Our Prehistory

Benjy Longworth

49 - 49. Ritual and Violence in Africa

The history of humanity before civilization is populated by an array of cultures throughout the millennia and across the continents. The earliest humans followed diverse customs and survival strategies, explored the unknown, adapted to exotic ecosystems, thrived in good times, and fell into oblivion in others. This podcast relates that story, starting with the origin of our species and tracing the development of human life before written records.

49 - 49. Ritual and Violence in Africa

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Our Prehistory

Episodes

49. Ritual and Violence in Africa

48. Broad Spectrum Origins in Africa

47. Last Glacial Maximum of Africa [Preview]

46. Spread of the Late Stone Age

45. Late Stone Age of Africa

44. Post Clovis [Preview]

43. American Megafauna Extinctions

42. Fishtail Points and Early South America

41. Clovis and the Western Stemmed Tradition [Preview]

40. Arrival in America

39. Terminal Pleistocene of Southeast Asia

38. Rock Art of Southeast Asia [Preview]

37. Rainforest Adaptations in Asia

36. Hoabinhian and Indian Microlithic

35. Cultural Variation of the Final Paleolithic [Preview]

34. Invention of Pottery

33. Microblades

32. Middle Upper Paleolithic [Preview]

31. Origin of the Late Paleolithic of East Asia

30. Colonization of Asia

29. Sahulian Terminal Pleistocene [Preview]

28. Last Glacial Maximum of Sahul

27. Pleistocene Rock Art of Sahul

26. Early Sahulian Lifeways [Preview]

25. Arrival in Sahul

24. Upper Paleolithic of Europe: Revolution and Equilibrium

23. Tanged-Point and Flat-Blade Cultures [Preview]

22. Younger Dryas of Southern Europe

21. Bølling-Allerød of Europe

20. Late Epigravettian [Preview]

19. Magdalenian Expansion

18. Magdalenian Origin

17. Solutrean [Preview]

16. Last Glacial Maximum

15. Gravettian Art

14. Gravettian Technology [Preview]

13. Aurignacian Art

12. Aurignacian Technology

11. Neanderthal Extinction [Preview]

10. Out of Africa Part 3

9. Out of Africa Part 2

8. Neanderthals [Preview]

7. Out of Africa Part 1

6. Middle Stone Age of North Africa

5. Middle Stone Age of Tropical Africa

4. Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa

3. Dawn of the Middle Stone Age

2. Origins of Homo Sapiens

1. Introduction

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