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): Olduvai Handaxe

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

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Neil MacGregor continues his history of human society with the story of a handaxe

Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, retells humanity's history through the objects it has made. Today he reveals the Swiss Army knife of the Stone Age, the hand axe.

The Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, retells two million years of history of human development through the objects it has produced.  This programme follows early humans as they slowly begin to move beyond their African homeland taking with them one essential item - a handaxe.

In the presence of the most widely used tool humans have created, Neil sees just how vital to our evolution this sharp, ingenious implement was and how it allowed the spread of humans across the globe.

Today Neil MacGregor tells the story of the handaxe, with contributions from designer Sir James Dyson and archaeologist Nick Ashton


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

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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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