111,080 videos · Civilizations, events and the evidence we have for them.
52:19Archaeologist Eric Cline presents the argument of his book 1177 BC: how a network of Late Bronze Age civilizations collapsed together through a 'perfect storm' of causes.
20:09Experimental archaeology: ancient layout-line techniques that could have been used to construct the mechanism.
50:34Smallpox, Edward Jenner's vaccine, and the global campaign that eradicated the disease.
18:31Cahokia and Monks Mound: the largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico and its rise and decline.
27:12How archaeologists worked out what the ruins at Michigan's Cliff Mine were, from survey to excavation.
10:14Levallois core technology, the prepared-core method of making stone tools.
31:51Recurrent preferential Levallois core reduction, demonstrated and explained step by step.
53:23Thinning a biface with soft hammers, the technique behind refined handaxes.
20:29Blade core reduction: how prismatic blades were produced.
14:01How the Inca built Machu Picchu: quarrying, ashlar masonry, drainage and terracing.
1:18:34Emma Pomeroy on the new Neanderthal discoveries at Shanidar Cave, including 'Shanidar Z', and the debate about Neanderthal burial.
20:19The Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh: how it was assembled, rediscovered, and what it preserved (including Gilgamesh).
22:29Pakal the Great of Palenque: his reign, tomb and inscriptions.
1:06:05Shadreck Chirikure on the political economy of precolonial African states such as Great Zimbabwe and Mapungubwe.
10:02What archaeologists think caused the decline of the Olmec centres.
16:12Aztalan in Wisconsin, a Mississippian outpost, and what its failure says about Cahokia's reach.
38:55Making flint blades from a laminar core.
10:01Reproducing Ötzi the Iceman's shoes and testing how well they work.
1:07:58Amélie Beaudet on the Australopithecus fossils of Sterkfontein and what they say about human evolution.
41:55Graeme Barker and Emma Pomeroy on what Shanidar Cave shows about how similar Neanderthals were to us.
18:24The LiDAR evidence for large pre-Columbian settlements in the Amazon.
48:10The basics of flintknapping: raw materials, hammers, angles and fracture mechanics.
11:06How Solutrean spearheads were made: the remarkable pressure-flaked points of Ice Age France.
20:01Creswell Crags, Britain's Ice Age frontier site, and its cave art and archaeology.
44:34How to make a Palaeolithic handaxe, step by step, with the knapping decisions explained.
23:07Birka, the Viking Age trading town in Sweden, and what its graves tell us.
21:54An introduction to flintknapping and the features of a flake (platform, bulb, ripples).
19:29How reliable the Vinland sagas are as historical evidence, checked against L'Anse aux Meadows.
1:10:13Stephen Houston on Maya dynastic kingship and the Temple of the Night Sun at El Zotz.
1:09:01An in-depth look at the Olmec civilisation: San Lorenzo, La Venta, colossal heads and their legacy.
10:43How prehistoric people made fire with flint, pyrite and tinder fungus.
10:21An experiment testing how the number of microlith barbs affects arrow penetration.
1:09:51Ian Hodder on entanglement theory: how humans and things became dependent on each other (from Çatalhöyük).
15:21How a thin biface is knapped, with commentary on each stage.
18:47Mississippian religion: its cosmology, iconography (the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex) and what the mounds meant.
18:23The Spiro Mounds in Oklahoma, their spectacular finds and the looting that destroyed much of the evidence.
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