Central America, The Darién Gap, and Colombian DNA Mystery

Emergency Update

This week's regularly scheduled episode is being delayed due to a family emergency.

The Neolithic Expansion in the Guianas and Argentinian Isolation

This week we discuss two separate regions in South America. We discuss the hunter gatherer groups living in Argentina and how they had been genetically isolated from the rest of the continent. We also discuss the various groups of peoples who had migrated from the Orinoco River valley to occupy the Guianas to become prolific hunter gatherer fishers and would begin to travel up and down other rivers into the Amazon Basin and how they would being to colonize the Caribbean. Science article: https://www.science.org/content/article/mystery-group-lived-central-argentina-millennia-ancient-dna-reveals [https://www.science.org/content/article/mystery-group-lived-central-argentina-millennia-ancient-dna-reveals] Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod [https://x.com/WarAdRevPod] YouTube: https://youtu.be/bgL9uKntm4k [https://youtu.be/bgL9uKntm4k]

The Chinchorro, their Mummies, and Monte Verde

This week's episode we discuss the site of Monte Verde in southern Chile and some recent controversy surrounding the site's dating. We also talk about the brutal Atacama Desert and how this environment led the fishers moving through the region to develop several forms of mummification throughout their long history in the region. For this season that covers natural mummification as well as the black mummy method. The Science article about Monte Verde in Chile: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw9217?utm_campaign=ScienceMagazine&utm_medium=ownedSocial&utm_source=twitter [https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw9217?utm_campaign=ScienceMagazine&utm_medium=ownedSocial&utm_source=twitter] Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod [https://x.com/WarAdRevPod] YouTube: https://youtu.be/_bvrhkJ2ql0 [https://youtu.be/_bvrhkJ2ql0]

The Seeds of Andean Agriculture

This week we look at three areas in what is now Peru that are beginning to see the rise of sedentary agricultural life. This includes the river valleys of the Sechin/Casma, the Rio Grande of the Ica Region, and the water basin of Lake Titicaca. We also cover some of the cave art being painted in Andean rock shelters in what is now Bolivia. Twitter/X:https://x.com/WarAdRevPod [https://x.com/WarAdRevPod] YouTube: https://youtu.be/I3ws9-jDqdQ [https://youtu.be/I3ws9-jDqdQ]

The Las Vegas Culture

This week I correct a terrible omission I made last week and focus on the Las Vegas Culture of Ecuador. This covers their transition from semi sedentary hunter-gatherer-fishers to incipient agriculture. As well as their development of communal burial and feasting. I also cover the tale of the Lovers of Sumpa. A tale some attribute to the Las Vegas Culture. YouTube: https://youtu.be/xyeXmtaHAU8 [https://youtu.be/xyeXmtaHAU8] X/Twitter: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod [https://x.com/WarAdRevPod]