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Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations
- Written by: Brian M. Fagan, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Brian M. Fagan
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
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Where do we come from? How did our ancestors settle this planet? How did the great historic civilizations of the world develop? How does a past so shadowy that it has to be painstakingly reconstructed from fragmentary, largely unwritten records nonetheless make us who and what we are?
These 36 lectures bring you the answers that the latest scientific and archaeological research and theorizing suggest about human origins, how populations developed, and the ways in which civilizations spread throughout the globe.
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Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations
- Narrated by: Brian M. Fagan
- Series: The Great Courses: Ancient History
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2013-07-08
- Language: English
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The Little Ice Age
- How Climate Made History 1300-1850
- Written by: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how climate altered historical events, and what they mean in the context of today’s global warming.
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The Little Ice Age
- How Climate Made History 1300-1850
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2022-05-03
- Language: English
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Cro-Magnon
- How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
- Written by: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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Best-selling author Brian Fagan brings early humans out of the deep freeze with his trademark mix of erudition, cutting-edge science, and vivid storytelling. Cro-Magnon reveals human society in its infancy, facing enormous environmental challenges - including a rival species of humans, the Neanderthals. For ten millennia, Cro-Magnons lived side by side with Neanderthals, an encounter that Fagan fills with drama.
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Cro-Magnon
- How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2010-03-02
- Language: English
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A Little History of Archaeology
- Written by: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: Kevin Scollin
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Archaeology is all of these, but also far more: the only science to encompass the entire span of human history - more than three million years! This Little History tells the riveting stories of some of the great archaeologists and their amazing discoveries around the globe.
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A Little History of Archaeology
- Narrated by: Kevin Scollin
- Series: Little Histories Series
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2018-04-10
- Language: English
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Fishing
- How the Sea Fed Civilization
- Written by: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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In this history of fishing - not as sport but as sustenance - archaeologist and best-selling author Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable and often overlooked element in the growth of civilization. It sustainably provided enough food to allow cities, nations, and empires to grow, but it did so with a different emphasis. Where agriculture encouraged stability, fishing demanded movement. It frequently required a search for new and better fishing grounds; its technologies, centered on boats, facilitated movement and discovery.
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Fishing
- How the Sea Fed Civilization
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2017-09-26
- Language: English
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World Prehistory
- The Basics
- Written by: Brian M. Fagan, Nadia Durrani
- Narrated by: Lee Goettl
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Why is world prehistory important in the modern world? What does it tell us about ourselves? Providing a simple, but entertaining and stimulating, account of the prehistoric past from human origins to today from a global perspective, World Prehistory: The Basics is the ideal guide to the story of our early human past and its relevance to the modern world.
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World Prehistory
- The Basics
- Narrated by: Lee Goettl
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2022-03-31
- Language: English
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The Long Summer
- How Climate Changed Civilization
- Written by: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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The rise of human civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, known as the Holocene. Until very recently, we had no detailed record of climate changes during the Holocene. Now we do. In this engrossing and captivating look at the human effects of climate variability, Brian Fagan shows how climate functioned as what the historian Paul Kennedy described as one of the “deeper transformations” of history—a more important historical factor than we understand.
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The Long Summer
- How Climate Changed Civilization
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2022-05-10
- Language: English
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Climate Chaos
- Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors
- Written by: Brian Fagan, Nadia Durrani
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
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Man-made climate change may have began in the last 200 years, but humankind has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty: once-mighty civilizations felled by pestilence and glacial melt and drought. But we have one powerful advantage as we face our current crisis: history. The study of ancient climates has advanced tremendously in the past 10 years, to the point where we can now reconstruct seasonal weather going back thousands of years and see just how civilizations and nature interacted.
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Climate Chaos
- Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2021-09-21
- Language: English
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What We Did in Bed
- A Horizontal History
- Written by: Brian Fagan, Nadia Durrani
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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In this sweeping social history that covers the past seventy thousand years, Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani look at the endlessly varied role of the bed through time. This was a place for sex, death, childbirth, storytelling, and sociability as well as sleeping. But who did what with whom, why, and how could vary incredibly depending on the time and place. It is only in the modern era that the bed has transformed into a private, hidden zone, and its rich social history has largely been forgotten.
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What We Did in Bed
- A Horizontal History
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2022-06-07
- Language: English
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The Rape of the Nile, Revised and Updated
- Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt
- Written by: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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This is the first thoroughly revised edition of The Rape of the Nile—Fagan’s classic account of the cavalcade of archaeologists, thieves, and sightseers who have flocked to the Nile Valley since ancient times. Featured in this edition are new accounts of stunning recent discoveries, including the Royal Tombs of Tanis, the Valley of Golden Mummies at Bahariya, the Tomb of the Sons of Ramses, and the sunken city of Alexandria (whose lighthouse was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World).
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The Rape of the Nile, Revised and Updated
- Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2022-07-19
- Language: English
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The Great Warming
- Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
- Written by: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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The history of the Great Warming of a half millennium ago suggests that we may yet be underestimating the power of climate change to disrupt our lives todayand our vulnerability to drought, writes Fagan, is the silent elephant in the room.
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The Great Warming
- Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2010-02-16
- Language: English
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The Attacking Ocean
- The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels
- Written by: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: Ben Bartolone
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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The past fifteen thousand years--the entire span of human civilization--have witnessed dramatic sea level changes, which began with rapid global warming at the end of the Ice Age, when sea levels were more than 700 feet below modern levels. Over the next eleven millennia, the oceans climbed in fits and starts. These rapid changes had little effect on those humans who experienced them, partly because there were so few people on earth, and also because they were able to adjust readily to new coastlines.
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The Attacking Ocean
- The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels
- Narrated by: Ben Bartolone
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2013-12-13
- Language: English
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Elixir
- A History of Water and Humankind
- Written by: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
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Elixir spans five thousand years, from the beginnings of civilization to the parched American Sun Belt of today. It is a story of human endeavor: our present-day interaction with this most essential resource has deep roots in the remote past, and every human culture has been shaped by its relationship to water.
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Elixir
- A History of Water and Humankind
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2011-06-01
- Language: English
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The Intimate Bond
- How Animals Shaped Human History
- Written by: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Animals, and our ever-changing relationships with them, have left an indelible mark on human history. From the dawn of our existence, animals and humans have been constantly redefining their relationships with one another, and entire civilizations have risen and fallen upon this curious bond we share with our fellow fauna.
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The Intimate Bond
- How Animals Shaped Human History
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2015-04-14
- Language: English
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Floods, Famines, and Emperors
- El Nino and the Fate of Civilization
- Written by: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: John Haag
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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In 1999, few people had thought to examine the effects of climate on civilization. Now, due in part to the groundbreaking work of archaeologist Brian Fagan, climate change is a central issue. Revised and updated 10 years after its first publication, Floods, Famines and Emperors remains the definitive account of how the world's best-known climate event had an indelible impact on history.
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Floods, Famines, and Emperors
- El Nino and the Fate of Civilization
- Narrated by: John Haag
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2009-09-22
- Language: English
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Beyond the Blue Horizon
- How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans
- Written by: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: George K. Wilson
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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In Beyond the Blue Horizon, best-selling science historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring mystery of the oceans, the planet’s most forbidding terrain. This is not a tale of Columbus or Hudson, but of much earlier mariners. From the moment when ancient Polynesians first dared to sail beyond the horizon, Fagan vividly explains how our mastery of the oceans has changed history, even before history was written.
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Beyond the Blue Horizon
- How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans
- Narrated by: George K. Wilson
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2013-03-22
- Language: English
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