The field of cultural history had never seen a more innovative or ambitious project than A History of the World in 100 Objects. Conceived by Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, it tells the human story through 100 selected objects from the institution's unparalleled holdings of eight million works. Presented originally as a 100-part BBC radio series (one episode per object) that aired in 2010, it was recognized immediately as a landmark achievement and quickly became a global phenomenon (with millions and millions of downloaded podcasts). The accompanying book became an international best seller as well, a gorgeous atlas of human creativity's physical manifestations. The Americas have a prominent place in this list of greatest hits-from a Clovis spear point and a buckskin map to an Aztec goddess statue and a golden Inca Ilama. Join MacGregor as he makes these objects sing to tell the tales of our hemisphere and mark its place in the pantheon of human civilization.
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