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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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29:12

Neolithic Cultures of the Lower Yellow River

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/05/26

This week we cover the emerging neolithic cultures of the lower Yellow River between the years 6000-4000 BC.This includes the Houji, Beixin, and Dawenkou. We go over their lifestyles and food production methods, pottery, and how they evolved over time. We also talk about their suspected relations to each other as well as other neighboring cultures.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/EcW1ApniBWA

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40:17

The Start of the Yangshao

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/05/19

This week's episode focuses on the origins of the Yangshao culture. We go over its discovery in the 1920s and early theories it gave rise too. How those changed over time after the discovery of its earliest period, the Banpo phase and its type site. We talk about their homes, pottery, crafts, burial practices, social organization, lifestyles, and their spread east and west along the Wei River Valley. We also cover the theories that they had a proto writing system and that they were speakers of

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43:40

Neolithic Cultures of the Upper Yellow River

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/05/12

This week I go over some information I found regarding potential matriarchy mentioned last week and I also talk about modern examples of more matriarchal societies in modern China. Of course our main focus is on the neolithic cultures that emerged along the upper yellow river between 6000-4000 BC(E), the Laoguantai, Dadiwan, and Bajia cultures.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/kW46L4FehBg

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35:43

Neolithic Cultures of the Middle Yellow River

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/05/05

This week we cover the neolithic cultures of the Peiligang, Cisha, and Jiahu. Or do we? Part of this week's episode deals with some debates about how closely related these neolithic culture are related to each other. We of course still talk about lifestyles of these sites, their pottery, economies, and burial practices. We also set the stage for next week's discussion about sites along the upper yellow river and the upcoming rise and spread of the Yangshao culture.Twitter/X:

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34:49

Neolithic Cultures of the Yangtze Delta

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/04/28

This week's episode week we talk about the emerging neolithic cultures of the Yangtze Delta. This includes the Kuahuqiao, Hemudu, and Majiabang.We discuss the expanding roll of rice agriculture during this period for the various sites. but also the continued reliance on wild sources of food. We also discuss some the differences in their pottery as well as other artifacts. We talk about the canoe found at Kuahuqio, and their disappearance. We compare the Hemudu and Majiabang and discuss how closely

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28:58

The Pengtoushan and Daxi cultures

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/04/21

This week we talk about two neolithic cultures that existed in the western portion of the Yangtze River system, the Pengtoushan and Daxi cultures. The Pengtoushan culture ends a few hundred years after the start of this season, but we discuss their last (or next to last) site of Bashidang. As well as their burial practices, architecture, pottery, and tools. We also talk about their use of domesticated crops. As for the Daxi we discuss their occupation of the Three Gorges region, their own unique

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37:11

Setting the Stage for China's Neolithic Expansion

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/04/14

This week we go over several broad topics that are related to neolithic China. This includes the etymology of the two main rivers, the Yangtze and the Yellow, along which various neolithic cultures emerge. The potential langue spoken and spread by one or more of these cultures, and the broad genetic background of the people who will found the neolithic cultures of China. This is all the sets the stage for next week were we travel up and down the river to talk about cultures like the Yangshao,

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31:09

The start of Neolithic Taiwan and the Austronesian...

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/04/07

This week's episode sees us discuss the island of Taiwan, and the people living on it. We go over the theory of how over the next few seasons they will spread off the island and spread the Austronesian language and their influence over a number of other regions and people. We also talk about the etymology of the island as well as different names given to it at different times and different people. I also give a rough road map of how I plan to cover the various neolithic cultures that are emerging

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30:22

In the Mountains and Hills

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/03/31

This week's episode talks about genetics and linguistics in Southern China and the border regions of northern South East Asia, We al briefly discuss the climate and geography of the Guilin and Guangxi provinces , and we talk about the final abandonment of the Zengpiyan site as well the spread of rice agriculture south from the Yangtze River. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/VZlGse7K4hs

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30:58

New Cultures and the Spread of Agriculture

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/03/24

This week we conclude our study of South East Asia between 6000-4000 BC(E). In it we discuss the sites and material cultures of Quỳnh Văn and Đa Bút. We also go over the spread of agriculture into other parts of the region toward the end of the season as well as a talk about the current understanding of the genetic relationship between the Andamanese and the Hoabinhian. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/P_kL8taSL6Q

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33:16

Neolithic South East Asia

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/03/17

Take 2! After an Audacity crash caused me to lose my first recording I was able to rerecord, and while I think this is much rougher we were still able to go over some highlights of this period of Neolithic South East Asia in general like the spread of agriculture and the domestication of pig and chickens.. I also focused on some specific sites in what is now Thailand.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/0hn_eJ-8wxQ

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31:53

Agriculture from the East?

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/03/10

This week I go over some agricultural developments. One about millet domestication I forgot to cover in an earlier episode. The other is about rice domestication and the possibility of local strains being domesticated prior to the introduction of other strains from the East. We also discuss potential animal domestication events. Finally we discuss potential relations and interactions to neighboring peoples and regions in East Asia.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube:

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30:43

The Ganges and Brahmaputra

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/03/03

This week's episode deals with some etymology of the two eponymous rivers. The climate of the regions their systems run through and how that has affected archeology of this region during this period. We also give a very brief overview of the populations living in what is now Nepal and Bhutan. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/5Z3fFC3ihMo

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32:09

Isolated Tongues

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/02/24

This week I talk about some of the most mysterious and probably oldest isolated languages in the Indian subcontinent in the regions we've gone over so far this season. If they existed during this season's time frame and if so where. We also talk about the Vedda people of Sri LankaTwitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/z36xqaQO76Y

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30:42

Between the Mesolithic and Neolithic

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/02/17

This week we start talking about Southern India and Sri Lanka for this season. We discuss how the sea level is affecting the connection between the two regions as well as possible agricultural and pastoral developments in the region. We also talk about potential language and ritual developments.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/O4nSKhGTkus

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27:31

The Neolithic Indus

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/02/10

This week we talk about the similarities between the sties we discussed last week and the numerous villages and sites emerging along the Indus River Valley. We also talk about some of those sites and how they were beginning to develop their own material identity.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/gJNzQb7jfx4

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34:26

Mehrgarh III and Neolithic Balochistan

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/02/03

This week we finish Mehrgarh up for this season by discussing the first half of Phase III and enter the chalcolithic phase for the site. We also discuss two material cultures that emerged from the neolithic expansion happening in Balochistan, Kili Gul Mohammad and Togau.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/E8Tqk_KIX1E

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25:51

Developments at Mehrgarh

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/01/27

This week I am following up to some questions about the Eurasian Steppe. Before we moved on to talk about the end of the first phase of Mehrgarh, a site we first discussed last season. We move into the second stage and appearance of pottery as well as the wide range of new production techniques developed during the period. We also go over changes to burials during this period. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/M6ENFO_zyZY

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29:21

Central Asian Neolithic and the Kelteminar

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/01/20

This week we talk about the continued spread of the Neolithic life styles along the various river valleys around portions of Central Asia.We also discuss the more traditional Kelteminar culture of the Caspian and Aral Sea. As well as some theories surrounding their spread.Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/HH9Zm2eKg1M

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23:25

The Settlements of the Central Iranian Plateau and...

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism ·

2025/01/13

This week we talk about the Central Persian or Iranian Plateau and the possibility of a missing or undiscovered material culture in the region possibly centered in or around the Zayandeh River. We also focus on the site of Tepe SialkTwitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPodYouTube: https://youtu.be/AYjdTtXf2_0

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