Explorer #20: Early Humans, First Civilizations, and Fall of Civilizations with Dr. Brian Fagan

The Accent Podcast

Brian Fagan is an Archeologist, Author, and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara. He has written a number of books on archeology, humans, and, most recently, climate change. We discussed Early Humans, the history of hunting, the most influential civilizations, and the effects of localized climate change, which by the way, has nothing to do with politics but rather the history of the phenomena.

TIMESTAMPS

01:10 Did humans evolve from apes

04:25 Hunting of early humans

12:45 Neanderthals

14:40 Humans walked out from Africa

20:50 Most important human tool

22:50 Complexities of archeological discovery

27:25 First Civilizations

32:55 Most influential Civilizations

34:45 Inca Civilization

37:55 Were there lost Civilizations (Atlantis)?

40:50 Why Civilizations Fall

44:35 Localized climate change

50:25 The Future of the human race