Posted on 12/04/2010 7:00:17 AM PST by AndyJackson
This is a website providing access to an online web and video presentation of the history of the world shown through 100 objects that are in the British museaum.
Of the 100 British Museum Objects , objects 1-10 are:
1: Mummy of Hornedjitef.
2: Olduvai stone chopping tool.
3: Olduvai handaxe.
4: Swimming reindeer
5: Clovis spear point.
6: Bird-shaped pestle.
7: Ain Sakhri lovers figurine.
8: Egyptian clay model of cattle.
9: Maya maize god statue.
10: Jomon pot.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
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What’s missing...a map of the world...way back when...
We're jomon'...
I wanna jomon wid you.
We're jomon', jomon',
And I hope you like jomon', too.
I could go on, but what the museum has is a collection of esoterica, not history.
Thank you. I was about to make the same point.
I went to the British Museum this week and passed that special exhibit by — there’s too much to see in all the other rooms!
Any list of the 100 most important artifacts for understanding human progress has to include the Antikythera Mechanism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
Does the list end with a burka and a hijab? That is how civilization is ending.
Thank you for the link on that very interesting object. One reason it is not in the list is that the list is of objects that are in the British Museum.
Even so, it was a fascinating series.
Don’t meant to knit pick but, in the interest of precision, Gutenburg did not invent the printing press, although his was one of the earliest. His invention of movable type, which supplanted wood block printing, started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important event of the modern period.
If they are going to pick a chronometer, they ought to pick the one on HMS Endeavor, not HMS Beagle. HMS Endeavor did some serious cartography. Anyway, it’s nitpicking, certainly, the British invention of the ship’s chronometer in the 18th Century was a milestone in history.
For the modern era, it should be firsts or superlatives of transformative items, not just some shiny doodads.
Chock full o nuts coffee?
Not to “nit-pick” either, but I listed several transformative items, and did not list necessarily “firsts”. Movable type and the Gutenburg Bible lead a revolutionary change in the modern world.
The radio program(me) is wonderful. You can quibble about the items they selected, but the history behind the ones they chose is interesting nonetheless.
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