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Welcome to the History of the World Podcast.

My name is Chris. And this is the history of the world unscripted. Oh, Welcome to this very special Christmas week episode of the History of the World Podcast.

And at the moment we're not publishing new material.

Just so you know, if this is the first time you've listened to the podcast

this is not a new material podcast this is just a filling podcast which we do

when we're just transitioning from one volume to another.

Currently at the moment we've got a full volume of podcasts regarding the prehistoric era of human history.

So there's a 24 podcast volume which takes us right from the dawn of evolution of

human beings with the Australopithecines three million years ago right through to the end of the Neolithic and the

beginnings of the Bronze Age and the ancient cultures. So that will be the

subject for our new volume of

podcast which will happen in the new year sometime and it will concentrate

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