The Archaeology of the Indus Valley Civilization: Interview with Professor Cameron Petrie

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Archaeology is changing quickly, and few people are playing more of a direct role in the wave of fascinating new studies exploring the Indus Valley Civilization, South Asia, and Iran than Professor Cameron Petrie. We talk about his work on South Asia, the scientific revolution in archaeology, and much more.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can listen to Tides of History early and ad free right now.
0:04.3	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery welcome to another episode of Tides of History.
0:18.8	I'm Patrick Wyman.
0:19.7	Thanks so much for being here with me today. As a field, archaeology is at a fascinating point in its development.
0:26.3	New tools of all kinds, from remote sensing to paleo climate analysis to ancient DNA,
0:31.1	are dramatically reshaping the possibilities of what we can know about the past.
0:35.6	Old questions are getting answers and new questions that we could hardly imagine being able to answer
0:40.4	a decade or two ago are coming to the fore.
0:43.4	A few parts of the ancient world are being better served by those new techniques than Iran,
0:47.9	South Asia, and the Indus Valley Civilization.
0:51.5	Today's guest is leading and participating in some of the most innovative and wide-ranging work on not just
0:56.5	the Indus Valley civilization, but a whole variety of topics.
1:00.0	Cameron Petri is professor in South Asian and Iranian archaeology, fellow of Trinity College,
1:04.7	and director of studies for Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.
1:08.4	He has worked extensively on the archaeology of ancient Iran and South Asia,
1:12.1	editing a book entitled Ancient Iran and its Neighbors,
1:15.0	Local Development's and Long Range Interactions in the Fourth Millennium BC, and collaborating on several other volumes.
1:21.6	The list of articles that he's authored and
1:23.2	co-authored is staggering in its length and breadth and I have drawn on them
1:26.6	extensively for my episodes on this region. Professor Petrie, thank you so much for
1:30.5	joining me. Thank you very much for having me.
1:33.2	It's been really nice to be given the opportunity.
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