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A History of the World in 100 Objects

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Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, retells humanity's history through objects

Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, narrates 100 programmes that retell humanity's history through the objects we have made.

A History of the World in 100 Objects: Making Us Human (2,000,000 - 9000 BC): Clovis Spear Point

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Making Us Human (2,000,000 - 9000 BC)

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Neil MacGregor reveals how man-made objects reflect the story of human development

Neil MacGregor, continues his series retelling humanity's history through the objects it has made. Today, the story of early human settlement moves to North America.

The Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, retells the history of human development from the first stone axe to the credit card using 100 selected objects from the Museum.  In this programme, Neil describes an object that dates from the earliest settlement of North America, around 13,000 years ago.  It's a deadly hunting weapon, used by the first inhabitants of the Americas.

This sharp spearhead lets us understand how humans spread across the globe.  By 11,000 BC humans had moved from north east Asia into the uninhabited wilderness of north America; within 2000 years they had populated the whole continent.  How did these hunters live? And how does their Asian origin sit with the creation stories of modern day Native Americans?

Neil MacGregor tells the story of the Clovis Point, with contributions from Michael Palin and American archaeologist Gary Haynes 


A History of the World in 100 Objects: Making Us Human (2,000,000 - 9000 BC)

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Neil MacGregor reveals the earliest objects that define us as humans.

Neil MacGregor tells the story of two million years of our development through a hundred objects in the British Museum. We begin with the first that make us human

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