There must have been astonishing places ... you can imagine the mammoths, and the herds of horses and deer. And the birds, the migrating birds, I think, had a massive impact on these hunter-gatherers. So I think part of the art is an overwhelming sen...
The larger, male reindeer displays an impressive set of antlers, which run along almost the whole length of his back, and we can sex him quite confidently as the artist has carved his genitals under his belly. The female has smaller antlers and four...
They are making objects that are less about physically changing the world than about exploring the order and the patterns that they see in it. In short, they are making art. Why? Why do all modern humans share the compulsion to make works of art? Why...
What does the past sound like? Of course, when we're as far back in deep time as we are this week, we can have no real idea. 过去的世界聆听起来如何?当然,即使我们像本周一样,努力追溯回宇宙洪荒的远古时代,我们仍...
Of course today I am actually standing on a beach, but the coast 500,000-600,000 years ago would've been several miles further out. And if you'd walked along that ancient coastline, you would have arrived in what nowadays we call The Netherlands, in...
Of course we've no idea what the maker of our handaxe might have said, but it seems probable that he would have had roughly the language abilities of a seven-year-old child. But whatever the level, this early speech would clearly have been the beginn...
'Now, if I really wanted to refine that - and people did want to refine that, they really were creative people; they wanted to make beautiful objects, not just functional objects - what I could then do is change the hammer from a big stone hammer to...
The stone has been chipped to give you sharp edges along the long sides of the tear-drop, so to speak, 这样说吧,沿着泪珠状长长的侧面,石头被打磨得边缘颇为锋利, and to give you a sharp point at one end. When you hold it...
003 : EPISODE 3 - Olduvai handaxe奥杜威手斧 Abstract摘要 : Olduvai handaxe (made 1.2 - 1.4 million years ago) found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, East Africa 奥杜威手斧,距今约一百二十至一百四十万年前,出土于东非坦桑尼...
Without those extra chips on the edge of the chopping tool, this whole series would be impossible, 倘若没有那额外的几次敲击,也就不会有这些后话, because those chips tell us that right from the beginning, we - unlike other anim...