Archaic Humans is a five-part sci-fi podcast exploring the lost revolutions of human consciousness through the voices of ancient, imagined societies. In a future classroom outside time, survivors of a collapsed world return to the past to understand how we nearly destroyed everything.
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Send us a text In the fifth and final episode, Lise reveals her own timeline — our modern world, once a network of diverse human streams, now a single overwhelming torrent threatening to drown the planet. What follows is collapse, near-extinction, and thousands of years of silence, until three new civilizations emerge as careful custodians of Earth…
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Send us a text The Plateau Nation, represented here by Del, built their entire civilization within a shared dream consciousness — a vast symbolic landscape tethered to human minds through ritual, memory, and genetic inheritance. In waking life they were minimalists; in dreams, architects of entire cities of thought where conflict, planning, and eve…
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Send us a text To help explain the revolution in consciousness of the Trident Nation, Lise introduces Avet. The Trident cultivated a shared symbolic-language shaped by gesture, sound, and deep attention — guided by the Wise Ones who held memory for the many. Through archetypal constellations etched into the stars, they charted unconscious terrain a…
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Send us a text To help explain the second consciousness revolution, Lise brings in Lonna, a representative of the Hidden Hearth. The Hidden Hearth shaped their world in harmony with the forest, where saplings are tended like kin and light is a shared inheritance. Their story is one of quiet strength, deep memory, and a culture rooted in cooperation…
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Send us a text In Episode One, our host for this series, Lise, brings in Kat, a representative of the Forever Lands from over 200,000 years ago, to help us understand the first revolution in consciousness. Consciousness in the Forever Lands developed hand in hand with awareness of the Leviathan – the single-celled organisms from which all life emer…
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Send us a text Civilization has ended before… Archaic Humans is a five-part fiction podcast that journeys back through deep time to imagine ancient minds, vanished societies, and the quiet revolutions that have shaped and reshaped human consciousness. Twenty thousand years from now, descendants of survivors of the end of our civilization gather for…
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