Excavating a Scythian Royal Burial Mound: Interview with Dr. Gino Caspari

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Dr. Gino Caspari returns to discuss the extraordinary finds at his most recent excavation of an early (maybe the earliest) Scythian royal burial mound in Siberia! We discuss horse sacrifice, state formation, the earliest Scythians, and the trials of excavating in one of the more remote places on the planet.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Tides of History early and ad-free right now.
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0:12.9	Hi, everybody.
0:17.8	From Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History.
0:21.3	Thanks so much for joining me today. Of all the peoples of the Iron Age and classical worlds, the Skithians are
0:26.4	some of the least known by popular audiences, yet among the most important to understanding how
0:31.4	that period actually developed and function. Our knowledge of them has absolutely exploded in
0:37.0	recent decades, thanks mostly to high-quality
0:39.1	archaeological research. We now know how sophisticated they were, how powerful their mostly
0:44.5	lost kingdoms and empires could become, and how much of the sedentary world's view of them
0:49.0	was just stereotypes. But were any of those stories true? What does the archaeology have to say?
0:56.1	Today's guest is one of the most creative and interesting researchers working to shed new
1:00.0	light on the Schithians in their world. Dr. Gino Caspari is a person of many parts, a genuine
1:05.2	explorer, a life member of the Explorers Club. He's an archaeologist with extensive experience
1:10.3	excavating in some of the most remote parts of the Eurasian steppe and one of the Explorers Club. He's an archaeologist with extensive experience excavating in some of the
1:11.4	most remote parts of the Eurasian steppe and one of the best known communicators of
1:15.6	archaeological science on social media, especially Instagram. In those capacities, he has
1:20.8	authored and co-authored a wide variety of papers, including several based on his recent excavations
1:25.7	at a Skithian royal tomb in Tuva that we'll discuss
1:28.5	today. He's a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and CEO
1:33.3	of Geo Insight, a startup focusing on big geodata integration. Dr. Kaspari, thank you so much for
1:39.1	joining me for your second appearance on tides of history. Well, thank you very much for having me back.
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