List of Objects
Telling a history of our world through objects
Click on the titles in the blue bar below [Location, Theme, Contributor Type, etc.] and then choose a category to see a list of objects - e.g. click Theme and then click War. (All objects have been classified by their contributor.)
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10000 BC - 4000 BC
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Kent's Cavern Modern Human Jawbone
KC4 Three teeth in an upper jawbone (maxilla) discovered in the Vestibule of Kents Cavern by Atthur Ogilvie in 1927
Contributed by Museum
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Ain Sakhri lovers figurine
The world's earliest representation of a couple having sex. This figure is about 11,000 years old.
Contributed by The British Museum
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a stone age thumbnail scraper
This is from the dawn of civilisation in Britain when stone tools, some of increadable beauty like a leaf arrowhead or ...
Contributed by Individual
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The most important development.(plow)
The presence of plow agriculture and settled life, the most important development
Contributed by Individual
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Flint Knife
Ice Age tribes used these for butchery.
Contributed by Individual
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Funeral mask
This mask was a present from the owner's husband who was an Egyptologist in 1969. It was authenticated by the British ...
Contributed by Individual
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Jomon pot
One of the earliest pots in the world, made to boil food by hunter gatherers in Japan about 7,000 years ago
Contributed by The British Museum
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Bird-shaped pestle
Bird-shaped pestle used by early farming communities in Papua New Guinea, more than 4,000 years ago.
Contributed by The British Museum
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Mesolithic obliquely-blunted point flint
This piece of worked flint (possibly an arrowhead) was found by Mr B.R. Kearsley whilst walking his dog in Belton ...
Contributed by Individual
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Mosside hoard
In the late 19th century, the famous antiquarian and collector W.J. Knowles found a remarkable collection of 34 pointed ...
Contributed by Museum
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Neolithic polshed stone axe
Excavated in garden (by badgers! )on 1 Sep.09.
Unusual softness of material indicates that it may have been
made for ...
Contributed by Individual
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10,000 year old Flint Hand Axe
Mr Evans found this object whilst feeding his chickens in Kesgrave, Suffolk, and took it along to the Â鶹Éç Suffolk event ...
Contributed by Individual
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Axe from Old Newton, Suffolk
Peter Robinson was digging in his garden and found a flint axe believed to have been made 6,000 years ago. It was ...
Contributed by Individual
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Decorated Beads from Kendrick's Cave
These beads are made of deer and wild cattle teeth. They are all decorated and may have been worn as a necklace.
Contributed by Museum
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STONE AGE CUTTING/SCRAPING TOOL
I FOUND IT ABOUT THREE FEET DOWN IN THE BACK GARDEN IN BROCKLEY WHEN I WAS DIGGING A POND
Contributed by Individual
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Prehistoric flint hand axe
This piece reminds me of how advanced we have become since the early days of mankind when flint provided a means to ...
Contributed by Individual
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Stone arrowheads and tools
When travelling in Africa in 1989 we spent a day marooned in a sandstorm in the Sahel near Agadez in Niger. A group of ...
Contributed by Individual
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A prehistoric tool
It is man-made from sandstone, poss. a portable grinding tool, when the Sahara was a savannah. Nothing like it has been ...
Contributed by Individual
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Two Prehistoric Flint Sundials
Prehistoric Time Measuring Artifacts unearthed in South West Leicestershire.
Over the years a number of prehistoric ...
Contributed by Individual
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Stone Axe or Hand Axe from South Ireland
Found by two pensioners struggling up a wooded slope from a river - tugged some bushes for support - dislodged some ...
Contributed by Individual
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Spearheads from the empty quarter
In the 1950's my father Robert Sinclair, worked as a surveyor for an American Oil company, Robert H Ray & Co. He ...
Contributed by Individual
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cutting tool knapped from flint
I initially thought that this was a broken hand-axe, probably late Paleolithic, however when I started to hold and ...
Contributed by Individual