It's the Ancients on History Hit.

I'm Tristan Hughes, your host and in today's podcast, where we are continuing our Ancient

America's series.

We're releasing two episodes this week because it's a special ending to our mini series

all about the Ancient America's this August.

It's been wonderful to see how well received episodes like the Maya Calendar, Tehrat-Uharkan

and the Olmeck heads have been and don't you worry, we've got a few more episodes being

released all about the Ancient America's because it is such an extraordinary area of our

ancient world.

Today we're heading to South America, to northern Peru, to the second most well-known pre-Columbian

culture from this area of the world.

I'm not talking about the Inca, I'm talking all about the Machae culture, which thrived

in this area of northern Peru from the first to around the sixth, seventh, eighth centuries

AD or CE.

And to talk all about the Machae culture today, I was delighted to get on the podcast Dr.

Jeffrey Kulter from Harvard University.

Jeffrey, wonderful to get on the podcast, he's a lovely guy and he knows so much about the

Machae culture about their ceramics, about how they lived, about the whole nature of the

Machae society, what we know, what we're still learning from the archaeology, and why

it's such an exciting area of archaeology for those looking to study this area of the

ancient world in the years ahead.

So that further we do, to talk all about the Machae culture, here's Jeffrey.

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