Meet the Neolithic

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week we go back thousands of years to meet our Neolithic ancestors, and discover how their innovations paved the way for all life as we know it. Explore the origin of farming and wine making, and find out how the Neolithic wielded the remarkable material obsidian. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:04.0	Hello.
0:05.0	Welcome.
0:06.0	Science and that is the
0:10.0	physics medicine, nature or space time a brain, life, the universe.
0:16.5	This week we go back in time to meet the Neolithic people,
0:20.1	to find out how our ancestors change the world and how archaeologists are digging up their secrets.
0:25.4	I'm Georgia Mills and this is the Naked Scientists.
0:28.4	The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.
0:32.8	UK.
0:33.8	Okay.
0:34.8	Each week.
0:35.8	Each week on the naked scientist we talk about the most exciting technologies and
0:46.4	inventions of the day. Humans are managing to 3D print organs, blast rockets into the
0:51.7	sun and make robots who can play football.
0:54.8	Some of those things are more vital than others, but all of our current techno-know-how lies on the
1:00.0	foundation of thousands of years of innovation and arguably the most
1:04.7	important period of innovation in our history was the Neolithic. Neolithic literally
1:11.4	means New Stone. It was the final period of the stone age
1:14.8	beginning around 12,000 years ago. It brought with it some of the most important
1:19.7	developments of our history, stone tools, control over fire and the advancement of farming.
1:25.4	So this week rather than looking to the future we are taking a trip through history
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