While looking for something else I found this snippet from How Art Made the World. It deals with the exaggerated features of the Ice Age Venuses. Yes they’re unrealistic images of women, but why do they look unrealistic? The answer might be found in the actions of gulls. This segment filled me with ambiguous feelings, so it’s good to have the opportunity to watch it again.

I had to flip back to my original comments, because I remembered feeling quite negative about it. Yet looking at that clip it seemed that Nigel Spivey was an engaging presenter. It is an interesting topic and a change from the chronological histories and disaster porn which make up a lot of is history television.

The other clips available online made it clear what I disliked about the programme. It was the disjointed connection between prehistory and history, which can be seen in the clip below. (more…)