Olduvai Handaxe
A History of the World in 100 Objects
00:00
Introduction
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.
Transcript
Play full episode
