The Jomon way of life seems to have been pretty comfortable. 绳纹人似乎生活得挺舒适惬意的。 They lived near the sea and they relied on fish as a main source of food, that is, a food that came to them, 他们当时居住在海边,所以...
It's pretty underwhelming to look at-in fact it's quite dull. 其实它本身令人印象相当之深刻。 It's made of brown-grey clay, a simple round pot about the size of the bucket that children play with on the beach, 虽然它颜色其实很暗淡...
'They were a very important part of the Egyptian economy. It became essentially a symbol for life.' 它们是古埃及经济相当重要的一部分,牛在本质上已经成为一种生命的象征。 'It's not that easy for archaeologists to pin d...
Mention excavation in Egypt, and most of us immediately see ourselves entering Tutankhamun's tomb, discovering the hidden treasures of the pharaohs and at a stroke rewriting history. Aspiring archaeologists should be warned that this happens only ver...
'My own view is in fact that the evidence is not really supporting this idea of a dominant mother goddess very early on, because there are now very exciting new discoveries that really have no representations of women at all - most of the symbolism i...
The result was as profound a transformation for human beings as any revolution in history. This process of settling down did, of course, make you more vulnerable to a crop failure, pests, diseases, above all to the weather, but while things were good...
But what do we know of the people captured in this lovers' embrace? Well, the maker or should we say the sculptor? of the lovers, belonged to a people that we now call the Natufians, who lived in a region that straddled what is today Israel, Palestin...
And once they were settled, they deliberately collected grass grains still on the stalk, and by collecting and sowing the seeds, they almost inadvertently carried out a very early kind of genetic engineering: they slowly created the world's great sta...
As the last Ice Age came to an end, somebody picked a pebble out of a small river not far from Bethlehem. It's a pebble that must have been tumbled downstream, banged and smoothed against other stones as it went, in the process that geologists poetic...
Looking at the food in the British Museum canteen, so much of it flown across the world, I'm struck by the fact that while we all travel more and more freely, we depend on food grown by people who cannot move, who must stay on the same piece of land....