Season 6 Episode 2: The World's Oldest Trade Route?
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Season 6 Episode 2: The World's Oldest Trade Route?

C1AdvancedSeptember 9, 202420 min

In this episode, we explore the origins of farming in East Africa, as well as some of the oldest evidence for long-distance trade reaching the region.

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to the History of Africa podcast. In our last episode we took a look at the geography of the stretch of the East African coastline that would one day be known as the Swahili Coast. Today let's dig a bit deeper, literally, examining the prehistory of the Swahili

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Coast and see what archaeology can tell us about the region's earliest inhabitants and the effects of prehistoric migrations on the human landscape of this fascinating part of the world. 6. The World's Oldest Trade Route When studying the early prehistory of humanity,

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there's a lot of emphasis on the migration of humans out of Africa. It's pretty well established and accepted among anthropologists, despite what some fringe people like to claim, that modern homo sapiens can trace our earliest origins to Africa. And enormous quantities of ink have been spilled over the question of where, when, and why humanity first expanded

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