Episode #281: Origins of Civilization

With our trip to Turkey coming soon, we sit down to record this episode with Gobekli Tepe on our minds, and this leads to a discussion about the origins of civilization. What came first, the temple, or civilization? How do hunter gatherer people become farmers and ranchers?

Obviously, we don't have the answers. But we work through our thoughts in this episode, and it will be interesting to see how much we learn, and how that will change what we think now, after we see Gobekli Tepe for ourselves.

Episode #280: Listener Communications

We tried something new with this episode and streamed it live to the Youtube channel. It was fun, thanks to everyone who participated in the chats(and donated!!)
We read lots of emails and played some music and enjoyed ourselves immensely. We hope you enjoy it as well.

 

Executive Producers:
Peter Shell
Matt Shy
Johnathan Bracken

Associate Executive Producers:
Daniel Gandy
Pepe LE PewPew
Garry Piatt
Adrian Johnson

Episode #279: Written in Stone

Ben from UnchartedX joins us to discuss the amazing high quality scan data of a pre-dynastic Egyptian stone vase. Ben has discussed this object, the data from the scan, and the implications of the staggering precision evident in the manufacturing process several times on his channel.

Since the STL file of the data has been made available for download on the UnchartedX website, many people from around the world have been performing their own analysis of the vase, and we discuss some of the results of that on this episode, as well as some interesting results that Kyle has discovered on his own in his attempt to better understand the initial analysis techniques used by professional metrologists Alex Dunn and Nick Sierra.

There is a lot of visual data being referenced on this episode, so be sure to check out the YouTube version(it should be out within a few days of the publishing of this audio).

Ben's website:
https://unchartedx.com/

Mark's article we read from on the episode:
https://unsigned.io/granite-artifact/

Also see the work Marián Marčiš is posting to Twitter:
https://twitter.com/mariusderomanu3

Link to download the STL file:
https://unchartedx.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Vase.stl

Links for the initial vase report:
https://unchartedx.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/VASE-REPORT-INCHES.pdf
https://unchartedx.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/VASE-REPORT-METRIC.pdf