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Special Preview of Before Us Kids! Out for a stroll at White Sands
18 Jun 2025
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Send us a textImagine taking a walk with Columbian mammoths, giant sloths, lions, sabre-tooth tigers, camels and loads of other animals? Sounds crazy,...
Special Preview of Before Us Kids! Red-headed Neanderthals?
09 Jun 2025
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Send us a textIn this hair-larious episode, Dr. Erich chats with Jake and Colton all about red hair, genetics, and some super cool things we might’v...
Special Preview of Before Us Kids! Woolly Mice?
02 Jun 2025
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Send us a textIn this episode, Dr. Erich and Colton dive into a wild idea—bringing back the woolly mammoth! How are scientists doing it? Believe it ...
Going with the Flow
22 Apr 2025
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Send us a textThere is unambiguous agreement that early humans had to cross open water when they traveled from Sundaland to Sahul before 40,000 years ...
Water you waiting for?
15 Apr 2025
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Send us a textSea levels rise and fall in response to complex planetary drivers, including shifts in polar ice caps, land masses, and other factors. U...
Helen talks the ACROSS Project
08 Apr 2025
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Send us a textIn this episode, we speak with Before Us co-host Helen Farr about her European Research Council project, Australasian Colonisation Resea...
Hooked from the start
01 Apr 2025
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Send us a textThe rapid dispersal of modern humans across Wallacea to modern day Australia not only required boat technology for long-distance sea tra...
Before Us+ Erich answers some of our fan mail
25 Mar 2025
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Send us a textIn this special bonus episode, Erich answers some of the fantastic questions that we've received from listeners around the world. I...
Living large yet so small
18 Mar 2025
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Send us a textThe discovery of Homo floresiensis and Homo luzonensis in SE Asia raises big questions about what happened to some early populations of ...
Not just wanderers, also wonderers
11 Mar 2025
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Send us a textWhy did humans migrate out of Africa? This question has long puzzled archaeologists. Were they driven by unknown pressures, drawn by opp...
In deep time, in deeper waters
04 Mar 2025
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Send us a textSea levels have risen and fallen repeatedly over the last 2 million years. During low sea levels, large tracts of land were exposed alon...
Waves of Change
25 Feb 2025
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Send us a textAround 170,000 years ago people living in sea caves on South Africa’s south coast were repeatedly collecting and eating shellfish from...
The Omega-th wonder of the world
18 Feb 2025
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Send us a textHave you ever wondered how aquatic foods shaped human evolution? In this episode, we dive into the fascinating role of seafood in our de...
Flame-kissed fins
11 Feb 2025
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Send us a textHomo erectus is widely believed to be the first human species to leave Africa, expanding into parts of Europe and Asia. They were also t...
Head over heels for aquatic environments
04 Feb 2025
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Send us a textArchaeology tells the story of people, yet identifying individuals in the archaeological record remains notoriously challenging. In this...
Before Us Season 1 Trailer
12 Dec 2024
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Send us a textGet read for a new podcast that digs deep into big issues in archaeology and human evolution. In this season, archaeologists Helen Farr ...