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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The Bronze Age Dubai
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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.
Geopolitics, policy, culture, sustainability, urban planning, life in Peru, and travels around Latin America. Also birds, and plants.
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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