Dr. Paulette Steeves: The Indigenous History ...

Presents the link between near-death experiences and extraterrestrial encounters• Looks at research from early pioneers in the field of alien contact, including Greta Woodrew, Leo Sprinkle, Whitley Streiber, and John Mack• Shares case studies of individuals who have undergone nea ...  Show more

Hugh Newman is an explorer, megalithomaniac and the author of "Earth Grids" (2008) and "Stone Circles" (2017), and co-author of "Megalith: Studies In Stone" (2018), "Sensing the Earth" (2021), and "Geomancy" (2021); and co-author with Jim Vieira of "Giants On Record" (2015) and " ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the emergence of geology as a scientific discipline. A little over two hundred years ago a small group of friends founded the Geological Society of London. This organisation was the first devoted to furthering the discipline of geology - the st ...  Show more

Can our modern-day gender biases influence our understanding of the past? Kim Chakanetsa meets two archaeologists to talk about the risks of projecting our own assumptions onto the ancient world.

Dr Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson is a senior researcher in the department o ...

The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture (University of Chicago Press, 2017) examines the social and political history of how agricultural knowledge was created in the 19th century.  Over the course of the 19th century, rural America transformed into the ...  Show more

Widespread human alteration of the planet has led many scholars to claim that we have entered a new epoch in geological time: the Anthropocene, an age dominated by humanity. This ethnography is the first to directly engage the Anthropocene, tackling its problems and paradoxes fro ...  Show more