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Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism

Thomas Preston Floyd

The goal of this project is to document the history of humanity by documenting all of humanity’s attempts to defeat it’s greatest foe. Itself. This is not going to be a straightforward documentation of kings fighting and destroying each other, though there will be many mentions and examples of that. This will attempt to explain our subjects from the ground up. The common foot soldiers to the leaders at their head. Their strategies, tactics, weapons, and technologies. Their triumphs and tragedies

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44:05

Western Anatolia, Sesklo, and the Dimini Culture

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/10/20

This week we tie up a final loose end from the Balkans. We then discuss sites undergoing the transition from the Neolithic to the Chalcolithic in Anatolia including Hacilar and Beycesultan. We then move back across the Aegean to discuss the Neolithic Greek sites of Sesklo and Dimini. YouTube: https://youtu.be/lLUSYpARFTATwitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod

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29:33

The Sopot and Chalcolithic Balkans

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/10/13

This week we talk about the Sopot culture and it's relationship to other early neolithic faming cultures in Southern Europe before we move onto the newly emerging Chalcolithic cultures of the Balkans including the Tiszapolgár and Lengyel culture. Then we move on to look at the Petrești and Decea Mureșului cultures, and then conclude with a discussion of the Suvorovo burials. Also I did forget to include one final neolithic/chalcolithic culture but we will talk about them next week before we begin to

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45:42

The Start of the Linear Pottery , Bükk, and Tisza...

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/10/06

This week we discuss the origin of the Linear Pottery Culture along the middle Danube, and its rapid spread out of the region. We then go over its developments in its early and development phases. We did not cover its final phase. That is for the later this season. We went over its pottery, economy, and housing. We also discussed two cultures that were influenced by the Linear Pottery and Starcevo, the Bükk and Tisza Cultures.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube:

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34:19

The Starčevo, Körös-Cris and Vinča Cultures

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/09/29

This week we go over more material cultures rising and developing along the Danube River Basin. We discuss the Starčevo Culture, their origins, economy, houses, pottery and figures. We also discuss two other cultures that emerged out of or beside them, the Körös-Cris and Vinča Cultures. Their similarities to the Starčevo and what innovations differentiated them. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/o2qwrnCGHTc

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33:35

The Beginning of the Cucuteni–Trypillia Culture

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/09/22

This week we discuss the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture. Including it's discovery and name. We go over it's origins and how they shifted from the pre phase to it's early foundations and shift into the start of their middle phase. YouTube:https://youtu.be/GSzgwbOC_1YTwitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod

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31:26

Neolithic Cultures of the Danube

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/09/15

This week we went over a couple of points about Proto-Indo European I missed or got questions about.We also begin our coverage of the neolithic (and chalcolithic) cultures of the Danube river system. This includes the Karanovo, Dudesti, Marita, Hamangia, and the Gumelnita, Primarily discussing their pottery, ceramics, and economy.Twitter/X:https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/kWUQPTTJOiQ

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44:33

Theories of Proto-Indo European's Origin

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/09/08

This week we go over a brief explanation of comparative linguistics before we dive into the theories of the Proto-Indo European language and its origin. We also talk about their reconstructed creation myth. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/spJPO7fpbh8

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34:05

Horse Domestication Follow Up and William Jones

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/08/25

The scope of this episode shifted due to a some questions I got in relation to last week's episode. So the first half of this episode ended up being a follow up on last week's. As for our coverage of Proto-Indo European I just decided to limit it for this week to the origins of the theory by talking about the popular attribution of it and linguistic study to William Jones.If you would like to skip the horse domestication follow up jump to 14:35Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube:

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37:21

Horse Domestication

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/08/18

This week we talk about Horses and their domestication. This includes the wide range of dates given when this may have happened. The make up of their herds or harems. Their relationship to the Tarpan and Przewalski's horse. We also discuss some of their by products and intelligence. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube:https://youtu.be/MM95zTAG2W8

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31:42

The Samara and the Khvalynsk Cultures

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/08/11

This week we cover the Samara and Khvalynsk cultures of the Eurasian Steppe and begin to move into the Chalcolithic. We talk about how they emerged from interactions of the Dnieper Donets and the late mesolithic/early neolithic peoples of the Middle Volga. We cover their pottery and the evolution of their burial practices. We then discuss the emergence of the Khvalynsk culture and the mystery and debate on the subject. We then cover their innovation of and use of the kurgan for their own unique

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23:17

The Sredny Stog and Novodanilovka Group

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/08/04

This week's episode was cut short due to a power outage, but we still cover the Sredny Stog culture and its regional variation in Novodanilkova. We talk about their increasing reliance on herding and agriculture and changes to their pottery. We also talk about the increase of horse bones found at their sites and the possibility of them being the first to keep domesticated horses. We also go over their burial practices and how they're different from the preceding Dnieper-Donets culture.Twitter/X:

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36:29

The Bug-Dniester and and Dnieper-Donets Cultures

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/07/28

This week we begin what will be a few episodes of talking about the various material cultures of Eastern Europe. This week we cover the Hunter-Gathering-Fishing peoples of the Bug-Dniester and Dnieper-Donets and how and why each began to transition to pastoralism and to lesser extents agriculture.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/6a2fnPAjp_g

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30:16

Siberian Migrations and Linguistics

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/07/21

This week we talk about Siberia as it's people move into the Neolithic after the final disappearance of mammoths. We also talk about waves of migrations from the south and west and migrations out of Siberia and the effects this had on the distribution of Siberian languages. We also discuss the emergence of some permanent settles set up by hunter gathers in the region.Twitter/X:https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/jg3nMtkTyGs

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23:56

A Rising Tide Makes all Islands

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/07/14

We're back from break sans theme until I hear back from a copyright claim. This week we go over some changes to Australia's coastal environment due to the rising sea levels and the changes this causes to some Australian art and diet. We also discuss the peopling of the Furneaux GroupTwitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/rDeE1lG5uE4

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30:25

Developments in New Guinea

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/06/30

This week we discuss the expanding role and scope of agriculture on the island of New Guinea as well as of fishing due to the rising water levels. We cover their own unique advancements further into the Neolithic. We also go over the wide variety among and disagreements about modern Papuan languages.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/MIvg4e72eUo

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22:20

Ancestors of the Senoi and Semang

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/06/23

There is some big speculation in this week's episode and I forgot to point that out!This week's episode we cover the peoples of the Malay Peninsula. These are the ancestors of the Senoi and Semang people.I also talk about peoples living in some of the Indonesian Islands. I mentioned them as being related to the Semang or Negrito peoples of the Malay Peninsula. That is speculation and I will go into more detail on that next week. I meant to talk about that theory and others, but forgot to do so in

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30:14

The Early Jeulmun and Early Jomon Periods

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/06/16

This week we move into Korea and Japan to discuss the developments of the Jeulmun and Jomon as the move into their early periods.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/k2Lcv4Aj0bo

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31:54

Chinese Creation Myths and Three Sovereigns

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/06/10

Thank you for your patience on this week's episode. Sorry again for the delay. This week we cover a couple of versions of the Chinese creation story as well as one version of the first three rulers of the world and men.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/PdVTQWR5FB0

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2:45

Episode Delayed!!!

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/06/09

This week's episode will be late! I ran into technical problems and though I have them fixed It's to late for me to get everything ready for release at our regular time.

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32:57

Neolithic Cultures of Inner Mongolia and the Liao River

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/06/02

This week we conclude our overview of neolithic cultures in China between 6000 and 4000 BC. To do this we discuss the Xinglongwa, Xinle, and Zhaobaogou cultures.We discuss their discoveries and what made each of them unique as well as what similarities they shared, or didn't share. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/Br960HbKR5k

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