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...
Thousands of years ago, one of our ancestors must accidentally have made their first pot. We can imagine that a lump of wet clay somehow ended up in the fire, dried out, hardened and formed a hollow shape; a shape that could hold things, in a tough m...
Maize culture faces two new problems, one being the use of maize as a bio-fuel and the increment of prices, where it directly affects the Mexican population. 现在玉米文化面临着两个新问题,其一便是玉米作为生物燃料之后,价格...
The answer lies not in maize's divine connections, but in the environment that Central America offered. 答案却不是因为玉米本身有何神圣性,而是由中美洲自身的环境所决定的。 In this part of the world at this time around...
The elite from ancient societies focussed upon corn as having sacred kinds of properties which they then associated with themselves. 古代社会精英团队把玉米的地位提升到神圣的财产,并且将自己与玉米联系起来。 And this...
Across the world, people began to identify particular plants that would provide them with food. In the Middle East-as we saw in the last programme-it was wheat and barley; in China millet and rice; in Papua New Guinea taro; and in Africa sorghum. And...
009:EPISODE 9 - Maya maize God Statue 第九集玛雅玉米神像 Abstract摘要 : Maya maize god (made around 1,300 years ago). Stone statue, found in Honduras 玛雅玉米神像,石像,距今约一千三百年前,出土于洪都拉斯。 MP3听...
What's fascinating about trying to tell a history through objects is that they go on to have lives and destinies never dreamt of by those who made them-and that's certainly true of this pot. 通过物品讲述历史最迷人之处就是,这些物品自...
In fact, some of the very early ones, some of those ones that are now dated to about 14,000 years ago-there's black incrustations, and its that carbonised material that has been dated-we think they were probably used for cooking up some vegetable mat...