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.

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A History of the World in 100 Objects: After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (9000 - 3500 BC): Ain Sakri Lovers Figuerine

Ain Sakri Lovers Figurine

Ain Sakri Lovers Figuerine

After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (9000 - 3500 BC)

A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus

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Neil MacGregor's material history of human society - the story of two lovers

Neil MacGregor continues his history of the world through objects - one of the earliest depictions of sex in art - a tiny stone sculpture 11,000 years old

The British Museum's Director, Neil MacGregor, investigates a palm-sized stone sculpture that was found near Bethlehem.  It clearly shows a couple entwined in the act of love. The contemporary sculptor Marc Quinn responds to the stone as art and the archaeologist Dr Ian Hodder considers the Natufian society that produced it. What was human life and society actually like all those years ago? Possibly a lot more sophisticated than we imagine!

A History of the World in 100 Objects: After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (9000 - 3500 BC)

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Why did farming start at the end of the Ice Age? Clues remain in objects left behind

Neil MacGregor's story takes him to the end of the Ice Age, as the first farmers created objects to consume new foods, venerate new gods and even take a new look at sex

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