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Ordinary People in Ancient East Asia: Interview with Professor Kate Pechenkina
Feb 01, 2024Professor Kate Pechenkina is an expert on the bioarchaeology of East Asia, utilizing cutting-edge tools to tell us about the lives and experiences of ordinary people in the distant past: diet, disease...
Confucius and His Age
Jan 25, 2024Confucius is one of the most famous and influential thinkers in all of human history, but who was he? What did he believe, and what did he teach? And how did his time and place - the closing years of ...
China in the Eastern Zhou: Spring and Autumn
Jan 18, 2024The Spring and Autumn period, lasting from 771 to 481 BC, marked the high point of aristocratic power in ancient China. This was an age of nobility and political fragmentation, as the Zhou Dynasty's p...
Venice through the Ages, from Salt-Panners to Maritime Empire to Tourism: Interview with Professor Dennis Romano
Jan 11, 2024Venice's lagoon is an unstable environment, but it has hosted one of the longest-lasting and most stable cities in world history. The history of Venice is many different things: politics on an imperia...
The State and the Environmental History of Early China: Interview with Professor Brian Lander
Jan 04, 2024The environment of China has been so thoroughly shaped by human activity that it's difficult to imagine it as a wild landscape, as it was at the end of the last Ice Age. Since then, first agriculture ...
The Western Zhou, 1046-771 BC
Dec 28, 2023The Zhou Dynasty ruled for longer than any other in Chinese history. Much of the cultural foundation of China was laid down during that age, from Confucius to Sun Tzu. While a powerful state at its in...
The Fall of the Shang Dynasty and the Rise of the Zhou
Dec 21, 2023The Shang Dynasty marks China's entrance to history, but it was very different than the China we know from later periods: Human sacrifice on a massive scale, shaman-kings conducting rituals to the anc...
The Rise of the State in China
Dec 14, 2023Chinese history is defined, more than anything else, by the importance of the state: its origins, its development, and the precise lineage leading back from the present deep into prehistory. But rathe...
The Languages of Eurasia around 500 BC
Dec 07, 2023As an age of bronze gave way to one of iron, and then classical empires, the importance of writing grew all across Eurasia. That means more written sources for us to work with, but it also tells us dr...
Cities, the Etruscans, and Global Urbanism: Interview with Professor Simon Stoddart
Nov 30, 2023Cities are one of the defining features of the Iron Age Mediterranean, as urbanism spread across the sea and beyond to form the backbone of the classical age that would follow. Professor Simon Stoddar...