And once they were settled, they deliberately collected grass grains still on the stalk, and by collecting and sowing the seeds, they almost inadvertently carried out a very early kind of genetic engineering: they slowly created the world's great sta...
As the last Ice Age came to an end, somebody picked a pebble out of a small river not far from Bethlehem. It's a pebble that must have been tumbled downstream, banged and smoothed against other stones as it went, in the process that geologists poetic...
Looking at the food in the British Museum canteen, so much of it flown across the world, I'm struck by the fact that while we all travel more and more freely, we depend on food grown by people who cannot move, who must stay on the same piece of land....
So we went for the difficult food, we went for things like the small hard grass seeds we call cereals, that are indigestible if eaten raw and may even be poisonous, and we have to pulp them up and turn them into things like bread and dough. And we we...
'I just thought it was beautiful to look at and had a well-honed, worn look, and a patina that made me feel that it was used - and used again and again. It is a fundamental act both of cooking and of living, and living with a family and passing on, a...
Temperatures increased by as much as seven degrees centigrade in a hundred years, and sea levels rose by over 100 metres. Ice turned to water and snow gave way to grass, and the result was slow but profound changes in the way that humans lived. Over...
006:Episode 6 - Bird-shaped pestle 第六集巴布亚新几内亚鸟形杵 Abstract摘要 : Bird-shaped pestle (made 4 - 8,000 years ago). Stone, found in Papua New Guinea 鸟形杵,石制,距今约4000至8000年,巴布亚新几内亚。 MP3听...
By around 12,000 years ago, the Clovis people and their descendants had not only spread across North America, but had also reached the southernmost tip of South America. Not long after this, warming climate and melting ice raised sea levels sharply s...
By about 40,000 years ago, humans like ourselves had spread from Africa all over Asia and Europe, even crossing seas to get to Australia. But no humans had yet set foot in the Americas, and it needed major changes in climate before they could. Firstl...
'There's some scattered evidence that people were in North America maybe before these Clovis points were made (which would be before 13,000 years ago), but most of that evidence is arguable. 有些零散的证据表明,也许是在克洛维斯矛头被...