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...
I'm in the North American gallery of the British Museum, among the magnificent feather headdresses, and in a case beside the totem poles, is a very interesting bit of rubbish indeed. It is the business end of a deadly weapon; a spear - the shaft, of...
005: EPISODE 5 - Clovis point 克洛维斯石矛头 Abstract摘要 : Clovis point (made over 13,000 years ago). Stone spearhead found in Arizona 第五集克洛维斯石矛头,距今约于一万三千年前以上,出土于美国亚利桑利州。...
'At the beginning, of course, you can't really pull apart religion and art can you? Art is sacred because it is taking you to this space where you're not just doing the subject/object arm's-length approach to nature, it takes you to a new place and t...