The Origins of Civilisation

The Ancients

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4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The world is constantly changing, and so has the perception of civilisation, but what exactly are the origins of this concept? Helping us answer this question from an anthropological and archaeological perspective, Professor Nam Kim joins Tristan once again on The Ancients. We explore how advances in these disciplines are helping to answer this long-examined question.

Nam is an anthropological archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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0:00.0	It's the Ancient's on History Hit.
0:05.7	I'm Tristan Huseyohost, and in today's podcast, well on the Ancient's once in a while we
0:10.2	do cover the big topics.
0:12.8	A few months back we did a podcast all about the origins of warfare.
0:17.2	It has proven one of our most popular podcast episodes ever with Professor Nam Kim.
0:22.6	Nam has been a follow-up episode today on the origins of civilization.
0:29.4	This is a gripping, this is an enthralling chat.
0:32.1	It's an ancient world tour.
0:34.5	Once again, we're going global.
0:36.6	We're looking at cases from across the ancient world to try and answer this question from
0:42.2	the anthropological viewpoint.
0:45.5	Just before we get into it, I'm also going to quickly do a bit of selfish advertising
0:49.2	because me, a tech dinosaur that I am has just got Instagram, Ancient's Tristan.
0:57.2	And if you want to follow that Instagram to get behind the scenes, shots, images, little hints
1:03.2	at what the upcoming Ancient's episodes will be, as well as behind the scenes footage of
1:07.5	History Hit's Ancient History Department, shall we say, what future documentaries we got
1:11.8	in store, then why not give me a little bit of a follow.
1:15.7	It will be worth it.
1:16.7	It will be entertaining.
1:17.7	I can guarantee you that.
1:19.4	But without further ado, let's go back to the origins of civilization.
1:24.6	Here's Nam.
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