A History of the World in 100 Objects - After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (9000 - 3500 BC)
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
A History of the World in 100 Objects - After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (9000 - 3500 BC) - Ain Sakri Lovers Figurine
Neil MacGregor continues his history of the world through objects with one of the earliest depictions of sex in art, a tiny stone sculpture 11,000 years old.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects - After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (9000 - 3500 BC) - Bird-shaped Pestle
Taking a pestle from Papua New Guinea as an example, Neil asks why our ancestors decided to cook foods, rather than just eat them raw.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects - After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (9000 - 3500 BC) - Egyptian Clay Model of Cattle
Neil MacGregor selects four miniature clay cows to show the major changes that early man was undergoing at the end of the Ice Age.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects - After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (9000 - 3500 BC) - Jomon Pot
Neil MacGregor tells the story of a 7,000-year-old Japanese clay pot which has managed to remain almost perfectly intact.
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A History of the World in 100 Objects - After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (9000 - 3500 BC) - Maya Maize God Statue
Neil MacGregor focuses on the world of the Mayan civilisation and a stone Maize God, discovered on the site of a major Mayan city in present-day Honduras.
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