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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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.

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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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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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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.

Due to a last minute decision on my part I will be out of town longer than normal this weekend and my recording availability would be very short so I have decided to post this episode a bit earlier than I had planned. Our regular episodes will be back next week.

In the meantime I hope you enjoy this special episode where I talk with one of my best friends in the world, Kyle, about a shared passion of ours, Beer. Kyle is among other things, an amateur but extremely skilled brewer and we talked about his process, some historical facts, and a several other things.

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This week we are starting a discussion about a the site of Catalhoyuk. We begin by placing it in its geographic context and then move on to the controversies surrounding it's discoverer James Mellaart before talking about the people, art, and religion of the site.

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