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A joint project of BBC Radio 4 and the British Museum, comprising a 100-part radio series written and presented by British Museum director Neil MacGregor. In 15-minute presentations broadcast on weekdays on Radio 4, MacGregor uses objects of ancient art, industry, technology and arms, all of which are in the British Museum's collections, as an introduction to parts of human history.Do you agree about all of those selected objects ?Would you suggest different objects to be part of the selection ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ahow/all Representing America : Malcom Hall's Religious Treatise-Quakers, The Clovis spear point from Arizona, a cavalry sabre and ... more
Interesting type of timeline, but I'm not quite sure I totally understood it. So many tools were shown, especially early on. No Venus of Willendorf? I would have thought that would have been in the Paleolithic area among the tools.
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