Societies in Transition
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Societies in Transition: Technology and Transition in the 21st Century
24 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Rayner talks about society in the 21st century the impacts of science and technology, particularly cyber-technology and the Internet. He als...
Societies in Transition: Technology and Transition in the 21st Century
24 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Rayner talks about society in the 21st century the impacts of science and technology, particularly cyber-technology and the Internet. He als...
Societies in Transition: Industrial Transformation
24 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Palmer looks at the Industrial Revolution and how it transformed societies. She also examines the idea that the Revolution is as important t...
Societies in Transition: The End of Roman Civilization
24 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Ward-Perkins (Trinity College, Oxford) examines the Roman-made ecological disasters and examines how far the environmental pollution contributed to...
Societies in Transition: Becoming Roman in Britain
24 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture on Britain under Roman rule and the incorporation of Britain into the Roman world. Professor Gosden also talks about the significance of our e...
Societies in Transition: Becoming Roman in Britain
24 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture on Britain under Roman rule and the incorporation of Britain into the Roman world. Professor Gosden also talks about the significance of our e...
Societies in Transition: Volcanogenic Origins of the Classical World
24 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture on the origins of the classical world: from the growth of Minoan Crete during the Bronze Age, 2000 BCE, where a possible volcanic eruption o...
Societies in Transition: Early Metallurgy Around the World
24 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Professor David Killick (Dept. Anthropology, University of Arizona) talks about the invention of metallurgy and the transition from the Stone Age to t...
Societies in Transition: Farming in Island Southeast Asia
24 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Graeme Barker talks about the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to farming societies in the Stone Age in South East Asian Islands. H...
Societies in Transition: The Neanderthal-Modern Human Transition
24 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Chris Stringer, Research Leader in the Paleontology department at the Natural History Museum, discusses skeletal, DNA and behavioural eviden...
Societies in Transition: The Neanderthal-Modern Human Transition
24 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Chris Stringer, Research Leader in the Paleontology department at the Natural History Museum, discusses skeletal, DNA and behavioural eviden...