our understanding of ancient Egypt, a timeless and eternal land. But the Nile wasn't always ruled by...
Classic Tides | Boxing, Race, and the Gilded Age: An Interview with Professor Louis Moore
Boxing has a long past, one deeply connected to race, labor, and broader developments in American history. Professor Louis Moore joins me to...
Mesopotamia at the Dawn of History
Civilization first emerged in the fertile floodplains of Mesopotamia - present-day Iraq - with priest-kings and cities full of temples and...
What is Civilization?
I'm not just talking about the wonderful Sid Meier game series, which I've spent far too many hours playing; how do we define...
Alcohol and Agriculture in Prehistoric East Asia: Interview with Professor Li Liu
Stanford University's Professor Li Liu is one of the world's leading experts on prehistoric East Asia and one of the world's primary...
Agriculture and Complex Societies in the Americas, 4000-1500 BC
Agriculture was invented in no fewer than three, and probably four, places in the Americas. It went along with sedentary living and complex...
The Americas from Foraging to Agriculture, 10,000 BC-4000 BC
The initial migrations to the Americas get most of the attention, but people didn't stop living there in the aftermath of those first...
