The Prehistory Guys

Do we layer too much significance on people and things from prehistory and the past - simply because they are old? Do we confer special status on them in the absence of direct connection?

00:00 - Greetings & introduction
02:55 - A reverence for ‘things’ from the past
14:37 - A reverence for the people of the past
18:59 - Were people more spiritual in the past?
22:26 - William Stukeley’s legacy
26:53 - Making the past ordinary again!
30:40 - Exotic vs simple explanations
34:46 - Contingency and evolution vs intentional development
45:36 - The past as a mirror

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A new study out of Notre Dame University, Indiana has suggested that accepted estimations for population levels at Çatahöyük and other Neolithic villages in Anatolia may be grossly inflated.

In the past We have been told that Çatalhoyuk could have had up to 10,000 inhabitants at any one time - now this paper says maybe not so much. In fact, maybe less than 1,000 people lived there.

This is a pretty big deal and hopefully, we’ll be able to help explain why in the next forty minutes!

'How many people lived in the world’s earliest villages? Reconsidering community size and population pressure at Neolithic Çatalhöyük' available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278416524000047

Why do certain places take on significance in the human psyche? How do places of pilgrimage arise? Why are Göbekli Tepe, Stonehenge and other sites where they are?

We look at an aspect of human behaviour that is rarely taken into account when trying to explain what our ancestors were up to.

The Göbekli Tepe to Stonehenge Podcast is the place where we discuss matters of prehistory at a more conceptual and philosophical level, inspired by our research for the Göbekli Tepe to Stonehenge Project https://www.buymeacoffee.com/prehistoryguys (also see below).

00:00 - Intro & Overview

03:20 - Elephants, water & stone

06:41 - Testing the premise at Göbekli Tepe

14:09 - Testing the premise at Stonehenge

25:09 - Where are the places of pilgrimage in early Neolithic S.E. Europe?

30:57 - Crete & Knossos?

32:54 - Human imprinting: a useful perspective?

37:26 - Grime’s Graves, Mont Viso, the Langdale axe factcories

43:23 - Outro

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In the process of developing and making Göbekli Tepe to Stonehenge, we're lifting the corner of the carpet on all sorts of aspects to do with the Neolithic period that we perhaps would not have otherwise.

And so it is with the topic of this discussion - obsidian: we had absolutely no idea how crucial this 'black stuff' was to the spread of farming from Anatolia and the fertile crescent into Europe until really examining the narrative of how the early pioneers first ventured out in to the Aegean and crossed to mainland Greece.

Our research has turned up all sorts of surprises and we hope you all enjoy this brief overview of the power of the trade in obsidian.

As the first steps in making the Göbekli Tepe to Stonehenge film project, a few weeks ago Rupert and I spent three days at Göbekli Tepe with access to the whole site - we've been down amongst the T-pillars, we've seen the places where the people lived, we've seen excavations that are normally out of the public eye and much more - all in the company of the head archaeologist there, Lee Clare.

So that is what this show about: we so had our minds blown during our visit, we've got so much to talk about, and this is the first opportunity - probably the first of many - to share what we've taken away from our visit.

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