October Schedule

Ancient Humans:  October Show Schedule

Episode 30:  "Burial Rites"

Airs:  Sunday, October 2nd, 2016 @ 8pm-10pm EST

Subject:  Tombs, Rituals, Respect for the Dead

Guest(s):  TBA
Description:  How did ancient humans respect their dead?  Let's explore the various ways that we're able to find preserved human fossils.
 

Episode 31:   "Calculating Age"

Airs:  Sunday, October 9th, 2016 @ 8pm-10pm EST

Subject:  Dating, Geology, Cultural Context

Guest(s):  TBA
Description:  The prospect of finding ancient humans provides an interesting problem.  How can we tell that the human bodies we find are really as old as we think they are?
 

Episode 32:  "The Myth of Science"

Airs:  Sunday, October 16th, 2016 @ 8pm-10pm EST

Subject:  Comparative mythology, religion, science

Guest(s):  TBA
Description:  Along time ago, scientists looked just like Pagans.  It's a different scenario today.  How much of science is based on faith?
 

Episode 33:  "Witchcraft"

Airs:  Sunday, October 23th, 2016 @ 8pm-10pm EST

Subject:  Magick, Spellcraft, Metaphysics and mysticism

Guest(s):  TBA
Description:  What is so bad about magic?  Ancient cultures had various ways they dealt with the concept.  Sometimes high science can appear as magic.  What influence does that have on us?

News Stories from Episode 17

“Sinkhole discovery suggests humans were in Florida 14,500 years ago. Knife, bone, and dung cast doubt on Bering Strait theory and indicate humans spread through Americas 1,500 years earlier than thought, researchers say. Neil Puckett, from Texas A&M University, surfaces with a limb bone of a juvenile mastodon at a sinkhole in limestone bedrock site near Tallahassee, Florida. A stone knife, mastodon bones and fossilized dung found in an underwater sinkhole show that humans lived in north Florida about 14,500 years ago, according to new research that suggests the colonization of the Americas was far more complex than originally believed. Archaeologists have known of the sinkhole in