Lost Worlds: Maybe we can learn

About this episode

Michele McAloon interviews Patrick Wyman about the transformative period in human history following the last Ice Age.

Send us Fan Mail Find Michele at bookclues.com The world you take for granted is younger than you think and it was never guaranteed. We sit down with Patrick Wyman, creator of Tides of History and Past Lives and author of Lost Worlds; How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World to trace the volatile 10,000-year span after the last Ice Age when farming, herding, villages, social hierarchies, and writing begin to reshape human life. Along the way, we confront a simple driver b...

People in this episode

Host: Michele McAloon

Guest: Patrick Wyman

Topics covered

• history
• human development
• agriculture
• social hierarchies
• writing
• Ice Age

Keywords

• history
• farming
• herding
• villages
• social hierarchies
• writing
• Ice Age
• human life

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: bookclues.com

Books & works: Lost Worlds; How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World

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