
The Near East - the region known politically as the Middle East - is the home of both a long and eventful history as well as a much longer and fascinating prehistory. Here on Pre History I will cover the story of the Near East as we know it from the archaeological study of what people left behind as hunter-gatherers turned into farmers, as villages turned into cities, and as empires rose and fell.... more
| Publishes | Infrequently | Episodes | 27 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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As we finish off the Neolithic we must first go backwards to one of the less well known but vastly important cultures of the Neolithic Near East - the Samarra. As the first known Neolithic culture of Southern Mesopotamia the Samarra gave rise to many... more
In the east of Anatolia and off to the north of Mesopotamia is the southern Caucasus, which is also known as Transcaucasia. This region combines being one of the last parts of the Near East to have mobile hunter-gatherers, and one of the first region... more
After all of the arguments that we saw for the Wadi Rabah as to whether it was part of the Late Neolithic or part of the Early Chalcolithic, this time we shall have a look at Anatolia in the first half of the sixth millennium cal BCE - which is widel... more
In this episode we head south to look at one of the major cultures of the Southern Levant during the sixth millennium BCE - the Wadi Rabah. While there is a lot that we know about the Wadi Rabah culture, there is also a lot that we argue about.
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I heard about this on the drum beat forever podcast. It is excellent covering Mesopotamia, the Levant and eastern Anatolia from the first people through to the cultures that gave rise to the Sumerians.
… clear and concise presentation. My only real complaint is her pronunciations of several words. But that’s easily overlooked by the complete yet not laborious explanation of the facts.
I found this incomplete , but well worth the time to check out. More episodes please.
Jane is an excellent source of information for anyone interested in going into more depth and detail about the ancient near east, pre written language.
This series offered the most up to date (at the time of broadcast) theories and information available to archaeologists and shares it with love and knowledge of the subject.
I listen to a lot of ancient history podcasts, and having this valuable information i... more
Well written and narrated this podcast presents the archeology of pre-history of f the Near East in a clear concise manner.
Please more episodes
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