Çatalhöyük and the Neolithic Revolution
You're Dead to Me
BBC
4.7 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Greg Jenner and his guests explore the amazing prehistoric site of Çatalhöyük as we learn about the Neolithic Revolution of the Middle East. What is so special about Çatalhöyük and why did prehistoric hunter-gatherers decide to settle down with pottery, pals and porridge?
In archaeology corner this week is Dr Lindsay Der from the University of Victoria in Canada and in comedy corner is the fantastically funny Mike Wozniak.
Script: Chris Wakefield, Emma Nagouse and Greg Jenner Research: Chris Wakefield Project manager : Siefe Miyo Edit producer : Cornelius Mendez
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to your Dead To Me, a BBC Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history, |
| 0:10.6 | seriously. |
| 0:11.6 | My name is Greg Jenner, I'm a public historian author and broadcaster and I'm the chief |
| 0:15.2 | nerd on the funny TV kid show Horrible Histories. |
| 0:18.1 | And today we are settling in the Stone Age, with some state of the art ceramics and severed |
| 0:22.0 | skulls for company as we travel back thousands of years to explore Chattel-Huyuk and the |
| 0:26.6 | Neolithic Revolution, no, not an underrated print album, although it could have been. |
| 0:31.0 | Yes, we are talking big changes in late Stone Age Turkey, roughly 9,000 years ago, and |
| 0:36.5 | to help us get to grips with prehistoric paintings, parasites and porridge, we're joined by two |
| 0:40.8 | very special guests. |
| 0:42.8 | In History Corner, or rather, archaeology corner, she's currently an assistant professor at |
| 0:47.1 | the University of Victoria in Canada, where her work explores public archaeology, changing |
| 0:51.2 | animal human relationships through time, and she's also a researcher with the Chattel-Huyuk |
| 0:55.2 | research project, it's Dr. Lindsay Duh. |
| 0:57.6 | Thanks for joining us, Lindsay. |
| 0:58.8 | Lovely to have you here. |
| 0:59.8 | Great to be here, thanks for having me. |
| 1:02.0 | And in Comedy Corner, he's a fantastic comedian, actor, writer and podcaster, who you will |
| 1:06.2 | recognize from his handsomely moustache-yote face, and from his appearances on Taskmaster, |
| 1:11.2 | manned down and a random TV show called Horrible Histories that I've never heard of. |
| 1:14.9 | Plus of course, his hilarious radio and podcaster work, my absolute modern-fave being the delightfully |
| 1:19.6 | silly three-been-salad podcaster, it's the marvelous Mike Wozniak. |
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