MARITIME TRAVEL IN PREHISTORY | The Prehistory Guys FEB 2021 PODCAST

IT'S BACK!

Rupert & I are delighted to present you with a recording of us producing our first audio podcast after a long break. We're back to our old format with Pushing Back the Boundaries, news, a central topic and finishing off with Stonehead of the Month and a bit of Whimsy.

Scroll down for links to some source material.

There is a video version of this podcast at https://youtu.be/fEegOLUPfk4

PUSHING BACK THE BOUNDARIES

Long distance trading of exotic foods in prehistory https://phys.org/news/2020-12-food-south-asia-revealed-east.html

NEWS

DNA from Neolithic in present day population in Western Canada https://www.abroadintheyard.com/dna-links-aboriginal-woman-canada-and-200-x-great-grandaughter/

Bronze Age Lovers? https://www.livescience.com/romeo-and-juliet-skeletons-israel.html

Baby and Puppy burial https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/15/2000-year-old-remains-of-infant-and-pet-dog-uncovered-in-france

MARITIME TRAVEL IN PREHISTORY

Seagoing explorers 35,000 years ago - Modern day Japan https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-humans-sea-voyage-japan-ryukyu-island-migration

Peopling of the Caribbean Islands https://phys.org/news/2020-09-archaeologists-step-by-step-path-people-caribbean.html

Polynesians and Native Americans https://phys.org/news/2020-07-polynesians-native-americans-contact-european.html

List of ancient ships on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_ships

STONEHEAD OF THE MONTH: Amanda Hart

Coninium Museum https://coriniummuseum.org/

'Stone Age to Corinium' launch https://youtu.be/M_pcK_kRdY8

WHIMSY

Oldest sword known was thought to be medieval https://www.livescience.com/ancient-anatolian-sword-in-venetian-monastery.html

The thumbnail image for this video incorporates an image from theTanum petroglyphs, Sweden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Carvings_in_Tanum

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