Forgotten Footprints brings you tales from lesser-known civilizations and cultures from the Ice Age to the collapse of the Mongol Empire.
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Author of Forgotten Footprints: Untold Stories of Humanity's Past. Bringing you stories of lesser-known civilizations, lost cities, and vanished empires from the Ice Age to the fall of the Mongol Empire.
Archaeologist writing about the weirdness of contemporary life. Also: death, beer, and pirates. MacArthur Fellow, Anthropology & History PhD, Prof Emerita Univ Chicago
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