John Lindo
Associate Professor of Anthropology focusing on ancient DNA and the history of infectious disease in the Americas, explaining pathogen evidence and impacts of European contact.
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Mar 26, 2026 • 53min
The Columbian Exchange
John Lindo, ancient DNA expert on infectious disease in the Americas; Rebecca Earle, food historian of early colonial Spanish America; Mark Maslin, earth system scientist on human climate impacts. They examine catastrophic population loss and its environmental ripple effects. They trace how crops, livestock and pathogens crossed oceans, reshaping diets, landscapes, trade and climate in the centuries after 1492.
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Mar 26, 2026 • 53min
The Columbian Exchange
Mark Maslin, Earth system scientist linking historical events to climate; John Lindo, ancient DNA specialist studying disease and population history in the Americas; Rebecca Earle, historian of early modern Atlantic food and diet. They trace the post-1492 flows of crops, livestock and pathogens. Conversations cover dramatic Indigenous population collapse, global spread of New World foods, livestock-driven landscape change, and disease transfers reshaping societies.
