Archaic Humans
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.
Archaic Humans
The Hidden Hearth
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—a consciousness built through care, ritual, and unbroken trust between people and place.
Archaic Humans was created and written by Jason Hepola and produced and written by Charles Conley.
Recorded by Paul Fonfara. Sound design and audio mixing by Jaxon Vesely.
Voice work by:
- Kristen Froebel
- Lisa Weiland
- Julia Nickerson
- Chesa Greene
- Isabelle Hopewell
- Christa Rubsam
Original music written Chris Hepola and performed by Chris Hepola and Anthony Afful, with audio engineering by Eric Struve.
Illustration and media by Kamau Kokayi-Taylor.
