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 Late Archaic
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, sea, and energy, each carrying a hard-won consciousness revolution of their own.
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.
