Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism

By Thomas Preston Floyd

The goal of this project is to document the history of humanity by documenting all of humanity’s attempts to defeat it’s greatest foe. Itself. This is not going to be a straightforward documentation o... more

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The podcast currently has 167 episodes available.

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism episodes:

April 24, 2023 The Desert, The Forests, and The Deccan
This week we lay out some internal geographic features of the Indian Subcontinent and what effects that had on travel, trade, and habitation of the region and how they may have affected the archeological record.
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37min
April 17, 2023 Shiva's Tresses and Bhirrana
This week we move away from Mehrgarh to talk about the ancient sites in the Soan River Valley and Sivalik Hills then move further east and conclude with talk about Bhirrana.Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpod
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27min
April 10, 2023 The Indus and Mehrgarh
This week we talk about the origin of the name of the Indus River and we talk about the first phase of Mehrgarh. A settlement that will last in some form or another until the middle 2000s BC and form one of the bedrocks of South Asian Civilizations.
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April 03, 2023 Reaching the Indus
This week we talk about how people entered South Asia and the banks of the Indus River. We also talked about some of the big geographic and meteorological differences and the other parts of Asia we have talked about this season. We also begin to lay the foundation about the subject of next weeks episode Mehrgarh.
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35min
March 27, 2023 Into the Hindu Kush
This week we begin to talk about South Asia at 8000-6000 BC/BCE. We're starting in the mountains of the Hindu Kush and I only digress three times. We talk about the early agriculture and herding happening in the region as well as early mining of stones like Lapis Lazuli Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg
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38min
March 20, 2023 A Past and Future Junction
This week we're moving into Central Asia. The humans moving into the region at this time were having to deal with the environmental changes left behind by the retreating ice sheets and glaciers of the Younger Dryas. We also touch on early exports from the area as well as talk about other early factors that will put it on it on the path to become a vital player in world wide trade.Twitter: https://twitter.com/waradrevpodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg
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32min
March 13, 2023 Lands Between the Mountains
This week see us return briefly to Iran to discuss a smaller number of sties that are only beginning to be established before we begin to move into Central Asia beginning with modern day Turkmenistan and talking about the Jeitun culture.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0W2Ui8NjYPPOeQrABE-pJg
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34min
March 06, 2023 On the Periphery Of the Rivers and Mountains
This week we move into what is modern day Iran and talk about a few sites associated with the earliest evidence of domesticated sheep and goats as well as very early ceramic use in the Middle East.
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42min
February 27, 2023 Mountains, Mesopotamia, and Arabia
This week we finish Anatolia and move into the Caucasus Mountains, Pontic Mountains, Mesopotamia, Arabia, and Northern Iran and the Caspian Sea cost and talking about the peoples living there. There's slightly less specific artifacts and sites to talk about so we will be covering more groups though with slightly less detail. I hope you all enjoy.
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27min
February 20, 2023 Revising Catalhoyuk
This week we finish our discussion of Catalhoyuk by talking about some of the early discussions of the site and what continued excavation of the location has found and how that should change what is thought about the site.
We then talk about what makes a city and if Catalhoyuk or Gobekli Tepe and the rest of the Stone Hills sites qualify.
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52min

FAQs about Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism:

How many episodes does Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism have?

The podcast currently has 167 episodes available.