Migration, Ancient DNA, and European Prehistory: Interview with Kristian Kristiansen

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Over the past several decades, ancient DNA and other archaeological sciences have transformed our understanding of Europe in prehistory. Professor Kristian Kristiansen has worked with these new methods since the very beginning, and combines them with a deep grounding in both traditional archaeology and big-picture thinking about what it all means.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody from Wundery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History.
0:14.1	I'm Patrick Weimann, thanks for joining me.
0:17.1	Over the past 15 years or so, our understanding of prehistory, especially Europe's prehistory,
0:21.6	has been dramatically transformed by a series of new tools.
0:25.2	Ancient DNA has been the biggest headline grabber of these advances in the archaeological
0:29.3	sciences, but there are many more.
0:31.8	Put together, these tools have rewritten the consensus about everything from the origins
0:35.6	and spread of the Indo-European languages to the importance of migration to the prevalence
0:40.3	of infectious disease in the distant past.
0:43.6	Today's guest has been at the cutting edge of this ongoing revolution without losing
0:47.4	sight of the decades and centuries of more traditional archaeological research that came
0:51.5	before.
0:52.8	Professor Christian Christensen is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Gothenburg
0:56.6	in Sweden, and prior to that served as the director of the Danish Archaeological Heritage
1:01.2	Administration.
1:02.4	Over the course of his long and incredibly productive career, he has worked on a wide
1:06.0	variety of topics, most of them related to the European Neolithic and Bronze Age.
1:10.0	He's the author of several books, including The Rise of Bronze Age Society with Thomas
1:14.1	Larson, Europe before History and Organizing Bronze Age Society.
1:18.6	He has also worked on a truly enormous number of papers, including some of the most widely
1:22.7	cited and influential pieces of work over the past decade.
1:26.4	Professor Christianensen, thank you so much for joining me.
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