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Olduvai Handaxe

A History of the World in 100 Objects

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For a million years, the sound of making hand axes provided the percussion of everyday life. All of this week i am looking at objects from the very earliest moments of human history. Every object chosen is a document of the world in which it was made, but also marks a critical stage in the process by which we became fully human.

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